Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 233, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 February 1928 — Page 2

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HOLDUP GANGS SET LOOT AND MAKEGETAWAY Robbery Wave Continues Unabated; Delivery Drivers Targets. Banditry continued on a 24-hour a day basis over the week-end, with daylight holdups of delivery truck drivers and filling station stick-ups on the night shift. The latest “job” was reported at 5 a. m. today, when two bandits held up Attendant J. L. Sharp at the Standard Oil station, Southeastern Ave. and Washington St. They escaped with SIOO. Driving up for a gallon of oil, they drew guns, ordered Sharp to turn his head away, so he could not Identify them, looted the strongbox and damaged the telephone. Get $l5O From Safe Police believe the same pair held up Attendant Joseph Townsend at the Standard station at Rural and Southeastern Ave., Sunday night, and took $l5O from the safe. A Negro bought a cigar at the Don Hinchman drug store, Fourteenth and Illinois Sts., late Saturday, then drew a gun, held up the proprietor and took $55 from the cash register. Two Negroes bought some frankfurters at the William Roak meat market, 626 E. Michigan St., and held up Roak, took $1.50 from the cash register, and his watch. R. F. Richcreek, Standard Grocery operator at Beech Grove, reported he was en route to the main office here to turn in two days’ receipts when he was held up and robbed by two men who leaped on the running boards of his car at Fountain Square. They took $96 cash and S4B in checks. Try Kidnapping Jobs A bandit trio making a specialty of daylight holdups of delivery trucks attempted four “jobs” Saturday afternoon. They kidnapped Roscoe Caylor of 1854 Holloway Ave., driver for the Excelsior Laundry, robbed him of $57. Unsuccessful attempts were made by the bandits to hold up Clay E. Woverton of 3161 Kenwood Ave., driver for the Omar Baking Company; Charles Whitten of 838 N. Nip Jersey St., another Excelsior Lljundry driver, and Edward J. May of 3958 Fletcher Ave., driver for the Crown Laundry Company. The gang has been operating about a month, averaging about five hotdups a week. Police Chief Claude M. Worley has ordered police to make a special effort to capture them. VETERANS’ GROUPS TO HONOR MAINE HEROES rublic Memorial Fianed for Feb. 13 at Denison. Foreign War "Veterans and Spanish War Veterans will honor those who lost their lives in the sinking of the battleship Maine, with a public memorial service at the Denison, Feb. 15, at 7:30 p. m. Archibald M. Hall will be the principal speaker. The Harold C. Megrew drum corps will play. A model of the Maine will be exhibited. Guests of honor will include National Commander Frank T. Strayer of the Veterans of Foreign Wars; State Commander Thomas McHatton of the United Spanish War Veterans; State Commander Frank A, Tabor, Terre Haute, of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Mrs. Tiylie Turner, mother of Francis Keyes, one of those who lost their lives on the ship. FIGHT FIVE MILES IN AIR "New Planes Fitted for Conflict 31,000 Feet Above Earth. B. United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—Battle fields six milesabove the earth are forecast by the War Department which today announced that pursuit planes recently ordered would be equipped for fighting 31,000 feet in the air. The planes will have apparatus to Iced oxygen to the pilot and superchargers to feed air to the motors. Airmen without such protection have been forbidden to rise more than 15,000 feet above the ground. Another order forbade flying lower than seventy-five feet over persons or obstructions.

DRUGGISTS ADVISE EASY WAY TO END COLDS IN FEW HOURS

Many Here Use Hospital Method at Home to Stop Head Colds, Coughs and Chest Colds

Praise Action of Doctors In Advising Public Way to End Colds During Pneumonia Weather A great many Indianapolis people —like Edw. W. Tyler, Mrs. R. H. Gordon and others, have learned that It is no longer necessary to let a head or chest cold make a person feel miserable or cause fear of pneumonia. For druggists are recommending a hospital tested treatment that brings sure iVrelief—often in a few hours. ) Soon Back at Work—Rid of Threatening Cold

A severe cold had kept Mr. Tyler from business several days. When nothing seemed to help him he called the clinic for advice. Doctors then recommended double strength doses of Cherry Pectoral—a

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FLIGHT IS POSTPONED Levine’s Hop to Havana Halted by Weather. Bn Untied Press ROOSEVELT FIELD, L. 1.. Feb. 6. —Charles A. Levine’s proposed flight to Havana, which was scheduled to start at dawn today, was postponed until tomorrow at the earliest. Lieutenant Wilbur Stultz, who will pilot the Columbia, visited the flying field last night and after looking over weather reports decided a take-off today would be inadvisable. A cross Held wind was blowing that would have endangered a take-off. Levine, Stultz and Miss Mabel 801 l will be in the cabin when the takeoff finally is made. The first attempt of the Havana flight was to have been made Saturday, but bad weather prevented the trip. MISSING GIRL STUDENT EPISODE AT GREENFIELD But Attendant at Church Sendees Is Another Smith. By United Press GREENFIELD. Ind., Feb. 6.—Mrs. Beatrice M. Smith was mistaken for Miss Frances St. John Smith, missing Smith College student, while attending services at the Methodist Protestant Church here Sunday. Ernest Hiday, Sunday school superintendent, was convinced the missing student had been found when Mrs. Smith, who resembles her in ’some particulars, came forward and ask to enroll as a church member. Investigation by Sheriff Harry Comstock at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Temple, where Mrs. Smith is staying, established her identity. Her husband is out of work and she has come here to stay until the family fortunes are improved. PETER RANSDELL TO BE BURIED IN FRANKLIN Dies at Home Here Following Lingering Illness. Funeral sex-vices for Peter Ransdell, 83, will be held at the home, 47 N. Tacoma Ave., Wednesday at 1:30 p. m. Burial will be in Green Lawn Cemetei-y at Franklin. . Mr. Ransdeil died Sunday at his late home, following a long illness. For many years he was a carpenter contractor here. He retired fifteen years ago. Survivors are four daughters, Mrs. H. E. Bi-attain of Washington, Ind.; Mis. W. R. Robards of Knox, Ind., and Mrs. B. W. Graham and Miss Ruth Ransdeil, both of. Indianapolis; three sons, Omer and Frank E. Ransdeil, both of Indianapolis, and John R. Ransdeil of Los Angeles, Cal., and a sister, Mrs. M. C. Vloyd of Middle Grove, Neb. Indiana Y. M. C. A. Elects • By United Press NEWCASTLE, Ind., Feb. 6.—The, new president of the Young Men s Christian Association of Indiana is J. M. Triggs, Huntington. J. W. Esterline, Indianapolis, was named vice president; J. A. Searles, Marion, secretary, and Dwight S. Ritter, Indianapolis, treasurer. Marion invited the 1929 convention, the city for which will be chosen later. Doctor Has Smallpox By Times Special ELWOOD, Ind., Feb. 6.—lt’s a case of “Physician, heal thyself” for Dr. L. A. Mott, He is suffering from smallpox. All persons attended by the doctor recently are being vaccinated.

With the first swallow he felt the soothing, comforting, healing warmth from his nose passages deep down into his chest. In a few hours he felt lots better and slept well that night, and in another day or so. doctors report, the cold was completely gone. Worried Mother Grateful as Child’s Cold Is Soon Ended Little Estelle Gordon caught a severe cold while out riding a week ago Sunday. Nothing her mother used kept the cold from spreading

from her nose passages to her chest. On the third day the child coughed so ! deep Mrs. Gordon feared pneumonia and called the clinic, | where doctors advised double doses

of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. Relief began almost immediately. By night the child felt like playing with her Christmas dolls for the first time in several days. The next morning she looked more cheerful and like herself—and by the following day, doctors report, all traces of the cold were gone.

Thomas Wolverton. 33, Negro, 523 Hiawatha St., struck by an automobile as he was standing in a safety zone at Blake and Washington Sts., following? a three-way crash, is in serious condition at city hospital today. An automobile driven by Luther Collins, 39, Negro, Maywood, collided with another car, the driver of which fled, struck a car driven by W. H. Williamson, 52. R. R. O, Box 261. and crashed into the front window of a store at 818 W. Washington St. The automobile struck Wolverton while he was standing in the safety zone in front of the store. John Martin, 75, Negro. Maywood, riding with Collins, was injured slightly. Mary Smith, Negro, 727 California St., also in Collins’ car, was charged with intoxication. Two men and women in the third car fled after the accident. PINCHOT WILL SPEAK AT FORESTRY PARLEY 4 St. Louis Meeting Will Be First Visit of Association to Mid-West. B(/ United Press ST. LOUIS. Feb. 6.—Former Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania and former Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois will speak at a banquet here Feb. 17 at the annual convention of the American Forestry Association. Senator Harry B. Hawes of St. Louis, Missouri’s Junior Senator will preside. This is the first time that forestry association has come to the Middle West for its annual meeting. The annual meeting of the Missouri Forestry Association will be held at the same time. 80 PETERSBURG MINERS WIN IN FIGHT FOR PAY Court Rules Against Receiver Who * Settled Loan Before Wages. Pn United Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Feb. 6.—A Superior Court ruling here orders the receiver for the defunct Gladstone Mine Company to pay eighty Petersburg miners who “loaned” their services to the company. The court disapproved the receiver’s plan of excluding miners in distributing assets. Frank Keifner, receiver, was ordered to appear in court March 1 on the ox-dered change in apportionment. Miners objected to payment by Keifner of $9,000 to Lambert J. Lloyd in settlement of a loan Lloyd had made that operations might be continued. The miners argued that since they had “loaned” their work they should receive some of the apportionment. The receiver was ordered to recover $2,586.86 of the Lloyd settlement and give it to the miners. DENY M'CORMICK RIFT Mme. Walska Not to Seek Divorce, Singer States. By United Peers PARIS, Feb. 6.—Another reported rift in the romance of Ganna Walska. the opera singer, and Harold McCormick, multi-millionaire harvester inanufacturer, has been denied. After reports were printed in the United States that the opera singer would divorce McCormick, Mme. Walska wrote the United Press denying the report. McCormick is in the United States and his wife has been in business here for several months.

Note: See otbpr cases—all certified by a member of the hospital clinic. Doctors find that this hospital medicine does far more than Btop coughing instantly. It penetrates and heals inilanted linings of the breathing passages. Absorbed by the system it quickly reduces phlegm, helps allay that “feverish," gr.ppy feeling and drives out the eold from the nose passages, throat and chest. Just ii few pleasant spoonfuls of Cherry Pectoral now and you'll 'feel like a different person tomorrow. At all druggists, CiOe; twice as much in $1.0(1 hospital size.

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HOLD AUTO THIEVES Negro Youths Taken After Half-Mile Chase. Three alleged automobile thieves were captured by police Sunday. Lawrence Broadis, 15, of 1731 Columbia Ave., and Arthur Covington, 14, of 1935 Sheldon St., Negroes, were arrested after police fired several shots at them in a half-mile chase. The automobile stolen from William Brink, 1001 Cottage Ave., crashed over the curb and landed on the porch of the home of J. F. Mueller, 4002 Broadway. The didver escaped. W. L. Smith. 316 W. TwentyNinth St., is accused of trying to steal an automobile belonging to Carl Gordon, R. R. J, Box 36-D. in the 500 block on N. Pennsylvania St He was released two weeks ago from the Indiana State farm after serving a term for vehicle taking. WAR WOUNDS CAUSE DEATH OF VETERAN Funeral Sendees Will Be Held Tuesday for David Preston Hay. Funeral services will be held Tuesday for David Preston Hay, 39, who died Sunday from the effects of wounds received in the World War. Hay was wounded irf France and when discharged from the army in 1919 he was rated a total disability case. He came to Indianapolis in 1921. Surviving are the widow, Loia L. Hay; five brothers. Sowen. Thomas and Henderson Hay. of Louisville. Ky.; Allison Hay, of Indianapolis, and John Hay. of Texas, and two sisters, Mrs. Lloyd Hay and Mrs. Sophronie Trotter, both of Kentucky. Services will be held at 10:30 a. m.. in Second Mt. Pleasant Church in Johnson County and burial in the adjoining cemetery. SCREW DRIVER KILLING Man and Wife in Court at Valparaiso on Murder Charge. lin Times Special VALPARAISO. Ind., Feb. 6—Sam Sutton, and his wife, Ethel, of Hammond, were arraigned in Circuit Court here today charged with the murder of Gus Stasenopoulas, Hammond restaurant proprietor. The husband declares he killed Stasenopoulas after he attacked Mrs. Sutton. A screw driver was used in the slaying. Mrs. Sutton is alleged to have taken the body in an automobile to an abandoned house and hid it. DUFF TO BE CANDIDATE Michigan Man May Seek to Become V. F. W. Commander. Hezekiah Duff, Eaton Rapids. Mich., probably will be a candidate for Veterans of Foreign Wars commander at the national encampment in Indianapolis, Aug. 26 to Sept. 1. Duff, treasurer of the widow's and orphan's home at Eaton Rapids, was commander candidate at the last encampment. He will be backed by 300 Michigan delegates. EXPECT 950 TO ENROLL Extension Classes for Spring Term at I. U. Open. About 950 students are expected to enroll in the Indiana University extension classes for the spring term that opens tonight at extension division headquarters, 319 N. Pennsylvania St. Eighty-six classes will start this week. Chamberlin Girds for New Flight Vy United Press NEW YORK, Feb. 6.—Clarence D. Chamberlin returned from Richmond, Va., where his Martine plane crashed Saturday in anew try for the endurance record. The plane will be reconditioned for another attempt while the flier resumes his air tour of the country. Calls Ireland “Political .Prisoner" By United Press NEW YORK, Feb. 6.—Eamon De Valera, Irish republican leader, said that England, In granting Ireland a government of her own, at the same time had made the free state a “political prisoner.” Laporte Councilman Dies LA PORTE, Ind., Feb. 6.—Charles Edward Wolfe, 58, La Porte city councilman and prominent in northern Indiana realty circles, died here today. He was born in Shelby County, Ohio.

No Liberty By Times Special • ANDERSON, Ind.. Feb. 6. To eighteen prisoners in. the Madison County jail here, reaching the end of their sentences docs not mean a thing. One of them, Henry Smelzer, 17, is suffering from smallpox and the jail has been placed under quarantine. ,Os the prisoners, two ompleted forty-one-day terms Sunday.

ARRAIGNMENT OF COUNCILMEN IS POSTPONED Five Re-Indicted Men to Face Criminal Court Saturday. Arraignment of five city councilmen, reindicted Friday by the county grand jury, was postponed until Saturday morning upon motion of defense attorneys in Criminal Court today. Motion was based on the ground that the defendants had not been served with copies of the new indictments. Councilmen reindicted are Boynton J. Moore, Otis E. Bartholomew, Claude E. Negley, Millard W. Ferguson and Walter R. Dorsett. All were in court and old bonds of SI,OOO allowed to continue until arraignment Saturday, when it is expected they will enter not guilty pleas. Criminal Judge James A. Collins disqualified himself in the case of Earl Klinck, of Evansville, former aide of DyC. Stephenson. He submitted the names of John F. Robbins, Charles Wiltsie and Freemont Alford, all Indianapolis attorneys, from which selection of a judge will be made this afternoon. Murder trial of Harry Piltz, who entered a not guilty plea, was set for April 3. Piltz is charged with claying Samuel Fassman in a south side barber shop April 3. Bribery Is Charged Hearing on motion to quash, based on alleged faulty indictment, was set for Saturday at 9 a. m., in the case of Frederick Matalich. 60, charged with shooting and killing James Louis Bernhardt, 21. Bernhardt had attempted to assist the older man across W. Michigan St. Martin Frankfort, local real estate dealer, also was reindicted with the councilmen charges in each case being bribery. Moore is named in anew true bill and four others. Eight of the new indictments, including the one against Frankfort, merely made changes in the construction of the allegation. The first indictment averred the office of councilman was one of “trust and profit,” The new ones do not contain this statement. Klinck to Be Arraigned The indictments allege councilmen either accepted or offered money or attempted to obtain appointments for friends and relatives to influence their votes on vezoning for business sites at Forty-Sixth St. and College Ave., Twenty-Sev-enth and Meridian Sts, purchase of fire apparatus and on the impeachment proceedings that were pending last October against former Mayor John L. Duvall. Klinck is alleged to have compiled a false affidavit alleging William Rogers, local auto salesman, committed perjury when he testified before Senator James A. Reed, in a hearing at St, Louis last year that he had seen Senator James E. Watson’s Ku-Klux Klan card.

THREE IN AUTO KILLED Father and Son Victims of Train at Hammond By United Press HAMMOND, Ind.. Feb. o.—Mason Kraus, Indiana Harbor, and his son Harold. Purdue University student, were killed instantly here today when the automobile in which they were riding was struck by a Chicago-bound passenger train. A third man, unidentified, was injured so seriously that he died later in a Gary hospital. Boy. 14, Kills Self By Times Special EVANSVILLE, Ind.. Feb. o.—No motive has been found for the suicide of Kenneth Rhodes, 14. high school student. His body was found Sunday hanging from a rafter of a bam at the home of his grandfather, Jesse Bates, after a fivehour search. Open Campaign Offices in Gotham By United Press NEW YORK, Feb. 6.—Hoover-for-President boosters were to open their New York State headquarters in a mid-town office building here today. Lowden enthusiasts, meanwhile enlarged their offices in the Pennsylvania Hotel. Doctor Sends New Truss on Trial No Money Down Required; No Cash Deposit; No C. O. D. Having invented a rupture appliance with no leg straps, no elastic belt, no cruel spring bands, no hard gouging pads, an unusual offer is now being made by the Hernia Specialists, Dr. Andrew Kaiser, 623D Koch Building, 2906 Main Street, Kansas City, Mo. Without a cent in advance, no cash deposit, no C. O. D., he will send his appliance for 30 days’ trial. Hundreds of people, many with double rupture of long standing, have declared it brought them quick improvement and freedom from the hampering and discomfort of previous truss wearing. If ruptured, and wanting quick relief and improvement, make this test. If entirely pleased and satisfied after the 30 days’ trial, pay its small price and keep the appliance. Otherwise, simply ret urn it and owe nothing. Accept this offer by writing today. The coupon below will do.

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46 HELD AFTER GAMJNGMIDS Dice, Cards and Cash Taken, Police Assert. Four persons, including one woman, charged with keeping gaming houses, and forty-two persons arrested in the alleged gambling houses face charges in municipal courts today. They were arrested in raids over the week-end in response to Police Chief's Claude M. Worley's order to “get the gamblers and get the evidence.” More than 100 of the 130 arrested in gambling raids last week-end were discharged by Municipal Judges C. R. Cameron and Paul C. Wetter for police failure to obtain enough evidence of gambling to satisfy the courts. In the three raids Saturday night, dice or cards and money was seized. In a xaid on the apartment of Mrs. Grace Ballard, 38, Apt. 21, 305 W. New York St., Sunday night Lieut. Ralph Dean and Sergt. Barge Morrissey heard bits of gambling lingo, such as “I’ve got three kings and nobody will make a bet,” before they raided, they reported. Mrs. Ballard was charged with keeping a gaming house and six men with gaming. At the poolroom of Orville Scalf, 29, of 1426 W. McCarty St., nine boys and a man, alleged to have been playing dominoes for money, were arrested. Trial of Scalf and the others today was continued to Fdb. 15. William Wise, 19. of 903 Coffey St., was charged with blind tiger because of a half pint of liquor found in his pocket. At the home of Allen Guy. Negro. 535 Minerva St., five men were charged with gaming. At the poolroom of Bert Watson. Negro, 329 Indiana Ave., twenty-one were held on gaming charges. HAMMOND. Ind.. Feb. 6.—Miss Sarah Marsalek, Chicago, today has a $13,850 judgement for damages against the Pennsylvania raih-oad, the largest amount ever awarded a woman in a Lake County court. Miss Marsalek suffered a fracture of the right leg in an accident and it was three inches shorter than the left after the bones knit. Annoying Night Coughs Stopped Almost Instantly Very frequently adults and children especially children, have spells of night coughing due to bronchial irritations or while suffering from colds. These coughing spells, if not quickly checked, are very Injurious to the health. A famous physician’s prescription called Thoxine, much better than patent medicines and cough syrups, acts on a different principle, relieves the irritation and stops the cough within 15 minutes or money back. Contains no chloi-oform, dope or other harmful drugs. Pleasant tasting and safe. 35c, 60c, and sl. Ask for Thoxine. At all druggists.— Advertisement.

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COUPLE DIES BY GAS Bodies of Richmond Man, 84, antjf Wife, 80, Found in Home. By United Press ANDERSON, Ind., Feb. 6.—Harrison H. Hoover, 84, and his wife, Mrs. Anna B. Hoover, 80, are dead, victims of gas which escaped from the oven of a stove in the kitchen of their home. Their bodies were found Sunday by their gxandson, Willard S. Hoover, who had come to the home to pay a call. Mr. Hoover was a veteran of the Civil War and was one of the sixteen Union guards on duty in Ford’s Theater, Washington, the night Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. He formerly published a newspaper at Newcastle and served one term as coroner of Henry County. OFFICIALS ACCUSED Legal Action Asked Against Knox County Officers. Opinion as to legal action that may be taken against three Knox County officials charged with mulcting the county of about $2,500 was asked Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom today by Lawrence Orr, chief examiner of the State Board of Accounts. That Anthony Hess, a commissioner, received royalities totaling $1,640 on gravel sold to the county from a pit on his farm; that $795 was paid to Hamilton Like, county highway superintendent lor excess mileage, and that a balance of SBS remains against Arman Shake, assistnt superintendent fer alleged labor overcharges. The charge against Shake, assistant highway superintendent and brother of State Senator Curtis Shake, is that he received a pay for a number of days when he did not work. He repaid $32 but refused to turn back SBS. D. T. Decker, another assistaixt, aalso overcharged for labor but he reimbursed the county treasury, it is charged.

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THREATEN LOSS! OF CONVENTION TO KANSAS CITY G. 0. P. Dissatisfaction Over Arrangements for 1928 Parley Reported. P.y United Press WASHINGTON. Feb. 6—The threat of taking the Republican national convention away from Kansas City will be in reserve when the Kansas City committee meets here Thursday to discuss hotel accommodations and kindred convention questions. The committee has told the arrangements committee that the western city will make good its promises to have sufficient accommodations. but the meeting Thursday results from a flood of complaints that these have not been forthcoming. Republican authorities said today the convention would be taken to Cleveland if Kansas City did not meet its promises, but these authorities added that the Kansas City people were agreeing to “come through.” Butler Is Surprised By United Press BOSTON. Feb. 6.—William H. Butler, chairman of the Republican national committee, expressed surprise today at reports that Kansas City might be replaced as the convention city for the G. O. P. convention. “The committee is going ahead with its plans for convening in Kansas City.” Butler said. “I can’t imagine what would have caused these rumors. “Certainly I have no knowledge of any move to shift the convention city and it is reasonable to suppose that any such movement should come up for my consideration before being acted upon.” No Threat, Says Hilles Pn United Press NEW YORK, Feb. 6.—Charles D. Hilles, Republican national committeeman, said today that no threats had been made to remove the Republicaix national convention from Kansas City. “I believe the convention will remain in Kansas City,” Hilles said. “We have made no threats to take the convention away from there nor do we intend to. We are confident that the representatives of Kansas City will make good. There has been no misrepresentation as to capacity of the auditorium. It has seated 14,000, but for a deliberative body the number of seats naturally would be cut down to 10,000.” Atlantic City Bids By United Press ATLANTIC CITY. N. J.. Feb. 6. —An invitation to have the 1928 Republican national convention in Atlantic City, in event it is removed from Kansas City, has been forwarded to William H. Butler, chairman of the Republican national committee. The invitation was sent by H. B. Richmond, chairman of the convention committee of the Atlantic City Hotel Men's Association.