Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 27, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 June 1928 — Page 5

JUNE 12, 1928.

CITY MANAGER FACTION SEEKS AID OFWOMEN Plans Educational Drive to Strengthen Cause fcr Election. Precinct meetings to familiarize women with the working of the city manager form cf government are planned by the Indianapolis City Manager League, Chairman John W. Esterline announced today. The league executive committee, which meets each Thursday at the University Club, has authorized an intensive educational drive among women. The campaign will continue until election. Plan Election Fight Mrs. Georgia Finfrock. who is in charge of the women's activities, will confer with precinct workers on the meetings to present facts about the businesslike form. Weekly meetings of the executive committee are held to keep the league precinct organization intact, preparatory to the fight at the polls in the fall election. The city manager organization demonstrated its power at the recent May primary. The city manager form will become effective in January, 1929, the commissioners being elected the fall of 1929, unless the coming Legislature repeals the statute allowing Indiana cities to select the city manager form. Interview Candidates Esterline said the league officials are interviewing candidates for the Legislature in various sections of the State with the view of obtaining a general assembly friendly to the manager plan. The league's present program is directed chiefly against the election of politicians who are fighting thV businesslike plan of municipal government. Several Indiana cities who are seeking adoption of the manager form have joined the Indianapolis group in the crusade against foes of the manager law. ONE SLAIN IN GUN DUEL Indiana Harbor Policeman, Three ] Others Wounded. Bp Times Special INDIANA HARBOR, Ind., June! 12.—Albert Company was shot to death and lour other persons wounded when he and a policeman engaged in a gun battle. The shoot- I ing followed an attempt to arrest Compass after he ran amuck withs gun. Officer Ranich, in the duel with Compass, had an arm shattered by bullets. The others wounded, by- j standers watching the battle, are \ Frank Klich, Indiana Harbor, and! Mr. and Mrs. John Pana, Harvey ( 111. None is in a serious condition. 1

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LIFE TERM FOR SLAYER AT 70 Martinsville Man’s Counsel Plans New Trial. Bp Times Special MARTINSVILLE, Ind., June 12. —Charles Blackslone, 70, faces a life term in prison today. A jury in Morgan Circuit Court here Monday night found him guilty of the second degree murder of Ed Stewart after three and one-half hours’ deliberation. Stewart was fatally shot in Blackstone's poolroom April 8 last. At the same time, Wayne, brother of the slain man, was seriously wounded. An argument over an alleged gambling debt owed by Ben, son of Blackstone, to the Stewarts, preceded the shooting. S. C. Kivett, veteran Martinsville lawyer, Blackstone's counsel, plans to ask anew trial. The case was the first murder trial in which William G. Bra3L Morgan County’s 24-year-old prosecutor, took part. College Honors Benefactor Bp Times Special FRANKLIN, Ind., June 12. Franklin College’s new science hall will bear the name of the late Albert A. Barnes, president of the Udell Wc r ks, Indianapolis, who gave the college $185,000 in his will.

NON-MAGNETIC VESSEL REACHES DOCK IN GALE Carnegie Scientific Group Stops in England on Long Trip. B a Science Service WASHINGTON, June 12.—The “Carnegie,” non-magnetic ship of the Carnegie Institute of Washington, which left here May 1 for a three-year cruise to all parts of the world, has arrived safely in Plymouth, England. This is reported in a radiogram just received by officials of the institution from Capt J. P. Ault, the ship’s commander. For the last ten days of the voyage, he said, they had head winds and arrived in a gale. A good deal of satisfacotry scientific work was accomplished on the trip. The vessel will be at Plymouth for about ten days. While there the sicnetific staff will establish relations With English sicentists. It is expected that the progress of the oceanographic work particularly wili be discussed with members of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. Hamburg is the next port to be visited. It is expected that the Carnegie will arrive there about June 20.

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76 HOOSIERS IN GLASS LEAVING U, OF ILLINOIS Commencement to Be Held Wednesday at Urbana. Bn Times Special URBANA, 111, June 12—Seve.itysix Hoosiers are among the 2,000 persons who will receive degrees at! the fifty-seventh annual commeitcement of the University of Illinouhere Wednesday. Dr. David Kinley, president of the university will be the speaker. The Indiana graduates, including six from Indianapolis, are: Anderson—Brank Raymond Burton. Attica—Wade Coffee Harrison. Bloomfield—John Casner Crane. Boswell—Virgil Raymond Lintrap and H-'-n Jan" Wooley. Brook—Helen Rose Hershman . Chalmers--Mabrl Eliza Chamberlain. Clinton -Bessie Fierce lies. Colfax—Blanche Lane. Connersville—Charles Robert McNaushton. Covington—Gale Chester Marqueas. Crawfordsville Nell Treva Tattengale. Delphi—John Heitt Ivea. Fast Chicago—Casil Harold Freidman. Elkhart—Alton Frost Thomas. Elwood—Martha Rebecca Culllpher. Evansville —Aurelia Emma Btssmaterf Sarah Hollingsworth Comtek. Ervin Carleton Kleiderer. Wavland Rlckwood Miller and Lester Pfcul. Frankfort—Paul Bernard Currier. Ft. Wayne—Carl Evans Dutton and Malcolm Paul Moore. Gary—Dorothy Naomi Bowers. Charles Curtis Coons. Abe Selig Hyman and Mary Ruth Sarudv. Hartford Cltv—Harold Bowen Wlllmen. Haubstadt—Maze Mazelle Blxler. Huntertown—Otis Bigelow Young. Indianapolis—Leslie George De Motte. Joseph Beniamin Hyman. Raymond Jones Maxwell. Robert Buchanat Mitchell. Emory Morgan Searcv. and Robert Jo Webb. Kentland—Harriet Virginia Rinard. Kltchel—Florence Louise Sanford Kokomo—Faye Cantrall and Joseph Edwin Valle. Lafayette—Jessie Frances Arnold. La Otto —Perma Allegra Rich. Lebanon—Florence Elanor Perkins. Liberty—Ellen Creek. Linton—Sylvia Bach. Logansport—Basil Dolph Fowler and Clara Mav Rocke Marion—Roy Chester Guyer and George IDrbert Smith. Michigan Cltv—Marion Aileen Johnson and Elizabeth Mack. Mishawaka—Kenneth Charles Gerard. Mulberry- Edna Mae Brown. North Manchester— George Owen Hurley. Otwell—Talbert Ward Abbott. Oxford—Marv Ethelvn Wilkins. Peru—Marv Frances Gilbert. Poseyville— Frances Alberta McGinnis Russellville—Donald Clarence Haxlett and Ralph Theodore Webster. Sevmour—Harold Carle Ahlbrand and Stpphan Franklin Swain South Rend Frank Michael Fleck and I Mary Mallnia Rennoe. Terre Haute —David Rosenfeld. Flo r ence j Julia Strouse and William Odus Bald- I ridge. Vincennes—Wilfred George Greubel. Washington—Walter Fulton Aikman. I Wavnetown—Chelsv Glessner Remlev. West Terre Haute—Adam Qulncv Ben- | nett. Whitestown—Xerxes Sliver. Whiting—He.rrv Frederick Moore and Henry William Eggers. De Pauw. Confers Degree B’l Times Special GREENCASTLE, Ind, June 12Prof. Frederic A. Ogg. head of the department of political science at the University of Wisconsin, re-1 ceived the honorary degree of doctor of laws at De Pauw University during commencement exercises Monday. Professor Ogg was graduated from De Pauw in 1899.

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Here’s the 1928 model of refer Pan, patron saint of National Children's Day, which will be observed in dozens of cities June 16. She is Dorothy Casey, dancer with the Greenwich Village Follies, who was selected after a search of the stage for the girl most suited to carry out the role. Mother of Nine Asks Divorce /?./ Times Special KOKOMO, Ind, June 12.—J. George Heflin, local tenor singer may put real feeling in “All Alone” soon. His wife, Inez Heflin, mother of nine children, has filed suit for divorce alleging non-support and cruelty ana naming as co-respond - ent a woman referred to as “Mrs. Goff,” said to live in Clinton county Bad Eyes Lead to Injury Bft Times Special MARION, Ind, June 12.—Poor eyesight contributed to the injury here of Mrs. William Lennon, 65, who walked off the abutment of a bridge and rolled down a steep embankment a distance of twenty feet She suffered a broken leg.

529 DEGREES GIVEN TODAY ATPURDUE 0, President E. C. Elliott Officiates at Graduation Exercises. Bp Times Special LAFAYETTE, Ind, June 12.—Purdue University awarded degrees to 529 persons today at fifty-fourth annual commencement exercises. The degrees were conferred by President E. C- Elliott of the university. Alumni of the university in session Monday, re-elected David E. Ross, president of the university board of trustees, as trustee. Robert M. Feustel, Ft. Wayne, was elected alumni vice president. C. S. Sale, New York, was re-elected to the alumni advisory council as a representative of the Atlantic region, and F. B. Ernst, Chicago, for the Chicago region. Decision to incorporate the alumni association and naming of a board of directors to conduct its affairs

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MARX CABINET QUITS Socialists to Name New German Body. BERLIN, June 12.—The cabinet of Dr. Wilhelm Marx, established in 1927, resigned today. President Von Hindenburg accepted the resignation and immediately afterward designated Hermann Mueller, Socialist party leader, to form anew cabinet. The Marx government was a coalition composed of the center party, of which Dr. Marx was the leader; the German people’s party, the German nationalists party and the Bavarian people’s party.