Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 117, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 October 1928 — Page 17

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COMPANY TO MINE IN NEW COALSECTION Announces Test Drillings in Monroe County Show Good Deposits. EMPLOYMENT BETTER Industries in Five Cities of Indiana Add to Forces. BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor, The Times Prospects are good for addition of coal to the products of Monroe County, already noted for its production of building stone, it is revealed in a business and industrial survey of Indiana for the week ended today. The Monroe County Mining Company, with a lease on 138 acres of land, is pioneering in development of anew coal field. The company announces that test drillings show the preesnce of large quantities of coal. Another feature of the survey this week includes the following feports on employment: Increase of 2,000 in employes of industries at Muncie this year over last, and $2,000,000 more paid in wages. Os the city’s twenty-five industries, none are on less than full time schedules, with many working overtime. Jobs for 1,500 More Transfer of several departments of the Studebaker Corporation, automobile manufacturers, from Detroit, Mich., to South Bend, will result in addition of 1,500 persons to the pay roll in the latter city, bringing the total there to 14,500. Transfer of the departments is part of a reorganization program to be completed within six months. One hundred men laid off nearly' a year, have resumed work at the Commercial Solvents Corporation’s plant at Terre Haute, making a total force of more than 2 r \ Operations are on a twenty-four-hour a day schedule, seven days a week. Following plant remodeling and rearranging of machinery, the Reliance Manufacturing Company factory at Bedford has resumed operation? with a force of fifty-eight and will have the remainder of its 275 employes at work within a few days. Fifty men are working at the Bay piano factory, Bluff ton, following a shutdown during which the operating company was taken over by a receiver. It is announced that the force will be gradually increased. Put Down Oil Drills In the oil industry, drilling operations are in progress at two points. A “wild cat” company is drilling in the Goose Pond section near Linton. The Maurer & Bugg Oil Company has a drill going down in Vanderburgh County. The following summary shows conditions in other cities: Seymour—-For the first time in history, the Seymour Woolen Mills is advertising on a national scale. The mills have manufactured blankets since 1866. The advertising slogan is, “For three generations Lady Seymour blankets have tucked them in.” Marion —The outlook for the Indiana Truck Corporation is excellent, Martin O’Hara, its president and also head of the Brockway Truck Corporation, announces, stating every effort would be made to increase production at the Indiana plant here to meet an increasing demand. Prepares Largest Display Elwood—A complete new line of kitchen cabinets manufactured by the G. I. Sellers & Sons Cos., Elwood, will be displayed at the November show of the Chicago furniture mart. The display will be the largest ever made by the Sellers company. Decatur—The local mill of the Holland-St. Louis Sugar Company will open about Oct. 15 for grinding of this year’s crop of sugar beets. Eight thousand acres of beets were grown for the mill. While the crop is not reported as large as that last year, it is said to be of better quality. Union City—The Backstay Welt Company of this city,- with branches in Chicago, Detroit, Mich., and Canada. is offering a common stock issue of 30,000 shares at S3O a share. The company, founded in 1399, supplies 60 per cent of the automobile industry’s demand for welts, gimps, moldings and bindings. Among users of these products are Gra-ham-Paige, Chevrolet, Hudson, Buick, Cadillac, Willys-Overland and Packard. Refrigerator makers also are supplied and the airplane industry is becoming a customer with a steadily increasing demand. Marshall—The Kraft Cheese Company has opened a plant in anew $5,000 building. Milk from 2,000 cows has been contracted for covering the next three months. Crawfordsvill e—The MidStates Steel and Wire Company has sold its tank department to the Oaks Manufacturing Company, Tipton, which will operate it through its local branch. In announcing the sale, the Mid-States company officials said expansion of its business in other lines had made it imperative to dispose of the tank department to give more plant space. Noble svi 11 e—T wen t y new presses and other machinery has arrived for installation in the Scheadt Rubber Company factory, and plans are being made to put the plant in operation about Oct. 15. The plant was recently bought at receiver's sale by the Scheadt company. It has not been in operation for several months.

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Masher: Beware the Dog!

An ideal traveling companion for a pretty girl is Johp, whose last name must be Bull. After escorting Elsie Neal, musical comedy dancer, on a European vacation, he’s shown here with her as they returned to New York. John doesn’t howl at night, or chase cats, or even eat, for he’s made of papier-mache. But his ferocious physiognomy was plenty of protection against unwelcome attentions to his winsome mistress.

‘GALLOPING GHOST’ OF GRIDIRON WILL VISIT CITY SCHOOLS

‘Red’ Grange, Appearing at Lyric, to Show Students How Game Is Played. “Red” Grange, famous galloping ghost of the gridiron, will reach Indianapolis Saturday, for the opening of his week’s stand at the Lyric Theater Sunday. Thousands of high school students and others will be given opportunity to see “Red” in football togs next week through cooperation of the Lyric with The Times, as he has agreed to go through the motions

on four high school football fields and at Butler University during his stay hei*e. “Red’s” first appearance will be at Technical High field Monday, where he will demonstrate to the students just how he gained fame while starring with the University of Illinois pigskinsters. Manual will be Grange’s host on

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Tuesday, and on Wednesday he will switch over to the collegians, appearing at Butler for a short workout with Potsy Clark’s crew. Shortridge will welcome him on Thursday, and on Friday he will cavort with the Cathedral High hopefuls. Grange Is appearing at the Lyric in a miniature musical comedy, “Seventy-Seven,” the name being taken from his lucky number while playing with the Illinois football team. He is supported by a strong New York cast. Woman Dies of Burns By Times Special • WARSAW, Ind., Oct. s.—Mrs. William Faurote, 75, was fatally burned at her home south of here in an explosion which followed her attempt to start a fire in a kitchen stem with kerosene. Horse’s Kick Fatal to Boy By Times Special WINCHESTER Ind„ Oct. 5. Gerald E. Wolfe, 11, son of Mr. and Mrs. Orville Wolfe, near here, Is dead of injuries suffered when kicked by a horse.

COMMITTEE BAN ON WILLEBRANDT QUIZ

By United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. s.—The house campaign funds committee today rejected, by a 3 to 1 vote, a motion by Representative Black, Democrat, New York, to investigate injection of the religious issue into the presidential campaign and activities of Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, assistant U. S. attorney general.

ETERNAL SPIRT OF POET STILL LINGERS ABOUT RILEY HOUSE FOR ANNIVERSARY

QUNDAY will be the seventieth birthday anniversary of James Whitcomb Riley, and many pilgrims will visit the brick house in Lockerbie St. where he spent the last twenty-five years of his life. They will go to his room, where he lived and wrote, and they will meet him there. The eternal youthfulness of the poet, his simplicity, and the fine-

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ASK COMMUNITY HOUSE Butler-Fairview Request Made to City Officials. Butler-Fairview Civic Club officials today asked the park board to establish a community center for the north side. Park Commissioner Michael E. Foley said the board will consider the request and provide the north side community house if funds can be obtained. “The suggestion is a deserving one and we will seek to compl- with the request.” Foley said. Assistant Park Superintendent George Moran reegmmended the discharge of thirty laborers to cut the pay roll SSOO a week for the winter season. MAPS LESLIE STUMP Speeches All Arranged by Manager. Speaking engagements for Harry G. Leslie, Republican nominee for Governor, are made solely by his campaign manager, Bert C. Fuller, and not entrusted to the Republican State speakers bureau, it w r as learned today. Inquiry directed to the Speaker’s bureau relative to Leslie’s itinerary brought the information that Fuller is custodian of Leslie’s date book, although announcement of his meetings may be communicated by the Speaker’s bureau to the publicity department for announcement. To control further the place and character of Leslie’s utterances, his managers have ensconced George Stout, editor of the Lafayette Journal and Courier, in the publicity offices to prepare and disseminate the nominee’s speeches. Drops “Horse Thief” Name /?.;/ Times Special CRAWFORDSVILLE, Oct. 5. The National Horse Thief Detective Association no longer exists. It’s the National Detective Association. The change of name was authorized by delegates to the national convention held here this •week, it being pointed out that use of automobiles has made the word horse thief obsolete so far as the organization is concerned.

Mrs. Willebrandt will speak next week in Kentucky and Tennessee under auspices of the Republican National Committee. Her dates: Monday afternoon, Hardinsburg, Ky.; evening, Owensboro, Ky.; Tuesday afternoon, Princeton, Ky.; evening, Hopkinsville, Ky.; and Wednesday evening, Knoxville, Tenn.

ness of his reactions to the physical world speak like a spirit in that room. A place hardly could have a more living presence than he has left there. B B B THE walls are hung with tributes of his friends and reminders of things he loved and people who loved him; copy of Sargent portrait of Henry

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, OCT. 5, 1928

COUNTY ROAD SYSTEM IS HIT AT JEARING Marion Not Getting Money’s Worth, State Board Members Assert. CLASH ON SCHOOL LEVY Increase in Gravel Fund Is Fought by Taxpayers’ Association. Marion County, with its thirtythree assistant road superintendents, is not getting its money’s worth of maintenance when compared with other Indiana counties where the patrol system prevails. This was the opinion expressed by State tax board members at the hearing on remonstrance on the proposed .325cent 1929 tax levy-. Hearing on both the county levy and the proposed $1.03 Indianapolis school city levy was held today in the House of Representatives, j The proposed county levy is made up of .145 cents for the general fund, .125 cents for the sinking fund, .03 for the gravel and maintenance fund and .025 for the Sunny side Sanitorium. This is a .005 increase in the sinking and gravel funds. Only the gravel fund increase was attacked by Attorney Willis E. Nusbaum and Secretary Harry B. Meisse of the Indiana Taxpayers’ Association, the organization filing the remonstrances. Increase Is Attacked They contend that with the increase of valuation to $780,000,000, the 10 per cent gas tax increase and the increase in concrete roads, which require little maintenance, the .005 gravel fund increase is unnecessary. President Charles E. Sutton of the county commissioners and Auditor Harry Dunn defended tint 1-cent rate increase. Sutton listed the roads under county care and declared that new equipment is needed. Many old concrete roads require constant attention, he said. He agreed with tax board members on the advantage of the patrol system, but said that he felt it would take time to bring it about and in Marion County the plan of operating trucks in fleets with loading machines would seem more feasible than single truck patrols. Under the ptrol system, crews constantly work on certain road sectors. At present they are used when needed and the numerous superintendents work but part time, according to Sutton. Differ on School Levy Should the Taxpayers’ Association suggestions be put into effect, the rate would be ii*reased .005 from last year, making it .32. The Taxpayers’ Association and the civic affairs division of the Chamber of Commerce differed on possible reduction of the proposed school levy. The association representatives contended that the budget submitted by A. F. Walsman, business manager of the schools, was in fine shape. Their only suggestion was to sprad an item of $700,000 of a $832,000 deficit to cover more than a one-year period. William Book of the chamber objected and submitted an itemized proposal of cuts to be made, not only in the 1929, but the 1928 budget for the last six months. The six-month budget he proposed would result in a $35,000 balance rather than a $22,000 deficit, and permit a 98-cent levy for 1929, he contended. The matter was fought out item by item, Walsman at times losing patience with Book and declaring he didn’t care for this quiz and would leave his estimates to the board, as hhe believed it would regard them as conservative. Book’s main objections to the month budget came in the items for repairs and janitors’ salaries. HEAR FERRACANE PLEA District Attorney in Chicago for Appeal Argument. Albert Ward, United States district attorney, has gone to Chicago to take part Saturday in oral arguments on the appeal of Tony Ferracane, Indianapolis; Leo Stabile, Les Feldhaus and Charles Gay, Louisville, Ky., from their conviction on liquor conspiracy charges in Federal Court here. They were among ninety-nine persons indicted in the Ferracane liquor conspiracy a year ago. Ferracane and Stabile are serving their sentences at Leavenworth. Feldhaus was arrested at Louisville Sept. 28, when raiders found 270 gallons of alcohol in a hidden cellar at his home, local officials said. '

Irving, autographed in warm affection; a water-color of the frost on the pumpkin and the fodder in the shock, by Florence Cawein; a. picture of George Beeman, the Italian impersonator; over the mantel an oil painting of Lockerbie, the silky little white dog who frisked his way so deep into the poet’s heart in his last years; a few other small things.

Love of Living Keeps Hiker, 75, Doomed to Die Long Ago, on Road

Arrives With His Cart and Pup to See World Series. BY PAUL HARRISON, NEA Service Writer NEW YORK, Oct. s.—“ You have about two months more to live,” his doctor told Jack Taylor some sixteen years ago. _ Since then Jack, “75 years young,” has Irke.d through fifteen States and a couple of Canadian Provinces —his latest compass bearings set to lead him straight to the bleacher gates of the New York world series games. “I’ll be first in line,” he said as he pitched a camp in the shadow of the Yankee stadium a couple of days before the series. And he was right up among the leaders. Hankers for a Homer “I want to see this fellow Judge Landis, and I want to see Babe Ruth hit a home run.” A three-wheeled cart and “Nippy” are Taylor’s traveling companions. Taylor pushes the cart, with “Nippy" walking until he gets tired and then riding awhile. “Nippy” is a mixture of Airedale, collie, Irish terrier and just plain pup. Taylor picked him up in Montreal. To pay expenses, Taylor sells cards carrying his picture and quotations from the poets and the philosophers; such quotations as: “I love a life whose plot is simple,”—Thoreau. “When men meet with their feet touching the soil, they are all brothers."—A. R. Whitcmob. “A clear sky, a camp tonight, and anew road in the morning."—Victor Shaw. Just for the Fun of It Taylor is one of the few marathon hikers who don’t claim to be out walking to win a big wager. He confesses, however, to ambitions to write a book. The Bible and'Shakespeare feature a modest library included in his pack. Out on the road he eats about a dollar’s worth of eggs and fresh vegetables a day, retires at sundown, rises before dawn. Then he loiters along for five or ten more miles, and camps again. “I have come to know the real meaning of the words ’the joy of living,’” said Taylor. He loves a life whose plot is simple; that, and baseball. SPEAKING OF HALOS— Leslie Gang Far From Heaven, Says Speaker. Bjl Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Oct. 5. “Harry Leslie’s talk about Frank C. Dailey’s ‘phoney’ halos is as near as the political gang behind Leslie's candidacy ever will get to Heaven,” said Walter Myers, Indianapolis attorney, addressing the Womens Smith-for-President Club here Thursday. SEEK RATE CHANGE C. of C. Lays Basis for Protest on Freights. A basis on which to file exceptions to the proposed report of the Interstate Commerce Commission on Iron and steel freight rates was laid by the freight and traffic department of the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce in session Thursday afternoon. The State chamber objects to-the proposed report on the ground that it ‘does away with present group system of rates and because it puts rates on a strict mileage basis whicn is too high, according to R. B. Coapstick, manager of the freight and traffic department. The freight and traffic committee also declares its intention of demanding a hearing in respect to class rates from Indiana to southwestern Missouri and southeastern Kansas. ‘ROTTEN TO THE CORE’ Logansport Council Member Flays Fire Department. By Times Special LOGANSPORT, Ind., Oct. 5. “Our fire department is rotten to the core and the worst in Indiana," declared Councilman A. W. Jones in addressing the city council on a report of its investigating commitee which made the department a probe subject. “The mayor and public works board have no control over the chief,” Jones declared, “and he can’t say a thing to his men. A fine state of affairs.” Light to Be Vote Subject Times Special ALFORDSVILLE, Ind., Oct. 5. Citizens of this village, numbering 300, plan to hold an election soon to incorporate * the village as a town. The change is necessary in order to have electric lighting service. An engineer has already platted the village site for the inI corpation. The area is twenty-four | blocks.

On the high old walnut dresser a big perfume bottle, painted with quaint figures of boy and girl, from his intimate friend, Hewlitt Howland, and two other heavier ones, one with its rim broken. His friends learned to choose their gifts to suit his delicate and sensitive spirit. Against the west wall beside the bed stands the walnut desk where, rarely, he wrotet

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Jack Taylor, Nippy and the cart Jack has pushed about the country for the last fifteen years.

‘PRACTICE' FOR VOTERS URGED Machine Use Is Advocated Before Election. Civic and political organizations seeking to have voting booths foxpractice purposes placed in public places gained a partial victory before members of the county election board Thursday afternoon. Election commissioners announced they will approve distribution of a few model machines but do not believe they have the right to place regular voting apparatus before the election. , The election commissioners asserted “county commissioners were custodians of the machines until election. However, county commissioners “returned the buck.” James E. Deery, Democratic member of the commission, urged the machines be placed. County Clerk George O. Hutsell and Ira M. Holmes, Republican board members, advanced the theory that the machines might be damaged. Politicians throughout the county are of the opinion that Republican members of the board do not favor distribution of the machines because, with practice, persons might learn to scratch names of various Republican nominees. It is believed that without this practice electors will be inclined to vote the straight Republican ticket. Bids on election supplies were received by the commissioners. Awards will be made Saturday, Hutsell announced. PRESSING KILLS GERMS Pants and Coats Bacteria Free After Cleaning. Bli Times Special BERLIN, Oct. s.—What queer things scientists find out! For instance, Professor M. Hahn, dix-ec-tor of the Berlin Hygienic Institute, has found that the presing of coats, trousers and blankets completely sterlized the articles of disease-bearing bacteria.

DAILEY, TAMMANY LINKED BY LESLIE

By Times Special HAMMOND. Ind., Oct. s.—lnto the political handbook of Leslie workers throughout the State was copied today anew campaign phrase, voiced by the Republican nominee for Governor in a speech here Thursday night. “Frank C. pailey, Tammany candidate for Governor of Indiana,” was the term Harry G. Leslie applied to his Democratic opponent, while Republican regulars sensed difficulty aplenty in making the expression “stick” with the voters. “Dailey,” Leslie said, “is on the defensive and running for cover. He is trying in vain to regain the pedestial from which he has slipped so ingloriously in recent days.” The Republican nominee said it would be his “great pleasure” to have some things to say about “Dailey and Tammany and the

MOST of his writing was done in bed. His spirit was not tempered to rough contacts or practical disciplines; he could not work in distracting surroundings, nor by plan or schedule. His poems came to him in fragments and dreams, nearly always at night; and in the night, with the gas light brought around over his

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DEALERS BOOST THEIRJVENUE Improvements Urged for Massachusetts. Dvelepoment of their thoroughfare as a business street was discussed at a meeting of the Massachusetts Ave. Merchants’ Association at 635 Massachusetts Ave, Thursday night. A. E. Chambers, association president, outlined purposes of the organization, and announced that city officials had piomised to adopt plans this winter to widen the avenue from Ohio to Tenth St., ancl start construction early in the spring. The merchants also seek better lighting. Chambers urged dealers to beautify their business places and design attractive window displays as means of attracting a larger number of customers. The association was oi-ganizcd Aug. 15 and has a membership of about 100. Efforts are being made to obtain 150 members. Speakers who pledged cooperation of mei-chants were George J. Marott, Charles Rauh, Ervin Bertermann and George L. Claxk, treasurer. Sidney Stout is secretary and Bonnor Brown is executive secretary. NO HELP TO BALDHEADS Sun Baths Won’t Grow Hair, Say* Cruel Professor.

ST. LOUIS, Oct. s.—Bald men who go bai'eheaded in the sun with the hope of stimulating the growth of hair are following false hopes, according to Prof. Mildred Trotter, of the School of Medicine at Washington University, St. Louis, who has been doing research work for several years on the growth of the hair. Women who diligently apply petrolatum to their eyebrows and eye lashes to increase their growth are equally deluded, Prof. Trotter contends.

affiliations and associations of the Tammany candidate for Governor,” when he speaks at a banquet at Ft. Wayne Tuesday night. His address will be broadcast over WOWO between and 7:30 p. m. “On that occasion,” Leslie said, “I shall go to the people with my own record and ask them to consider that record and to compare it with Mr. Dailey’s. “When this campaign is over nobody will need to be deceived or misled by the Dailey myth.” Announcing his Ft. Wayne meeting, Leslie said “certain live issues” would be set worth In “a prepared address.” * The “prepared address,” it was said here, is being written at Leslie headquarters in Indiananolis by George Stout, editor of the Lafayette Journal and Courier, of which Leslie’s intimate friend and adviser, Henry W. Marshall, is publisher.

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Here the Raggedy Man emerged from the shadows, and Little Orphan Annie, and Armazindy; here the frosted pumpkin and the shocked fodder crept into poetry as autumn chill crept about his shoulders. Here the green of spring running back into the trees ran wine-like into his song.

QUASH RULINGS IN CRIME QUIZ DUESATURDAY Important Decisions Waited in Probes Launched by Store Blast. NO EVIDENCE PLEADED Defendants Wriggle to Block Prosecution o Series'of Indictments. Rulings on motions to quash filed by twelve men who have been indicted or charged by affidavit with various alleged crimes since the prosecutor’s office and the county grand jury has been investigating the crime situation in Indianapolis following the fire and explosion at the Traugott clothing store, Aug. 26, will be given by Criminal Judge James A. Collins Saturday. The motions were filed Monday when these men along with about 70 others were arraigned in Criminal Court. Judge Collins took the rulings under advisement until Saturday, Booze Conspiracy Charged Most important in the prosecutor's records is the alleged liquor conspiracy case against Edward Traugott, owner of the store in which the blast occurred; Frederick • Pickles’ O’Roark, former policeman; Homer Wright, alleged St. Louis gangster under two other Criminal Court charges; Paxil Scharffin, local attorney, and Donlad Underwood, professional bondsman. The motions averred there is not sufficient evidence against the men to constitute a public offense. The indictment alleged the men entered into a conspiracy to buy, sell, manufacture and transport liquor in Marion County. Only one witness, Mrs. Josephine Fairhead, 713 S. Illinois St., is named in the indictment. It is understood the men grouped at her residence to consider purchase of an auto, which the prosecutor’s office will contend, was to be used for booze running. Felony Case Up It is said the grand jury has other witnesses on this charge, whose names have not been made public. The case, second in importance, is that against Ray (Railroad) Smith, Joey Jacobson, Harry Burton, Solly Epstein and a man who has not yet been arrested, who are charged with conspiracy to commit a felony in false personation before Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron two weeks ago. This group, it is alleged, substituted two men for defendants in a gambling case in which they were all charged The men who were alleged to have been substituted, Hymie Nahamis and Max Goldsmith, also are charged with false personation. Wright, Phayer File Wright also has filed, through his attorney, Ira M. Holmes, motions to quash charges of being an habitual criminal and an ex-convict in possession of a gun. Wright was arrested following a bootleg battle in Clinton which resulted in the death of Ewald Eckerle. He was arrested in a north side apartment with a machine gun and a revolver In his possession. Later he was held In connection with the Traugott Investigation. He and Charles Phayer returned from St. Louis and charged with being one of the bandits who held up the Broadmoor Country Club, May 30, are held under $50,000 bond each. Phayer also has filed a motion to quash the charges of auto banditry and robbei-y against him. NO PANACEA FORFARM NEEDS, BANKERS TOLD No Universal Cure, College Dean Tells Association, B v United Press PHILADELPHIA, Oct. s.—Political parties can offer no universal panacea for the solution of the farm problem, Dean Harry Luman Russell of the College of Agriculture, University of Wisconsin, Thursday told the concluding general session of the American Bankers' Association. A general remedy for the farm problem is impossible because methods used for the Southern grower with great success might ruin the Northern stock man or the Western rancher, he said. IDENTIFIED AS ROBBER Clinton Residents Accuse Absconding Church Official. Bj/ Times Special CLINTON, Ind., Oct. s.—lnvestigation is under way today which may result in linking Clinton S. earners, 'absconding Atlanta (Ga.) church official, with a pay roll robbery of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Raili’oad here in 1913. Police Chief Wilmot Bonner of this city announces that photographs of Carnes, who was arrested this week in Canada and said to be $1,000,000 short In church funds he handled, have been identified by persons here as those of a who took part in the robbery. Boy Escapes in Court B.p Times Special PRINCETON, Ind., Oct. s.—James W. Vitito, 1, escaped while awaiting a hearing in Gibson Circuit Court on a delinquency charge. He was brought to court by Rhoda Fithian, Gibson County school attendance officer, and fled down a stairway -* which he climbed a few minutes before t$ enter the courtroom. t