Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 171, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 December 1928 — Page 24

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SPIRIT OF DEAD MAN ‘ATTENDS' COURT HEARING Judge Sentences Drunken Driver for Failing to Heed Late Friend’s Advice. The shade of a dead business man was invoked Thursday afternoon to bear witness that justice was being done in criminal court by Judge James A. Collins. “What am I doing here today I am doing for a dead friend,’’ said the judge as he sentenced Earl Metz, 1720 Broadway, to sixty days on Indiana state farm and fined him SSO and costs for drunken driving. “When O. D. Haskett, former Chamber of Comerce president, lumber dealer and once board of safety president, who died a few months ago, was alive he took a great interest in you and thought that we might do you some good, but after all our work it seems that we have made about as much impression on you as we would on that radiator over there.” Arrested Many Times The judge recalled numerous times Metz had been arrested for drunkenness; four plain intoxication charges were piled up against him in addition to the drunken driving count. “I’m going to write finis on your chapter here. I’ve tried to talk to you until I’m blue in the face. ‘After the first of the year you’ll get a chance to start right, but the pity is that you’ll still be able to drive an automobile.” Metz was charged with driving into another car at Alabama and Twelfth streets, Nov. 25, and fleeing twelve blocks before he was captured. Urges Drivers’ Licenses "I don’t think any man or woman should be permitted to drive a car without first having received a license from the secretary of state. The license should be taken away from drivers if they violate any law, and then it should be made a felony if a person drives an automobile without this license. Nothing but drastic legislation will keep our streets clean of drunken drivers. “You will shake the dust off your feet in this city after you serve your sentence, or you’ll lay off the lightning rod hootch.” “Judge,” pleaded Metz, “I’ve got a wife and three children at home and over O. D. Haskett’s dead body 1 swear to God I’ll never take another drink.” ‘‘Wait a minute,” cautioned the judge, ' waving Metz aside. “You might have been up here answering a charge of manslaughter take a seat there.”

MARION PLANT MERGED WITH TWO AT CHICAGO New Radio Television Concern to Have Headquarters in Indiana City. D,ii Times Special MARION, Ind., Dec. 7.—Details of a merger including the Case Electric Company of Marion, radio manufacturers, are being completed today at Chicago between representatives of the Case company and the Apex Radio Corporation and the Radio Allied Manufacturing Company of that city. Headquarters of the combine, to be known as the United States Radio and Television Corporation, will be located here. The new company will begin production as soon as an addition to the Case plant here has been completed. Seventeen acres of land have been added to the local factory holdings, to provide room for expansion. W. C. Perkins, Chicago, is president of the new company; Arthur Case, Marion, vice-president, and John Nilson, Chicago, secretarytreasurer. WHOLESALE GROCERS LOSE ON SLOW CAPITAL I. U. Bureau Reports Four Tunis Yearly Profitable. BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Dec. 7. That the wholesale grocer in Indiana must turn his capital more than four times a year to make a profit was indicated here today in the report of an investigation into the wholesale grocery business for 1927 by the Indiana university bureau of business research. The report shows that with one exception, among a grbup of Indiana wholesalers, those who turned their capital more than four times a year made money, while those who turned their capital less than three times lost money. Eleven of twenty-two firms reporting showed losses in operating profit. The range was from 6 per cent loss to 14 per cent profit. On a total business for the year of $24,000,000, the total operating profit was shown to be only a little more than SIOO,OOO. Os the $24,000,000 in sales, $21,*IO,OOO went to pay for the goods sold and $2,400,000 for operating expenses. FOUND UNCONSCIOUS, TELLS OF SLUGGING Poolroom Proprietor Slated for Drunkenness; Denies Charge. Found lying unconscious on the sidewalk at Tenth street and Bosart avenue at 6 this morning, Claude Godsbey, 43, of 2968 V 2 Central avenue, was taken to city hospital and treated for a severe scalp wound. Godsbey, proprietor of a pool room at 1006 Bosart avenue, told police he had left his poolroom to get a bucket of coal and was struck from behind by an assailant he did not see. He was slated at police headquarters on a charge of drunkenness. Godsbey denied he had had a drink.

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Indiana’s vaunted superiority in the apple-growing industry was demonstrated at the convention of the Indiana Horticultural Society at the Lincoln today, with displays of large, luscious fruit. Mrs. L. W. Horning, 803 East Thirty-fourth street, representative of the Indianapolis Convention bureau, is shown with part of the display of “Golden Delicious” apples. FILEEXPENSES FOR CAMPAIGN _ v Last Accounts Turned in for November Race. Twenty-six candidates for offices in the November election filed expense accounts with George O. Hutsell, county clerk, Thursday afternoon, the final time for filing. All candidates and organizations that competed in the election now have filed accounts. . Os those who filed Thursday, nine were successful Republicans and seventeen unsuccessful Democrats. The Republican officials-elect and their expenditures are: James M. Ogden, attorney general, $2,381.75; Clyde E. Robinson, county treasurer, $1,654.25; Paul R. Brown, county surveyor, $478; J. Clyde Hoffman, state senator, $171.27; Joe Rand Becket, joint state senator, $275.27; William Bosson Jr., state representative, s3l; Harry P. Kottkamp, representative, SSO; Frank J. Noll Jr., representative, $309, and Frank E. Wright, representative, $128.50. Democratic candidates, the offices they sought and the amount they spent as stated in their accounts folow: Glenn B. Ralston, county treasurer, $870.62; Charles Sumner, sheriff, $1,119; Thomas H. Ellis, county commissioner, $334; Ernest K. Marker, county commissioner, $235.50; Dr. Robert Dwyer, coroner, $125.50; Raymond F. Murray, prosecutor, $601.65; Rush F. Pickens, county surveyor, $434.50; John F. Linder, joint state senator, $125, and legislative representative candidates Robert R. Sloan, $116.50; Bess Robbins, $147; Leo F. Welch, $100; Herman F. Backemeyer, $19.50; Howard H. Bates, $107; Harry B. Perkins. $65; John B. Webb, $127; Roy T. Milburn, $19.50, and Michael W. McCarthy, S4O. Old Fiddler Dies on Stage WESTPORT, Ind., Dec. 7. Funeral services will be held Saturday for W. J. Harrison, 63, who dropped dead on the stage of a Batesville theater as he concluded an encore following winning an old fiddlers’ contest. He was a victim of heart disease.

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FIFIELD BACKS AUTO DRIVERS’ LICENSE LAW More Care on Highways Would Be Ertcouraged, He Says. Otto G. Fifleld, secretary of state, announced today that he favors enactment of a drivers’ license law by the legislature as proposed by Mark W. Rhoads, head of the automobile licensing department, a division of Fifield’s office. “I have seen the effectiveness of the drivers’ license in the permits issued to boys between 16 and 18 to drive in Lake county," Fifleld declared. “They are more careful when they know that recklessness or speeding will result in a prohibition on their driving a machine.” Rhoads plans a 25-cent license fee, open to all without examination. The effectiveness would depend on administration, he says, and would provide a satisfactory method of curbing and finally weeding out those unfit to operate a car on the highways. Discount Proposal Officials of the Hoosier State Automobile Association discounted the Rhoads proposal and asserted that there are sufficient motor laws now, but alleged lack erf enforcement by state police is the difficulty. Chief Robert F. Humes of the state police delclared today that ne is inclined to agree with them. “But with tottal force of but thirty-six in our department doing a dozen different jobs besides the ordinary traffic handling, we cannot expect 100 per cent efficient inforcement throughout the entire state,” Humes declared. Asks for More Men “The criticism made that the money collected in the automobile theft funds is returned to the general fund is one of the law and not our department. “I am asking fifty patrolmen equipped with motorcycles and a department of sixty-four from the legislature. We could enforce the laws then and there probably are sufficient laws of all sorts now on the statute books.”

Not Wanted A 4-year-old Negro boy, turned adrift by his parents with a note in his pocket directing that he be sent to an orphanage, was found in the downtown district by a traffic patrolman this morning. The youngster gave promise of making his own living handily, however, when taken to police headquarters. Presented with a pair of dice, he knelt on the floor, produced a nickel and “got hot.” Four straight times the cackling dice turned up seven. Yet he could not tell police where his parents live. The boy was taken to the detention home. Three hours later police learned the boy’s mother is Cassie Williams, 21, of 1524 Lewis street, who said she is too poor to care for her child. She is held for Juvenile authorities on a charge of child neglect.

GIVEN SIO,OOO ALIMONY La Porte Woman Also Granted S6OO for Attorneys With Divorce. Bn Times Special VALPARAISO, Ind., Dec. 7.—Mrs Anna Smiley today has a divorce decree, a SIO,OOO alimony judgment and an order for S6OO for attorneys fees as a result of her victory over Dr. A. E. Smiley, a La Porte optician, in Porter circuit court here Cruelty, including stinginess on Smiley’s part, was the basis of the wife’s complaint, while he alleged indiscretions by her. naming three prominent La Porte men. Little credence was given Smiley’s charges by Special Judge George E. Hershman, who in addition to granting the divorce, alimony and fees, gave Mrs. Smiley custody of her daughter, Cleo Jane, 9, and an allowance of $5 a week for her support.

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CANDIDATES GET FLOOR Would-Be Directors Speak at Real Estate Board Meeting. The Indianapolis Real Estate Board luncheon Thursday was given over to the candidates for posts on the board of directors who seek election Thursday. David A. Coulter, Marion Stump, Herbert G. Knight, William L. Bridges, Henley T. Hottel, L. J. McMasters, H. M. Stackhouse and Albert Uhl, candidates, spoke on “Why I Should Be Elected.” REORGANIZE DIRECTORS Jordan Board Changed; Buy 90 Per Cent of Stock. The Jordan Motor Car Company that Jordan stockholders ihave subscribed to more than 90 per cent of the treasury stock recently offered. The financial statement of the reorganized company which will be made public shortly, it is understood, will show assets of about nine dollars to every dollar of liabilities. Edward S. Jordan, who has headed the oempany for the past twelve years, has been re-elected president.

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POLICE CHIEF IS MURDERED IN‘ALKY’WAR Shoot S. Chicago Heights Official as He Sits in Home Reading. Bu United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 7.—The “alky" war flared up again here Thursday night and took the life of Leroy Gilbert, chief of .police in South Chicago Heights, a suburb on the south line of Cook county. Gilbert was killed as he sat reading a newspaper in the living room of his home. Three volleys of shotgun slugs, fired through a window, blew his head almost from his shoulders. Mrs. Gilbert was wounded. A finger of her left hand being severed as she arose from a couch at the roar of the shotgun. Ruth, 13-

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