Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 208, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 January 1929 — Page 1

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KEENE QUITS STATE BOARD UNDER FIRE Storm of Criticism Brings His Resignation From Pharmacy Post. ATTACKED BY RIVALS Censured by Competitors in Insurance Business for Activities. Smoldering fires of criticism, which burst into flame at the state pharmacy board meeting this week, resulted today in Bernard M. Keene, Indianapolis, Democratic member, tendering his resignation to Governor Harry G. Leslie. Besides operating the Keene drug store, 201 North Delaware street, Keene is state agent for the American Druggist Fire Insurance Company, Cincinnati, a mutual organization in which he says he has been interested, for the last twenty years. It was this connection that caused him to be the target of attack while on the board. Competing insurance agents charged that being a board member gave him an undue advantage in selling to druggists and that Jie used this advantage. These complaints have appeared at various times in drug trade magazine* and the editor of the American. Druggist wrote that they have been numerous of late. Assailed in Magazine In the January issue of that magazine there are two letters complaining against Keene, although not mentioning him by name. One is signed “Indianapolis Pharmacist” and the other “Indiana Pharmacist.” A portion of the latter letter reads as follows: “In this state a board member sells fire insurance. In 1,368 inspections of drug stores in Indiana, and 300 grocery stores that handle drugs, there wrere but four prosecutions by the board of pharmacy. “Is this not proof enough that if the board would prosecute, our dear fire insurance agent member of the board of pharmacy would lose the commission annually from the premimum? Bah! It smells putrid!” Denies Resignation Asked The criticism reached a climax Wednesday night, when the board members met especially to discuss the matter. Keene announced then that he would resign from the board, he stated today. He denied that his resignation had been asked by other board members. Keene asserted that for the past year his insurance business has been increasing, until now he musi> devote so much time to it that it would be impossible to attend board meetings. This press of business was given as the reason for his resignation in a letter to Leslie. In closing, he praised the other members of the board and they in turn denied that the resignation was asked by them. All admitted that Keene had been criticised because of his insurance activities. Appointed by McCray Republican members of the board are Russell B. Rothrock, Mt. Vernon; Charley E. Reed. Winchester, and John A. J. Funk, Galveston. The other Democratic member is F. W. Meisner, La Porte, who is board president. Keene was appointed to the board by Governor Warren T. McCray and reappointed by Governor Ed Jackson. He has served a total of six years and his present term would have expired May 6, 1931. He is a past president of the Indiana Retail Druggists’ Association and a brother-in-law of James E. Deery, Marion county Democratic chairman/ ROB FILLING STATION Three Bandits Obtain sls From Western Oil Company's Branch. Three bandits in a green coach heldup the Western Oil Refining Company filling station Thursday night, and obtained sls from John Dougherty, attendant. QUEEN MARIE RECOVERS Grippe Attack Subsides; She Leaves for Retreat on Black Sea. Bf/ United Press BUCHAREST. Rumania, Jan. 18. —Quen Marie has recovered from the attack of grippe which kept her in bed for several days. She will leave tomorrow for Constanza, the royal retreat on the Black sea.

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200 BODIES OF QUAKE VICTIMS FOUND IN RUINS

More Than 1,000 Injured Reported in Venezuela Catastrophe. CARACAS, Venezuela, Jan. 18.—Reports received today from Cumana said 200 bodies had been removed from the ruins of buildings wrecked in the earthquake there Wednesday. The reports said more than 1,000 were injured. Cumana is a town of about 12,000 population. Damage to property was estimated at approximately $10,000,000. Every availabale surviving citizen of Cumana was engaged in searching the ruins of the city for those who might still be alive but imprisoned, the dispatches said. It was believed foreign aid would have to be asekd for. The Venezuelan Red Cross was mobilizing volunteers. The government announced free transportation and telegraph service would be given for relatives of Cuman earthquake victims. Every active operation was centered on bringing first aid preparations to Cumana, where those injured were reported to be reliant entirely on the arrival of outside aid. Back to Old Days B,u United Press LONDON, Jan. 18.—Cornish Hall End school, Essex, has gone back to the good old days. Under direction of the headquarters, boys are making hand-looms, and the girls are taught to use them in the oldfashioned grandmother style.

SCHOOLCHILDREN KILLED IN TORNADO

Twister Wrecks Buildings in Illinois Town; Toll rnmmr By United F rc~* MT. VERNON, Ind., Jan. 18Two school children are known to have been killed and many other persons are believed to have been injured by a cyclone which struck Maunie, 111., near here today. Entirely unconfirmed reports said the twister completely wrecked two school buildings and leveled seven or more dwellings and several business structures. The amount of damage done was unknown. A check is being made. ESTATE TO CHILDREN Judge Rules in Fight Over Taylor Will. Four children of the first wife of William S. Taylor, former Governor of Kentucky, will receive the bulk of Mr. Taylor's estate, according to a decision given today by Probate Judge Mahlon E. Bash. The estate is valued at more than SIOO,OOO. Those who will benefit under the court’s ruling are: Mrs. E. Leo Davidson. Mrs. Merrill Wilson and Mrs. Erwin Miller, all of Indianapolis, and Mrs. Letha Bailey of Columbus, O. Real estate valued at $25,000 and a life interest in the Indianapolis home of Mr. Taylor, gifts of Mr. Taylor to his second wife, were not affected by the ruling. TWO ARE INDICTED Grand Jury Makes Partial Report; Holds Woman. ’The Marion county grand jury in its first partial report to Criminal Judge James A. Collins returned two indictments. Mrs. Christine Owens, Negro, 409 West Fourteenth street, was charged with second degree murder in the death of her husband, Jesse Owens, Dec. 5. Low Sang, alias Quan Sing, Chinese, was charged with passing a forged check for $450 on a downtown department store, June 28, 192T7. Low Sang is held by Chicago police and extradition papers have been issued to bring him here for trial. Following this report the grand jury resumed its quiz into conditions at the Marion county poor farm, started Thursday. More inmates of the institution will be called for questioning. The probt is concerned with foodstuffs.

MOTHER TRADES OWN LIFE, CRIPPLED SON’S, THAT GIRL, 10, ‘MAY HAVE THINGS’

Bv Times Special Newcastle, ind., Jan. is.— The tragic story of a mother so fearful that failing health would prevent her giving loving care to her family that she committed suicide was told today by a note. The note was written to June Lawless, 10-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William L. Lawless,

Light Hikers By United Press CONCORD, N. H., Jan. 18.— New Hampshire hitch-hikers would be obliged to pay $3.20 for a hitch-hiking license and would be compelled to cany a light at night under a bill filed in the legislature.

BANKER FREED BY KIDNAPERS Phones Wife Abductors Did Not Harm Him. Bu United Press CINCINNATI, Jan. 18. Kidnapers who abducted Benjamin Henderson, cashier of the Camargo bank at Maderia, near hero, early today, dumped him out of his own car at West Carrollton, near Dayton, at 11:30 a. m., he advised his wife by telephone. He assured Mrs. Henderson he had not been injured and police dispatched an automobile to West Carrollton to return him to Cincinnati. The fact that Henderson was unharmed puzzled officers who believed he had been “taken for a ride” by members of a gang who kidnaped him and robbed the Camargo bank last November. Henderson was abducted after he had taken his small daughter to school. The girl saw several men force him into a car and told her teachers, who notified police.

Vote to Ask Ouster of Governor Oklahoma Trial Issue Is Put on Floor of House, Bu United Press OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan. 18.—A special legislative committee investigating the administration of Governor Henry S. Johnston recommended to the Oklahoma house of representatives today that the Governor be suspended from office and tried before a senate court on charges of incompetence, official corruption and moral turpitude. The committee’s action brought into the open the long smouldering political warfare that has kept Oklahoma in a furore since the abortive attempt to impeach Governor Johnston last year. It puts his fate in the hands of the legislature where his enemies through a coalition of parties, claim to have secured a majority against him. OPEN SOCIETY TRIAL Sportswoman Is Charged With Shooting Husband. Bn United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 18.—A jury to hear evidence against Mrs. Esther Evans De Forest Wilson, Washington society woman and big game hunter, charged with shooting her husband, Dallett H. Wilson, lawyer and prominent Republican, was selected today in general sessions court. ROB~ FIRM OF $5,000 Bandits Take Pay Roll After Armored Car Brings It to Plant. Bu United Press TRENTON. N. J., Jan. 18.—Five minutes after an armored car delivered a $5,000 pay roll to the National Radiator Works near here today four bandits raided the place and escaped with the money. COOLIDGE NAMES MARCH Nominates Minnesota Man for Post on U. S. Trade Commission. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—President Coolidge sent to the senate today the nomination of Charles H. March of Minnesota, to be a member of the federal trade commission.

by Mrs. Lawless, 35, before she sent two bullets through the heart of Maurice, a 7-year-old son, and then shot herself twice through the heart here Thursday afternoon. * o a THE bodies were found in bed in the pretty bungalow occupied by the Lawless family by the father when he returned from

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FLAYS MEtLON FDR LAXITY IN WARONBODZE Not Fit to Direct Dry Law Enforcement, Says Senator Norris. DEBATE APPROPRIATION Secretary’s Plea for Probe Held Proof of • Incompetence. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—The fitness of Secretary of Treasury Andrew Mellon to continue in charge of prohibition enforcement was challenged by Senator Norris (Rep. Neb.), in debate today on the $25,000,000 additional prohibition enforcement appropriation proposed by Senator Harris (Dem. Ga.). Senator Norris said partisan politics has honeycombed enforcement machinery and made the administration of the Volstead act a mockery. “Secretary Mellon writes the senate a letter and says we r. eed a thorough survey of enforcement conditions,” Norris said. “If after trying to enforce prohibition for eight years Secretary Mellon has just got around to the point, where he has discovered a survey ought to be made, it is fair to say he has been a failure in enforcing the law. “Os course, it is said Secretary Mellon never has been a prohibitionist, but we ought not condemn an official solely because he is oppose dto a law he is appointed to enforce. “However, the result of eight years enforcement under the present head of the department indicates to me he ought not be at its head.” Senator Norris said that prohibition has not had a real test and that attempts to modify it ought to await such a test. “Regardless of wha we think of the law,” he said, “we ought to attempt to enforce it in good faith. I think we would find the result satisfactory. There has not been a real attempt to enforce it. As the- law has been enforced in the last eight years it has been a mockery.” AL SMITH ELECTED” DIRECTOR OF BANK Named on Board With Raskob; Goes to Florida Sunday. Bn United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 18.—Alfred E. Smith, former Governor of New York and Democratic presidential candidate in the last election has become a banker. He has been elected to the board of directors of the County Trust Company, in which John J. Raskob, chairman of the Democratic national committee, and William F. Kenny, a heavy contributor to Smith’s campaign fund, also a:re directors. It was said Smith would form no other business connections until his return from Florida abou; a month hence. Henny, Raskob and Smith will leave for Florida Sunday. The County Trust Company opened in February, 1926, with Smith as the first depositor. AUCTION SALE IS SET FOR COUNTY REALTY Tax Burdened Property to Be Disposed of for ‘Songs.’ The county treasurer’s auction sale to be held Feb. 11 in order to obtain delinquent real estate taxes will include almost $2,000,000 worth of property, C. O. Harris, Chief deputy treasurer announced today. The county office will realize SIOO,000 on the properties which includes the amounts delinquent, plus advertising and certificate fees. Those who desire to buy the properties will pay from $2.26 to $7,000 a parcel, Harris said. But when they buy they are not sure of being able to keep the property, for original owners can redeem within two years by paying the sale price plus 10 per cent, in six months; plus 15 per cent in the first year, and 25 per cent after the first ye;\r. SLAYER’S HOPE FADES Doubt Bandit Sentenced to Die Monday Will Get Reprieve. Bu United Press HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 18.—No further reprieve likely will be granted Paul Jawarski, condemned Allegheny county bandit murderer, who is scheduled to be executed Monday in Rockview penitentiary, Governor Fisher’s office indicated today.

the business district Thursday afternoon. He had left the mother and son apparently happy two hours before to attend to some business incident to purchase of the pretty little home, completed Only Thursday morning. The tragedy dates back to the time a few months before Maurice’s birth, when Mrs. Loveless was injured in a fall. Maurice

17,000 WILL VIEW DISPLAYS AT CITY SAFETY EXPOSITION

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Thirty Public Schools Aid at Fair; Prizes Will Be Awarded. Seventeen thousand persons were expected to view displays today at the first annual Safety fair, in Tomlinson hall. The fair will close tonight at 9 o’clock with awarding of prizes for the best booths. More than 20,000 tickets have been sold. Thirty Indianapolis public schools have designed and built displays to carry out the idea of safety first in the schools. The value of all the exhibits would approximate $15,000, according to an estimate by Lieut. Frank Owen, of the accident prevention bureau. Program for today included concerts by the Cathedral high school band and the Marmon Motor Car Company band, a play by the fire prevention bureau, and a first aid demonstration, and the awarding of prizes. First prize is $75; second, SSO and third, $25. Exhibits were judged on appearance and display, originality and uniqueness, continuity and supervision, effectiveness and presentation, and character of dominating theme. Judges are Judge Frank Lahr, Walter Harding, and Mrs. Logan Hughes. About 3,000 persons attended the fair Thursday afternoon and evening. Delegations from the police departments of Detroit, Columbus, Chicago, Terre Haute, Kokomo, Shelbyville, Rushville and Anderson planned to attend today. SHIPPING ‘CZAR’ DIES Great Lakes Owner Passes in London Hotel. Bu United Press CLEVELAND, 0., Jan. 18.—Harry Coulby, millionaire shipper, known as the “czar of the Great Lakes” died Thursday night at the Ritz hotel In London, according to word received at his home here today. Coulby was 64 years old. Cause of his death was not made known here. For twenty years Coulby had been president of the Pittsburgh Steamship Company, subsidiary of the United States Steel Corporation. The shipping magnate had been on a visit to his birthplace at Claypoole, England, accompanied only by his valet. MERCURY TO DROP Another Snowfall Is Forecast for City. A twenty-five-degree drop in temperature within the next twentyfour hours was predicted this miming by J. H Armington, United States weather bureau head. Today’s 7 a. m. temperature was 56 degrees, twenty-nine degrees above normal. This was eighteen degrees higher than Thursday mark and forty-two degrees higher than Wednesday’s mark, Tonight the mercury will sink to slightly below freezing, Armington said. Saturday also will be colder. The rain will continue this afternoon and tonight, but will change to snow during the night, he sai*. During the night .04 inch of rain fell here.

was born a hopeless, although not helpless, cripple. o it a THE mother lavished upon him tender care, born of a feeling that she was responsible for his condition, as the note to the daughter indicated. The mother’s health has been failing and she stated in her note that she felt the father would be

Above (left to right)—Holister Gahan, Bobby Edwards, Mies Mildred McDonald, Harry Washcheck and Clarence Gamerdinger in the booth of the Clemens Vonnegrut school at the safety fair at Tomlinson hall. Below—The exhibit of School 57.

PROUDEST BOY IN CITY LINDY’S HOST

Norman Perry Jr. One of Party of Four Who Fetes Ace at Dinner. Norman Perry Jr., 13, is the proudest boy in Indianapolis today. Young Perry, an ardent aviation fan and an even more ardent admirer of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, was one of a party of four which entertained Lindbergh Thursday night at a dinner at the Columbia Club. In the party were his father, Norman A. Perry; Wallace O. Lee and H. Weir Cook. During the dinner Lindbergh directed much of his attention to the youth. They conversed at length on flying matters, and young Perry’s future aviation career. Lindbergh advised him to wait until he is 18 years old before attempting to fly. Lindbergh, taking advantage of lifting of the fog which had prevented his departure Thursday, left at 9:40 a. m. today for the east, where he has been called on business. The departure was unostentatious. Lindbergh was taken directly from the Lincoln to Indianapolis airport by Wallace O. Lee, C. W. Richardson and E. H. Bingham, Indianapolis Power and Light Company officials. There he found the CurtissRobin monoplane he i$ flying warmed up and made ready for him by airport mechanics. A crowd of fifteen airport attendants and spectators watched the monoplane take a short run and then soar aloft and head east into the gTay skies. Lindbergh telephoned Norman A. Perry, Mayor L. Ert Slack and Captain H. Weir Cook before leaving. He expressed regret at not being able to visit the mayor’s office, and promised to make the visit when he returns, probably next week. Lindbergh landed here Wednesday evening but was prevented from continuing his flight Thursday by bad weather.

better able to give little June the fine things of life if Maurice and the mother w'ere out of the way. So the mother perpetrated the carefully planned murder-suicide. # K K IN words apparently written in mental agony the mother gave the daughter advice about her future life with particular instructions as to the strong, tender and

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Death Piper By United Press YOUNGSTOWN, 0., Jan. 18. —Mrs. Mary Conti, 83, Lake Erie quarry recluse, smoked a pipe in safety most of her life, but Thursday night sparks from the pipe ignited her clothing and she was burned to death.

REPLIES Final Brief Filed: Fate Now in Baltzell’s Hands. Whether or not Edward S. Shumaker, Indiana Anti-Saloon League superintendent, must serve the sixty-day state farm sentence imposed on him by the Indiana supreme court for contempt of court today rested in the hands of Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell. E. A. Miles, Shumaker’s attorney, filed the final brief in the habeas corpus proceedings, replying to the state’s brief filed Tuesday by James M., Ogden, Indiana attorney-gen-eral. Baltzell is in Chicago and it is not known when he will rule. Shumaker’s brief reaffirmed arguments of Miles that the supreme court had no original jurisdiction, that even if it had original jurisdiction it had no such jurisdiction after Shumaker was pardoned by former Governor Ed Jackson. MINORITY WHIP TO QUIT Texan Says He’ll! Resign House Post on March 4. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—Representative John C! Box (Dem., Tex.), announced in the house today he would resign as minority whip on March 4.

true man the mother hoped the daughter might marry some day. She counseled it would be better that the man be wealthy. Maurice had been kept from school by measles. He had recovered sufficiently Thursday morning to l* taken by his father to a barber shop for a hair cut. A double funeral for the mother and son is planned. .. ■

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JUDGE DROPS TRAFFIC CASES; BLOW TO CUBE Public Not Given Fair Chance to Know Law, Says Cameron. FIFTY-THREE DISMISSED Police Must Cite Persons Operating Cars, Court Declares. More holes were knocked into the new city traffic code today as Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron continued indefinitely charges against fifty-three motorists, six of them women, haled into his court for minor violations of the ordinance. The judge based his action, which amounts to dismissal of the charges, on the grounds that the public “has not been given a fair chance to know the ordinance.” Later he indicated he would not impose fines for violations of the ordinance, which went into effect Jan. 1, until the public has had at least thirty days to become familiar with its provisions. “The citizens should have at least thirty days tc study the new code,” he declared. Must Know Operator Police also must prove persons charged with violations were driving the machine at the time of the violations, he declared. In most cases when police tag machines with stickers they have no means of knowing who was drivj ing the car. | Cameron pointed out that the ordinance is directed only against the operator of the car and that the owner can not be held responsible. At the time the ordinance was drafted he urged the owner be held responsible, Cameron said. The fifty-three persons against whom charges were dismissed today were among 650 car owners whose machines were tagged for minor vilations. such as overtime parking, during the first four days of this year, and who ignored the stickers and failed to voluntarily pay $2 fines to the traffic department. Hears Only One Case From the list of 650, City Prosecutor Herbert Spencer threw out about one hundred corporations, companies and joint owners of cars because police could not prove what firm employe or joint owner was driving the car at the time of the violation. From the remainder of the list he prepared affidavits for the arrest of 204, which police began serving Wednesday. Although sixty-two persons were supposed to be in court today, only thirty-four stood up when Cameron asked all to rise. Failure to have affidavits there against nine of the motorists prevented formal charges against the nine, but the affidavits will be turned over to the judge so he may mark them continued, Spencer said. Evidence on only one of the cases was heard, that against a man charged with parking twenty minutes overtime in a one-hour parking district on Meridian street. “The court can’t be fair to these citizens and expect them to be familiar with the ordinance when it only has been in effect seventeen days,” Cameron commented. Stickers to Continue “I have read it over and over, as the prosecutor probably has, and it is supposed to be scientific.” “Even the councilmen who made this scientific ordinance can’t agree on Interpretations,” he declared later. “If they’re going to shift the responsibility to the court, I will assume it and act according to law.” When Spencer declared the defendants were guilty of law violations, Cameron interposed, “but not intentionally. They didn’t know the difference between the old and new ordinance.” Following the court session Spencer declared he would continue issuing affidavits for the arrest of motorists who ignore stickers as long as the traffic department continues to turn over to him stubs of unpaid stickers. Police Chief Claude M. Worley indicated police will continue to put out stickers. He declared the public has been educated on the ordinance for more than thirty days, beginning before it became effective, by police, by radio and in the newspapers, “The ordinance became effective Jan. 1. We have been enforcing it and will continue to do so,”

Icebound Bu RICHMOND, Ind., Jan. 18. —Two Richmond youths were safe at home today after being marooned on an island after their ice bridge had melted. The boys, James Cooper and John Holt, hiked to the island across the ice and when they prepared to return the ice had melted. Their cries attracted a youth on an opposite shore, who summoned the fire department. Firemen rescued the boys by dragging them through the water with ropes.