Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 270, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 April 1929 — Page 9

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2,000 YOUTHS TAKE PART IN SCOUT WEEK Swimming Meet, Banquet, Theater Party, Parade on Program. MASS MEETING HELD Father and Son Day Will Be Observed Tuesday; National Leader to Speak. More than two thousand Indianapolis boys are excited this week. Grown-ups who ask why are speedily informed that this is Boy Scout week and that the boys will participate in all sorts of programs specially prepared for them. The liigh point ot the week's observance Is to come Wednesday, when for the period of one hour the Scouts will become governor, mayor, police chief, juvenile court judge, city librarian and -fill other important public posts. Today the Scouts hold their swimming carnival at the Hoosier Athletic Club. Mass Meeting Sunday The week’s celebration was ushered in Sunday when the scouts attended a mass meeting at Keith’s theater and heard the Rev. Homer C. Boblitt, pastor of the Linwood Christian church, tell of his experiences in Russia and Siberia with the allied forces following the World war. A concert was played by the Boy Scout band and led by Scout Executive F. O. Belzer, the scouts repeated the Lord’s Prayer. Steiner’s Bank quintet and the Jubilee Four, a Negro quartet, also played. Tuesday will be father and son day and a banquet will be held at the Central Christian church. Gunnar K. Berg, director of volunteer training for the national Scout organization, will be the principal speaker. Berg was born in Norway and came to this country with his parents w hen 9. For more than ten years he lived in a Washington logging camp. He will describe logging camp experiences in his address. George Losey of Troop 80 will give an xylophone concert and Cecil Byrne, chartf|- member of Troop 34, will perform juggling feats. As part of the Wednesday civic day program two Scouts from each troop will be given training in fire fighting at fire headquarters, New York and Alabama streets. Upon completion of the training the Scouts will be given one-year membership cards and badges and will be expected to co-operate with th fire department in case of need. Parade Thursday The Boy Scout parade and theater party at the Indiana theater will be held Thursday morning. The parade, led by the Cathedral High School band, will form at University park at 8:30 a. m. Thursday from 12 to 1 the scouts will do down-town traffic duty. Thursday night w’ill be held the mammoth court of honor at Tomlinson hall when scout activities in other lands will be portrayed and medals and badges distributed. A scout exposition will be held Friday and Saturday at Tomlinson hall. Booths depicting scout activities constructed by Indianapolis troops will be open for inspection. Troop prizes and individual prizes will be exhibited and special stunts will be staged. COLD ONLY RESULT OF NEAR DEATH IN RIVER Youth Pulled to Shore When Canoe Capsizes. Rif United Press A slight cold today was the only effect Van Buren Robold, 16, of 1122 West Twenty-ninth street, felt following his rescue Saturday from the waters of White river. Robold was saved from drowning while attempting to tow a capsized canoe to shore. The accident occurred at the Riverside park wharf near Thirtieth street. He fell into the water when the canoe was shoved out into the river. Robold started to swim ashore, bu* remembering his friend's canoe swam to it. In attempting to gain the bank with the canoe in tow he became weakened. Police aided him ashore.

WOMEN LOSE PURSES Two Victims of Bratchers; Loot Totals ;52. Two women were victimized by purse snatchers this week-end. according to police. Miss Carol Beck. 125 North Pennsylvania street, reported to police her purse was snatched by a Negro youth early Sunday when she was walking on Pennsylvania street near Walnut street. The purse contained abou $9. Mrs. James Hummel, 1625 Wade street, was robbed of jewelry valued at S4O and $3 cash Saturday afternoon in a downtown store by a man who snatched her purse and ran. FLA Ml'S ROUT FAMIL Y Blaze of Undetermined Origin Does SI.OOO Damage to Shop. A. R. Seymour and his wife Fanny, narrowly escaped death early Sunday when their paste shop rear of 825 Edison street, was damaged SI,OOO by Are of undetermined origin. Tbe couple live above the shop and were awakened by the roar of the fire.

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WILLS AWAY CHILD

Dying, Keeps Girl From Father

Mrs. Ruth Palfrey (left) and Myrtle Flanagan.

Bn Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., April I.—When Mrs. Myrtle Flanagan, chorus girl with a stock company playing at a local theater, died here Feb. 23, local newspapers accorded her sympathetic but the usual formal notices. There was no hint then that behind the death, there lay a tragic story of mother love. In the courts of Camden, N. J., the romance and tragedy have been bared. By an unusual will, Myrtle, 5-year-old daughter of Mrs. Flanagan, has been willed to her grandmother. Mrs. Ruth Palfrey, to keep the child from falling into the custody of its father, who deserted his family soon after the child’s birth. He was “Handsome Billy” Flanagan, an actor and singer. He and his young wife had trodden the footboards since childhood. 8 8 8 AFTER marriage, Flanagan quit the stage and together the couple lived happily in Camden, where he was engaged as a bookkeeper. He sang in a church choir and radio. Then one day, Mrs. Flannagan saw her husband entering a Camden bank. He waved at her and told her he would return shortly. Instead he left through another door and his wife never saw him again. Her meager funds exhausted, Mrs. Flannagan returned to the stage, joining a .stock company as a chorus girl. She became ill while playing in Kokomo, but was able to continue to Mimcie with the company. Here, she suffered an attack of acute appendicitis and underwent an operation. She died two days later. Her child had joined her here and after her mother’s funeral, was returned to her grandmother’s home in Camden. Camden lawyers have filed adoption papers in behalf of the grandmother. Another stipulation in the strange will was that the little girl’s name, Myrtle Catherine, should be changed to Dolores, which in English means sorrow.

STABS CAFE MPLOYE Negro Knifes Man in Leg: Held for Assault. Pyrl Walton, 20. of 636 North Ilinois street, counter man in the White Castle restaurant at Illinois and Walnut streets, was stabbed in the legs at 3 a m. today by Herman Board, 26. Negro, 514 Bird street, who is being held on charges of assault and battery with intent to kill and vagrancy Board came into the restaurant and violated the rules of the establishment three times. The third time. Walton hit Board with a stick The Negro chased Walton who fell over a milk case and was stabbed several times in the legs. Board escaped but later was captured. Walton was sent to the city hospital. MAN. PIGS’ARE INJURED Driver With Load of Hogs trashes Into Trolley. A man and two pigs were injured in a truck-street car crash Sunday night. J. A. Stanton of Kirkland, Ird.. who was transporting a load of hegs to the Union Stockyards from Iris home, drove the truck into the path of a street car at Senate avenue and St. Clair streets. The animals escaped from the overturned truck but finally were corralled in a school yard. Stanton was bruised but refused to go to a hospital.

U. S. WOMEN HURL EASTER DEFIANCE AT PARIS IN FIGHT FOR FREEDOM OF KNEES

BY HARRY FERGUSON t nil-d Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK. April I.—American women have come out definitely for the freedom of the knees. They threw down the gauntlet to Paris style dictators Sunday by parading Park and Fifth avenues in dresses that threatened to cover the knee-cap but stopped just in time. Never has New York seen 60

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4GO REPORTED DEAD IN BATTLE Mexican Rebels Claim New Victories. Bn T iiilcrl Press JUAREZ, Chihuahua, Mexico, April I.—Revolutionary headquarters claimed today that 400 federals were killed in a clash yesterday between the army of General J. G. Escobar, rebel generalissimo, and that of General Plutarco Elias Calles, at Escalon. The rebels also claimed that Escobar's army was marching on Bermajillo, Calles’ headquarters, following their victory. The rebels said 1,500 of CallQs’ men were captured. American aviators in the service of the rebels, raked the federal columns with machine gun fire during the heighth of the battle, the rebel bulletin said.

HOLD O’LEARY RITES Active in Lodge Affairs; Lived Here 40 Years. Funeral services for Bartholomew O Leary, 59, who was born in Ireland and has lived in Indianapolis for more than forty years, were held at 8:30 a. m. today at. the home, 732 South Missouri street, and at 9 a. m. at St. John’s church, with burial in Holy Cross cemetery. Father C. M. Bosler was in charge. Mr. O'Leary was married to Miss Mayme Connelly in 1906 at St. John's church, of which he has been a member since coming to Indianapolis. He is survived by the widow, two sons, six sisters and one brother. He was an active member of the Ancient Order of Hibernians for thirty-eight years; was state treasurer of the order for four years, an* was president of Division No. 6 at the time of his death. He was also a member of the Modern Woodmen of America. Pallbearers were: Nicholas Carroll, T. E. Killila, John Hagerty, M. M. Dugan, William Kinney and Henry McMahan. FIVE CHARGES PLACED AFTER AUTO COLLISION Driver Held for Drunkenness and Failure to Stop. Five charges are marked up against William Kimbrough, 31, Negro, 430 Minerva street, today as the result of an automobile accident Saturday night at White river boulevard and West Michigan street. Kimbrough’s automobile is said to have swerved to the left side of the street striking the auto of Ansel Lewis, 21. Coastville, and overturning it. William Bennett. 26. of 1149 Blaine avenue, riding with Lewis, was injured. Kimbrough was charged with drunkenness, leckless driving, operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. assault and battery and failure to stop after an accident. ACCUSED JUDGE TO QUIT Plans to Submit Resignation Due to Impeachment. Bn United Press WASHINGTON. April 1. Judge Francis A. Winslow of the federal district of southern New York, against whom impeachment proceedings have been started in the house, is planning to submit his resignation to President Herbert Hoover today, it was reported in congressional circles here.

many yards of sheer silk, and all this despite the fact that Paris specified that the hemline should fall four inches below the knee. A nice wind was cutting across the avenue when the Easter throngs began streaming out of St. Patrick’s, St. Bartholomew’s and all the other churches that line New York’s most aristocratic street.

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, APRIL 1, 1929

THREE FAIL TO ESCAPE AUTO DEATH TRIALS Motions to Quash Are Overruled by Judge Collins. MUST FIGHT CHARGES Men Accused of Killing Persons While They Are Driving. Motions to quash involuntary manslaughter charges against three men who are alleged to have killed people while driving autos, were overruled today by Criminal Judge James A. Collins during the arraignment of eighty-eight persons. Richard L. Lowther Jr., 5540 Central avenue, charged with involuntary manslaughter for the death of Julius Underwood, 53, of Jamestown, Ind., Jan. 7, pleaded not guilty after his quash motion was overruled by the court. Lowther struck a car driven by Underwood at Fifty-second and Central avenue. It is alleged he was driving fifty miles an hour at the time. Remy to Lowther's Aid Lowther’s attorney is William H. Remy, former county prosecutor, who vigorously prosecuted similar cases while in office. Charles Courinr, 1603 Central avenue, also pleaded not guilty after his motion to quash was overruled as did Orin Euliss, 913 North Sheffield avenue. Courim is alleged to have struck and killed Leonard Andrews at Elexenth street and Central avenue Feb. 17. Euliss’s manslaughter charge is based on the fatal injuries received by Mrs. Molly Mulkey when she was struck by the defendant’s car at Miley avenue and West Michigan street, Nov. 20, 1928. Pleads Not Guilty Clarence Jobe, charged with abducting Mae Willard from the Julietta hospital for theh insane three weeks ago, filed a motion to quash and a hearing will be held Saturday. Jobe, a waiter, left the institution with the girl. After two weeks’ search they were caught in Louisville, Ky. William Secrist pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter for the death of Victor Lockwood Oct. 20, 1928. several days after a fight i which Secrist is alleged to have broken Lockwood’s jaw. Lockwood died several days later.

ARMORY QUIZ OPENS Orr and Leslie to Plan Conference. Lawrence F. Orr, chief examiner of the state board of accounts, planned today to arrange a conference with Governor Harry G. Leslie to get the Armory building investigation under way. The accounts board has been charged, under a law passsed by the 1929 legislature, to carry on a complete investigation of the building 'of armories under the “closed corporation” plan. Investigation was launched by a special senate committee, which did not have the power to enter into building costs. This power has been conferred on the baord of accounts and each of the twenty-three armories built or financed through the People’s State Bank is to be thoroughly investigated. Orr said. A SIO,OOO appropriation was stricken from the bill when Leslie assured legislators that he would finance the investigation from his $200,000 emergency fund. WIFE SLAYER HELD Man Freed From Asylum Uses Shotgun. Bit Times Special GLEN WOOD. Ind.. April I.—Bert Rees shot and killed his wife as she sat with their two sons in the dining room of their home near here. He is being held in the Rush county jail at Rushville pending a test of his sanity. Recently Rees was discharged from the state hospital for .the insane at Madison, supposedly cured Authorities believe that he intended to kill his sons as well as his wife, several shotgun shells being found on his person after the sons overpowered him and took a shotgun from him following the death of their mother. Woman Will Hunt Bu limes special CIEENCASTLE. Ind., April I. Mrs. Lulu Cochenour. 43. of Cloverdale. has secured a hunting license at the Putnam -ounty clerk’s office here, or : of the few- ever issued to a woman.

HERE were hundreds there to parade their new clothes and thousands to watch.. Mrs. Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte elbowed her way through the waves of humanity to saunter on down to the plaza where she had oysters for luncheon. Motion picture cameras, mounted on trucks, preserved for posterity the proof that American womanhood had dared defy the

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HOLD WAITER IN MURDER PRB3E Anderson Police Use Note as Clew. Du Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., April I.—A note found under a rug in quarters occupied by Herbert Orr, 25, in a rooming house here, has resulted in his arrest pending investigation of a murder case. Orr, employed as a waiter in a restaurant here, refuses to tell police anything about his past life, but asserts he did not write the note. Police say the handwriting is like Orr's. The note reads as follows: “I started doing life in 1922 for killing my sweetheart. I left in 1923 and changed my name. Let them try and get me now and see what happens.” Initials of J. A. H. and H. G. are signed to the note. In 1922 Orr says he was in West Virginia. Orr’s fingerprints have been sent by local police to the state bureau of criminal investigation and identification at Indianapolis. PLAY CAST REHEARSES WITH THIEVES ACTIVE Gym Suits, Sugar and Stove Stolen from Mt. Summit School. By Times special MT. SUMMIT, Ind., April I. While the cast of “Hands Up,” a comedy sponsored by the Boosters Club was rehearsing in tire auditorium of the school building here, t hieves were enacting a play in other rooms in which there was no comedy. Several pairs of gymnasium shoes were stolen as were all girls’ gym suits. Shifting their operations to the domestic science room above the gymnasium, the thieves stole a quantity of sugar and an oil stove, a streak of oil being left along the trail over which it was carried from the building.

FIREMEN REWARDED Woman Leaves $25 to Fund, Creates Girls’ Trust. Firemen’s Pension Fund, Police Pension Fund and the Indianapolis Street Railway Company’s Pension Fund today received bequests of $25 each from the estate of Mrs. Alice C. Hobbs, 5828 East Washington street, who died April 2. Mrs. Hobbs remembered the kindness shown her at various times during her life. She was an invalid. Mrs. Hobbs was the widow of Riley B. Hobbs, a lumber dealer. Every one except the invalid had forgotten about the kindness shown her five years ago when her house caught fire, Ben C. Wheat, pension fund secretary declared. The firemen mopped up water which was used to extinguish the blaze and a group calmed her while other fought the fire. She made the bequest to the street railway fund because a conductor had aided her in alighting near her home. The estate, which totaled about $2,000, will be used to create a trust to benefit girls studying medicine, according to Edgar O. Burgan, administrator. C OLLEGE BUY SaTh 0 M E Ball Teachers Spent Most of $524,806 in Delaware County. By Times Special MUNCIE. Ind., April I.—Ball State Teachers’ college ir financial asset to Muncie, Ad /ertising Club members were told by Professor Clem O. Thompson, acting head of the education department. The professor sighted figures to show that the college last year spent $524,806 and only $46,000 of this amount went outside of Delaware county.

overlords of Paris who have dictated the length of skirts since the days of bustles and the naughty nineties. Black, it seems, is going to be good this season. So are red, white and blue. Occasionally an orange ensemble commanded attention, but the more gaudy colors apparently have been relegated to the golf links and the ballroom.

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If you haven’t got nerve enough—or money enough—to go up in an airplane, but are curious to know what a town looks like from the air, go to the Home Show which opens at the state fairground Thursday. The upper picture, showing most of the entries in the model house contest for school boys and girls, which were being delivered at the show' building today, looks like a glimpse of a city from the air. The lower photograph shows the model home, centerpiece of the Home Show, rapidly nearing completion.

WOMAN’S CRIES HEARD IN AUTO Fountaintown Man Reports Mystery Case. Bit 'limes Special GREENFIELD, Ind.. April 1 Hancock county authorities today ! are seeking clews to the fate of a | screaming woman who occupied a I large automobile with two men after | a report of suspicious circumstances by F. W. Snider of Fountaintown. Snider, driving with his wife, reported they heard the woman’s cries as the car passed and followed the large car several miles, finally bieng forced to halt because of tire trouble. They did not obtain the license number. The other car returned and one of the men asked Snider: “What were you following us for?” ‘I wanted to tell you that the tail light on your car was out,” Snider replied. “If you don’t attend to your own business, we’ll put your light out,” the other man threatened. Snider says he saw a bloody blanket, such as might be carried in an automobile on the bank of Brandywine creek near Fountaintown, and believes it may have some connection with the case. HONOR TO HOOSIER Muncie Author’s Short Story Best of Year. Bu Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., April I.—“ Jungle,” a short story written by C. E. Scroggins, Muncie author, has been adjudged by the critic committee of the Curtis Publishing Company as the best story published last year by the Saturday Evening Post. When all but four of the stories had been eliminated, two written by Scroggins remained, the other being “The Man Named Carrigan.” The former was selected as the better of the two. Scroggins and his family are now in Malaga, Spain, where he has been for the last eighteen*months gathering information for his future writing. Clubs Aid Service Center Bn Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., April I.—Eliminated this year from participation in community chest funds, the West Oak Service Center is being financed in its program of boys’ work through a campaign being conducted by Anderson civic clubs. The service organization was formed three years ago by the Rev. Owen A. Knox, now pastor of an Indianapolis church. The second word of its title was formed from the minister’s initials.

HATS will be small, but they will loop-the-loop on one side, even dropping so low as to brush the shoulder. You must tilt your hat farther back and keep the forehead well powdered. The common people had their moment of glory. “Mr. Zero,” who sells 5-cent meals for Bowery bums, led fifty unshaven derelicts up Fifth avenue to prove that all wasn’t right with the world. He had dressed them in bat-

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Complicating a Complex By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., April I. Anderson school teachers comprising an extension class in child psychology are deeper in thought than before their class session was called off. A child classed as an habitual truant was to be brought before the group for “observation.” He was provided with a complete outfit of new clothing in preparation for the heavy session. Habit overcame him, however, and the psychologists studied the blank wall. When found several hours later, the truancy-loving subject was parading his new garments downtown.

TRAIN KILLS THREE Train Shatters Auto Near Veedersburg. Bu United Press VEEDERSBURG, Ind., April I. A blinding wind and rain storm was blamed today for the death Sunday night of three men, killed when their automobile was struck by a Big Four passenger train, near here. The men had been to a show and were returning to Covington when the accident occured. The dead: Verele Straine, 24, and Kenneth Allen, 25, both of Veedersburg, and Earl French, 23, Williamsport. The shattered machine was carried nearly a mile on the pilot of the locomotive before the accident was discovered. BABY'S BODY FOUND Boys Make Discovery Near Plainfield. By l imes Special PLAINFIELD, Ind., April I.—The body of a girl baby 3 to 5 months old was found in a pond near here by four boys who were fishing. Dr. E. C. Cooper, Hendricks county coroner, said' the baby apparently had been in the water about ten days. It was in a cement sack. The clothing was of good quality. Without a clew to identity, the body was buried on order of authorities. Librarians to Meet By Times Special MARION, Ind., April I.—Employes of the Marion public library will attend a district meeting of librarians at Anderson, Tuesday, when the Marion library will be closed.

tered tophats salvaged from junk heaps, and many a bum swung his broomstick-cane jauntily as the Jay Goulds, the James Russell Lowells and the LawTence Copely Thaws backed away to make a path for the parade of the temporarily unemployed. Only one lonesome male was able to edge into the radiance of feminine finery. He, brave soul, appeared in a top hat, of Warfc'frepe de chine.

u. s. FACES NEED OF STRICT CURB ON OIL Nation's Supply Already at Low Ebb and Going at Dizzy Pace. NEW POLICY IS SEEN Conservation Program May Be World-Wide in Scope, Say Experts. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS I oreiun Ldi tor, Scripps-Howard Newspaprr* WASHINGTON, April I.—With the nation's oil already at a precariously low ebb, and with the remaining supply going at a dizzy pace, President Hoover’s move to safeguard the federal reserves is believed to be only a first step in the direction of anew and far wider policy, probably even worldwide in its scope. as far back as ten years ago, Kranklin K. Lane, then secretary of state, declared in his annual report to the President that “the present situation calls for a policy, prompt, determined and looking many years ahead.” What happened was something else. Instead there followed a decade of drift, drill, waste, graft, grab, devil-take-the-hindmost extravagance which still further deI pleted our admittedly limited supply. Warning Ten Years Ago Ten years ago Dr. George Otis Smith, director of tlie United States geological survey, urged the same thing as Secretary Lane. “The position of the United States,” he said, “in regard to oil, can best be characterized as precarious. Using more than a third of a billion barrels a year, we are drawing not only from the underground pools, but also from storage, and both of these supplies are limited. Even if there be no further increase in output due to increased demand, is this not a pace that will kill the industry?—is not our world leadership (in oil production) more spectacular than safe?” When Lane and Smith uttered these warnings, production in the United States amounted to less than 400,000,000 barrels a year. Today it is more than double that figure. It is roughly 900,000,000 barrels a yeax*. Big Problem for Hoover Dr. Smith now is chairman of the advisory committee of the federal oil conservation board as well as director of the geological survey. I asked him how much more mineral oil we have left in the ground. “Os necessity,” he replied, “such estimates are speculative. Some mention nine billion barrels. Others double that figure. But whether you accept what we might call the pessimistic, or the optimistic view of the situation, it makes little difference when measured in terms of life of a nation.” Today, therefore, President Hoo- j ver has, in oil, one of his greatest; problems. Being a practical-minded ■ engineer, and knowing the world! as he does, it is regarded as un-f thinkable that he will long permi : things to drift as they have don in the past. Rather it is expected that th prompt, determined, forward-look ing, world-wide policy urged by Lan years ago is at last about to be rea lized. Two Possible Methods “There are two possible methodswhich we can follow,” says Dr. Smith. “Either reserve the domestic oil fields lor American development and thus prevent foreign acquisition of what is needed at home,” he said, “or encourage our capital to enter foreign fields to assist in their development, thus insuring an additional supply of oil for our needs., The one method harks back to the‘Chinese wall’ period, while the other expresses the ‘open door’ policy.” Dr. Smith believes the “open door” policy best suited both to us and the world. While permitting foreigners to enter the American field, it would pave the w r ay for Americans to enter foreign fields on a basis of reciprocity. The British certainly are looking out for their future as well as their present interests.

Follow Britain’s Lead “Not only do the British companies rejoice in such suggestive . names as ’British-controlled oilj fields,’ ” said Dr. Smith, "but at the {stockholders' meetings the policy is I stated in plain language as providing the safeguards of a voting trust so that no financial control can divert even a single barrel of oil from : national or imperial requirements. “It is easy to see,” Dr. Smith addi ed, “that Britain's world-trade pol- ! icy has given oil this ‘imperial* recognition. And when we picture the return of the American flag to the seven seas, we, too, must plan for an oil supply available wherever needed. “Any nation which today aspires to a large part in world commerce : imposes upon itself an oil problem, | for the future freedom of both the ! sea and the air will be defined in terms of oil supply.” TWO HELD AFTER FIGHT Screw-Driver Wielded in Battle Following Argument. Guy James. 37. ot 325 North Noble street, was stabbed with a screwdriver in a fight Saturday night by Marion Holden, 52. of 703 North Davidson street. The stabbing followed an argument. Police charged both men with assault and battery. James was not seriously hurt.*