Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 273, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 April 1929 — Page 2

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HOME SHOW OPENS TONIGHT: 150 EXHIBITS ARE IN PLACE

COURT DELAYS SENTENCING IN HAMMER CASE Muncie Judge Considers ‘Human Side’ with Man. 84. Accused. Heine MUNCIE. Ind.. April 4 —The “human .side" i' bring considered here by City Judge Harry S. Rcdkey to guide him in sentencing Charles Gable, 84. accused of striking Mrs. Ella Hughes with a hammer. Although Judge Redkev. alter hearing evidence, said there was little doubt ol Gable's guilt, he remarked: "Still, there is the human side to be considered.” For half of his life Gable had made his home in the house of which Mr Hughes is now mistress. He went there after his marriage and remained after death of his wife.

Deecled Home Away Fifteen years ago Gable, reeling time’s inroads on his strength, told Judge Rcdkey that he deeded the house to Mrs. Hughes, a relative by marriage, upon condition that he be permitted to stay as long as he lived. A week ago Mrs. Hughes told the old man times were getting hard and that she wanted him to move. Gable in court described the incidents which caused filing of a charge of assault and battery with intent to kill against him. He said he used a hammer in repairing a suitcase in his room and was on his way to return it to a tool shed when Mrs. Hughes, seated at the breakfast table, repeated her request that he leave. Gable says he turned suddenly, and in doing so the hammer came in contact with Mrs. Hughes’ head. Offers Bloody Exhibit But Mrs. Hughes testified that Gable came up behind her and beat her with the hammer. She exhibited an apron she wore the day of the alleged attack. There were bloodstains upon it. Gable too bears bruises on his face. Police Captain William Vaught and City Clerk Maynel Dalby testified they saw the bruises when Gable gave bond pending trial. In the meantime, Gable has filed a suit in circuit court to set aside the deed under which Mrs. Hughes holds possession of the home. INTRUDER HITS WOMAN Asks for Wife. Forces Open Door and Searches House. Mrs. Flora Beard. 19. of 427 South East street., was knocked down early this morning by a n.an who said he was searching for his wife. The man knocked on the door and asked for his wife. When told she was not there he forced open the door and searched the house, police were told. When he failed to find the woman he struck Mrs. Beard and drove away in an automobile with another man.

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Boy Scouts sitting in the seats of the mighty as part of the Scout Week observance. Wednesday. They occupied the chairs for one hour. Above: Robert Hammer (left), being told about the job by Mayor L, Ert Slack, and Ross Rissler. substituting for Governor Leslie. Below: “Police Chief' Frank Newland deft) and City Librarian” Harold Baker.

LANDIS WILL SPEAK Optimist Club to Hear Logansport Editor. Frederick Landis of Logansport, Ind., editor, former congressman, a contributing columnist of The Indianapolis Times, will speak at the Friday luncheon of the Optimist Club in the Riley room of the Claypool. Two tickets have been filed for the election to be held April 12. Candidates on the Purple ticket are Roy Daviason, president; Dr. Frank M. Fitch, first vice-president; Cy Gooding, second vice-president; Edwin Manouge, treasurer; Frank C. Lingenfelter and Carl D. Patterson, directors, and Paul Krauss Jr., ser-geant-at-arms. The Gold ticket candidates are Karl Ziegler, president; Charles C. Cray, first vice-president; Fred A. Wilkening. second vice-president; Albert Sering, treasurer; John Balch and Sam Greenburg, direct- | ors. and Fred B. McNeeley. seri geant-at-arms.

PREACHER SOUGHT IN BANK SHORTAGE CASE Banker-Pastor and $3,500 Disappear Simultaneously. fin Vnited Prt hh PHEBA, Miss.. April 4.—The Rev. F. F. Coggins, banker-pastor, was sought in six southern states today after an audit of his accounts showed more than $3,500 in bank funds missing. The Rev. Coggins, pastor of the First Methodist church and cashier of the Bank of Pheba. disappeared last Friday with his wife and child. Nearly $1,500 in cash belonging to the bank also was reported missing. When a partial check of his books revealed an additional shortage of $2,010. a warrant for Coggins' arrest on charges of embezzlement was sworn out by Sheriff Lon H. Miller. ANNE STAYS IN MEXICO Report of Miss Morrow’s Return to U. S. Denied. Bu United Press MEXICO CITY. April 4.—A report that Miss Anne Morrow, fiancee of Colonel Chares A. Lindbergh had made arrangements to go to the United States this week by airplane, was officially denied today. It was explained that Miss Constance Morrow. Amies 16-year-old sister, is departing by plane for Brownsville. Tex., en route to Massachusetts where she will return to school. At Brownsville. Constance will take a train.

SENATOR DEFENDS ‘VOTE DRY, DRINK WET’

But Jim Reed Denies ‘Confession ’ Justifies Blease Stand'

Hu United Press WASHINGTON, April 4. Senator Cole Blease <Dem.. S. C.) who admits he drinks, voted for prohibition "because I represent people who believe in it” and supported the Jones law "because I think it is the best way to end prohibition.” That seemingly contradictory viewpoint, combining support of laws which he presonally would like to see rubbed off the statute books was explained by Senator Blease "There is no inconsistency in my position,” he said. "This is a represen ative government I do not pre ume to place my own

‘By Mother ’ Forgotten Bible. Bearing Loving Inscription, Awaits Owner.

A LITTLE leather bound Bible. . probably a family heirloom, is awaiting the claim of its owner today in the municipal court of Judge Clifton R. Cameron. The Bible was found in September, 1928. when the court room was remodeled. No one knew who owned the book, how it got there, or how long it had been in the court room. On the fly leaf is written: "Levi S. Knotts. New Lebanon, Ind. By my mother. Nqv. 17. 1863. Eleventh Indiana infantry. Company G.” On another leaf the age of Knotts is given as 18. The Bible evidently was carried through the Civil war by Knotts, Judge Cameron said.

DRIVERS TO COMPETE IN NO-CRASH CONTEST Details Will Be Told at Safety . Council Dinner. Owners and operators of commercial vehicles will learn final details of the inter-fleet drivers’ contest, sponsored by the Indianapolis Safety Council, at a dinner at the Chamber of Commerce tonight. Clifford Penland, Chicago, National Safety Council field representative, will outine the plan used in other cities, which, it is hoped, will reduce accidents on Indianapolis streets. Various classes of drivers will be divided into sections and the contest, inaugurated tonight, will be determined by the number of hours the cars are operated on the streets and the number of accidents in which the firms’ trucks are involved. CHECK BANDIT TRAIL Hanover Store Robber Same as One Who Looted Cincinnati Shops. The bandit who robbed the Hanover shoe store, 14 East Washington street, of $1,700 Monday is the same one who held up two shoe stores in Cincinnati, 0., recently it was indicated in a letter received today by Detective Chief Jerry Kinney from Cincinnati police. The Hanover shoe stpre was robbed of $451 March 18 and the Emerson Shoe Company was robbed of S6OO Feb. 4. The bandit at both stores, and particularly at the Emerson store, tallied in description with the one here. The man used picture wire to bind his vic-

Accusations. that two "dry” congressmen brought liquor illegally into the United States have re-opened the question of lawmakers who drink but yet vote “dry” on prohibition issues. In interviews with the United" Press, Senator Cole Blease of South Carolina and former Senator James A. Reed of Missouri take divergent attitudes on the subject.

views above the views of tne people I represent. “Any public man should obey the laws as an example to private citizens. It is not a violation of the law’ to take a drink.” "I voted for the Jones law’." he added “I did it because I think i* is the best way to end prohibition. "If we pass enough drastic laws to enforce prohibition the whole thing will be repealed.”

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SENTENCE TEN MEN Grocery Bandit Gets 5 to 21 Years Term. Ten men were sentenced to state penal institutions by Criminal Judge James A. Collins Wednesday afternoon after eleven others had received stiff sentences earlier in the day. Carl Kunckle, 40. was sentenced to five to twenty-one years in the state prison on an auto banditry charge after he pleaded guilty. He was alleged to have held up Kroger Grocery Company store March 16. He also was charged with using a stolen auto to escape from the scene and was sentenced one to ten years on this charge. Others sentenced and the charges were: James Coltrin, 19, Lakeview, Wash., robbery, one to ten years, state reformatory; John Cox 19, of 938 Chadwick street, robbery, one year, state farm; Dillard Hines, petit larceny, nine months, state farm; Ludie Watts, Negro, 37, of 862 West Tenth street, vehicle taking, one to ten years, state prison. Chester Brickley 35, of 1926 Madison avenue, burglary, one to ten years, state prison; Narion Quilter, 19, of 637 1 2 South West street; Redford Branham, 17. of 508 West Henry street, and Leon Childers, 17, of 537 South West street, one to ten years each in the reformatory on auto banditry charges. FACE BANKRUPTCY SUIT Dozen Dance Marathon Participants Are Named as Creditors. A dozen participant- in a dancing marathon at Day’s Casino, southeast of the city several months ago, are named as creditor’s with claims of 01,700 in valuntary bankruptcy petitions filed in federal court by Joseph B. Day and his wife, Mrs. Lucille O. Day. The petition asks that the couple be declared bankrupt both as individuals and as partners. The partnership listed liabilities of $5,969 and no assets: Day listed liabilities of I $10,664 and assets of $35, while Mrs. Day listed liabilities of $6,367 and assets of S3OO. STORK DELAYS TRAIN Stop Flyer Thirty Minutes to Remove Mother; Son Dies. Hu United Press CHESTER. Pa.. April 4.—The stork flagged the Southern Flyer, crack Pennsylvania train running from New York to Florida, for thirty minutes here. Hospital attaches removed Mrs. Caroline Carola Auschuntz, Baltimore. A son born to her Wednesday night at the hospital died. Mrs. Auschuntz was resting quietly today.

Rti United Press Kansas city, mo., April 4. Former Senator James A. Reed, who before leaving Washington caused a sensation by a threat to name senators who "voted 'dry’ and drank ‘wet.’ disagrees with Senator Blease’s justification of his voting record. "Senator Blease and I are good friends. I don’t want to criticise his statement,” Reed said, “but I fa that a man who votes ‘dry’

RECORD CROWD PREPARED FOR BY REALTORS Expect 150,000 to Attend During Ten Days of Exposition. With the last exhibit in place and fir.-.l decorations hung, all was in readiness today for the opening of the eighth annual realtors’ home show in the Manufacturers’ building at the state fairground at 6 tonight. Heralding it as the most elaborate and comprehensive exposition of home building and furnishing materials ever staged, show officials confidently predicted a record attendance. With the show scheduled to run ter days, exclusive of Sunday, , instead of seven as heretofore, and with transportation lines through o the state preparing to bring in lpvge groups of out-of-town visitors, a total attendance of 150,000, a 50 per cent increase over the largest previous record was set as the goal. Tonight was designated as realtors’ night, and a big attendance of Indianapolis Real Estate Board members sponsoring the show, was expected. Mayor to Preside A brief ceremony, in which Mayor L. Ert Slack will formally open the exposition, will be held. In addition to approximately 150 exhibits, there will be a number of new feature attractions. Among them will be the life-size, centerpiece model home, a modern bungalow-type dwelling; a Tiny Town exhibit, featuring nearly 200 minature model cardboard houses made by Marion county grade and high school pupils, and a free building consultation bureau, where visitors may obtain without charge expert advice on building, remodeling and landscaping. While there have been life-sized model homes featured in the exposition prior to this year, the 1929 house, erected by J. L. Holloway for the Indianapolis Home Builders' Association, differs considerably from those of previous years. To Sell for SII,OOO It will be of greater interest, to the average prospective homebuilder, because it was designed to sell for SII,OOO. exclusive of lot. Previous model homes have sold for between $20,000 and $25,000. The home is modern, with three bedrooms, a commodious breakfast nook, a tiled bath and vaulted ceilinged living room among its features. Plans also call for a large attic space, providing room for expansion in a growing family, and a large social room in the basement. The house Is modernized English in architecture, expressed in mellowed hues of brick. Undoubtedly one of the greatest centers of attraction in the entire i exposition will be the Tiny Town exhibit. Although all of the entries ; were made on uniform plans provided by the real estate board, every j conceivable type of construction. I frame, brick, stucco and stone is j represented. The building consultation bureau | will be conducted by Dan W. Le ! Gore under auspices of the Home : Builders’ Association. Experts in building, landscaping. heating, plumbing, wiring and other depart- | ment of building will be on hands at ! all times to give advice. Must Show Sketches Persons planning to modernize old j homes are requested by Le Gore to bring a photograph or sketch of the building as at present. Those seeking landscape advice must prepare a sketch or drawing of their lot, with the location of house and garage, and present planting indicated. Another outstanding feature of this year’s show will be the decorations, caried out along modernistic lines. On the exterior of the building, covering the front entrance, a walled-in garden in Mediterranean style has been constructed. Further carrying out the garden scheme, a line of evergreens has been erected from the garden gate to the Thirtyeighth street entrance to the fairground.

BUREAU STAFF CHANGED Clarence Baker Made Head of State Employment Office. Several changes in the free employment bureau of the state industrial board made Wednesday were in effect today. Bert Robinson, Indianapolis, assistant chief of the bureau, was appointed chief, succeeding Clarence Baker, Indianapolis. Fred Davis. Peru, was named assistant chief. Frank Beckwith, Negro political worker of Indianapolis, was made an assistant in the factory inspection department.

and drinks ‘wet’ can not absolve himself by confessing it. “A man has no right to vote a law restricting the liberty of his fellow men when he privately violates the same law. The fact that he confesses it has nothing to do with it.” Reed also commented on the Jones law. which makes possible more severe penalties for liquor aw violators. “It is symbolic of medieval barbarity,” he said, "and in my opinion will be a prolific source oi graft and of blackmail.” - It was in connection with senate debate on the Jones law that Reed spread consternation among "drinking drys” by his threats of

CITY OF GUNS WINS

Cozcboy Athlete Too Realistic

Hu r nited Prees CHICAGO, April 4.—Chicago, the land of machine guns, automatic pistols and Kollege Kut Klothes has met and vanquished Nevada, habitat of Winchester rifles, six-shooters and chaps. Here are the details: Last Sunday the Winnemucca (Nev.) basketball team arrived to compete in the national high school tournament. Both players and manager, Art Lyon, had been somewhat apprehensive about entering the city where machine gunners mowed their victims down by sevens, so they ararnged through Governors, congressmen and mayors for a motorcycle police squad to convoy them safely to the University of Chicago. Os course, all that ceremony entailed some publicity, but the westerners didn't seem to mind it in the least. They were arrayed in five-gallon hats, woolly chaps, red shirts and brightly stitched boots that boasted spurs long and sharp. Their costumes were complete except for six-shooters.

Monday night the Winnemucca basketters were defeated by the Wheeler (Miss.) team, thereby eliminating slight interruptions in sightseeing trips. a a b THEN Bob Gingery, one of the Winnemucca athletes who has a flair for the realistic, sauntered from his hotel to gaze at the tall buildings. He was decked out in his western regalia, adding as a realistic touch, a six-shooter which dngled on his right hip in a silvei mounted holster. He hadn't gone more than two or three blocks when he became lost in the roaring canyons of the loop. He naively accosted a policeman, who took one look at the but of the six-shooter peeping out,, and called the wagon. As Judge Freeman Fairbank was pondering over Gingery’s case, two telegrams arrived. They were from the Governor of Nevada and H. M. Adams, president of the Western Pacific railroad. The judge wouldn’t say what the wires contained, but he discharged Gingery with the admonition to watch his canyons hereafter and not. try to intimidate the gangsters.

SUES FOR HIS WIFE Asks Hospital for Insane to Release Bride. All Clarence Jobe, former waiter at the Julietta Hospital for the Insane. needs to carry on his wedded life is to receive judgment from Criminal Judge James A. Collins on the charge of aiding in the escape of a person detained in the institution and to get his wife out of the institution. He has pleaded not guilty before Collins on the former and Friday afternoon Superior Judge Joseph M. Milner will consider Jobe's habeas corpus action asking for the freedom of his wife, formerly Miss Ida Mae Willard, Julietta inmate. The habeas corpus suit alleged that Benjamin Morgan, institution superintendent, unlawfully is restraining her since her marriage to Jobe in Louisville two weeks ago. Jobe and the girl ran away after a “courtship” in the institution diningroom. After their flight they were traced throughout the southern part of the state and arrested in Louisville following the marriage. Indianapolis Man Elected. Hu United Press FRENCH LICK. Ind., April 4. Carl A. Taylor, Indianapolis, today was elected president of the Ohio Valley Retail Furniture Association at its annual convention here. He succeeds James R. Distel, Portsmouth, O.

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BELAY FIGHT IN CITY GAS CASE Protesting Stockholders Uncertain on Next Move. Stockholders who protested tlie moves of Citizen Gas Company directors and trustees to turn the property over to the city, in accordance with the 1905 franchise, today had not made up their minds as to whether they would resort to court action Attorneys for the stockholders, whose identity still is kept secret, said that they had not been informed officially until this morning that the directors Wednesday afternoon had formally acknowledged the city’s claim on the property and had voted a $5 payment toward l-etire-ment of each $25 share of common stock. The $400,000 for this purpose comes out of surplus earnings. The stockholders’ attorneys said that they did not believe there would be any immediate action, despite the fact that the directors Wednesday overrode a formal request from the protesting stockholders that “the officers, board of directors and trustees of your company actively resist the demands of the city of Indianapolis.” Hospital Approved Hu Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., April 4,High standards of proficiency maintained by the local hospital won the institution a place in the 1929 list of approved and recognized hospitals, following a survey by the National Hospital Council of the American Medical Association.

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MAIN MEXICO REBEL ARMY IS DEFEATED •Hundreds Slaughtered by Federals,' Says Victorious General. Hu United Pr, ,-x EL PASO. April 4.—The Escobar revolt in Mexico was crushed late i Wednesday with the capture of the I main infantry troop trains ol the j rebel lorces at Reforma, Chicuahua, ! fiftepn miles north of Jimenez, Con-sul-General Enrique Liekene announced early today after receipt o{ an official report from General Juan Andveau Almazan, federal division commander. General Almazan's report stud General Jose Gonzales Escobar and other rebel chieftains deserted their troop trains, after federal forces surrounded them, and fled northward i toward Chihuahua City. I The federal commander requested hospital supplies be rushed to Rei forma to care for rebel wounded. General Almazan said the victory at Reforma was the culmination ot a series of clashes that began at 1 a m. Sunday at Corralitos, about twenty miles south of Jiminez. Federal troops occupied Jiminez Tuesday, with the exception of the railway station and yards. Alma- | zan’s report said. Escobar’s troops retreated in their i trains to the north, but were cut off ■ by a destroyed bridge, Almazan messaged. Almazan attacked the surrounded trains from the rear, he said. “The rebels valiantly defended themselves after their leaders deserted them,” Almazan wired. "Hundreds were slaughtered and finally the entire rebel force surrendered." Rebels ~ Report Victory Hu I nited Press NOGALES. Sonora, Mexico, April 4.—Revolutionary telegrams from the Jimenez battle section said today that 700 federals had been destroyed so far and that only six rebels had been killed. General Gonzalo Escobar was preparing to pursue retreating federals under General Andreau Almazan. the reports said. Fountaintown Girl Dies in Hospital Miss Mary Settles, 16, of Fountaintown. Ind„ who died Wednesday in : the Indiana Christian hospital, will be returned to her home for burial. The girl was despondent over illness and died of a self-inflicted shot gun wound in the abdomen.