Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 280, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 April 1929 — Page 19

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INDIANA SHOWS GOOD BUSINESS, NEW FACTORIES Hagerstown, Anderson and Ft. Wayne Companies Report Good Outlook. PLANT MAY BE SIGNED Industry Seeking Site at Greensburg Would Employ 300. BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor. The Times Prosperous conditions in several Indiana cities and location of new plants are features of an industrial and business survey of the state for the week ended today. With one quarter of tiie year ended, the Perfect Circle Company, Hagerstown, piston ring manufacturer, announces the outlook for the remaining nine months of 1929 “is the brightest in this firm’s history.” More of the company's products are being used as standard equipment by automobile makers and replacement business through jobbers shows a 60 per cent increase over 1928, officials announce. A carload shipment to Scotland was made this week by the Lynch Glass Machine Company of Anderson. None of the city’s industries expect a slump during the summer, it is shown in a survey covering the Delco-Remy plants, Guide Lamp Corporation, Anderson Stove Foundry. Van Loon Pattern Company, Anderson Pattern Works, Howe Fire Apparatus Company, Reliable Machine Company, Hill Standard and American Playground Device Companies, Certain-teed Products and Anderson Rubber Works. Begin Full Time Work All Bloomington units of the Showers Bros, furniture factory at Bloomington went on a full time schedule this week, with officials announcing it would continue for an indefinite period. The company's new plant at Bloomfield will be ready for use by June 1. A report of the Greensburg Chamber of Commerce shows that industries it has brought to the city In tiie past two years are without exception enjoying good business. Announcement is made b the Chamber of Commerce at Greenfield that a plant employing 300 persons is ready to move to the city provided it is provided with a factory building rent and tax free for a period of five years. A holding company composed of Greenfield citizens may be formed to finance erection of the building, which would cost $37,000. Kokomo Gets Factory The Great Thread and Yarn Company, Detroit. Mich., a subsidiary of the General Cable Company. is to hive a plant in Kokomo employing more than one hundred persons, the Chamber < announces. Employment and Industrial conditions in Ft. Wayne are excellent, according to officials of sixteen of tiie city's leading industries. Operating schedules range from full time to some instances of double shifts. The sixteen industries have 20,000 persons on their pay rolls. The Chamber of Commerce at South Bend Is seeking a $500,000 fund for use in obtaining new industries. A fund of the same amount was raised last year and expended in acquisition of ten new plants. For tiie first/ %r in its history, all export ma> Jure of the Studebaker r .ation is located in South Be.. , following moving of the last of the units of a plant at Detroit. Payroll Increases. Other data shown by a survey of South Bend includes increases in the payroll of the Fulton-Harwood Company from SSOO to $5,000 a week in the past year; the Independent Concrete Pipe Company, a SIOO,OOO concern, is to open anew plant within thirty days; further expansion of the Oliver Farm Equipment Corporation, recently formed through a merger of the Oliver company and two other concerns, will result from its absorption of the American Seeding Machine Company. with plants at Springfield. 0., and Richmond, which is awainting approval of stockholders. A threestory store and office building to cost $115,000 is to be erected by the Indiana Public Service Company. Operations have started in Plant 2 of the United States Radio and Television Corporation at Marion, first unit completed in a $200,000 expansion program. Adds 75 to Force At Terre Haute, the Grasselli Chemical Works announces seventyfive men will be added to Its force. The Terre Haute Malleable Manufacturing Company plant is operating on a full time and management of the Highland Iron and Steel Company announces its business now is better than at any time in the last ten years. Completion of an addition to the Time-G-Stat Control Company plant at Elkhart, set for May 1, will more than double the present capacity. A fountain pen factory is to be installed in a building owned by Oakland City college. Oakland City, in which at first only students will be employed. With fifty-six women already employed on the new plant of the Overall Corporation oi America at Mt. Vernon, additional workers are sought following installation of dm •note machines. ■

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he had called on her invitation. He asserted that she greeted him in a kimono in a room where the lights were turned very low. “I hardly had entered,” Sullivan said, “when her uncle, David Farrell, walked in, carrying a knife. He accused of compromising his niece and forced me to sign the $25,000 note, also to pay him $1,500 in cash ” A few days later, Sullivan said, Farrell apologized and told him the note had been destroyed. "Then the next thing I knew,” he said, “the note had been put through court action and a judgment entered against me.” Attorneys for Miss Carr contended Sullivan signed the note to get Miss Carr out of town for political reasons. Miss Carr was elected justice of the peace in 1925. In August, 1925, she secretly married George Lewis, whom she had fined for intoxication. She obtained a diiioree a year later on grounds of cruelty. She resigned from her office in 1928.

CONVICT TESTIFIES IN MURDER CASE

Like Adam, Boy Blames ‘Her’ Bn Times Special PERU, Ind., April 11.—A 9-year-old school boy, who turned in a false fire alarm, explained in this manner when called before Fire Chief Carl Anhert for reprimanding; “Well, chief. It was like this. A girl and I were going home from school. I opened up the fire box and put my finger on the hook. Then the girl shoved me, that’s what caused the alarm to be turned in.”

PICK CLUB RECEIVER Hoosier Athletic Affairs Thrown Into Court. John W. Twitty, secretary-treasur-er of Gregory <fc Appel, was named receiver today for the Hoosier Athletic Club by Circuit Court Judge Harry O. Chamberlin. The receiver was appointed following a suit filed today by the Atlas Coal and Ice company which alleged the club owed them $2,723 for coal and ice. The suit also alleged the club owes a $5,000 bank loan and two mortgages totaling $85,000. The receivership move following the suit was agreed on by club officials and coal and ice company attorneys. MOVE ON JACKSON Action Seen in Choice of School Trustee. The first move in Governor Harry G. Leslie's determination to oust James G. Jackson, brother of former Governor Ed Jackson, as superintendent of the School for Feeble Minded Youth, at Ft. Wayne, was seen today in Leslie’s appointment of John W. Kitch, Plymouth, Ind., attorney, as a Democratic member of the schools board of trustees. kitch, r state representative in 1923 and 1925. was named to succeed William Ruble (Dem. Aurora), whose four-year, term on the board expired April 7. Alible was regarded friendly to Jackson. His removal paves the way for Jackson's ouster. MAN ATTACKED BY HOG Twenty Stitches Required to Close Wound. Twenty stitches were required to close his wound on the leg of Dan Stewart. 25, of 1037 North Keystone avenue. Thursday after ha had been bitten by a hog at the Indianapolis stock yards. Stewart, who is a livestock speculator, was treated at the city hospital.

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Extortion Is Charged by Politician Wealthy Illinois Man Says Ex-Woman Justice Fleeced Him. Bj/ United Press CHICAGO, April 12. Miss Helen M. Carr, 30, who as justice of peace in Galesburg, 111., fined a man $5 for drunkenness and then married him, was accused today of employing her feminine charms to extort $25,000 from D. E. Sullivan, 67, wealthy Galesburg politician. Sullivan, in a petition to set aside a judgment on a note of $25,000 obtained against him by Miss Carr, charged that he was forced to sign the note and pay 51,500 in cash to Miss Carr’s uncle, David Farrell. Sullivan said he signed the note at Miss Carr's home, where

Leaves Cell in Ohio for Role in Zimmerman Trial. Bit Time* Special ANGOLA, Ind., April 12.—Gangland’s revenge code had a day in court here today at the trial of Charles Zimmerman, former Steuben county sheriff, charged with the murder of Thomas Burke, bank bandit. Seeking to avenge the death of Burke, his pal, James F. Walthan, serving a term in an Ohio prison for bank robbery, took the stand against the former sheriff, and sought to show that while he was under oath to enforce the law, Zimmerman had been the accomplice of lav/ breakers. Body Found In Fire Ruins The charred body of Burke was found in the ruins of a burned barn near here following robbery of the First National Bank of Angola last | May. Calling of Walthan was a surprise move by the state which failed Thursday in attempts to introduce his deposition, in which it was said Zimmerman was accused in Burke’s death. Declared Gangsters’ Victim The defense is asserting Zimmerman is a victim of a frame up by gangsters. It declares the frame up started with slaying of Burke when a blood stained automobile, presumed to have been used in the shooting, was placed in the garage at the sheriff's home. The sheriff’s revolver, which the defense asserts was stolen from his office, was found in the car. One transgression by Zimmerman is admitted by his counsel. That is his trip to Colon, Mich., on the date of the murder with Miss Nellie Coleman, employed in his office. “The evidence will show he has paid bitterly for this misstep,” Howard Mount z declared in the opening defense statement. THREE SENTENCED ON DELINQUENCY CHARGES Other Cases Pending in Escape of Girls From Correctional School. Bn United Pr< ss BRAZIL, Ind., April 12.—Convicted on charges of contributing to the delinquency of two girls who escaped from the correctional school at Plymouth. Daniel Gulliford, Knightsville, today faced a $1,500 fine and an eighteen-months sentence on the penal farm. Gulliford must face two additional charges of assisting the girls to escape and assault. John Parker and wife, Clinton, stepfather and mother of the girls, were found guilty of liquor possession and giving liquor to girls of minor age. The woman was fined S2OO and sentenced to the Indiana woman’s prison for six months. Parker was found guilty on the same charge and sentenced to three months on the sta e farm.

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DIVORCE CASE OF INMANS TO JURY TODAY Speedy Verdict Expected in Trial; Wife Is Kokomo Pastor’s Daughter. BROKEN NOSE IS ISSUE . Scandal Galore Is Bared* by Both Sides in Reno Court. By United Press RENO. Nev., April 12.—The Inman divorce case, revolving about the liquor capacity of Walker P. Inm&n, millionaire New Yorker, and the alleged infidelity of his pretty wife, Helene Patton Inman, daughter of a Kokomo (Ind.) minister, will be in the hands of a jury before night. Attorneys began final arguments this morning, each side being limited to three hours for summing up the thousands of pages of evidence presented during the nearly four weeks of trial. A speedy verdict, in keeping w r ith Nevada’s reputation for not dallying over divorce requests, was expected. And here is what the jury may decide: To recognize Inman's plea for a divorce on grounds of intoxication and infidelity. To grant Mrs. Inman a divorce, as requested in a counter suit based on charges similar to those made against her by her husband. To declare illegal a separation contract drawn up in New York in 1927 and to replace it with $250,000 of Inman's money as alimony for Helene. To ignore the charges and divorce pleas of both principals, sending them back to New York. Interwoven with all these point? is the bothersome question of the manner in which Helene’s nose was injured during an alleged domestic quarrel in New York a few years ago. Nose Was Broken Helene’s nose, which she charges was broken when Inman hit her while he was drunk, has occupied more of the court’s time than any other point brought up daring the trial. Helene testified Inman struck her deliberately, but he told the court that it was an accident, while a learned medical man sent word by deposition that maybe Mrs. Inman had been kicked. Second in interest to the nose incident is the series of passionate love letters said to have been written to Helene by John Steele, vaudeville actor. Steele was one of a half dozen men named in Inman’s original suit and mentioned frequently by witnesses who related numerous bedroom scenes and drinking parties. In answer to Inman’s allegations of intimacy with Steele, Helene testified she took the advice of a friend “to vamp Steele for all you are worth” and drew the letters from him for the sole purpose of making Inman jealous and renewing his affection. Separation Contract Bared Tire separation contract also came in for many days of attention. Tt provided annual payments of $15,000 to Helen until she remarried. This is the document Helen wants replaced by a cash award of $250,000. Family life, as it sometimes is in New York, as related by Helen, also provided many interesting hours of entertainment for court attaches. Cocktails galore and petting aplenty was the general thing, she said, with the “boys kissing the girls and the girls kissing the “boys” whenever mutual friends got together. The dispute over the liquor capacity of Inman also aroused considerable interest. Helen said he consumed from two to three quarts of Scotch a day. Walker denied this, but refused to estimate his capacity. FORESTER AT MEETING Wilcox Represents Stale at Research Council. Ralph F. Wilcox, state forester, is representing Indiana at the meeting of the forest research council of the central states experiment- station being held today at Columbus, O Indiana has three members on, the council, Wilcox, Stanley Coulter, 1 chairman of the state conservation commission, and Charles Barnaby, Greencastle. Other states represented are Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois and Missouri.

Pastors Will Debate Death Penalty

The Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, left (photo by National Stldio), who believes capital punishment incompatible with Christian principles, and the Rev. L. Peres Buroker, right, who denounces such “weak sentimentalism.

FAILURE MARKS DRY CAMPAIGN Prosecutor Drops Fourteen Cases at Greensburg. Bn Times Special GREENSBURG, Ind., April 12. Efforts to “dry up” Decatur county on a wholesale scale, started in February by Herrod Carr, prosecuting attorney, are believed at an end, following his dismissal of fourteen liquor charges involving six persons. Carr made the dismissals after his failure to convict Malcom Howard, charged with selling liquor to Francis Fields, Everton school boy. Jack Leonard, formerly of Hope, but whose present whereabouts are not known, was scheduled to take the stand as the state's star witness, to testify that he had witnessed the sale. Leonard cannot be found. Carr says, and as a result five other cases in which he was to give evidence cannot be prosecuted. These cases and another one against Howard were dismissed, the other defendants being Thomas Robbins, Gregory Alyea, Samuel Coulter, William Morris and Albert Morris, each listed by law enforcement officers as “old offenders.” CaiT obtained several liquor indictments in February, following a demand for a grand jury investigation of the situation in the county. However, in only one instance, did he obtain a conviction. That sent Thomas Robbins to the penal farm for six months in addition to a SSOO fine.

DAM FALLS; FIVE DIE Bridge Workers Crushed and Thrown Into River. B;t United Press LANSING, Mich., April 12.—Five men were believed to have been killed, two were injured and two others escaped today when a cofferdam at the new South Logan street bridge, a $450,000 structure under construction over the Grand river, collapsed without warning. The five workmen were trapped in the crumpled timbers and either were crushed or drowned. Those who escaped were in the upper portion of the structure. Dyer to Head Tuckaway Club Stanley J. Dyer of Indianapolis was elected president of the board of directors of the Tuckaway Country Club at the first annual dinner recently of the. membership at Nashville. The club is located near the new state game preserve border- j ing Nashville.

JS capital punishment in cases •*- of premeditated murder a biblical doctrine compatible with reason and justified by human experience? “No,” declares the Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, pastor of University Place Christian church. “Yes!” answers the Rev. L. Peres Buroker, pastor of the First Christian church of Wabash, Ind. They will debate their convictions at the University Place church, 167 West Fortieth street, tonight at 8. Governor Harry G. Leslie, advocate of more severe penalties for criminals, will make the opening remarks. ProTolbert F. Reaves, head of the sociology department at Butler university, will preside. “It is such weak sentimentalism as yours that accounts for the escape from death of such criminals as Loeb, Leopold and Remus,” the Wabash minister wrote his Indianapolis colleague, challenging him to debate. “I can’t understand how a minister of Christ can desire to kill a human being and be true to his ordination and vow,” the Rev. Mr. Smith replied in accepting.

NO CLEWTO HOLDUPS Three Suspects in Bank Robbery to Be Viewed. Police today held slight hope that three men arrested in a north side apartment “beer party” Thursday night were connected with the holdup of the Citizens State Bank of Carmel Thursday morning. Officials of the bank were to view the three men, held on vagrancy charges, today. Authorities were without any new clews which might lead to capture of the bandit pair who herded bank employes and customers into a rear room, took about $5,700 in cash, and escaped in a Chrysler sedan.

HORSE KICKS YOUTH Carthage Boy in Hospital With Head, Body Injuries. Ernest McCorkle, 11, son of Mr. 1 and Mrs. Charles McCorkle of Car- | thage, Ind., is in the Riley hospital j today in a critical condition. The j child was playing in the bam Thurs- j day at the McCorkle home when he j was kicked on the head and body by a horse. Workman Injured in Fall John Neil, 54, 1433 East Eleventh street, carpenter at the Eli Lilly & Cos. pharmaceutical laboratories, was ! recovering at St. Vincent’s hospital today from injuries received Thursday afternoon when a tank on which he was working crashed through a floor, carrying him with it. Neil was injured on the arms and legs, but not seriously.

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INVALID CHILD SEEKS $25,000

Walked in Cold After Train Passed Station. Bn Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind., April 12. Margaret Dougherty, 11-year-old invalid, through her father, Clarence Dougherty, has filed an unusual suit here asking $25,000 damages from the Big Four zailroad. After treatment at the Riley hospital in Indianapolis, the plaintiff sets out that she was placed aboard a Terre Haute bound' train to return home, but that a conductor forgot about her and she was carried four blocks past the local station, was then allowed to leave the train and walked back to the station. When she did not leave the train at the station, nurses who had been sent to meet her left. A taxi driver aided her in reaching a bus station. She rode a bus to North Terre Haute, then walked two miles to her home with the temperature 6 below zero. At the time, the child’s side and an arm were in a plaster cast. It is alleged that as a result of walking, she suffered a relapse and was forced to re-enter the hospital.

FOREMEN TO MEET HERE Labor Secretary to Address National Meeting June 7. Plans for the national convention ! of the National Association of Fore- ! men to be held in Indianapolis, June | 7 and 8 were made Thursday at a j meeting of the Indianapolis Fore- | men’s Club at the Severin. E. H. Tingley, Dayton, 0., secrei tary of the national organization, J conferred with members of the con- ; vention committee of this city. James J. Davis, secretary of labor, | is scheduled to give the principal : address. BOOZE IS VOTE ISSUE Northern Ireland Election May Hinge on Temperance Plea. Eji United Press BELFAST, Ireland, April 12. Temperance will play a leading role in general elections of northern Ireland next month. An aggressive local option party has sprung up in Ulster during recent years. Unless the present members of Viscount Craigavon’s Ulster unionist government settle some of the grave domestic matters before the voters go to the polls, some of them stand in danger of being defeated. The local option party is bringing pressure to bear on all sides, asserting local option as a measure must be passed at this election as a stepping stone to ultimate prohibition.

DAWN‘LIKE THUNDER’ FOR TEX. VICTOR Wild Celebration Held at Night Club in Honor of Hostess. ACQUITTED BY JURY, •Hello, Suckers, I Told You I’d Win,’ Miss Guinan Hails Crowd. Bit T'nitcd Prcxr NEW YORK, April 12.—The dawn came up like thunder in Texas Guinan’s club, Intime, today. Occasionally you could hear Texas’ voice, but nothing else had a chance against the din that was being made in celebration of Miss Guinan’s victory In court Thursday, when a jury decided she did not maintain a nuisance at her night club and turned her free to kiss everybody within arm’s reach. It was a great homecoming for Texas. Movie cameras were ranged around the walls of the Club Intime as Miss Guinan stepped out on the postage-stamp dance floor and shouted: “Hello, suckers. I told you I would win and I did.” The band blared "hail, hail, the gang’s all here,” Harry K. Thaw jumped up and down In glee and outside the crowds continued to fight for a chance to get in and pay $1 a bottle for 25-cent ginger ale. Customers Are Greeted Texas greeted the customers with her right hand and opened congratulatory telegrams with her left. There was one from Congressman F. H. La Guardia, which read: “Congratulations. We all give the little girl a great big hand.” While the crowd screamed and the movie cameras went into action, Texas’ throaty voice came tnrough the smoke haze, delivering her opinion of Judge Edwin S. Thomas, who presided at her trial. It took the jury only sixty-five minutes Thursday to decide that Miss Guinan was innocent. Just before the case went to the jury Norman J. Morrison, prosecuting for the government, wilted under the task of trading wise-cracks with Texas. Jury Easy to Look at “Miss Guinan,” he said in a. harassed voice, “couldn’t you look less at the audience and more at the jury?” “Why, sure,” said Tex, “I never saw twelve men so easy to look at." The jury squirmed with pleasure. “Have you ever seen liquor brought into your club?” Morison asked. “Didn’t they bring it in in suitcases sometimes?” “Sure,” said Texas. “When they brought it in suitcases I would say ‘no single rooms here, only double rooms with bath,’” The jury took two ballots. The first was 11 to 1 for acquital. When the verdict was brought in, the spectators leaped to their feet cheering. Miss Guinan kissed her attorney, and for a time the federal courtroom resembled a mght club.

“Toughest Customer “I knew I would come out all right,” Texas said from the shoulders of two men. “Do you mean to tell me the bunch of sane men would put away a little girl on a charge like that? Don’t let your soul warp. Don’t be a crab. “And, say, you give Mabel Walker Willebrandt my love. Tell her this is the home of the brave end the land of the free and that I represent the free.” Then she saw Morrison. She rushed over and thrust out her hand. “Shake, Mr. Morrison,” said Texas. “You were very kind. You were a perfect gentleman.” “Miss Guinan,” the prosecutor said, “you are the toughest customer I ever had on cross-examina-tion.”

CLUB PLANS I. U. DAY State School to Celebrate Birthday May 1. Ralph F. Thompson has been named chairman of the committee on arrangements for the Foundation day banquet of Indiana university to be held May 1 in the Claypool. The banquet is under the auspices of the Indiana University Club. Other members of the committee are: Walter Pfaff, Willis Coval, Cecil Weathers, Car! Tuttle, J. W. Fesler, Dr. W. D. Gatch and Uz McMurtrie. The banquet will celebrate the one hundred and ninth birthday of the university.

PISTOL TEAM IN SHOOT Police Group Will Meet Muncie Cops in Contest Tonight. The Indianapolis police department pistol team will meet the Muncie police team for the second time at 7:30 tonight at the Indiana National Guard armory. The local team defeated Muncie in the first match. If the Indianapolis team wins, It will shoot against the police team at Terre Haute. Ind., soon. Members of the local team are Barrett Ball, Arch Ball, Edwin Bail, Harry Smith, Richard Presley, Noel Jones and Morris Corbin. College to Give Play Tonight "The Lion and the Mouse," the first spring production to be given by the Cardinal Masque, a dramatic club of Indiana Central college, will be presented tonight at 8 o’clock in Kephart Memorial auditorium. Miss Emma Wyman of the college educational department, coached the cast.