Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 288, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 April 1929 — Page 9

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STILL MAKING CASE PLOTTED 81 DRY AGENT Officer Makes Purchases at Vincennes Store and Arrests Two. FOOD POT FIRST 'BUY’ Coil and Copper Sheets Next: Raid Made as Tinner Works. B'J Timf'ft Spiel'll VINCENNES, Ird-. April 33.—Ab Walker and Maurice Boeckman are awaiting trial in Federal court on a charge of manufacturing a liquor still as a result of a dry agent's persistency. Two weeks ago the agent appeared at, the Walker hardware store operated by Thomas R. Walker, aged father of Ab in which Boeckman is employed as a clerk, and said he desired to buy a still. Informed by Boeckman that the store was not in the still selling business, the agent inquire^: "Have you any copper boilers?" “We have a stock pot. a copper receptacle of about ten gallons capacity used by farmers in cooking winter feeds for hogs,’ Boeckman explained. Buys Pot and Tubing The agent bought a stock pot. From another clerk he purchased a jection of copper tubing and persuaded him to solder it to the pot. A few days later, the government employe placed an order for sheets of copper. On arrival of the sheets, the agent asked the aged proprietor of the store to make them up into “something I want.” Informed by Walker that the store does not operate a tip shop, but there was equipment ior work on another floor of the store, it was arranged that Ab Walker, son of the proprietor and a tinner by trade, should do the work. Tells How The agent carefully instructed the son as to what he wanted made from the copper and Ab went to v.ork. Shortly afterward he was arrested with Boeckman. Commenting on the case, the Washington Democrat in an editorial says: “Here Is a plain ease ol enforcement officials employed by tire government deliberately planning and cheming to persuade by means of money and hypocrisy to induce men to violate the laws of the land so iiiat they might have the pleasure of making arrests, humiliating families ana damaging a business firm." REAL SILK WORKERS AGAINST FAST TIME Implores Defeat Proposal for Daylight Saving. One Indiananolis plant, the Re. ’ Silk Hosier regi ■£< by An overwhelming vote of 3 to 1 that it doc? not want to operate on daylight saving time. With the approval ot officials of the company the Real Silk Fmployes Mutual Benefit Association took a poll of the 3.200 employes oi the plant here to determine on whether the working hours should be changed to from 6 a. m. to 4 p. m.: instead of from 7 a. m. to 5 p. m. “We were perfectly willing to have them halt earlier in the afternoon to give them more hours in the daylight if they so desired, but with the vote overwhelmingly against such :• step, we shall continue on standard hours.” the factory officials said.

CLEMENCY SOUGHT FOR CRAWFORDSVILLE 80Y Killiii£ Station Robber Given Lons Prison Term in Missouri. /; 7 Times Special CRAWFORDSVILLE. Ind.. April ;3. —Friend: here of H. Kelly Graves, local youth tv ho received a 25-year entence at Rolls, Mo., last week tor the holdup of a filling station at St. James. Mo . are endeavoring to obtain anew trial for the young man or to have the sentence reduced. Graves had no previous criminal record, friends assert, and had a rood reputation here. He was chauffeur for a number of local prominent families during the past tew years. His friends believe that lie was led into the commission of the crime by Fremont Ward, another local youth, who also received a twenty-five year sentence. Ward has a police record. RAIL EXECUTIVE TO QUIT Pittsburgh. Er>e Vice-President Retires; Son to Succeed Him. I mV-/ 7V. PITTSBURGH. Fa.. April 23 After forty-six years ot service with the Pittsburgh <sc Lake Erie Railroad. James B. Yohe. vice-president of the railroad, will retire May 1. it was made known today. Curtis M. Yohe. assistant to the president of the New York Central Lines, will succeed him. Curtis is the son of the retiring vice-president. Dry Goods Store Looted Employes of the Barskin Dry ..Goods Company. 1245 Oliver street, were checking the stock today to determine the amount stolen by buTglars who entered the store t Monday night by breaking a rear Window, i %

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Timmie Plays Stop-Go

One ambitious small boy plus one large hammer tied homeward traffic at Vermont and Meridian streets into a knot which police had to untangle Monday afternoon. Police decided Timmie Moore. 431 North Illinois street, would be safer if they gratified his desire of his five long years of life to be a regular traffic policeman, so they took him out of the street, where he was horrifying the motorists who couldn't see him until they got right up to him. The officers took Timmie to headquarters, decorated him with a spare badge and cap and let him direct traffic in the halls until his frightened father. James Moore, rushed in to report him missing. Timmie had taken tire hammer from his father’s tool chest.

FIGHTING LAW: or wroT swf* US VfCu! yILO Rose From Sheriff to Owner of 25,000 Acres of Land. Bv l nit cl Pc-sa HYANNIS. Neb., April 23 R. M. 3rdi Moran. tig. "the law" of western Nebraska in pioneer ciays, Is dead. Moran rose from a fighting sheriff to the owner of 25.000 acres of land and died of pneumonia Monday in Alliance. His body was brought here for burial today. Moran was a native of West Virginia. He came ve3t in his 'teens. In 1866. when Governor Thayer sought a man to break up “outlaw rule' of cattle and horse rustlers, he was advised to "get Moran for tiie job." Moran cleaned up the country with the ultimatum: "I mean stealing of livestock must stop, nronto.—Bud Moran, sheriff.” For twenty-one years he kept up a relentless fight on outlaws. When he retired all of the gangs were broken tin a■ 1 and he settled down to grow wealth? r a rattle raiser. RIBBONS GUN ?54 Kindergarten Children Win Awards on Health. Two hundred and fifty-four children have won blue ribbons in the twenty-four kindergartens operated by the Indianapolis Free Kindergarten Society, Miss Grace L. Brown, superintendent, announced today. The awards will be made at the annual Child Health day meeting of the society Thursday. 2 p. m.. at the Y. W. C. A. Only thirty-eight blue ribbons were awarded last year. Speakers will include Dr. Frederic F. Jackson. Dr. Herman G. Morgan. Dr. Harold S. Hatch. Dr. Frederic R. Hensaw and Dr. Ada E. Schweitzer. Sixty-three children won red ribbons. They include those who have been obedient to the health rules, but who have a health defect which can not be corrected.

SHERIFF PETS SI .500 Holds Gaming Case Money: Ruling Positioned. Criminal Judge James A. Collins Monday afternoon ordered the transfer of 51.500, confiscated from alleged gamblers last September, from a bank fund of Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron to Sheriff George L. Winkler and postponed his ruling on gaming house charges until Wednesday. The men. charged with keeping a gaming house at 726'*.- Russell avenue. are: Solly Epstein, H. E. Burke, alias Burton, and Sam (Needles' N'edleson. The case was postponed last Thursday until Monday, from Monday morning until the afterneon. and now to Wednesday. Cameron asserted he did not want the money, but thought it necessary to put it in safe keeping. Collins ruled that since the case was appealed to his court *he money should have been placed in the custody of the sheriff. Fall on Stairs Fatal ji v I'niiid Pri xs EAST CHICAGO. Ind.. April 23. Ray Lemcre. 55. lost his footing or. a stairway in a hotel here, plunged to the bottom and suffered a skull fracture whoch proved fatal.

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Tebmience Doctor's Remains Carry on Work of Lifetime, HV United Prce.fi WASHINGTON, April 23.—Science which Dr. Daniel Smith Lamb, curator of the army medical museum for fifty-five years. served so well In life, will be served by him in death. The body of Dr. Lamb, who died Sunday at the age of 86. was dissected Monday. His brain and other vital organs will be sent to scientific institutions, specifically designated in instructions written last July. His skeleton will go to the army medical museum or to the Howard medical school. Dr. Lamb taught medicine at Howard university since 1873. As an army pathologist, Lamb performed the autopsy on President James Garfield after the President's assasination.

Favorite Comic Artists Will Stay With The Times for Years

Gene Ahern, artist of “Our Boarding House." at the left, and J. R. Williams, of “Out Our Way," at the right. You will be glad to know that their nationally known characters, also shown, will continue to appear in this papgr for many years.

THIS is a good news story'— and a story of GOOD NEWS which will interest every reader of The Indianapolis Times. For years to come you are going to continue getting real enjoyment out of two of the world's most famous comics, “OUT OUR WAY." and “OUR BOARDING HOUSE." J. R. Williams, the artist, who draws “OUT OUR WAY,” and Gene Ahern, the artist who draws "OUR BOARDING HOUSE,” have

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1929

PHYSICIAN AND NURSE CLASH NEAR CLIMAX Ft. Wayne School Board Will Rule Tonight in Controversy. STAFF HEAD IN DENIAL Brands as False Charge She Called Three Doctors Quacks. flu Timm Special FT. WAYNE, Ind., April 23.—Ft. Wayne's bitter school nurse-physi-cian controversy is expected to reach a climax tonight when the school board will decide whether Miss Mary Gorrell. chief of nurses, shall be discharged. With Mrs. Flossy Myers, a nurse. Miss Gorrell has been suspended since Feb. 1. Charges against Miss Gorrell include one that she is incompetent in that she failed to exercise “the necessary tact, judgment and discretion required in the discharge of her duties”: that she repeatedly advised parents of children being attended by certain physicians that the doctors were incompetent, and that their diagnoses and treatments were incorrect. Doctors Retain Counsel While no organized body of doctors is involved in the case, counsel has been retained by a group of physicians and Miss Gorrell also has attorneys. A mass of testimony has been taken at a previous session of the board, and will be the basis of whatever action is taken tonight. Despite testimony that Miss Gorrell had branded one group of three doctors as quacks, the chief nurse asserted she had said only “nice things" about them. Parents Give Testimony Parents of children visited by Miss Gone” and Mrs. Myers in the course ot their duties were among thse who appeared before a fourhour meeting of the board during which the evidence was heard. Miss Gorrell has served the schools here eight years, and is within the tenure law classification. The hearing of her case is being provisions of that law. BANDITS TAKE $385 Force Auto of Farmer Victim Off Road Near Crawfordsville. Vv i'nitcrl Prefix STILESVILLE, Ind.. April 23. Forcing the automobile which he was driving to the side of a road near here, two unmasked bandits robbed C. W. Morgan, farmer ,of $385 and escaped. Morgan said he was driving at a low speed when a coupe type machine drew alongside him and its occupants waved him to the roadside. He said he was so excited he could not remember whether the men were armed.

just signed new long-term contracts with NEA Service, Inc., the newspaper feature service which serves this paper, and gives it excusive rights in this city to these comics and other daily features. Ahern and Williams form an outstanding combination in the comic field. Their comics are the most widely published in the country. The reader-following of Major Hoople, in “OUR BOARDING

DANCERS RUSH INTO CONTEST

The Times-Junior League Event Stirs Em Up

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Above are shown Ellenor McDonald, 2186 Sherman drive, in two poses; right, is Myrtle E. Young, 6176 RossIvn avenue. They are entrants in The Times-Junior League Dancing Scholarship contest.

CHILDREN TAKE NAP NEAR ROAD Posse Finds Two Lost While Picking Flowers. Bjl Timm fipcci'il SOUTH BEND, Ind.. April 23While more than 200 persons searched for them through treacherous swamp lands, June Horner, 11, and her brother, Harry, 4, were found asleep Monday afternoon beside a road near Niles. Mich., north of here. The children had been missing since 10 Sunday morning, when they left their home to pick flowers in a woods. A posse of citizens. Boy Scouts and policemen immediately started an extensive search. Airplanes were used. The posse was about to give up hope for the children’s safety when they were discovered.

HOUSE,” and Williams' celebrated characters, in “OUT OUR WAY," is conservatively estimated in excess of 40,000.000 people or more than one-third the population of the country. The Times strives to give, to readers only the vary best comics and is pleased to be able to assure you that when this newspaper comes to your home every day, vour old favorites. "OUT OUR WAY” and “OUR BOARDING HOUSE” are coming with it!

INTEREST is growing at a? rapid rate in The Times-Junior League dancing scholarship contest, to be decided next Tuesday night, April 30, at 7:30, in the Lincoln room of the Lincoln hotel. Entries slow in starting, are coming with a rush. Two attractive prizes are offered the Vinner of the competition. The victor will be given a two-term course of dancing lessons by Louise Powell, one of the foremost instructors of the middle west, and will appear in one of the acts of the Junior League Follies at the Murat, May 2, 3, and 4, to give her specialty. This is a rare opportunity for girl dancers of Indianapolis. Just send in your name and photo, in street or home garb or in costume, to The Times Dancing Contest Editor and you'll be set for the contest. There are no rigid age limits; competitors need not be members of the Junior League or any other organization. The prizes are well worth competing for and your dancing will be judged by five of the best judges obtainable in the city. If you have no photograph, call the Platt studio, 1122 Prospect street, phone Drexel 0614. for an appointment. This studio, one of the best in this section, will take care of you. through arrangement with The Times and the Junior League. Get busy now. Get your entry' in and start polishing up your steps for the big contest.

FOUR HURT IN CRASH Three Men, One Woman Injured in Auto Collision. Four Waldran residents were recovering today from injuries received Monday night in an automobile crash at Emerson and Southeastern avenues. The injured were: Mrs. Henrietta Lux. 35; her husband, Edtvard Lux, Peter Lux and Martin Lux. All were taken to the city hospital for treatment and later sent to their homes. The accident happened when the automobile driven by Peter Lux collided with one driven by Charles Pope. 5901 East Washington street. REPORTERS’ DEAN QUITS Forty Years “On Street,” Broke In George Ade and Dreiser. Bn United Press CHICAGO. April 23.—John Kelly, dean of Chicago’s police reporters, is retiring, after forty years "on the street.” At the age of 65, the veteran reporter who "broke in" George Ade, Theodore Drieser, Harry L. Beach and numerous other well known writers is leaving his post on the Chicago Tribune to return to his home town of Erie, Pa., where he plans to “rest away from the harsh voice of the desk sergeant or the walls of the prisoners’ cells.”

GUARD EXECUTIVE DIES Vice-President of National Group Passes After Heart Attack. Sri T 'niti'll Prexx LITTLE ROCK, Ark.. April 23. Funeral services will be held at Monticello, Ark.. Wednesday for Brigadier-General Joe S. Harris, 42, vice-president of the National Guard Association of the United States and adjutant-general of the Arkansas National Guard, who died of a heart attack at his home here late Monday. Manufacturer Dies Py rim- Special MARION. Ind., April 23—Funeral services for John Raymond Smaltz, manufacturer, were held today at the home of his parents. The widow and one son survive.

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SLAYS WOMAN, WOUNDS SELF Jealousy Blamed in Vincennes Tragedy. Bj/ United Press VINCENNES, Ind., April 23. Jealousy is blamed today for the murder of Mrs. Helen Bauers, 21, by Walter Kitchell. 25, who later turned a revolver on himself, inflicting serious wounds. Friends of the woman said Kitchell was a former lover of Mrs. Bauer’s and that he apparently become enraged at her marriage. Her husband’s whereabouts are unknown, he having left Vincennes to obtain employment. Kitchell was said to have been practicing with a revolver just prior to the slaying in an alley near the Bauers home. Hearing two shots, neighbors rushed into the house to find the woman dying on the floor with three bullet wounds in her body. Kitchell collapsed outside the house and was rushed to a hospital, where his wounds were termed critical by attendants. Mrs. Bauers was married more than a year ago and Kitchell said at the time that he would “get” her, according to her friends.

HELD AS BIGAMIST First Wife Swears Out Warrant, John Owens, 22, Michigan road Stop 8, was under arrest today, charged with bigamy. Mrs. Bertha Owens, 508 West Everett street, who swore out the warrant for Owens, charged he had married her in 1925, lived with her one month and left her. later to become betrothed to Miss Ruth Beals, 18, of Louisville. In the city jail today Owens readily adimitted he had married the two women, but claimed he bad gone to the altar with wife No. 2 while under the influence of liquor. The Louisville bride was missing today, according to police.

0, E, S, FETE TONIGHT State Conclave Will Open Wednesday. A banquet tonight, followed by a business session at the Ciaypool, of past grand matrons and patrons of Indiana grand chapter. Order of Eastern Star, will be the last preconvention meeting of the fifty-fifth annual contention of the body. The convention opens at 9:30 Wednesday morning at Murat temple. Officers will be elected at 3 p. m. Wednesday. Interest is centered in the election of a grand matron. Memorial services will be held for Mrs. Nettie Ransford. grand secretary for over thirty years, and Mrs. Lucille Johnson. Vincennes, who was gand conductress. Publisher Adds to Interests WABASH. Ind.. April 23.—A half interest in the Eliza bethton <Tenn.) star has been purchased by Don M. Nixon, publisher of the Wabash Plain Dealer. Peru Tribune and Terre Haute Spectator.

COUZENS WILL i GIVE MILLIONS TO SULKY KIDS Child Welfare Fund Is Created by Wealthy Michigan Senator. TEACH THEM TO PLAY; Interest Aroused in Lads Who Shun Sports. Says Donor of Money, BY KENNETH G. CRAWFORD United Press Staff Cnrrrvponrfeat. WASHINGTON. April 23—Th# kid who sulks on the sidelines unable or unwilling to take part in the games of those who should be his cronies was uppermost in the mind of Senator Janies Couzens. Detroit millionaire, when he created a $19,000.000 child welfare fund. “Watching the playgrounds we have built in Detroit," Couzens told the United Press today, "I have been interested in these lads who can't un to enter into the game. Sometimes it is ill health; sometimes an anti-social streak; sometimes a more serious mental abnormality. "Proper attention in most cases might remove the peculiar quirk that prevents them from participating. Some who otherwise might remain antagonistic to society all their lives could grow up to be useful. social-minded citizens, if given a little intelligent help. Criminals Too Young “I am impressed, too. with the youth of our criminals. When I was a city official, the criminals with whom we had to deal, were middle-aged men. Now they are youngsters. I believe we can help prevent development of young criminals by taking better care of our children. "And I have a theory that some tilings can be done better by outsiders than by members of the child's family." The vast sum Couzens has set aside will not be devoted entirely to treatment of the mentally and physically abnormal, but much of it will be spent for their benefit. The announced purpose of the fund is to “promote the health, welfare, happiness and development of the children of Michigan primarily —and elsewhere in the world.” Spend Millions in 25 Years Couzens said he has no definite plan for distribution, which will be 1 left largely to the other trustees, ! headed by Dr. Hugo A. Freund, his physician. Tire senator has a place on the board and veto power over its decisions, however, and plans to take an active interest in administration of the fund. He has stipulated that the entire gift must all be spent at the end of twenty-five years—both principle and interest, which together, if the surplus is loaned at 6 per cent from year to year, will be- $19,000,000. This was done to avoid creation of “a self-satisfied institution” and to give the donor an opportunity to help get the work started. Couzens explained. Couzens said he first became interested in child welfare work through the efforts of Miss Van Loon Browne, who conducted a school for crippled children near his Detroit home, depending upon small donations for its maintenance. Many Child Frojrets Couzens built Miss Browne a school, still in existence but now' consolidated with a hospital for children, which he endowed on the condition that the word "free" be deleted from the title. Mothers were ashamed to take their children to a hospital labeled "free." he explained. It now is the Children’s Hospital of Michigan—free in tact, but not in name. That enterprise led him into other child philanthropies. In the last ten year.' he has given away about 520.000.000 and he says “there is more to be used before I am ready to quit.” If he lives to be 31. and his sturdy physique would indicate that he will, although he hopes to die before then. Couzens will see the last of his latest fund used up.

DEAD GIRL'S WRITINGS TELL OF AIR COLLISION Reporter's Notes Bolster Charge That Army Plane Caused Crash. /3 h 7 nited Pm - SAN DIEGO. Cal.. April 23.—A young newspaper woman's notes, salvaged from the wreckage of th© mid-air collision between an air liner and an army plane Sunday which cost her life and five others, will be used to support the Maddux Air Line's charge that the dead army pilot's “stunting" was responsible for the collision. The newspaper woman was Miss Cecilia K. Kelly. Phoenix, Ariz., aviation writer. Maddux Air Lines, owner of the passenger plane, said the notes revealed Miss Kelly’s fear of the impending crash. Among the notes were the four words “army plane" “stunting’* 'near." The reporter, it was said, was making observations for an aviation feature story. The five occupants of the liner and Lieutenant G. H. Keefer, the army plane pilot, were killed. Urges Srout Organization Bn 7 iecr* vn. rial RUSHVILLE. Ind., April 23.—Th Rushville Telegram has taken leadership in a movement for a Boy Scout organization here.