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LACK OF PLAY SPACE SPURS YOUTH CRIME

Delinquency Breeding Spots Found Where Recreational Ground Is Scarce. BOYS IN MAJORITY, 3-1 Districts Adjacent to Willard Park Are Declared to Be Worst. The worst districts for juvenile crime and delinquency in Indianapr>;, are those with few or no supcrvi-ed playgrounds and where ho ■ are crowded close together and children forced into the street or o-,i to commons and dumps. Ti; wvjt brought out by a juvenile crime survey of the city cmnplcr and today by R. Clyde White, professor of sociology of the Indiana university extension school. doxicaiiy. the very worst distnc: in the city is adjacent to Willard pari:, the most elaborate playground in the city, but this is an indication of the need for more supervised recreation, rather than failure of the Willard playground, the survey showed. Rased on Court Data The survey, made from juvenile court records and graphed on a map. show s the five worst districts to be either m or fairlv close to the busier . district. Boy delinquents outnumber girls three to one. i (spite the fact that the worst sc. >...n appears to be adjacent to Willard park, the other blackest spots are in those neighborhoods v inch are not in the immediate neighborhood of playgrounds. ; i:r districts where youth tangles oil:nest with law and order are: No. 77, bounded on north by Washin; ton street, south by South street, v esi by Alabama and east by Shelby street; No. 56. on north by Tenth street, south by Washington, east by Delaware and west by Missouri street; No. 76. on north by Washington, south by English avenue, west by Shelby and east by State avenue and extending a block east to Rural between Washington and the railroad tracks.

Aided by Students District 77 and 76 surround or are adjacent to Willard park. Aided by two students in his sociology classes Professor White checked the Marion county juvenile court records to ascertain the addresses of all delinquents for 1928, and by following the school census figured the average rate of delinquency in all sectors of the city. In the above districts the delinquency record is: District 77. forty-eight children out of every thousand have committed unmoral acts; District 56. in the heart of the city and including the Monument Circle and Memorial plaza, twenty-seven delinquent children a thousand: District 76. same. Although District 77 tops the list for housing the city's bad boys and girls the professor's man reveals that in District 56 more girls arc haled into court than boys. Rooming District Cited Professor White explains this peculiarity thus: • In District 5G we have an area that is largely rooming house in structural character and it includes streets where sex delinquency is common. Sex misbehavior brings the majority of girls into court. "In Districts 76 and 77.’' he added, “the high rates require a different explanation. Housing conditions are very poor and there are few playgrounds and other recreational activities within their bonds. The map shows that in three sections high in Negro population, delinquency is common. The mere fact that they are Negroes does not contribute to waywardness." White said, “but the Negro is forced to live in poorer hemes and neighborhoods where play space is scarce." Points Out Factors Overcrbwding in homes, mental deficiency, personality disorders, lack of home discipline and lack of proper leisure time activities arc factors contributing to juvenile delinquency. President White asserted. His map is to be used as the basis for a study to determine the playground needs of the various sections of the city. Eugene T. Lies of the Playground and Recreation Association of America has been employed by the Indianapolis Foundation through the Indianapolis Council of Social Agencies to make the complete recreational survey. LABOR TAKES REINS MacDonald Accepts Request to Form Government. B l nitrri Press , . . WINDSOR. England. June o.—J. Ramsey MacDonald, leader of the victorious Labor party in last Thursday s general election, was asked by the king today to form a government. He accepted Hourly Temperature 6 a m 57 10 a. m 68 7a. m 59 11 a. m 70 Ba. m 64 12 <noon>.. 72 9 a. m..... 64 1 p. m 73

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Professor R. Clyde White and his map showing the worst spots for delinquency in Indianapolis. The white districts have 0 to 5.9 delinquents per 1,000 children. The districts with horizontal bars and sloping vertical lines have 11 to 15.9 delinquents per 1.000 children. The districts with both horizontal and vertical bars, per-

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Aged Man Dies at Wife’s Grave

I; >' I nitvd Rr< sx KANSAS CITY, Mo.. June s.—An old man sat in Forest Hill cemetery Tuesday and peered with age dimmed eyes at an inscription of a tombstone at his side which read: ‘ Susan Carter, 1855-1924. and C. C. Carter. 1855 ” A bunch of flowers he had placed on the grave Memorial day were withered. Under the inscription was a verse: “As you are note, so once was /, ,4s I am now, you soon shall be. Prepare for death and follow me.” As the old man mumbled the last line, his lips faltered and ceased to move. "Heart disease." an ambulance doctor pronounced. Today a stone cutter chiseled “1929” after “C. C. Carter’ and finished the epitaph.

PRIEST SHOOTS GIRL, ENDS OWN LIFE WHEN REQUEST FOR KISS BRINGS LAUGH

•Don't Be Silly, Father,’ Causes Tragedy, Friends Say. tin ( nitut P' f: m HARRISON. N. J., June s.—The Rev. Paul Miezvinis, former acting pastor of Lithuanian Roman Catholic church of Our Lady of Sorrows, shot a 22-year-old girl here Tuesday night and committed suicide, apparently because she laughed at his request for a kiss. The girl, Helen Halitaies of Kearny, is in a critical condition, with two wounds in the chest. The shooting occurred at the home of John Silketis, where Miss

New Driver Licenses to Go on Sale

Issuance of motor drivers' license under the 1929 statute will start at the statehouse Thursday, it was announced today by Otto G. Fifield. secretary of state. Sale will be handled in the same manner as that of automobile license plates and certificates of title. All applications here must be presented at 101 statehouse. Arrangements have been made for 114 branches throughout the state. Thirty-eight of these will be operated bv the Hoosier State Automobile Association, seven by the Chicago Motor Club and the remainder split up among the local politicians. German Publisher Dies Bu l nited Press MILWAUKEE. Wis.. June 5. Colonel William C. Brunder. 60, publisher of the Milwaukee Germania Herold. German language newspaper, died here Tuesday night after a brief illness.

pendioular to each other, have 16 to 20.9 delinquents per 1,000 children. The districts with both sloping horizontal bars and vertical sloping bars have 21 to 25.9 delinquents per 1,000 children. The solid black districts have 26 or more delinquents per 1,000 children.

Halitaies and Miezvinis were dinner guests. Mrs. Silketis said she overheard some of the conversation between Miezvinis and Miss Halitaes while she was preparing dinner and heard the prist ask: “Tell me. Helen, do you like me?” “Don't be silly, father," Mrs. Silketis said the girl replied. “You are a priest and I am only a young girl ” During the meal. Mrs. Silketis said. Miezvinis asked Miss Halitaies to kiss him, but the girl only laughed. After dinner Miezvinis and the girl returned to the parlor while the Silketis washed the dishes in the kitchen. Soon they heard three shots and found Miss Halitaies wounded and the priest, grasping a revolver, dying. Miezvinis was acting pastor of the Church of Our Lady of Sorrows until last February. Since then he has been in Chicago and Amsterdam. N. Y. Tuesday he returned here and called on the Rev. George Fitzpatrick. pastor of the Holy Cross Roman Catholic church. Fitzpatrick said Miezvinis paced the floor nervously, smoked many cigarets and remarked: “The bolsheviks are after me."

CITY MAY BUY OTH ER UTILITY FIRMS, NEWLY ORGANIZED GAS BOARD HINTS

The first hint that the new city utility trustees may seek to threw into municipal ownership some other public service besides the Citizens Gas Company came today. The hint was seen in a written statement issued by the. trustees in announcing election of their own officers and the selection of seven directors who will be the active operators of any utility the city may take over. While the act of the 1929 legislature setting up the utilities trustees and directors boards was designed to facilitate the city’s acquisition of the Citizen Gas Company it has been known fqr some time that the,

INDIANAPOLIS. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1929

THREE KILLED IN OIL BLAST Two Hundred Homes Menaced by Flames. Bn United Press EAST BRAINTREE, Mass., June s.—Three men are known to have lost their lives in a triple explosion and fire which caused damage estimated at $500,000 to the Cities Service Refining Company's plant here Tuesday midnight. The score of other employes who were burned or otherwise injured will recover. Lives of approximately 100 workmen employed on the reservation were imperiled when three tanks, each containing 10.000 gallons of oil, blew’ up in rapid succession, flashing flames over a wide area and causing the earth to tremble for miles around. A spectacular fire raged for two hours after the explosions, damaging homes within half a mile of the olant on the windward side. A general exodus of hundreds of residents started, panic-stricken people dashing frantically through the woods in the direction of West Quincy. It was a scene of terror as the occupants of the 200 homes on Quincy avenue, where the plant is located, were aroused from sleep as the blasts rocked their homes. Many rushed from their homes dressed only in night clothing to make a wild dash for safety.

city administration regards it as broad enough to enable the city to buy out the Indianapolis Water Company, the Indianapolis Power and Light Company, the Indianapolis sendee of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company or the Indianapolis Street Railway Company. Trustees pointed out that no utilities will be taken over at thu time, the organization being kepi intact until such time as litigation over the gas utility is settled. The statute prov ides that the directors meet within thirty days to elect a president, vice-president and secretary and treasurer. William J. Mooney, wholesale

MRS. CASSLER WEEPS OVER HOLDING SON Mother Love Finally Breaks Calm of Alleged $ Slayer. WITNESSES UNDER BOND Youth and Husband of Accused Restrained by Court Action. Bu I'nitel Press VALPARAISO. Ind., June 5. Doomed to the gallows a year ago, Mrs. Catherine Cassler, her haughty demeanor shattered, today was charged with another murder —that of her husband’s mistress. The woman who shrugged her shoulders at a death sentence, smiled, with the noose forty-eight hours away, and calmly heard anew murder charge read against her, raged and sobbed when her 19-year-old son was held on $3,000 bond as a material witness in the swamp killing of Miss Cameola Soutar, “butterfly” girl. Fearing a writ of habeas corpus would free Mrs. Cassler before investigation of the murder was completed, authorities swore out a warrant and arraigned her Tuesday night between sessions of an inquest. Mrs. Cassler took the proceeding calmly until State’s Attorney William M. Bozarth demanded Edward Cassler. the son. and Truman Cassler, the husband, be held without bond. Declares Son Sick Heretofore defiant and calm. Mrs. Cassler became hysterical over the plight of her son. She tried to gulp a glass of water, but it spilled and ran over her black dress. “This is terrible,” she cried to the judge. “Why does Ed have to be locked up? I can’t stand any more. Yes, I can. I can stand anything, but why should he have to suffer? I’ve suffered, but my boy is sick.” Officials, who had pitted their wits against the woman in two days of questioning, stood by amazed at the sudden change in the stout woman. When Edward was brought in she clutched his hand and wept. Preceding the dramatic courtroom scene, Mrs. Cassler had been on the witness stand, calmly and deliberately answering questions fired at her by Coroner E. R. Milller and attorneys. Being questioned was no new thing to her. She had gone through one lengthy trial for a murder in Chicago and another on liquor violations while an active W. C. T. U. member in Hebron, her former home town, and near where Miss Soutar's body was found.

Directly Denies Slaying Mrs. Cassj.er announced at the beginning she would answer no questions regarding the parentage of Edward. She contends he is her son, while her husband says he was left on their doorstep when a baby. She denied she owned a gun and threatened her husband and Miss Soutar. as he charged. She admitted that she and the dead girl were enemies, and that she had beaten Miss Soutar when she came home from jail and found her living with Cassler. ostensibly as his housekeeper. To a direct question of ‘‘Did you kill Cammie?” she answered “No, I did not kill her." She answered slowly, hesitatingly. before each' reply, as if weighing her words. The courthouse was jammed, many of the spectators being former friends and neighbors of the accused woman when she lived on a farm near Hebron and was a temperance worker. Edward preceded his moher to the stand and was questioned minutely about driving his mother in the family car last week at approximately the time Miss Soutar disappeared. He admitted he had borrowed a pair of Michigan license plates and had them on his car when he made some deliveries for a bean merchant. “Was that before you took your mother driving?” the coroner asked. “Yes." he replied, turning pale and continuing abruptly. “I didn’t kill Cammie. My father didn’t kill her. nor did my mother. Her death means nothing to me and I don't know anything about it." The outburst was in answer to no auestion and left the coroner speechless for a few moments.

druggist, was elected president of the trustees at a secret session Tuesday in Mayor L. Ert Slack s office. It is understood that George J. Marott, who was elected vice-presi-dent, nominated Mooney. Mooney is a Democrat. Thomas C. Howe, former Butler president, is secretary. The board of trustees under the law will hold title to the property for the city and elect directors annually. The directors will operate the utilities and issue bonds for purchase of the gas company stock certificates when the pending litigation is adjudicated. Directors elected to serve until Dec. 31, 1931:

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Chicago’s Richest Girl Is Giiarded After 7 7i reat

U ii L'nitfd Pi t ?* NEW YORK. June s.—Mrs. Jacob Bauer. mother of the richest girl in Chicago, was unconcerned today over an allegedly threatening telephone call her daughter" received recently while attending classes at Bryn Mawr college. Rose Mary Bauer and her mother are here preparing to sail tonight on the Berengaria for Europe. Mrs. Bauer said the telephone call had been received by her daughter, but that subsequent investigation had convinced her it was merely a practical joke some friends was playing. It was reported that Bryn Mawr officials employed private detectives to guard the dormitory .in which Miss Bauer lived after she received the telephone call, but this was denied at the college. Mrs. Bauer denied reports that her daughter would be presented at the court of St. James, explaining that the trip was being made in line with their custom of going abroad every two years. Miss Bauer came into an inheritance of $2,500,000 recently on her twenty-first birthday.

PACT ON WAR DEBTS REAIW Germany Must Pay TwentyThree Billions in 58 Years. BY RALPH HEINZEN, I'nitfrt Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, June s.— After ten years of intermittent negotiations to fix the amount which the German government is able, without endangering her financial stability, to pay allied creditor powers in liquidation of her obligations arising from the World war, the Reich now has a specific burden which it will have to carry for the next fifty-eight years. It took the secon Dawes committee, composed of i. ancial giants of the world, four months of painstaking labor to reach an agreement, acceptable to all concerned. Owen D. Young’s compromise plan, conceived by the American chairman of the conference of reparations experts at a moment when the negotiations seemed doomed to failure, has been agreed to by the allies and by Germany. Only the formality of affixing the signatures is necessary to make the plan official. This is expected either Thursday or Friday. Ratification by the interested governments will follow as a matter of course. Thus for the next fifty-eight years Germany will have a specific annuity debt to pay to the allies— France, Belgium, Great Britain and Italy, and, in a smaller measure, the United States and Japan. The United Press is able today to state on excellent authority that the capital total which Germany’s reparations debt is worth to the allies is approximately $8,812,000,000. But with interest over the long period, the total which Germany will pay to the creditors in the form of annuities will be approximately $23,205,000,000. The agreement just reached is expected to have as far-reaching an effect on the economic stability of the world as the Versailles agreement did on the political situation after the World war. The Dawes plan, which practically put Germany on its feet in 1924, virtually has been scrapped. The Young plan, also an American plan, will go into effect on Sept. 1, 1929, although theoretically it will become operative on April 1, 1930. . Outstanding features of the Young plan includes the innovation of the international bank, or the "bank of international settlement,” which will act as the world agent for reparations, and the liberation of the German railroads from the Dawes plan lien.

GENE ALGER’S BROTHER DENIES ‘JOY-RIDE’ THEFT

Charges that Gail Alger, 16. of 409 North Walcott street, was fol- | lowing the footsteps of his brother. ! Gene, 21, who recently was paroled | by Governor Harry G. Leslie, from ; the Indiana state reformatory, were ! denied by the youth today. I Gail Alger was implicated by

Henry L. Dithmer, president of Polar Ice and Fuel Company, Inc. Brodehurst Elsey, secretarytreasurer of Indianapolis Glove Company. Edward A Kahn, president of People's Outfitting Company. Eli Lilly, vice-president of Eli Lilly & Cos., pharmaceutical chemists. John J. Madden, president of John J. Madden Manufacturing Company, furniture. Almus G. Ruddell, president of Central Rubber and Supply Company. Guy A. Wainwright, vice-president and general manager of Diamond Chain and Manufacturing Company.

Rose Mary, Bauer, Chicago's richest girl, who has a fortune of $2,500,000.

House, Senate Conferees Stand by Hoover in Final Agreement. BY PAUL R. MAI.LON T'nited Tress Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, June s.—The debenture plan, so strongly opposed by President Hoover and administration leaders in the house was stricken from the farm relief bill today by the house and senate conferees who reached a final agreement on the measure. Finding the house adamant to the tariff bounty plan, the senate conferees surrendered as had been expected. When a vote was taken the senate conferees were 3 to 2 in favor of abandoning the plan which the senate had tacked on the bill by a 47 to 44 vote three weeks ago. Few other changes were made in the bill. Its title was revised to be “the agricultural marketing act.” The senate provision adopted giving stabilization corporations the right to serve co-operative organizations, not only as a buying but as a merchandising agency. Expenses of the proposed federal farm board were raised to $1,500,000. as the senate had provided The theory of the administration measure was preserved. The board is to be composed of nine members to be selected by the President and confirmed by the senate. Members are to receive $12,000 a year salary and in selecting them the President is cautioned to keep in mind the advisability of giving each section of the country representation. that is, one member for the wheat belt, one for the corn belt and so on. Son of Irish Joan of Arc Freed ISu i nilrij Press DUBLIN, June 6.—Six youths, including Sean Mcßride, son of Mrs. Maude Gonne Mcßride. Irish, Joan of Arc. were acquitted by a jury today of charges of maintaining an illegal military force.

Lowell Edwards. 18, of 450 North Walcott street, in the theft of an automobile from Lester M. Rhoads, 2020 Brookside parkway last Friday night. Preliminary hearing was continued in municipal court until June 14, the day on which Gail will be graduated from Arsenal Technical high school, where he was a varsity football player and promyrent in other activities.

In a signed statement of Detectives Clarence Golder and John Dugan following his arrest Tuesday night, Edwards said that he and Alger took the machine for a “joy ride’’ from the 1000 block North Keystone avenue downtown, and then to the 1000 block East Vermont street, where it was abandoned, “I knew Edwards, and I saw him Friday night." Alger told detectives as he walked out of the courtroom with his father this morning. "But I was not. in the car. In fact. I wasn't north of Michigan street at all Friday night.” Three years ago Gene Alger shot and killed a Negro policeman who had arrested him after an alleged attempt to steal an automobile, and was sentenced to the reformatory on a charge of second degree murder.

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DERBY TICKET NETS $84,750 TO CITY MAN Engineer Toils at Furnace After Getting News of Sudden Wealth. LUCK TO ARTHUR COURT Opines He’ll Get Chance to Take Fishing Trip in Near Future. Sudden amazing wealth upon an investment of $1 ten days ago, today leaped over a telephone wire to Arthur Court. 49, engineer at the Jackson building, 546 South Meridian street. Court won $84,750 as the holder of the winning ticket in the British army and navy sweepstakes on Trigo. the horse which won the English derby at Epsom Downs today. Refusing to believe good fortune had crowned years of hard work, until dispatches from Cleveland and Quebec verifying the fact were shown to him by an Indianapolis Times reporter. Court grinned broadly, rubbed his hands on grimy overalls and laconically commented; “Well, guess I'll get to go fishing one of these days,” and then, the training of a lifetime asserting itself, he turned from the group congratulating him. Still Fires Furnace “I got to go fire the furnace now,” he declared. Eight children and a wife in a modest home at New Augusta, suburb northwest of the city, shared Court’s happiness, but with more show of elation. The youngsters, all small, couldn't quite grasp the prospect of anew house, new automobile, fine clothes, rich food, which suddenly has opened before them. Court declared he was not going to quit his job. He said he bought the $1 ticket ten days ago. This morning, shortly before he was notified from Cleveland that he held the winning ticket, a mysterious stranger came to the Jackson building and tried to buy the ticket for SIO,OOO cash. Court said he knew he had something worthwhile by that time and

clung to it. Shortly thereafter. Court received a long distance telephone call from Cleveland notifying him he had von. He'll Take Care of Cash The laconic engineer, who has followed that trade all his working days, was ready for the horde of shysters ready to help him spend the money which he expects to descend upon him. He is more than six feet tall, has saved a bit from his modest earnings and said he felt himself compel.tent. to deal with the slickers. By queer coincidence the other two heavy prizes in the sweepstakes go to Americans, bringing a total of $127.1700 to the United States. W. P. Redmond. Bangor. Me., held the ticket on Walter Gay, second in the race, and will draw $28,260, while J. L. Mularkey of Boston wins $14,160 on Brinez, third horse. Police Sergeant Bertrand of Quebec. Tuesday refused an offer of $12,000 from a syndicate for his ticket on Mr. Jinks, one of the favorites which failed to finish in the money today.

GEORGIAN FACES CHAIR Slate to Ask Extreme Penalty for* “Insurance” Murderers. Hu I nit fit Pri.ix MACON. Ga.. June s.—The death penalty will be demanded for Mrs. Sarah E. Powers, 71-year-old rooming house proprietor, as well as for Earl Manchester, confessed slayer of James Parks, young printer, in an alleged insurance murder plot, it was learned today. The aged landlady and her young roomer will be tried separately the week of June 17. CONFIRM STIMSON AID Senate Passes Appointment of Undersecretary of State. rnitul Pres* WASHINGTON. June 5. — The nomination of Joseph P. Cotton of New York, to be- undersecretary of state was confirmed by the senate today within a few minutes after it had been reported favorably by the foreign relations committee. STIMSON AIDS ANDREWS Intervenes to Settle Dispute Between Explorer and China. Bu i nitt i Pres* WASHINGTON. June s.— Henry L. Stimson, secretary of state, has intervened in a dispute between nationalist China and the Roy Chapman Andrews expedition to obtain facilities for Andrews’ Asiatic exploration. The Andrews party now is in China, the state department said today. Andrews wants advance permission from the nationalist government to remove from China the fossils at and other antiquities discovered on earlier expeditions and to be found during the new search.

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