Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 22, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 June 1929 — Page 1

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DERBY WINNER GOES ON TRIP TO GET CASH City Engineer Who Won Race Pool Required to Collect at Quebec. CAN’T GET MONEY HERE Promised Entire $84,750, but Must Pay U. S. $12,445 Income ax. The distance between Arthur Court's lips and the cup of wealth which was trembling near his mouth Wednesday had widened today and the end of the rainbow seemed farther away. Court, Wednesday an engineer and today the possible owner of an *34 000 fortune, must go to Quebec, Canada, to obtain his winnings, it was learned today. He was notified Wednesday that a representative of the pool in 1 which Court's $1 investment netted i the fortune would arrive in the city j at 7 p. m. from Cleveland and give j him the check for $84,750. Check-Bearer Fails Court waited, but no check-bear- j ing stranger came. This morning he was notified that he must go to Canada to obtain the money. His employer, Joseph Jackson, j told Court that he could obtain a leave of absence and go to Canada, but to make sure that no “slick” game was being attempted. Court left for Quebec, via Cleve- ■ land, at noon. On the train with ! him were three men, who he said were his friends, but who represent the pool. Before leaving Court had the winning ticket. 1510 N, certified at a downtown bank. The pool representatives declared Court would be paid the full amount of $84,750. United States internal revenue officials here, have estimated that Court must pay $12,445 income tax on his winnings. At Cleveland the lucky number holder will be taken to the American office of the Clrarity Sweepstakes of the Army and Navy Veterans of Canada. Quebec Unit 33. From Cleveland he will be accompanied by pool representatives to Quebec where the pay-off will take place. Works as Usual The man who won a fortune for $1 appeared as usual at his work this morning, stoked his furnace and then at 9 a. m. left for a downtown bank where the ticket was registered as a precaution. Court then brought anew suit, new shirt and all of the trimmings, was barbered within an inch of his life, and with the three “friends" boarded the train toward his fortune. His wife did not know that he w as going to Quebec, and told The Times that he was expected back tonight as usual. While he will be gone his $35 a week pay will continue. On a lonely hill northeast of Augusta, a suburb of the city, his wife, grown old in the service of their eight children, awaits his return. In her mind's eye she sees a farm house and cows and chickens, “some place we can call our own." Saturday Court received a wire notifying him that his ticket 'lslO N> had drawn Trigo in the Derby, that if Trigo was a starter he would receive s2l. and that if the horse finished well he might receive as much as $340. Expected Only $340 When newspaper men told Mrs. Court that her husband had won, she thought they meant $340. A habit cultivated in penny ante poker kept Court from selling his ticket for SIO,OOO before he heard the good news. Wednesday morning a stranger, who had obtained information on the. result of the race offered him the SIO,OOO. -I told him that if it was worth SIO,OOO to him it was worth the same to me and that when I played penny ante poker I always wanted to see the other man's cards.” WORKER FALLS 18 FEET Ladder Breaks Causing Drop: Brother Saves Self. Squire Waldon. 33. of 1001 North Delaware street, was injured painfully in the back early today, when a ladder on which he and his brother. Glen. 26. were cleaning eavespipes in a house at 932 Dailey street, broke. He fell eighteen feet to the ground. The brother grasped the ladder and did not fall. BLAST AWARD OFFERED Contractors Post SI,OOO for Apartment Wreckers. While detectives sought threads to the mysterious dynamiting Monday night of an apartment house under construction at 3056 North Meridian street, the Arthur Baynham Construction Company on Wednesday posted a SI,OOO reward for information leading to the arrest of those responsible for the explosion.

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Shown above is the rambling farm home in New Augusta, where live Arthur Court, 49. (right center), engineer of the Jackson building; his wife (lower right), and five of their eight children. In the left

Peek, Pique Window peeping on Iris wife failed to bring redress of alleged wrongs to Charles R. Fletcher. Montgomery county. Today the appellate court reversed a conviction on misdemeanor charges which Fletcher had secured in Montgomery circuit court against Frank Wainscott. Reversal was based on lack of evidence of violation of the particular charge brought against Wainscott. Fletcher had testified in the lower court that he had peeked through two different windows and saw Wainscott making love to his wife.

HUNDREDS FLEE FIRE Planes Aid Refugees of Two Villages Wiped Out. Bu United Press WINNIPEG, Manitoba, June 6. —Food and clothing were rushed by airplane today to hundreds made homeless in northern Manitoba by widespread forest fires. Government forestry service planes, augmented by a fleet of commercial ships, flew northward with supplies and fire rangers in an effort to alleviate suffering among the settlers and quell blazes that have wiped out Cranberry Portage and Mile 83, both small settlements. So far no casualties have been reported. but 1.000 residents of Cranberry Portage were forced to take to rafts in Lake Athapapuskow to escape the swift flames, GAS WELL BURNS: 2 DIE Fumes Explode as Flow Is Started; Eleven Injured. i> '■ l'fitted Prc*s EAST AURORA, N. Y.. June 6. Two persons were killed during the night and eleven were injured, two perhaps fatally, when a gas well being brought in by the Iroquois Gas Corporation exploded and burst into flames. The well is six miles south of here. GRAF ZEP TO TRY AGAIN Dirigible Will Make Another U. S. Flight June 21. Bu Unit'd Pn ss FRIEDRICHSHAFEN. Germany, June 6.—The dirigible Graf Zeppelin will make another attempt to cross the Atlantic to the United States on June 21, it was learned reliably here.

center are shown two of the children. Clyde, 4 (left), and Waneita 6 'right). A one dollar ticket of the same kind as that with which Court won $84,750 in a lottery on the English derby is reproduced below.

DEATH CASE TO JURY Charge Driver With Running Down Watchman. A criminal court jury this afternoon prepared to deliberate in the involuntary manslaughter case against John Hubble, 24. of 922 j South West street, who is charged with the auto death of John Heyden, 66, of 233 West Wisconsin street, May 25, 1927, Closing arguments were made by Deputy Prosecutors Paul Rhoadarmer and William Ringer and Ira M. Holmes, defense counsel. State’s witnesses testified Hubble was drunk while Mrs. Hubble took the stand and denied her husband had been drinking when she saw him. Heyden was struck as he crossed ! Harding street at the Big Four rail- ( road. He was a crossing watc '.man I for the railroad. MISSIONARY ESCAPES Reformed Church Worker Flees From Chinese Bandits. R’l United Press , PEPING, China, June 6.—The American legation here was informed today that Dr. C. H. Holle- | man. missionary of the Reformed ! church, has escaped from bandits who captured him at Lungyenchow, Fukien province. Present whereabouts of the missionary were not known.

Girl, 14, ‘Runs Away' From Widowed Mother Who Toiled Years for Her; School Truancy Cause

DISTRAUGHT with grief, a widowed mother upon whom ! years of toil to support her only • child have carved many a mark

of premature age is resting from her labors because her daughter is no longer at home. Last Friday afternoon, Helen Barber, 14, watched her mother, Mrs. Emma Barber. 219 Hanson street, depart upon an errand from which she dreaded to return, and

Helen Barber ** her mother came back she grasped a coat and fled.

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Steal House By United Press MILWAUKEE. Wis., June 6. —Robert Straka reported to police today that someone stole his four-room summer cottage, located on a lake near here. He went out to look at the cottage, in preparation for a fishing trip this week-end, and found nothing but the foundation. “I hope the roof leaks,” he said bitterly.

600 GET LICENSES Drivers Rush for Permits as Sale Starts, Three hundred drivers’ licenses were issued at the statehouse during the first hour they were placed on sale today, according to James A. Bradley, head of the automobile license division in the office of the secretary of state. By noon 600 were issued. Although the licenses are not required until after July 1, sale started today at the statehouse and 114 branches in other cities in the state. , Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 56 10 a. m 73 7 a. m 59 11 a. m 75 Ba. m 65 12 (noon).. 76 ‘ 9a. m 69 Ip. m,.... 76

In two weeks, Helen, who is a freshman In Emerick Manual Training High School, had attended her classes only one day. Then Friday her mother confronted her with a letter from an attendance officer. “It’s untrue,” the girl declared. “I have gone to school. They’ve just got it in for me.” n it a “T ALWAYS believed her,” Mrs. 1 Barber said. “I told her I was going to the school to find out if she had gone, and when I came back through the alley, I saw her run out of the house, and around the corner. “I haven’t got any idea where she went. Some neighbors told me they saw her with another girl downtown Friday night, and then someone used to take her into a

POINTS GUN. DEMANDS $2; 10-YEAR TERM World War Veteran Sent to Prison for Threat to Acquaintance, NEW LAW IS INVOKED Judge Collins Given No Other Alternative in Robbery Case,

Ten years in the state prison is the punishment William Howard, 35, of 919 East Sixteenth street, faced today for pointing a gun at an acquaintance and demanding $2. Howard, a World war veteran who was in the thick of the front line fighting in France for several months, heard Criminal Judge James A. Collins pronounce the sentence because the new robbery statute passed by the last legislature gave the court no alternative. This is the first time the law has been exercised ir Marion county. First Asked or 25 C ents Howard had been drinking several days prior to May 12, when the offense was committed, and went to the home of James Brown, 921 East Nineteenth street, Fred Partlow, 960 Highland avenue, the man he later “held up” was there and the three men conversed. During the conversation, Howard asked Brown for 25 cents, but the latter refused, believing Howard would buy liquor. According to the evidence as presented to Collins, Howard then picked up an old revolver of Brown’s that was on a table. He walked out of the house with it and when Partlow started to get in the machine Howard, holding the gun in his hand, asked him for $lO. “So you want a sl,” Parlow queried. “Well, you better make it $2, while you’re at it,” Howard replied. Afraid, Says Partlow Partlow then got in his car and drove away and Brown took his revolver from Howard. Partlow told the court he “was afraid because I didn’t know what he would do with the gun.” John Boyd, pauper attorney, said he would appeal the case to the supreme court on the grounds that the statute violates the constitution. Howard's left forearm was mangled badly with shrapnel during the war and has a steel plate in it.

LESLIE VETOES ARMORY PLAN Kershner Move to Thwart Building Ban Rejected. Governor Hairy G. Leslie today rejected Adjutant-General William H. Kershner’s suggestions for building ten more Indiana national guard armories under the “closed corporation” plan which was abolished by the 1929 legislature. Kershner would have started erection of the armories under the 1927 budget, thus side-stepping the ban, but Governor Leslie declared: “It was the will of the legislature to ‘pay as you go’ on armory building. That’s what we will do.” Kershner, holdover from former Governor Ed Jackson’s administration, would have employed the plan used in erecting thirty armories which were financed by the Peoples State bank and built, without bidding, by the Ostrom Realty Company, the bank's subsidiary. The Governor discovered that only $4,000 remained available in the 1927 budget for armory building and that the balance would have to be drawn from his emergency fund. Child Dies in Fire Bu Times Saecicl HAMMOND, Ind., June 6.—Katrina Conde, 8, was burned to death when fire swept the tenement in whichs he lived. Three other persons were injured.

restaurant on North Illinois street. The police said they would watch all the places there. “Helen was sick a lot, some days I didn't have car fare for her, and sometimes, when it rained, she didn’t have any shoes to wear, so she didn't go to school much this year. “The truant officer came to see me about it, and I promised that she would go back. a a a EVERY morning I gave her seven pennies for street car fare, and wrapped up her lunch. Then I went to work, and supposed she was in school. UnHI her daughter left home, Mrs. Barber worked regularly in the Beveridge Paper Company mills, but until Helen returns she will stay at home, she said.

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Pair Part Bu United Press RICE LAKE, Wis., June 6. Gilbert Gilbertson, custodian of the tourist park here, refused to be “kidded” when tourists joked him because he always wore two pair of trousers, summer and Winter. “They keep me warm,” he would grin in reply. Today, however, Gilbertson appeared at the park wearing only one pair of trousers. He explained mournfully that he thrust his wallet, containing S4OO, between the waistbands of the two trousers, instead of in his hip pocket. The money was lost.

VANISHES ON LINER AFTER DEATH CHARGE' Suspected Slayer of Wife of Financier Missing as Ship Docks. Bu United Press SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., June 6. William L. Tallman, charged with the “clothes closet” murder of Mrs. Virginia Patty in Los Angeles, was missing from the liner Admiral Benson when it docked here shortly after midnight. Captain M. A. Sohst told the United Press. Tallman, a handsome radio operator, had been arrested on board the ship after the body of Mrs. Patty, bundled up and dangling from a hook, was found in her Los Angeles apartment. • Tallman apparently jumped overboard to avoid questioning concerning the slaying of the pretty wife of Frank D. Patty, Portland (Ore.) financier, Captain Sohst said. Last Seen at 9 P. M. The radio operator was last seen about 9 o’clock Wednesday night when he was served dinner in the stateroom where he was held captive. ‘ At that time the Admiral Benson was about 200 yards off shore in Half Moon bay. Captain Sohst said a woman passenger, whose name he did not disclose, reported hearing a splash slongside the ship about 9 o’clock but the captain did not place much j credence in her story. Police learned from members of the crew that Tallman was an excellent swimmer and the chances of his making the shore were good. San Francisco police immediately broadcast a warning along the coast to be on the lookout for the radio operator. Guarded by Sailor Ole Johnson, member of the crew on duty outside Tallman's cabin door, was myfJtified as to how Tallman got past him. Captain Sohst said that when the radio warrant was received to hold Tallman, he called the operator before him and asked him to promise not to try to get away. The captain said Tallman replied: “I have no reason to run away,” and gave his word he would remain in the cabin. MINE WRECK KILLS 5 Slate Fall Traps, Crushes j West Virginia Workers. By United Press BLUEFIELD, W. Va„ June 6.--Five coal loaders were crushed to death today in a slate fall at the Halcon mine near Wise, Va. The victims were hopelessly trapped as tons of slate, apparently loosened by water seepage or blasting, hurtled down upon them.. Those killed were Fred Hylton, Robert Hall, Coddie Gibson, Allen Stidham and Carroll Miller, all of Wise. Sever Worker Crushed Eji Tim is SOUTH BEND, Ind., June 6.—■ Crushed when he was trapped by a 1 cave-in of earth in a sewer ditch in j which he was working, Frank -Rug- j gieri, 35, is in a serious condition, j Ruggieri was working in a pit made ! by a steam shovel when the acci- J dent occurred.

The girl is a blonde, with blue eyes. She wore a white dress, with red and green flowers, and carried a red and brown plaid coat. ENVOYS FAVOR LIQUOR Sir Esme Howard Alone in Effort to Dry Up Diplomatic Corps. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, June 6.—Little likelihood that the diplomatic corps here would follow the action of Sir Esme Howard, British ambassador and dean of the diplomatic corps, in informing members of his staff that he would not approve liquor applications in the future, was seen here today. The majority of diplomats avoided direct comment but many took the position that Sir Esme's latest action was purely a matter of concern to the British embassy.

HOOVER ASKS CONGRESS FOR PLAN TO STRENGTHEN U. S. PROHIBITION MACHINE Special Message to Congress Suggests Joint Committee to Draft Scheme for Reorganizing Dry Forces. PLEA IS MADE FOR SPEEDY ACTION President Offers to Select Group From Various Departments to Co-operate With One Chosen by Lawmakers. BY PAUL R. MALLON Inited Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. June 6.—Prohibition forced tariff and farm relief from the center of the congressional interest today when President Herbert Hoover sent to both houses a recommendation for an investigation to launch a move to consolidate the enforcement units, and an attack was opened in the senate, against proposed secret sessions of the presidential crime commission. The Hoover message asking appointment of a joint congressional committee to study a plan for reorganizing the enforcement agencies was given a mild reception by drys and wets, Republicans and Democrats alike. However, there appeared to be no immediate opposition to the plan and Senator James E. Watson, the floor leader, announced a resolution would he prepared to carry out the President’s suggestion. First criticism of the law enforcement commission came from a wet senator, Harry Hawes of Missouri, who told the senate if the commission carried out its plan ior secret heatings lie would introduce a -resolution requiring open sessions.

WORKERS SEEK FIVE-DAY WEEK Plasterers Will Strike It Demands Are Refused. Demand for a working contract stipulating a five-day week and pay on Friday night was to be made late today at a meeting of representatives of the plasters union with a committee from the employers’ association. If the contract is not agreed upon a strike curtailing construction loomed as a possibility. The plasters union has with four ohter unions of the city been operating since May 1 on the five-day week plan, but no permanent contract has been entered into. The plumbers, steamfltters, electricians, painters and cement finishers are working on the five-day week, pay Friday basis. “If we can not reach an agreement, the union will decide on what action to take; and if we decide to strike we shall simply not return to work Monday morning,” said Clyde Pierce, president and business agent of the union. R. H. Chalfant, secretary of the contractors, declared that a special committee had been appointed to meet with the plasterers committee, and said that although he did not know the exact situation he did not believe that a strike would be called. SKIPPER ON GAY TRIP OF HEFLIN JR. RESIGNS Rollicking Antics of Senator's Son Reported Cause. Bu United Press NEW YORK, June 6.—Captain A. W. Haynes has resigned as master of the steamship Ancon, the boat on which Tom Heflin Jr., son of the Alabama senator, arrived recently in a rollicking mood after a sojourn in Panama. Panama advices attribute the skipper’s resignation, in part, to the Heflin incident, though the Panama line today insisted Haynes’ retirement was not forced. PARIS GOVERNOR COMING General Gouraud to Attend Veterans Convention in Baltimore. By United Press PARIS, June 6 —General Gouraud, one-armed military governor of Paris, will sail on the liner Paris July 4, to attend the convention of the Forty-second division, A. E. F., in Baltimore. The general also will make a short tour- of the United States. BOY, 6, HIT BY TRUCK Child Incurs Fracture of Leg as Vehicle Backs Into Him. Junior Delks, 6, of 3251 Wood street suffered a fractured leg when he was struck by a motor truck, backed by L. A. Jones, 34, of 62 South Gray street, in an alley between Wood and Phipps streets, north of Thirty-second street, early this afternoon. Portland Woman, 92, Dies PORTLAND, Ind., June 6. Funeral services were held today for Mrs. Amaretta Skinner. 92, who died after a year’s illness. She was born in Perry county, Ohio.

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Hawes took the position the public would have little faith in a commission that carried on its work in secret. Cause for the sparse applause on the Hoover message was explained as being caused by dry leaders expecting the President to recommend direct transfer of prohibition enforcement from the treasury to the justice department. They are in favor of such a course and understood the President favored it too. Hoover indorsed this plan in many speeches during the campaign. Dry leaders had talked with him as recently as Tuesday about it and now believe some strong opposition to direct transfer must, have come to the President from influential sources. Messaage Is Short Senator Wesley Jones of Washington, author of the Jones law, said he would sponsor legislation to carry out the President’s plan. “I think it is a good idea,” he said. Senator Pat Harrison (Dem., Miss.) said: “‘I hope the commission is more successful in getting reorganization than the old Brown commission of 1921. We worked for two years and developed a fine plan, but nothing has 1 ever been done about it. It still is gathering dust in the archives.” Watson said: “I thnk it. is a good idea. I favor transfer of enforcement to the justice department.” The President’s message was as follows: “To the Congress of the United States: “In order to secure the utmost expedition in the reorganization and concentration of responsibility in administration of the federal bureaus connected with prohibition enforcement, so greatly needed to improve their effectiveness, I recommend that the congress appoint a joint select committee to make an immediate study of these matters and to formulate recommendations for consideration at the next regular session. Willing to Co-operate “I shall be glad to appoint a. committee from the departments to co-operate with such a committee of the congress. The national commission on law observance and enforcement also will co-operate through their studies of the departmental organization. “The subject involves the transfer of parts of various bureaus and agencies from certain departments to others and it includes as well the necessity for the unification and strengthening of our border patrols, both in connection with prohibition and illegal entry of aliens. “As the question embraces numerous laws and regulations in several bureaus, it will require extensive consideration which, if given jointly by such committees of the congress and the departments prior to the regular session, will save many months of delay.” Waited for Mabel to Quit Although the President made no specific suggestion as to how the reorganization should be accomplished, it generally is understood in official circles that his message constitutes the first step in the administration program for transferring all enforcement activities from the treasury to the department of justice. Transmission of this recommendation to congress so soon after the resignation of Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt as assistant attorne-y----general gave credence to reports long current in official circles that the reorganization of the prohibition unit awaited Mrs. Willebrandt’s withdrawal as chief of the justice department’s prohibition machinery.