Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 55, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 July 1929 — Page 3

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CONTEMPT OF COURT CHARGED TO NEWSPAPER Judge Cites Four Officials of Cleveland Press for Editorial. B • Scrim-Hair art! \tirspatr Alliance CLEVELAND, 0.. July 15.—Four executives of the. Cleveland Press, a Scripps-Howard newspaper, are scheduled Tuesday to face charges of contempt of court before Common Pleas Judge Frederick P. Walther. Louis B Seltzer, editor; Carlton T. Matson, chief editorial writer; John G. Meilink. business manager, and Joseph A. Finster, circulation manager, are those cited. Citations followed publication in the Press of editorials condemning Judge Wall her s action in granting an niune'ion restraining Sheriff E. ,1. Hanratty of Cuyahoga county fr n m interfering with gambling at Thistledown race track. N'ewton D. Baker, secretary of war under the late president Wilson and members of the law firm of Baker. Hostetler A- Sidlo were to represent the Press in court. Injunction I*- Granted The injunction which the editorial criticized was issued two hours befoe a twenty-two dav rare meet was slated to open last Wednesday. The order forbade the sheriff to interfere with the operation of the track or the 'contribution" betting system. As an addenda, howeve, the judge penned in. ‘if the same be not in violation of the laws of Ohio." The county prosecutor's office immediately notified the sheriff that the injunction is not worth *he paper it is written or." Thereupon the sheriff went to the track, found the betting system in full operation, and arrested Ed P. Strong, owner of the track, who had obtained the injunction. Stone is a power in Repi'blican political circles. Strong voluntarily halted the races on the following day. Hanratty visited the track with 100 deputies and laid Mcer' to the betting booths. There followed an exodus of the 1.200 horses gathered for the meet. Many of them were moved to Bainbridge track, in an adjoining county, where race betting is illeeal. hut, unrestricted by the local authorities. Blasts Judge

On the same day the Press expressed if?e! f editorially. In part, it. fa id to the sheriff: ' The interests which forced you to rescind your statement that you would appoint a commission to clean up racing: arc the same interests which are behind Thistledown. They do not want clean rac- 1 ing. They want a big “cut" for the track. They want a lot of things I which go with racing which is not clean. “They had. as you know, a jtidee up their sleeve who would do their bidding They had that ace in the hole, the judge. Frederick P. Walther. who long has taken orders : from the interests which wanted Thistledown to continue. ‘ This judge issues the most monstrous injunction order put out from the bench in Cuyahoga county in our time. “He enjoins the sheriff of this county from doing his sworn duty of enforcing the law. If any act of a judge can driv P h>m from the bench, this act of Walter's should do it. ‘lf this injunction can be sustained, almost any injunction to restrain an officer of the law from doing his duty can be sustained. “Almost any bootlegger, gambler, divekeeper, or what not can get an injunction to keep the arresting officers from his' door.'’ Editorial Called Cntrue The citation states that the contents of the editorials were “false and untrue” and that the “natural effect thereof was to insult, valify, degrade, defame, and intimidate the said court; to impair and destroy the power and influence of said court and judge; advocated a disregard of the court's orders and implied that the acts and orders of the court were a farce and outrage, contrary to law and founded in fraud, wrong, and ignorance of said judge.” Through his attorney. Walter indicated he would consider a retraction by The Press before imposing sentence. No retraction is contemplated, an editorial in the newspaper today indicates, stating that it does not intend to attempt to adjudicate the issue before the court.

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10,000 Watch Swimmers in Competition at Beach

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Prize Beauties Are Chosen: Life Guard Best in Fancy Diving. Bathing beauties and amateur swimming and diving experts of the city boasted new bathing suits today for prowess displayed at. the water carnival at McClure beach Sunday, witnessed by approximately 10.0QO persons. beach, took first place in the fancy beach, took fist place in the fancy diving contest and Charles Jones, Wabash, caek swimmer, second. William Mart?,, 3745 Winthrop avenue. won the 100-yard swim for boys and Gene Bysinger, Ravenswcod. came in second, after having placed fifth in a three-mile swim at Broad Ripple earlier in the day. He'en J oe Smith, 11. won the 100yard for girls, after taking second in the cne and one-half mile at Broad Ripple. Mary Alice Shivley was second. Marts won the 200-yard swim, with Charles Bowman. 522 Massachusetts avenue, second, but one foot behind. Mrs. Thelma Willis, formerly Miss Thelma Darby, national A. A. U. champion for several years, placed third in the event, entering on the spur of the moment without training. Miss Ena Weaver. 1416 West Pruit street, was declared the best looking bathing beauty and Miss Gertrude Gertchen, 1120 Holliday street, second. Louis Meesang. 1014 West Thirtyfourth street, won the canoe canopy donated by the Indianapolis Tent and Awning Company for the best float at the feast of lanterns. Charles Bowman won second. Jesse A. McClure, recreation director: George Morgan, assistant superintendent of parks, and Ray Moistner. park motor policeman, were judges.

VIOLENCE BRINGS DEATH TO SEVEN

Automobiles Cause Four of Week-End Fatalities in Indiana. Seven deaths by violence was the toll in Indiana over the week-end, four fatalities ‘being due to automobiles and three to drowning. Mrs. Emma Kretzman, 57, near Kokomo, was killed when automobiles collided at the intersection of the Miller and Huntington roads Her husband, the Rev. Robert Kretzman. was severly injured. Oliver R. Stiverson. Ft. Wayne, driver of the other car, is being held on a manslaughter charge. Gerald Haviland. 11. Geneva, was killed four miles north of Portland, when an automobile upset after a tire burst. Dale Huey. 23. Geneva, uncle of the victim, suffered a skull fracture.

Joseph Freeman. 39. Templeton, j father of four small children, died ; in a Lafayette hospital of injuries received when struck by an automobile. Charles W. Brown. 61. La Grange, was killed instantly when struck by an automobile while walking on a road twelve miles east of here. Arthur Johnson. 22. Elizabeth, drowned in the Ohio river near New Albany, after waving good-by to his sweetheart. Miss Bertha Johnson. 25. New Albany. Alfred Rayner, 21. farmer near Versailles, succeeded in saving a young brother from drowning in Laughrey creek, but lost his own life. Kenneth Keller. 15. Oolitic, was drowned while swimming in an abandoned stone quarry. He sank tweny feet from shore after becom-1 ing exhausted. BATTERY MEN CONVENE Approximately 200 salesmen and distributors are attending the seeonc' annual convention of the Brest - O-Lite Corporation which opened today at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Nearly three times as many batteries have been shipped in the first six months this year as were shipped in all of 1928. Convention sessions are in charge of H. E. Komitch sales manager. An airplane flight over the city and other entertainment will feature the convention.

''lis< Edna Weayerof 1416 West Truitt street (standing first prize winner in the bathing beauty contest at McClure beach Sunday, and seated Miss Gertrude Gertcben of 1120 Holliday street, who won second place.

RIVER BOATS TO RACE TUESDAY

Woman Will Piiot One Ohio Vessel. Bit 1 An'tC’J Press CINCINNATI. July 15.—The colorful reign of the old lumbering side-wheeler will be revived here tomorrow when two river steamers, the sturdy Tom Greene and the fleet Betsy Ann, bid for speed supremacy of the Ohio river. The only Ohio river woman pilot will be at the wheel of the Tom Greene. Behind the impending race lies a. story of years of friendly rivalry; of competition that began on the Mississippi when the dingy squarebowed boats were the chief mode of travel. The main topic of conversation today was which will win. "The Betsy Ann," says Frederick Way, her master, “is the fastest boat on the river. She was built for speed and she will outdistance the lubberly Tom Greene.” “And my beat.” says Tom Greene, young master of the ship bearing his name, "can easily beat the Betsy Ann or any other boat and that goes for my brother's boat, the Cnris Greene." The Chris Greene, sister-ship of the Tom Greene, beat the Betsy Ann in a tight race last fall and her master immediately claimed the river speed title. Chris will be challenged after tomorrow's race, regardless of the outcome. The race will begin at 5. over a 21mile course to New Richmond. Captain Greene's mother, the. only woman on the Ohio to hold a pilot’s license, will be pilot of the Tom Greene. Greene and Wav are the youngest masters on the river, Greene is 25. and Way is 28.

CHURCH GROUP ELECTS Cromer Aldridge Heads Brethren’s Young Feoples Division. Cromer Aldridge of Anderson, today headed the young people's division of the southern district of the church of the Brethren. Officers were elected at the closing session of the annual conference Sunday at Grace Church. ThirtySecond street and Capitol avenue. Other officers: Clarence Bowman, Hagerstown, vice-president; Miss Lena Wagner. Indianapolis, secretary: Miss Vera Johnson. Muncie, secretary at large. The Rev. R. L. Showalter of Anderson installed the new officers. MISSIONS TALK TONIGHT New Moravian Church Will Hear National Religious Chairman. The Rev. S. H. Gapp. Bethlehem. Pa., chairman of the national board of religious education of the Moravian church, will speak tonight at the new Second Moravian Episcopal church. Thirty-fourth and Hovey streets. The address on missions will be the second in a series of celebrations in connection with the opening of the new church. The Rev. Vernon W. Couillard. pastor, conducted communion services Sunday. PARACHUTE JUMP FAILS “Ima Dahl,” Riverside park mascot. was being given “first aid” today by park carpenters after receiving a broken shoulder in a fall from a balloon Sunday. Parachute ropes became entangled. causing the wooden bathing beauty to drop rapidly to the ground. Residents believed the form of “Ima" to be that of a human being and called police. Peoria & Eastern Railway employes held a picnic Sunday at the park. D. 0. K. K. GROUP DRILLS At 'he annual picnic at Brookside Sunday afternoon, members of the drum and bugle corps of Shambah Temple No. 139. Dramatic Order Knights of Khorassan. held final drill and inspection before their participation in competition at the national D. O. K. K. convention to be held in Winnipeg. Canada. Aug. 11 to 17.

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STATE TAKES STEPS TO GET $55,00£ BACK Charge Lake County Board Paid Excess Prices for . Furniture. AUorney-General James M. Ogden today began work on collection of $55,363.04 of alleged excess, profits paid by Lake county commussioners to Eugene S. Carpenter, formerly of Indianapolis and now of Hammond. on contracts for office equipment checked by the state board of accounts from Jan. 1, 1920, to Dec. 31. 1928. Report of the alleged excess profits and charges that furniture was bought without advertisement or contract and several thousand dollars' worth paid but unaccounted for, have ben filed by field examiners with Lawrence F. Orr. chief of the state board of accounts. Orr has known of the alleged excess charges for some time, his examiner's work being responsible for Judge E. M. Norton of Lake circuit court demanding a $669.75 refund from Carpenter on May 14.. for court furniture over-charges. Plan of procedure now is to divide the alleged overcharges by dates and start collection efforts both on Carpenter and the various commission members. Thecommission personnel changed several times during the years the report covers and if there was any criminal action some of it may be outlawed by the statute of limitations, Orr said. It is upto Lake county officials first to institute any criminal proceedings, the -attorney-general taking charge of civil recoveries. According to Orr's figures. $76,809.25 was spent during the period for $21,446.21 worth of furniture. the latter price being based on “a fair estimate with 50 per cent profit."

FOUR LEASES MADE Companies Take Space in Industrial Building. Sears, Roebuck & Co.’s retail store has just closed a lease with Klein <fc Kuhn Inc., for three floors of the Daly street industrial building at Daly and Cruse streets. The space includes 20.000 square feet to be used for warehouse purposes. The first floor of the same building has been leased to the Hoosier Supply Company for a period of ten years and space has also been rented by the Industrial Electrical Company. Two floors have been leased by the Grevhound-Pickwick bus line for use as divisional headquarters and general' offices. “Has anybody heard Mr. Hoover say anything about this power trust raid?" Johnston asked. “Not a soul. He has been as silent about it as the grave. “What is the meaning of this silence? That Mr. Hoover is strangely tender-eyed toward the private utilities groups that consttiute the power trust seems to be beyond dispute. For years he has been at their beck and call."

FUNERAL RITES FOR CITY DOCTOR TODAY Pr. Joseph Morrow, *6. to Be Buried at Crown Hill. Funeral services were to be held this afternoon at 4 at the Hisey & Titus undertaking establishment for Dr. Joseph E. Morrow. 76. who died Saturday morning at the Methodist, hospital of heart disease. Burial was to follow in Crown Hill cemetery. with Mystic Tie lodge No. 398, F. and A. M., of which Dr. Morrow was a member, in charge of services at the grave. Dr. Morrow was born at Philadelphia, but came here when 5 years old. He was educated in the public schools, Northwestern Christian university. now Butler, and the Indiana Medical college. He had been a practicing physician here for fortyfive years . RAIL MAIL HEAD HERE William M. Collins Addresses Indianapolis Branch Members. William M. Collins, national president of the Railway Mail Association. spoke before the members of the Indianapolis branch Saturday night at the Denison hotel. Three delegates from the local branch will attend the national convention at Columbus, 0.. the first week in September. The double quartet from the women's auxiliary of the branch will sing at the convention. Christmas Tree in July r.w Times Sueeinl EVANSVILLE. Ind.. July 15. July Christmas tree, loaded with gifts, stood in the St. Lucas, Evangelical church here Sunday. Gifts, donated by Sunday school children, will be sent to an Evangelical mission at Raipur. India. They will be distributed Christmas.

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AIRPLANES ARE CREATING NEW LEGALTANGLES Mrs. Willebrandt Predicts Industry Must Meet Pioneer Court Troubles. BY GILBERT SWAN United Press Sports Writer LOS ANGELES. July 15.—1n the early days of the railroads, a whole lot of people looked on these new public carriers as new sources from which a clever man could get money for nothing—and so the railroads were bombarded with all kinds of previously unheard-of lawsuits. The fledgling business of commercial aviation today is in precisely the same situation. Being something entirely new. it is constantly running into situations to which existing laws do not seem to apply—and, like the early railroads, is encountering a tangle of new and unusual lawsuits. She'll Tackle New Problems That is one reason why Mabel Walker Willebrandt gave up her position as prohibition prosecutor for the United States government to become chief legal adviser for the Universal Aviation Corporation. She told me about it shortly after she had arrived in Los Angeles in one of the corporation's luxurious transport planes; told me of this brand-new legal field in which she is going to help mark the right-of-way.

When in 1926 congress prescribed certain air rights, it cautiously overlooked the matter of "eminent domain.” And since certain flying fields have been forced to display beacons, who is to say that tomorrow any ordinary citizen may not be ordered to put a light on his roof to point the way to safety? Here is another example. On Long Island a goif course adjoins an airport. Planes occasionally make forced landings on the golf course’s fairways, to the anger of the golfers and the ruination of the turf. Besides, when they sail along close to the ground they ruin putts and cause many a topped drive. The golf club, therefore, is preparing to build a sixtv-foot fence on its boundary line to prevent this; the airport people say this will ruin their flying field—and nobody knows exactly what each party’s legal rights in the matter are. “That sort of thing,” said Mrs. Willebrandt, "is one of the chief reasons why I have become a legal counsellor for aviation. I am still young enough to be interested in new ideas and in pioneering. The questions which aviation is raising are largely those which were raised by the railroads in their infancy. Fears Gotf-Minded Jury "Take that dispute between the airport and the golf club on Long Island. Suppose that lawsuit is tried before a jury. Will that jury be air-minded or golf-minded? My wa cer, if any. is that it will be golfminded. It is accustomed to golf links, but it isn't accustomed to the whirring of motors overhead. And therein lies my particular problem! "When I was flying in the first passenger plane of the Universal Aviation Corporation, I could look down and see the sheep, cows and pigs stampeding to get away from us. Back in the days when the first railroad trains were entering the western territory, you would find that many lawsuits arose in just that way—through the stampeding of livestock. We are looking for many such suits. - ’

CITY POWER FIRM'S VALUATION IS REDUCED State Tax Beard Clips $632,450; Error Alleged. The state tax board today clipped $632,450 from the valuation originally set for the Indianapolis Power and Light Company. Phillip Zoercher. tax board member, explaining that the reduction was largely because of a clerical error in the original compilation rather than the result of reconsideration. With today's change, the new valuation on which the utility will pay state taxes next year is $31,508.775. Originally the figure was $32,141,225 as compared with the valuation of $23,607,600 a year ago. The tax board recently reduced the Indianapolis Water Company's original valuation by approximately $500,000. COUNTY HIRES EXPERTS The firm of Bevington-Williams, Inc., consulting engineers, has been retained by the board of county commissioners to plan and supervise installation of a heating plant at the Marion county tuberculosis hospital. The project will cost $26,000. Commissioners explained today that they engaged the engineers to insure a “good job.” The county seldom employs engineers for building projects. Hurrying Man Hurt FRANKFORT. Ind.. July 15. While hurrying through a storm to close his home windows before attending a birthday party in honor of his wife. Emmett Pippenger fell, dislocating his right knee cap and breaking a bone in his left hand.

POLICE SEEK TWO HIT-SKIP AUTOISTS

Doctor Hurled Out of His Wagon: Pedestrian Is Felled, Two hit and run automobile drivers were sought by police today and more than fifteen persons are recovering from injuries sustained in week-end accidents. Dr. W. M. Curl, 56. of 915 West New York street, driving a horse with a wagon, was hurled from the wagon the street and sustained injuries to his right leg when the horse was struck by a hit and run driver at New York and Pennsylvania streets early today. According to witnesses. Dr. Curl had the green traffic light and the machine ran a red light as it struck the animal. The horse was hurtly badly. Dr. Curl was taken home. Elijah McCord. 32. Rural Route 13, Box 210, Oaklandon. suffered a. fracture of one leg and body bruises when struck by a hit and run motorist while walking on the Pendleton pike, near Ff. Benjamin Harrison Sunday night. Others injured, according to police reports, were: Herman. 19. and Edward Mayhew. 16, Ben Davis; Howard Cox, 1432 East Ohio street; Ray Ostine, 507 South Holmes avenue: Norman Worth, 17, of 1132 North Beville avenue; Miss Hilda Bookatman, 13. of 833 South Meridian street; Miss Harlina Owens, 14, Negro, Jeffersonville. Ind.; Galeta Pearl Wilson. 6. of 391.8 North Keystone avenue: Mrs. Carey Dixon. 50, of 537 South Central court; Miss Rosyline Barrows, 3148 Fall Creek boulevard; Miss Winifred Larsen, 18, of 4010 West Sixteenth street; Rauph Peckham. 22, of 2130 Sugar Grove avenue; Artie Reed. 9, of 2009 East Forty-sixth street; Catherine Booth, 8. of 1706 Spann avenue, and Vera Scarbrooks, 7, of 812 South Capitol avenue. CONFERENCE IS CLOSED The Rev. J. o. Winger of North Manchester spoke Sunday afternoon at the closing session of the annual two-day young people's conference of the southern district of the Church of the Brethren at the Grace church. About one hundred delegates attended the conference.

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Cat Objects to Squeeze Ry Times Special ROSSVTLLE. Ind., July 15. Fred Kinzer, 5-vear-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Biven Kinzer. attempted to run a cat through a wringer on the family washing machine. The animal bit and scratched the child so badly that he is under the care of a physician.

CIRCLE TO GET NEW BUILDING Nine-Story Office Structure Is Planned. A nine-story modern office building will be erected adjoining the Circle Tower building, now under construction. The site at 49-53 Monument Circle, now occupied by the Starr Piano Company, has been subleased to the Monument Realty Company: Hie property has a thirty-foot frontage on Monument Circle and a forty-five-foot depth. The sublease was for eighty-nine years, completing the ninety-nine-year lease now held by the Gennett corporation of Richmond. Work on the building will begin Aug. 1, when the Starr Piano Company will vacate. Klein & Kuhn. Inc., property management concern. negotiated the deal and will manage the building. The new buildjng will not be completed before January. 1931. Rubush and Hunter, architects for the Circle Tower, arc drafting the plans. The Starr Piano Company has not chosen new quarters. Wife Charges Mate Pinched NEWCASTLE. Ind- July 15.—Mrs. Bessie Mikels charges her husband, Finley Mikels, 47, tortured her by pinching her legs with wire snippers and as a, result he faxes assault and battery charges.

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MISSING FATHER OF TWO HUNTED AT EVANSVILLE Murder and Desertion Theories Held by Relatives in Case. Ru Times Special EVANSVILLE. Ind.. July 15. Missing more than a week after telling relatives he was going to “meet some fellows who will drive me to Rumsev, Ky„ Tully Ashby, 30, is being hunted by police a,s members of his family alternate between theories of muredr and suicide. Ashby's wife and two children were guests of relatives in Rurnsey for two weeks and Ashby planned to go there and accompany them back, July 4. On the evening of the preceding day he told his mother about being driven to Rumsey. Since then all trace of his has been lost. A few days before he was to leavo for the Kentucky town. Ashby wrote an eleven-page letter to his wife, saying he was lonely, declaring: "There will be no more going away and leaving me at home. We will stay at home and starve together or all go away at the same time. The letter had the following postscript: "See the difference in our letters? I think you could write more, or is there somebody else to keep you busy? Kiss the kids for me." Ashby stated in the letter that the men he referred to in conversation with his mother were driving only to Calhound. five miles from Rumsey. He said he would telephone his wife from the former town. She went there, but. he did not appear. Before leaving his parents' home Ashby returned a, borrowed revolver to his father. GIRL STRUCK BY AUTO Miss Charlotte Meek. 22, of Greenfield, received serious injuries about the neck and body when struck by an auto at Sixteenth and Capitol avenue today. She was taken to Methodist hospital where she is employed in ths office. Abe Brodsky, 18. of 1103 South Illinois street, driver of the car. was not held.

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