Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 108, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 September 1929 — Page 3

SEPT. 14,1929.

CITY MANAGER t LEAGUE PLANS S. SIDE OFFICE Workers’ Headquarters Will Be Opened Wednesday at Fountain Square. BY EDWIN V. O'NEEL South side headquarters of the Indianapolis City Manager League will be opened at the Fountain Square theater building Wednesday. The suite of rooms will be used as an assembly hall for workers and citizens. Henry F. Kottekamp and Mrs. Edward Baungart will be in charge of the office. The league executive committee will meet Monday at the Lincoln to discuss the election campaign. The best plan of taking a poll of voters advertising methods and advisability of a mass meeting of league supporters will be discussed. Mrs. Francis Wands, chairman of ♦he Women’s Department Club city manager committee, will call an early meeting to discuss formation of city manager clubs in factories and downtown stores. The league speaker’s bureau now 1s scheduling addresses before civic and business organizations. Edward J. Barker, real estate dealer, discussed the merits of the manager ticket before the Knights of the Round Table at Friday luncheon at the Lincoln. “Political government has degenerated into a farce,’’ he said. “Twothirds of the political evils are submerged—we see about one-third,” Barker said. Barker said the seven candidates indorsed by the league are “honest, level headed and capable of installing the new form of government.” Claude H. Anderson, manager league campaign chairman, spoke to the Knights of Columbus luncheon Friday at the Spink-Arms. S4OO IS PAID WOMAN FOR WALNUT TREE Lumber Company Buys Old Giant From Illinois Lawn. Bu r nit. il Prrss LEBANON, 111., Sept. 14.—A giant walnut tree, which had attained great stature and spread of limb, has been removed from the lawn of Mrs. Clara Z. Mason here. A check for S4OO was handed Mrs. Mason when a lumber company carted the huge tree away. Lumber men for years had been tempting Mrs. Mason with offers for the tree. The tree's age was estimated at 200 years. Its trunk was five feet In diameter and the lowest branch was seventeen feet from the ground. It was estimated that 1,534 board I feet of lumber would be produced ' from the mammoth trunk. The tree was bought by the Pen-rod-Jurden-Clark Company of Cin- j cinnati. ABANDON FEEDER LINE Butler-to-Fairriew Car Service Is Discontinued. Feeder car service, from the end of the Butler line to the end of the old Fairview park line, was ordered discontinued by the public service commission today. At the Friday commission conference a petition of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company to abandon the feeder line was approved. G. 0. P. CLUB RAIDED Twelfth Ward Rooms Yield Whisky. Police Allege. Thirteen and . one-half quarts of alleged fancy liquors on Friday, the thirteenth, proved the downfall ot the Twelfth Ward Republican Club. 855 v. South Meridian street, Friday afternoon, say police. In a raid they found the liquor In a refrigerator, they said. Sam Cohen. 3ft. custodian, was arrested on a liquor charge. BANDITS HOLD UP BUS Early Morning Operators Get §29 From Riverside Car Driver. Police were searching for two bandits who early today held up a Riverside bus at Thirtieth street and Riverside park and robbed the driver. Arthur Metzcr, 23, of 1028 Denny street, of S2O.

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Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to: Lathrop and Moyer Company. 420 North Capitol avenue. Whippet Cabriolet M 630, from Shelby and Prospect streets. Z. R. Betkin. 10 South Temple avenue. Pontiac coupe. 86-162. from Pennsylvania and Michigan streets J. H. McDuffie. 720 East Maple road. Ford coupe. 45-370. from parkin? space north of the Statehouse Lieutenant Reed, state police'Mepartment. Greensburg. Ind.. reports Hudson sedan. M stolen from Greensburg. Ind.

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Stolen automobiles recovered by j the police belong to: George C. Francis. 557 Fletcher avenue. Chevrolet coach, found at 35 West Chesapeake street. Packard sedan. 83-458. Wisconsin, found at Pennsylvania and Court streets. Marmon sedan. 384-143, Kentucky, found at Court and Delaware streets. Chevrolet sedan. 335-823 Kansas found on Market street near Alabama street. Chevrolet sedan. 388-270, Kentucky, found on Washington street, near Pennsylvania street. Ford roadster. 717-398, found near Palmer street and White river. Car su-yaped of accessories. a

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Harry .1. Fawcett FRENCH LICK SPRINGS. Ind., Sept. 14—Thomas D. Taggart, president of the French Lick Springs hotel, announces the appointment of Harry J. Fawcett of Chicago, as manager of the French Lick Springs hotel. Fawcett already has begun his duties Fawcett resigned the managership of the Standard Club. Chicago, to accept that of the Springs hotel. He has had executive experience with the Shoreland hotel, Chicago; the Chicago Automobile Club, the Plaza, San Francisco; the St. Regis, Kansas City, and the Lake Shore and Downtown clubs in Chicago.

GRAIN HANDLING WORK PLANNED New -Co-Operative Company Will Get Equipment. The new $2,000,000 Farmers Cos Company of Indiana soon will begin to acquire equipment for the purchase, sales and storage of grain, John G. Brown of Monon, president, announced today. Brown was elected president at a directors' meeting Friday. Maurice Douglas of Flatrock was named vicepresident, and Earl Crawford ofMilton, secretary and treasurer. The officers, W. A. Alexander of Rushville and Charles A. Hubbard of Martinsville, compose the xecutive committee. Other directors are J. J. Riggs of Sullivan, L. M. Vogler of Hope, L. O. Casey of Marion, secretary to Governor Harry G. Leslie, and John J. Brown of Rockport, state highway director. DEDICATE NEW CHURCH Ceremonies Sunday Planned for St. Peter’s Evangelical Lutheran. The new- $57,000 St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran church. Eleventh j street and Temple avenue, will be ! dedicated Sunday. The Rev. William Nordsieck. pas- j tor, w ill be assisted in the Sunday } morning services by the Rev. J. D. I Matthius, pastor of the Trinity j Lutheran church.

Ann Pennington at Last Lured by Movie Dollars

_ HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 14.—Ann Pennington, famous for her smile, her knees and her dancing ability, is going to bring all these charming attributes to the attention of the nation's movie fans just as forcibly as she fcnnnerly impressed them on the consciousness of the revue patrons. Asa star in various “Follies” and “Scandals” productions of former years. Miss Pennington developed a great popularity—but theatergoers in the smaller cities seldom or never saw her. for the reason that herrevues stayed in New York most of the time, venturing out only on brief road tours that confined their itineraries to the larger cities. Now, however, the movie audience has its inning. In anew Warner Brothers production, Miss Pennington has a prominent part, and movie-goers of the country will add her to their list of favorites.

BARBERS DANCE MONDAY Routine Business Is Before Convention During Day. Routine business was on the pro- ; gram of the Journeymen Barbers’ and Beauticians’ International Union of America, in session at the Athenaeum today. Acceptance of reports of the laws committee working on changes in administrative policies was given Friday. A dance at the Indiana ballroom will be held Monday night. PHI RHO SIGMA ELECTS Northwestern University Dean of Medicine Is Speaker Friday. Officers of the Phi Rho Sigma, medical fraternity, were to be elected today at the convention being held at the Severin. Dr. Irving Cutter, dean of the Northwestern university school of medicine, spoke Friday night. Boy Unconscious 182 Hours [tii Vnitrd Frit* MARION. Ind.. Sept, 14.—Today at 10 a. m.. Nelson Nelson. 16. had been unconscious 182 consecutive hours as a result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident. Physicians said that if the boy regains consciousness he probably would recover. During the season of more than 6.450.000 hunting licenses for the taking of wild game/ were issued throughout the United States to sportsmen. Revenue from these licenses amounted to more than $9,300,000.

PREMIER'S VISIT APT TO REVIVE SOCIAL DISPUTE Gann-Longworth Row Over Seating at Functions May Be Renewed. BY JOHN R. MORRIS. United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Sept. 14.—The desire of every social matron in Washington to entertain Prim? | Minister Ramsay MacDonald—£nd his daughter Miss Isabel on visit here early next month will be far from fulfilled. In fact, it is learned definitely J no invitations to private homes will \be accepted ow-ing to the brevity I of the visit. A large state dinner at the White House, an equally formal banquet at the British embassy and a reception to which Washington society will be invited by Sir Esme Howard, British ambassador, and Lady Isabella are the principal social events awaiting the prime minister and his daughter. A most delicate situation confronts Lady Isabella over the seating of guests at the embassy banquet. It undoubtedly will revive the celebrated row between Mis. Dolly Curtis Gann, sister and official hostess of Vice-President Curtis, and Alice Roosevelt Longworth, wife of the speaker of the house. It is unlikely either of these prominent women w-ould be uninvited to the embassy or the other official din- | ners to be given for MacDonald. If j both accept the embassy invitation, Mrs. Gann will be seated, as decided I by the diplomatic corps, in the posij tion ordinarily occupied by the wife of the Vice-President of the United i States, which, at diplomatic func- ! tions, at least, is nearer the host | than the seat given the wife of the i speaker. That Mrs. Longworth might decline her invitation to the ambassador's dinner as she did one last spring in the case of an American official's dinner when she learned she was to be seated below Mrs. Gann at table, is conjectured by many here. SET LIGHT JUBILEE Fiftieth Anniversary to Be Observed Here. Plans for observing “light's golden jubilee,” Oct. 21, the fiftieth annii versary of Thomas A. Edison’s inI vention of the incandescent lamp, j were under way today, following ap- : pointment of committees Friday. F. A. Montrose, Indiana Bell Telephone Company vice-president and j general manager, was named general | chairman at a conference Friday at ; the Chamber of Commerce. Committee chairmen include: C. Harrod. chamber general manager, i arrangements; I. L. Oppenheimer, financial committee; R. C. Rottger, ' publicity committee, and Karl O. | Wolfe, program committee. I The program will be held on the I War Memorial plaza at the same ; hour Edison is entertained at Dearborn, Mich., by Henry Ford.

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Ann Pennington .... brings her knees to the movies. DRIVER UNDER ARREST Intoxication Is Alleged After Wreck in Car Tracks. Arrested after he wrecked his auI tomobile at Belmont and Michigan i streets Thursday. Louis Dugar, 23. i of 723 North Warman avenue, to--1 day was held on drunken driving charges. Police said the tires of his j car caught in street car tracks and the machine overturned.

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Well, he’e they are—Monsieur le Marquis et Madame la Marquesse de la Falaise de la Coudroy! Gloria Swanson, American film actress, and her titled French husband are pictured above as they arrived in London from Paris to witness the world premiere of her first talking picture. She has been making personal appearances in European theaters. Rumors of a rift in their romance have been denied.

ROPE BREAKS. PAINTER DIES Another Seriously Injured as Scaffold Falls. Plunging thirty-five feet to the ground u-hen their scaffold broke, one painter w-as killed and another seriously injured Thursday afternoon. Edward Newcomb, 55, of 206 North Beville avenue, died instantly from a skull fracture received when his head struck an iron railing around a cellarway. Claude Harding, 56, of 2624 East Eighteenth street, fell into the cellarway and received a fractured leg and internal injuries. The men were painting the home of Lon Corbin, 3360 Broadway. A rope from which the scaffold was flung, broke. Surviving Mr. Newcomb are a son, Edward Newcomb Jr„ Indianapolis, and three sisters and one brother; all of Bradfordsville. ASKS BOOST IN TAXES Township Trustee Fears Schools May Be Forced to Close. Closing arguments on art injunction petition for a mandate which will boost the Wayne township tax rate from 77 cents to 9814 cents, will be heard Tuesday by Superior Judge Linn D. Hay. Hay heard preliminary statements of attorneys Friday. Trustee Vestal Davis, seeks the tax increase. He declared that township schools will be closed unless the mandate order raising the taxes is upheld. BOY WOUNDED BY SHOt Lad Playing With Revolver Struck in Left I/eg. Condition of Russel Wallace, 13, of 165512 Birch avenue, shot accidentally while playing with a small caliber revolver Friday night at his home, was reported improved today at city hospital. The bullet struck the boy in the left leg above the knee. Estate Valued at §14,400 P,i/ Times Special MARION, Ind., Sept. 14.—The will of Mrs. Mary Jane Rybolt who died Aug. 14, admitted to probate here disposes of an estate valued at $2,400 personal and $12,000 real estate to two sons, two daughters, a grandson and granddaughter.

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Freed by Verse Vagrant's Poem Tells of Whisky’s Woes; Wins Release in Court.

B]t United Pres 9 WASHINGTON, Sept. 14.—A poem entitled “Whisky Did It All” has won freedom from a six-month vagrancy sentence for 70-year-old Thomas Powers. Touched by the composition Powers handed him in police court, Judge Mattingly suspended sentence on condition the poet leave town. The judge read the fifteen stanzas aloud. Some of the lines follow: “I am growing old as I face the world cold: In disgrace and shame I travel, as through the world I roam. Friends long since have left me. And now I have no home. Now, reader, let me tell you That this is my disgrace Was caused by bad whisky and now I sadly roam, Fenniless, friend, and that’s why I have no home.” EX-SHERIFF’S WIDOW DIE “5 Funeral for Mrs. Ida M. Moreland Set for Sunday. Funeral services for Mrs. Ida M. Moreland, 66, widow of William F. Moreland, former Madison county sheriff, who died at her home, 2421 North Delaware street, Friday, will be held at 2 p. m. Sunday in the First M. E. church, Alexandria, Ind. Burial will be in the I. O. O. F. cemetery there. Mrs. Moreland was a native of Alexandria. She came to Indianapolis ten years ago. Surviving her are a daughter, Mrs. R. S. Saylor; a son, Charles T. Moreland; a sister, Mrs. J. G. Sparks, all of Indianapolis, and a sister, Mrs Emma Johnson of Alexandria s(Tmovie houses sold William Fox Company Acquires New Theater in West. Bp United Press DENVER, Sept. 14.—With the purchase of the Consolidated Theaters, Inc., chain of movie houses in the Rocky Mountain district, the William Fox Company has acquired fifty new theaters from this district in the past month. Announcement was made here of th 6 purchase of the Consolidated chain in a trannetion involving more than $1,000,000.

BANKER IS PUT UNDER FORMAL ARRESTBY U. S. Federal Warrant, Charging Half Million Swindle, Is Served. Bu United Press NEWCASTLE. Wyo., Sept, 14. After four days in jail, Charles D Wagoner, Telluride <£olo.i bank j president, will be placid under ar- | rest here today on charges of hav- ! ing swindled six New York banks j out of a half million dollars. A federal warrant, air-mailed j from New r York to Cheyenne, will be served on Waggoner in the Musty county jail here by r, deputy United States marshal from Cheyenne. The banker, hopin to gain his liberty on SIOO,OOO bond, so he can attempt a comeback, has wired friends and bankers throughout the country, striving to raise the desired bond money. His success, if any, was not disclosed. Federal, state and private operatives tracing the $500,000 Waggoner borrowed, as he terms it, from the New York banks, have located another $30,000 of the missing funds. The Norwood Cattle Loan Company in Denver reported it had $5,000 cash and $25,000 in securities, of the Funds Waggoner obtained from New York banks with fake credit telegrams.

DISCUSS COPS' RADIO City Police Get U. S, Permits for Low Wave Station. Technical committte of the citizens police radio commission was to meet today with Lieutenant Kenneth R. Cox of the Detroit police department, to discuss installation of radios in Indianapolis police cars. The conference was called after notice was received from Congressman Louis Ludlow that the federal radio commission granted permission to the Indianapolis police department to build and operate a low wave radio station for police 1 The emergency station of the Indianapolis Power and Light station WFBM will be used for tests. AIRCRAFT HEAD CRASHES Consolidated President In Critical Condition; Secretary Near Death. By United Press LONDON, Ontario, Sept. 14.—Maj. R. H. Fleet, president of the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation, and his flying secretary. Mrs. Loreta Golem, were reported in serious condition today after their airplane crashed near West Lome, Ontario. Physicians felt that only a miracle would save the life of Mrs. Golem. Fleet’s injuries were held as critical, but were not believed to be fatal. CARETAKER TRAPS SELF Invents Burglar Alarm; Caught by It as He Enters Window. Bp United Press FALL RIVER. Mass., Sept. 14. Ovila Collard is in jail because as an inventor he did better than he knew. Silverware had been stolen from Charles Auclair’s home, so Collard, the caretaker, rigged up a burglar alarm to prevent further raids. Unknown to Collard, Mr. and Mrs. Auclair returned from a vacation, were awakened by the burglar alarm and discovered the caretaker climbjug through a window. In court he admitted his guilt. Anderson Contractor Robbed Bp United Press ANDERSON, Ind., Sept. 14.—Police were on the lookout today for bandits who robbed the office here of Leslie Colvin, contractor, of a $1,082 check. Other articles were taken from the office.

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MANY INDICTED BYJL S. JURY 100 Persons Are Accused in Partial Report. Tire federal grand jury, which Friday returned seventy-eight indictments involving about 100 persons, will reconvene Monday for ten days. Defendants named in the partial report Friday will be arraigned before Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell Sept. 21. Persons indicted on narcotic charges include: Howard Harding, Negro, 2307 North Indianapolis avenue; Mrs. Edna M. Johnson and Edward L. Siersdorfer, 1503 North i Pennsylvania street; William Hill, i Negro, 739 Blake streeet; Albion N. ■ Johnson, Negro, 520 Roanoke street; | Clarence Jones, 609 Torbett street; '■ Charles R. Ott, 3901 Lombard ave- | nue; Joseph T. Dawson, Negro, 714 North Senate avenue; Alton Whitlock, Negro, 1020 North Illinois street; Earl Campbell and Wallace Schuler, Negroes, 52614 North Missouri street; Clifford Hughes. Negro, 1019 North Illinois street; William Risk, Negro, 814 Locke street; Francis Easton, Negro, 611 North Senate avenue; Robert Jones, 327 West Eleventh street; Theodore N. Bradfield, 318 '/2 North Alabama street, and Roscoe Jones, Allen Lowe, Carl Tinder and Fletcher Neal. John G. Sharpe, a former clerk in the Indianapolis postoffice, is charged with a postal theft. BRIDGE HEARING SET I Two State Officials Will Represent Indiana in Case. Attorney-General James M. Ogden and Connor D. Ross, deputy in charge of highway department cases, will represent the state before the United States supreme court at the hearing of the Evansville bridge case, Oct. 28. The suit originally was a friendly action brought by Kentucky to require Indiana to meet provisions of the contract for construction of the bridge, which was approved by the two state administrations. Explosives Found on Train Bu United Press BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 14.—A terrorist plot was suspected by government authorities in connection with the discovery on a railway train of forty-seven sticks of high explosives, placed there secretly with the apparent intention of wrecking the train.

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EIGHT ALLEGED 'BUCKET SHOP' EMPLOYES HELD C. L. Selly & Cos. Is Raided After Investigation by Securities Body. Eight persons alleged to have been connected with a “bucket shop” today were held in the city prison on vagrancy charges following a raid Friday night under direction of Prosecutor Judson L. Stark. The company, listed as the Clinton L. Selly & Cos., stock brokers, maintained offices at 511 J. F. Wild building. Listed stocks on the New York and Chicago stock exchanges were sold by the company, and the operators are said to have charged illegal profits on transactions with Indianapolis persons. The company was closed Wednesday by order of the Indiana securities commission because of alleged weak assets and “scalping” methods of operation. The commission and the Better Business Bureau have been investigating finances of the company for a month. Indianapolis accounts are estimated at $25,000, according to Stark. Those under arrest, who had been discharged from the company when it closed Wednesday, are: William Wyman, 24. of Chicago; John Phillips. 21, of 843 North Meridian street; David Winston. 26; Chester Walsch, 33, and Edward Ward and Fred Lorch, all of Chicago; Miss Marie Kappert, 25. of 2457 North Meridian street, and Mrs. Mildred Sebel, 22, of Evansville. They are held under $5,000 bond each. Walsch was charged with operating a bucket shop. POLUCE SEEK MOTORIST Man Whose Car Struck Woman Fails to Leave Name. A motorist who offered "to do anything in his power” to aid Miss Leona Thrall, 24, Colonial hotel, whom his automobile struck at Delaware and North streets. Thursday, was sought by police today. He took her to her hotel and departed without leaving his name or address. Miss Thrall is In the city hospital. FTCES LARCENY CHARGE City Man Held for Connection With Year-Old Robbery. Clarence Miller, 40, of 1502 East Raymond street, was in city jail today on a charge of burglary and petit larceny, in connection with the robbery of the Duco Coporation plant, 425 North Capitol avenue, a year ago. Police allege they found stolen radio parts In Miller’s possession.

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