Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 115, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 September 1929 — Page 2

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THREE KILLED IN WEEK-END AUTO MISHAPS Negro Drowns in Foot of Water, When Pinned Beneath Machine. Three persons were killed and a core injured in week-end auto accidents in and near Indianapolis. The dead are: Catherine Agrasta, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Agrasta, 125 South Oriental street; Jean Thomas, 15, of Lawrence, and Mon Powers, Negro, 60, state blind chool employe. The Agrasta child was killed when an auto in which the baby, her mother and father and relatives were riding, driven by Joe Zappia, 50, of 1511 Roosevelt avenue, overturned on Road 31 near Westfield, itirs. Thresa Zappia is in the city .hospital uiflering frrom severe injuries. Mary and Michael Agrasta suffered head injuries and Mrs. Agrasta offered a broken nose. They were ■ n route to visit friends in Mishawaka. Car Miss Thomas the city hospital early today y.ijuries received when the car in w’hich she was riding with another girl and two youths overturned tw r o miles south of Oaklandon on Road 67 Sunday afternoon. William Stenier, 20. of Fortville, driver of the car, told police he swerved to avoid striking a car that stopped suddenly. Stenier, Miss Isabel McCord, 15, and Donald Davis, 19, of McCordsville, were thrown from the car and suflered minor injuries. Motorist Is Drowned Fowers was pinned under his auto and drowned in less than a foot of water in Williams creek, near Seventy-fifth when the car struck a washout on an abandoned road. An unidentified Negro woman who wq,s with him, fled after being pulle/l from under the auto. R. M. Diiion, 4057 Cornelius avenue and 'C. H. Moorman, 417 West Thirtyninth street, who attempted to rescue Powers, were unable to move the overturned auto. When an auto driven by William H. Stafford, 3522 Central avenue, Indianapolis attorney, struck a telephone pole south of Lebanon Sunday afternoon. Stafford and three persons riding with him were injured. Four Are Injured Stafford suffered a broken left arm, cuts and bruises; his daughter, Barbara, 12, received internal injuries: Mrs. Stafford and the 12-year-old daughter (♦Charles Mayer* Jr., riding with them, suffered minor injuries. The injured are in the Witham hospital at Lebanon. Others injured were: Miss Esther Thompson, 1815 Massachusetts avenue, broken jaw; Miss Leo Downey, 18, of Fillmore, leg cuts: Dorothy Jackson, 10, of of 1220 North Tecumseh street, body cuts and hraises; William Cobb, 21, of 512 West New York street, leg injuries, ■ nd Leon Peskin, 6. of 1450 North . ssouri street, right leg broken. .URGLAR GETS Si6o FROM TWO ROOMERS ~ ( envy, Clothing. Cash and Tobacco Loot at Three Places. Two roomers at 712 North Illinois ireet were robbed of $l6O Sunday night, police were informed today. A bill fold containing $l5O was tolen from Harold Grinninger. Wiliam Green said $lO was taken from his trousers. Cigars, cigarets and other merchandise valued at SBS was taken from a cigar store operated by James L. Burns, at Roosevelt and Ludlow avenues. Meyer O. Jacobs, tailor. 212 East Sixteenth street, reported to police two suits and a topcoat were taken from his shop Sunday.

LIQUOR PRISONER LOSES Alexander Man’s Suit to Mandate Mayor Dismissed. Si; Timm Special ANDERSON, Ind., Sept. 23. Harry Savage, foreman In an Alexander factory, lost the first round of an attempt to gain release from the Ind’ na state farm pending an appeal from Alexandria city court to Madison circuit court, when Judge Lawrence V. Mays of Superior court, sustained a demurrer to a complaint for a writ of mandate against Mayor John H. Heritage of Alexandria. The complaint alleged that Mayor Heritage, who found Savage guilty on a liquor charge, refused to honor a bond for his release until the case was finally decided. Judge Mays held the complaint was not properly drawn. Shell Explodes; One Killed LONDON, Sept. 23.—A corporal and two soldiers were killed ana eight other persons were injured ■ hen a shell exploded during the Spanish military exercises today, an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Barcelona today said.

Naughty Word ‘in l mini Print WASHINGTON. Sept. 23 Shocked by the conversation ol an actor in the role of a news paper reporter appearing tr “The Front Page" here. Polic Captain Frank Burke ordere; the producers to change on word in the repartee. This was done and the opir. ion of Police Inspector Shelb was that “the substitution wa worse than the original” hm he added. "If L pleases Captan Burke’s esthetic sense, it's o. k. by me.” Several other changes, were made In the play before il was offered here. \

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VICTIM IS IDENTIFIED Detroit Man Thought Slain After Golf Game. By 1 nlted J’rrnn GRANITE CITY, 111., Sept. 23. Police today were checking clews in the slaying of a man identfiied tentatively as Jack Wilson, 35, of Detroit, whose body was found on the bank of a slough near here Saturday night with bullet wounds In the head and neck. A golf score card in a pocket indicated the man had played at a country club near Alton, 111., a few hours before he was shot. On the card was the name of Bass Conley, Alton merchant under indictment charged with narcotic law violation. Conley told police Wilson was the stepson of a Philadelphia banker named Redfield. He declared Wilson left him about noon Saturday.

DANCE STUDIO OPENS Stockman Classes for All Ages Begin Tonight. Opening of the eleventh annual season of the Stockman Studios, Sixteenth and Illinois streets, will be held tonight when the dancing classes meet. Louis Stockman, director, will be in charge. Classes in beginners’ adult ballroom dancirfg will be held tonight, and Thursday night at 8:30. Class dances and parties are scheduled for Wednesday and Friday nights, Stockman announced. Beginners in the adult tap classes will meet at 7:15 tonight. Adult ballet classes will meet Wednesday and Friday nights at 6:15. Children’s ballroom, tap and balJet classes will meet Saturday. The baby ballet class met at noon today. WOUND INDIANA PAID Alleged Burglars Are Near Death at Denver. Un l nih a J’n sn DENVER. Sept. 23.—Two Terre Haute, Ind.. youths -vers in a Denver hospital today, near death from bullet wounds sustained when they are alleged to have attempted to roo a grocery store at Fraser, Colo. John Miller, 21, and Oren, 18, his brother, were shot and riddled with shotgun pellets when O. W. Schaeffer, grocer, found the youths in his store at Fraser Saturday. Sheriff A Fletcher and Coroner W. F. Fleming placed the wounded boys in an automobile and hurried them over the treacherous mountain roads to Denver. Fred Miller, 15. another brother end Forrest Blackburn. 16, also oi Terre Haute, were found in a car near the store. They denied that the two wounded youths had gone to the store with the intention of robbing it.

CODICIL ALTERS WILL Vnderson Wom-n Revokes Favoritism Shov. n One of Sons. llii Tiirr* gprriat ANDERSON. Ind.. Sept. 23.—Mrs. Mary Oswalt, who died instantly here a few lhonths ago, changed her mind about distribution of her"festate after writing a will, Aug. 5, 1922, bequeathing all of her stock owned in the Farmers Trust Company of Anderson to a son, Ernest Oswalt, Batavia, 111. It stipulated that the residue of the estate be divided equally among her four children. Minnie Wilcox, Tulsa, Okla.; Nellie Crull, Brooklyn, N. Y., and Ernest and Benjamin Oswalt. A codicil dated Sept. 27 1926, revoked bequeathing the stock to Ernest Oswalt and designated that the entire estate be shared equally by the children. 6.000 Mexicans Join Demonstration ii 1/ ( mi' ll I’rttl MEXICO CITY, Sept. 23.—Sixthousand members of various unions marched through the streets df the city, in a Sunday demonstration, in favor of the new labor code, pending before congress. WyFavmte Today's Choice - - Dan Moody Ciovrrnor of If.. * '*■ . :$v For God s- v loved th world, that Ii- ''' mmMmO gave His oni t begotten Soi * wmm ish. but have ct t ; John 3 : 16. • i'<i>ni)ilr i h'r } Next: Robert Dollar, shipping magnate.

ROBERT LIEBER, FILM BUSINESS PIONEER, DEAD Former President of First National Pictures Had Many Interests. Leaders in business, cMe and cultural circles of the city and state today mourned the death of Robert Lieber, 59, widely known Indianapolis business man and pioneer in the development of the motion picture industry. Mr. Lieber died early Sunday at St. Vincent’s hospital after a two weeks’ illness. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 p. m. Tuesday at the home, 3052 Central avenue. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. A native of Indianapolis, Mr. Lieber was best known as vice-presi-dent of H. Lieber Company, art dealers; as trustee of the Citizens Gas Company and as former president of First National Pictures, Inc. For a decade he was a dominant figure in the international film industry. Native of City He was born in Indianapolis, Sept. 29, 1870, the son of Herman and Mary Metzger Lieber. His father was the founder of H. Lieber Company, which this year observed its seventy-fifth anniversary. Robert Lieber attended the old Ger-man-English school here and graduated from Shortridge high school. On Oct. 18, 1899, he married Clara Becker, daughter of Joseph Becker, local confectioner. Mrs. Lieber and two daughters, the Misses Louise and Clara Lieber, survive him. Other surviving relatives are Otto R. and Herman P. Lieber, brothers, and Mrs. Theodore Stempfel and Mrs. Ida Kothe, sisters. Carl H. Lieber, a brother, died in April on the golf links at Hot Springs. Ark. Otto and Herman Lieber are officers of the H. Lieber Company, and Herman also is a member of the city council.

Many Business Connections In business affiliations, Mr. Lieber was vice-president of the Circle Theater Company, until two years ago operators of the Circle and Indiana theaters, and was vice-presi-dent of the Tower Realty Company, builder of the Circle tower, now under construction. He was a director of the Fletcher National bank. Mr. Lieber was a member of the Columbia Club, Indianapolis Athletic Club, the Chamber of Commerce, the Woodstock Country Club, the Highland Golf Club, the Kiwanis Club,, the Athenaeum and the Indianapolis Turners. Under Mr. Lieber’s leadership as an officer of First National Pictures, the organization developed into one of the largest film distributing agencies, and. in the early days oi its growth, signed contracts with such stars as Charles Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Lewis Stone. Colleen Moore and Corinne Griffith later were developed by the organization. Directors of the Circle Theater Company today adopted a resolution of sorrow upon Mr. Lieber’s death. i “The success of this enterprise has j been due very largely to his keen 1 judgment and business foresight,” the resolution declared. WOMAN SOUGHT FOR TRYING TO STAB COP Mrs. Charles Mayes Attempted Mate's Rescue, Charge. Police today sought Mrs. Charles Mayes, 331 West New York stree’ who, they say, Sunday attempted to stab and shoot a patrolman who ar i x’ested her husband. The husband is charged with asI sault and battery with intent to kid ’ as the man who stabbed John Price. 211 North Senate avenue, in Mayes’ j home. Price is in city hospital with a knife wound in the abdomen. When Motor Policeman Elza Carter and Carl Sheets went to the Mayes’ home to arrest him, the wife is said to have grasped a knife and j leaped at Carter. Then, police say. | she drew a gun and tried to fire it Carter fired three times into the i floor, and she fled through a kitchen door.

ENROLL FOR AVIATION Five De Pauw Graduates to Get Training at March Field. GREENCASTLE, Ind., Sept. 23. Five recent De Pauw university graduates who will take instruction in aviation at March field, California, are as follows: Robert Hixson, Greencastle; Ernest Firebaugh, Danville, HI.; Robert P Doolittle, South Bend; E. C. Volz, New Richmond, and Edward Darby, Colfax. The last two will report for instruction in November. Lieutenant Frank Irwin, Greencastle, another De Pauw alumnus*, is an air instructor at Kelley field. Captain Weir Cook, De Pauw% ’l7, is vice-president of the Curtiss Flying service in Indiana.* Women to Give Card Party Ladies' auxiliary of Sahara Grotto will hold a card party at the Grotto home, Thirteenth street and Park avenue, at 7:30 p. m. Thursday, for members and friends. Prizes given at the party will be donated toward furnishing the kitchen in the new Grotto home. The “carrion plant,” an English jungle growth, has a strong smell of tainted meat, which attracts flies Sure Relief Ycu Feel Better" ;;<% 6 Bell-ans Lv-HjHot water Sure Relief DELL-ANS FOR*INDIGESTION 254 and 754 PMs.Sold Everywhere

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