Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 120, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 September 1929 — Page 3

SEPT. 28, 1929

LENIENCY FIGHT IS FORECAST IN PANTAGES CASE Sentence Delay First Step of Defense Battle for Probation. Bv r titled Pre** LOS ANGELES, Sept. 28—A physical collapse which prevented the appearance of Mrs. Lois Pantagea In superior court Friday to be sentenced for the automobile crash death of Juro Rokumoto was believed to foreshadow a vigorous defense attempt to obtain probation. Superior Judge Carlos S. Hardy continued sentencing until Monday after hearing the report of Dr. John B. Barrowj, whom lie had appointed to visit Mrs. Pantages in her home. Attorneys for the millionaire theater man’s wife said they did not believe she would be able to appear at that time. Thfc district attorney's office had indicated that it will not oppose parole on the manslaughter conviction, but will leave the disposition of the case entirely to the court. Suffers From Shock Dr. Barrow, president of the Los Angeles Medical Association, reported that Mrs. Pantages had a temperature one degree above normal, and was suffering with a severe cold with attendant bronchitis and , severe nervous shock from the strain of the (rial. “I do not think it would be wise to bring her here today, but I think she will be well enough Monday.” Judge Hardy explained that the reason he had allowed Mrs. Pan- < tages liberty pending sentence was that he believed it would be inhu'man to place a woman behind the bars in her condition. Stale Starts Probe Meanwhile, District Attorney Buron Fitts began his promised grand jury investigation of asserted perjury by witnesses for Mrs. Pantages. Stylishly gowned women waited in the anteroom today to be called before the grand jury. Prominent among the witnesses were Mrs. Bertha Jacobs, who left Mrs. Pantages’ automobile a few minutets before the fatal crash, and John Conterno, service station operator, who testified that another car forced Mrs. Pantages to the wrong side of the read. Alexander Pantages, husband of Mrs. Pantages, will go to trial next Tuesday on a charge of attacking Eunice Pringle, 17, dancer.

INJURED STUDENT'S CONDITION IS ‘FAIR’ Donald Otto of Seymour Cut anti Bruised in Auto Mishap. Condition of Donald Otto, 19. of Seymour, Indiana Central college student, struck by an auto as he walked along Madison avenue in the 4000 block Friday afternoon, today was “fair,” Methodist hospital attendants said. He was cut on the back of the head, and sustained bruises on the body. Bert Berry, 54, Greenwood, driver of the car, was not held. Charles Hovey. Linton, suffered a broken ankle when his motorcycle collided with an automobile at Pershing avenue and Washington street Friday night. He was sent by police to city hospital. WRITER BACKS TALKIE Elinor Glyn Will Produce Own Play at Expense of $150,000. Bv I'nitcd I’ri xx LONDON. Sept. 28.—-Elinor Glyn will produce a British talkie written by herself and entitled “Knowing Men.” It is estimated the talkie will cost $150,000, which Miss Glyn will defray. In directing the picture, the author of "Three Weeks” will be assisted by Edward Knoblock and Lawrence Irving, the male lead, according to present indications, will be Carl Brisson. The talkie will be filmed at the British International studios in October. ARCHITECT IS SPEAKER BuHders* Congress Will Hear Address on Modernism. The Indianapolis Building Congres at its weekly luncheon Tuesday at the Lincoln, will learn the effects of modernism on the building industry from Harvey Wiley Corbett. New York architect, who will talk on “The Meaning of Modernism.” Corbett's discussion, dealing with use of new’ materials and new’ methods of construction, will lead up to a short preview’ of the proposed Chicago World s fair, in 1933. Corbett Is designer of the Bush Terminal office building, in New York, and Bush house, in London.

School Overcrowded f.V Timet Special UNIONVILLE, Tnd., Sept. 28 Laboring under difficulties the high school here continues to carry on regular instruction with a surplus of sixty-three students. W. V. Payne. Monroe county school superintendent. announces. In order to accommodate the 138 students enrolled classes are being held in the gymnasium. The school was built to accommodate but seventy-five students. Aged Attorney Hurt Bv Timet Special ANDERSON. Tnd., Sept. 28—W. A. KitVnger. oldest active member of the Madison county bar. Is confined to his home with a fractured left arm suffered when he fell on a sidewalk. Train Kills Aged Homan Timet Special OANNELBURO. Ind.. Sept. 28 Mr*. Andrew Borders. 70. was killed instantly, when struck by a Baltimore & Ohio train as she started to walk over a crossing.

British Quit Rhineland

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Evacuation of the Rhineland has begun. After a decade of occupying German soil under command of Lieutenant General Sir William Thwaites, picture above, center. British troops are being returned to England under the terms of the historic Hague agreement. Below a battalion of Tommies is shown moving to a concentration point from which actual evacuation of German territory was to be started.

UNVEILING IS SLATED Typographical Union to Hold Statue Ceremonies. A statue of Benjamin Franklin, chiseled to adorn the Franklin building, Market street and Monument circle, which was given to Typographical Union No. 1 w'hen the building was razed several months ago, will be unveiled at 2 p. m. Sunday, at organization headquarters, North Meridian street. When the Typhographical union sent the statue to the “cleaning shop” they found it was made from an expensive stone, by John H. Mahoney. Unveiling ceremonies -will include music by the union band, addresses by Leo M. Rappaport, Charles P. Howard and Woodruff Randolph, union officials, and presentation and acceptance of the statue. CITY OF INDIANAPOLIS FACES LODGE'S SUIT Injunction Sought. Against Street Widening Harmful to Building. L’ji Tlnux Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Sept. 28. Judge Fred E. Hines is holding a special session of the Hamilton circuit court during vacation, hearing an injunction suit of the grand ledge, Knights of Pythias, against the city of Indianapolis, brought here on a change of venue from Marion county. The case concerns the proposed widening of Massachusetts avenue in Indianapolis. The lodge claims that if the widening is done as originally planned it will damage the basement of the lodge’s building, in which a restaurant is located. The lodge seeks injunction prohibiting the city from proceeding with the work as new planned.

THREE FARMERS HELD Adulteration of Milk with Soda Alleged by Health Officer. Three Marion county farmers were held today for alleged violations of pure food statutes, charged with selling adulterated milk to a dairy firm and a chain grocery company. Soda is alleged to have been used. They are: Allen Routon. 32, R. R. 7. box 154; John Webb. 68, R. R. 6. box 322. and Yone Cooper, 53, R. R. 4, box 311. Roscoe Floyd, city board of health official, swore out affidavits. Complainants were the Neuman Milk Company and the Kroger Grocery Company. Boy Bests Men Players By Timex Special CRAWFORDS VILLE. Ind.. Sept. 28.—Keith Plank. 13. gave men four times his age a lesson in horseshoe pitching during a contest held as a part of the fall festival here. The boy swept through the singles tournament without losing a game. He has won several other contests during the past few years. O. W. Foxworthy. Wabash college freshman, took the runner-up position to make the rout of old players complete. Columbus Student Hurt Rv Timm Special COLUMBUS. Ind.. Sept. 28.—05, car T. Perkinson. 18. son of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Perkinson of this city, a student in the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, where he went Sunday, was injured in an automobile accident near there, according to word received by his parents, who departed immediately for his bedside. Four Take Rabies Treatment t\V Timex Special ANDERSON. Ind.. Sept. 28—Another Anderson boy is taking the Pasteur treatment, the fourth since a rabies afflicted dog ran wild in the southeast section of the efty. The new patient is David Dayton. 15. who was bitten presumably by the same dog that bit other boys.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to: F. H. Moore, 5850 North New Jersey street, Reo Flying Cloud sedan, 748-668, from College avenue and Forty-third street. Leo Murphy, 2158 Broadway, Essex coach, 742-003, from Pennsnylvania and Ohio streets. Perry Way, Zionsville, Ind., Ford coupe, 542-298, from Central avenue and Twenty-eighth street. John Hendry, Pendleton, Ind.. Buick coach, 543-442, from Pendleton. Robert Kowley, 28 East Sixteenth street, Hudson coach, 264-984 Illinois, from Court and Pennsylvania streets. O. A. Edwards, Nobelsville, Ind. ; Essex coach, from parking space at statehouse.

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Stolen automobiles recovered by police belong to: Roy William Nichus, 62 North Belle Vieu place, Ford touring, found on Fall Creek boulevard, east of Central avenue. H. N. Jones, 155 East Fall Creek boulevard, Essex coach, found at 600 North Oriental street. Louis Caldwell. 1922 Columbia avenue. Ford sedan, found at 3254 Martindale avenue. Chevrolet coupe. 94-523. found at Orange and Madison avenue. Ford coupe, 562-975, found at Sixteenth street and Central avenue. AUTHOR COMES TO CITY Marquis James Visits Publishers and American Legion Offices. Marquis James. New York author, with John T. Winterich, editor of the American Legion Monthly, and William Mac Lean. art editor, were in Indianapolis today conferring with Robert F. Smith, general manager, and Philip Von Blon, managing editor, on publication plans. They conferred with the BobbsMerrill Company concerning James’ new biography of Sam Houston, "The Raven,” to be published in October.

PIN IN THROAT FATAL Child Dies at Evansville Following Operation, By Timex Special EVANSVILLE. Ind., Sept. 28. Swallowing small objects has caused the death of one baby here and another is a patient in a hospital with a chance to recover. Anna Crawford, 2, who swallowed a pin is dead. X-ray showed it lodged in the threat and an operation was performed, removing the pin, but failing tp save the baby’s life. A watermelon seed is lodged in a lung of Eddie Jean Perkins. Physicians say danger of pneumonia is the most menacing factor in the case. * Old Injuries Cause Death Ba I'nitcd Prmx ANDERSON, Ind.. Sept. 28. Funeral services were held here Friday ior Marion S. Clark, 80, who never recovered from injuries suffered a year ago when he fell down a flight of circular stairs at the Madison county courthouse, where he was on jury’ duty.

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JOHN, FLO ARE AT TRUMBULL HUNTING LODGE Newlyweds Arrive Finally at Destination of Honeymoon. Bv Vnited Pres* ROCKWOOD, Me.. Sept. 28.—Mr. and Mrs. John Coolidge, arrived here tonight at the hunting lodge of Governor John H. Trumbull of Connecticut, to finish their honeymoon in the seclusion of the Maine woods. The newlyweds drove into Greenville junction in Florence’s blue roadster late Friday afternoon and were met at Moosehead Lake by E W. Vandyke, the Trumbull guide. The latter then transported them by motorboat to the farther end of the lake, where the Trumbull hunting lodge is located. John and his wife departed from Plymouth, Vt., early Friday after stopping at th Coolidge homestead there for two days. The huge camp was in readiness to receive the couple, as arrangements were made several days ago. it was learned. The bride’s parents. Governor and Mrs. Trumbull, are expected to arrive at the lodge in a few days Meanwhile, the young Coolidges will enjoy the solitude of the woods as very few persons, with the exception of an occasional hunter, traverse that section at this time of year.

LIEBER'S WILL INCLUDES GIFTS Three Charitable and Civic Organizations Benefit. Bequests to three Indianapolis charitable and civic organizations were provided in the will of Robert Lieber, prominent business man and leader in the motion picture industry, who died Sunday. The will was on file today in probate court. The widow, Mrs. Clara Louise Lieber. was named executrix of the estate, personal property of which was valued at SIOO,OOO. Valuation of real estate was nto given. Five thousand dollars 'was given to the Art Association of Indianapolis and SI,OOO each to the Indianapolis Foundation and the Altenheim Home for Aged Persons. The widow was bequeathed the remainder of the estate. William J. Koethe, a nephew, was given the right to purchase Mr. Lieber’s stock in the H. Lieber Company within one year. Two daughters, Misses Louise and Clara Lieber, surviving, were not named as beneficiaries, although stipulation was made that Mrs. Lieber provide for them. “I have limited my charitable bequests to those above stated for the reason that I have tried to discharge my obligations of such nature during my lifetime in a manner commensurate with my financial capacity,” Mr. Lieber WTote in the will.

GASOLINE THEFTS FROM STATE TRUCKS STOPPED One Man Is Sentenced and Another Fined at Rensselaer. Sentence of one man to the Indiana state farm and the fining of another at Rensselaer has broken up a ring of petty thieves engaged in stealing gasoline from state highway department trucks, Director John J. Brown of the department declared today. Most of the thefts have occurred on State Road 43, betw’een San Pierre and Francesville, Brown said. Earl Eggert of Francesville was fined $25 and sentenced to four months at the farm. A companion was fined $49.15 on an intoxication charge.

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Duke Schiller (above), who last year flew to Greenely Island and rescued the crew of the German plane, Bremen, and Captain A. A. Oakes (inset), chief of the Canadian airmail pilots, head the search by Canada's most famous airmen for Colonel C. Dh McAlpine, geologist-explorer, and four companions, whose plane was lost in the frozen northwest territory. His backers say they are ready to spend $1,000,000 to find the missing party.

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Today’s Choice by Amos Alonzo Stagg Football Coach, University of Chicago WHATSOEVER thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might. Ecclesiastes 9:10.

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a a b THEREFORE all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for tfflTls the law and the prophets. —Matthew 7:12.

tt a a PEACE I leave with you, My peace I give unto you; not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.—John 14:27. COMMENT “These three verses have come most often into my mind and have influenced my life, I think more ihan any other single ones. The first I have used to stimulate my ambition and to make myself dependable and honest; the second to develop fair and honest treatment of others; the third to help me to be courageous and unafraid. The prayer I have offered most, and thousands upon thousands of times, is ‘to be good and to do good and to follow the master.’ ” ( Compiled I>V the Bible Guild) Next: Edwin Marham. poet. Executive Transferred pjt Timm Special ANDERSON. Ind., Sept. 28.—F. C. Dye of the engineering department of the Delco-Remy Corporation, has been transferred to Rochester, N. Y., to an executive position in the North East Electric Company, recently purchased by General Motors. Dye came to Anderson in 1926 as assistant to C. E. Wilson, then general manager Delco-Remy-

CHINESE FEAR RECURRENCE OF MOSLEM RIOTS Horrible Slaughters May Be Renewed for Revenge. BY RANDALL GOULD United Press StafT Correspondent SHANGHAI, Sept. 28.—Authentic details received today from Kansu concerning the slaughter of 10,000 Moslems and hundreds of Chinese during the Moslem revolt at Taochow in May, one of the most appalling tragedies in history, revealed the fact that Chinese hurled themselves upon the Moslem population with murderous fury after they discovered that 700 of their people had been killed by Moslems in one day. Moslem women were reported to have massacred 500 Tibetan women and children. Villages were burned and looted and living victims were flung into the rivers to perish. Missionaries Unharmed In July an army of 5.000 Chinese troops arrived and killed 3,00 Moslems in the Taoehow district, while the Tibetans slew more than 2,000 Moslems, w r ho were fleeing along the Hsiatsang valley. When the Chinese entered the old city of Tao-Cheo they killed hundreds of Moslems, including many who sought refuge in the missionary homes. The missionaries, among whom were several Americans, were unharmed. In August, peace was restored and the Moslems returned to Taoehow. The males ranging from 15 to 50 years of age were separated from the rest and taken outside of the city gats, presumably to obtain food. Once the Chinese had them beyond the gates, they started anew slaughter. Some 3,000 Moslems were murdered. Live in Daily Fear Moslem women discovered what had happened and rushed out of the gates. When they recognized their own kin among the dead, many mothers committed suicide, leaving their babies to starve. The streets of Tao-Chow were strewn with corpses, and much property was demolished. The city lives in daily fear of a recurrence of these horrible scenes since there are indications that the Moslems intend to renew hostilities as soon as they can reassemble their forces against the Chinese.

EIGHT INJURED IN TRAIN DERAILMENT Heavy Steel Construction Prevents Loss of Life. I\y Timm Spec id CLAY CENTER. Kan., Sept. 28. The heavy steel construction of passenger coaches last night was credited by officers of the Rock Island railway for preventing loss of life when two cars of an eastbound train hit a spread rail Friday and cut their way deep into a ditch along the right of way. One sleeping car and a day coach were tripped from the rails as the train raced toward Kansas City. Eight persons were taken from the cars to a hospital here. It was announced none of their injuries would prove fatal. Most of the passehgers were from Omaha and Denver. REJECTS STATE if JOB ) Winamac Business Man Turns Down Position as Bank Examiner. Cecil Bachtenkircher, Winamac business man, whose appointment as chief examiner in the state banking department was announced Friday, has refused the post, it was announced today. He was to succeed William R. Dexheimer, who resigned to become secretary of the Farmers Trust Company of Ft. Wayne. Bachtenkircher, w’ho had been a candidate for the post, gave the press of private business as his reason for declining.

She's Colonel!

Winner of many beauty contests as “Miss Blue Grass,” Gar Butler of Paris, Ky., above, has been named a member of Governor Flem D. Sampson’s staff with the rank of colonel.

BANDITS PREY ON MOTORISTS Taxi Driver and Couple in Car Are Robbed. Police today were investigating four holdups Friday night in which bandits obtained $106.50. Eugene P. Haskett, 1305 West Twenty-seventh street taxi driver, w’as robbed of $9 at Sixteenth street and the Big Four railroad tracks. The bandit hired Haskett at Market street and the Manument circle and robbed him wfiSn the taxi neared the railroad. Two bandits in a coupe forced Jess Wright, 38 North Beville avenue, to drive his auto into the ditch on Harding street, one mile south of Troy avenue, and robbed him of S4O. Miss Mabel Carpenter, 2311 College avenue, Wright's companion, was robbed of $7.50. The bandits took the distributor off Wright’s car to prevent him from following them. The restaurant of Arthur B. Campbell, 3001 Shelby street, was robbed of a quantity of cigarets and $25 in money by two bandits. Frank Burck, 1144 Dawson street, clerk in Jett’s pharmacy, Seventeenth and Bellefontaine streets, was robbed of $25 by two bandits. Richmond Gets Meeting pjl Timex Special ANDERSON, Ind., Sept. 28.—The African Methodist Episcopal church, holding its annual convention here, has selected Richmond as the 1930 meeting place. Reports were made by visiting delegates, showing gains in membership in the last year. The Rev. B. U. Taylor, Chicago, presided at a meeting featuring social service W’ork. The convention will close Sunday w’ith the assignment of pastors.

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LETTER WRITER" DE LUXE FACES ACTION BY U. S. Big Business Calls Youth and Disregard for Order Is Alleged. Big business has a lure for James Gibson, 21, of 2729 Highland place, which makes it difficult for him to keep out of trouble. Arrested on a postal fraud charge last spring as “president of the Elec-tro-Chemical Corporation of America,” young Gibson was described by Alexander G. Cavins. assistant district attorney, as a “letter writer de luxe.” Gibson was charged with placing luring advertisements for radio battery eliminators in magazines, receiving many replies accompanied by checks, which he kept without sending the eliminators. Too Busy Writing “He was too busy writing highsounding letters to find time to manufacture any eliminators,” Cavins told Federal Judge Robert C. ’Baltzell. When the boy’s attorneys pleaded he had been interested intensely in radios for years, had a “one-track” mind and some day might be a famous inventor, Batlzell released him and continued the case with the injunction to keep out of business “for hiself.” Friday Baltzell ordered Gibson taken into custody again, pending investigation of reports he was back in business.” Get New Complaints The order was issued after Postal Inspector A. C. Garrigus told the ccurt he had complaints from firms who had sent goods, upon Gibson’s orders, to the “Socket Power Laboratories,” without receiving their money. Garrigus charged the youth, with his big business complex, had sent a statement to a Wall Street financial firm showing “assets of $15,000 wtih $1,200 cash on hand.” The Inspector reported that one complainant, who wrote the “corporation” asking why no answer had been made to a letter, was informed the corporation was very large and had many divisions, and the letter probably had been lost because it was not addressed to the “supply division.” Fund Sought for College B)i Time* Siiccial ANDERSON, Ind., Sept. 28. James M. Larmore, banker, and Arthur W. Brady, president and receiver of the Union Traction Company of Indiana, have been appointed chairman and vice-chairman respectively of the advance gifts committee in a campaign to raise en endowment fund of $160,000 for Anderson college. The advance gifts committee will start its campaign, Oct. 7.

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