Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 144, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 October 1929 — Page 2

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FARM-MARKET ROAD RELATION WILL BE TOPIC Asphalt Conference to Open Monday at West Baden Springs. Hu Times Special WEST BADEN SPRINGS. Ind., Oct. 26.—Farm organization officials and others nationally prominent in advancing farm relief, as well as officials speaking for the motoring public, will be in session here five days beginning Monday, with roadbuilding officials, engineers and contractors, to devise plans for speeding up improvement of the nation’s highway system as a measure of farm relief and the alleviation ot traffic congestion on trunk line highways near great centers of population. Paving of the farm-to- j market roads with low cost surfaces j will be the keynote of the confer- j ence. The meeting, known as the \ eighth annual asphalt paving con- ! ference. will be held under the aus- j pices of the Asphalt Association, . New York, and the American As- j sociation of Asphalt Paving Tech- j nologists. The latter is composed | of engineers, chemists and other as- j ohalt technical men largely in the employ of states, cities and court- I ties in the United States and Canada. Governor on Program Among the speakers at the conference will be Governor Harry G. Leslie or his representative; Samuel H. Thompson, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation; R. W. Crum, Washington. D. C„ director Highway Advisory Board, National Research Council; John J. Brown, director, Indiana highway commission, and A. H. Hinkle, maintenance engineer for the commission. Numerous government, state and county highway officials of the | United States and Canada will dis- ; cuss the latest methods evolved lor construction of low-cost, dustless, j mudless pavements on the secondary’ tributary and farm-to-market highways. Leaders in the automobile industry and officials of national automobile associations will discuss plans for paving back-coun-try roads so as to relieve traffic congestion on the main highways, especially on holidays and weekends. Farm organization officials declare j bad condition of farm service roads, which the majority of farmers must use in getting to and from their farms to paved highways, has become a serious matter. Without discounting the value of the high- j yfrays connecting the cities, farm organizations feel it Is high time an ! effective movement were started for I paving these roads. While the farmers of the United j States are paying 7 per cent of the taxes for state and local high- j ways, less than 3 per cent of the farms are reached by paved roads, i Today. approximately 5,000,000 farmers arc still living on poor j roads and there are still, in the I United States. 2.484,822 miles of unimproved highways, It is declared. Much Highway Unimproved Os the 3.05 h 000 miles of highways in the country, only 187.000 miles have high-type surfaces such as asphalt, brick and concrete. Economists declare that if all the 24,000,000 automobiles In service today were placed on the paved roads at one time, each car would have only 13.7 yarr’s in which to operate. The | 40.000 miles of new roads annually constructed are not much more than sufficient to provide parking space for the annual increase in new cars and trucks. Paving and landing-field treatment with asphalt at airports will be discussed by airport engineers and aviation officials, led by Chief Engineer R. H. Simpson, who directed the paving at Port Coiumbus. 0., said to possess the highest type of the runways and landing fields. An entertainment program will Include a special “county fair” evening. banquet, dance, bridge-tea for women and a golf tournament on the final day. Automobile tours and airplane flights are planned. Governors and state highway engineers, farm and motor association officials are expected io attend to the nujnber of two thousand or more. Several delegates will fly to the meeting from Chicago and New York, and points in Texas, by airplane. the planes used being the property of the individuals themselves cr of companies with which they are connected. AGED TO HAVE HOME Indiana Lutheran Synod Approves Institution at Mulberry. * 7 inn Special ANDERSON. Ind.. Oct. 26—The Indiana Lutheran synod in the closing session of its annual meeting here voted for purchase and support of a Lutheran home for the aged at Mulberry. The home will be for persons residing in the Indiana. Ohio and Michigan synods. Purchase of the Weidner Institute college property will be the first step toward establishing the home. .The property will cost $75,000 and $5,000 will be spent for improvements. There will be accommodations for seventy-five inmates. Churches to Organize Si Time* Special ANDERSON. Ind.. Oct. 26—L. M. Busche. Madison county agricultural agent, has appointed official to have charge of the county corn huskmg contest, Tuesday, on the J. F. P. Thurston farm near Summitville. The winner will represent the county at the state contest in Shelby county. Evansville Healer Dies * B,< Tim• Special EVANSVILLE, Ind.. Oct. 26 —Mrs. Yetta Coelz, 77, widely known as a magnetic healer, is dead here. She war born in Germany and came to tha United States when 19. Her haaband. Adam Goelz, a carpenter, died four years ago. Mrs. Goelz was known here for more than thirty years as a spiritualist healer. t*- *$

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Upper right, S. H. Thompson, president, American Farm Bureau Federation, speaker at asphalt conference; center. West Baden Springs hotel, where conference will be held; lower left, typical farm service road in winter. Lower right, new low cost farm-to-market road in North Carolina.

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Boston Papers Please Copy Bu Times Special ANDERSON, Ind.. Oct. 26. “Are there any Indians living here?" inquired a lonely redskin who appeared at a window of the Anderson post office. Charles M. Heritage, clerk, made inquiry, and was informed that there are no Indians in this community where Chief Anderson and his Delaware braves once held forth. The sad faced questioner went his solitary way without stating his business.

CONVICT MOVE FAILS Prisoner, En Route to Farm, Tries to Wreck Auto. Hu I piled Press CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., Oct. 26.—A prisoner being transported to the state farm in the automobile of Deputy Sheriff O. J. Wise of Lake county, attempted to wreck the car near here Friday and escape. The prisoner was sitting in the front seat of the machine. He seized the steering wheel and turned the car into a deep ditch. Quick work on the part of Wise and W. H. Potter, Linden hotel proprietor, who was passing, prevented escape of the offending prisoner and three others also tried to get away. The sheriff handcuffed all four together and proceeded to the farm. FT. WAYNE WOMAN NEW INDIANA LIBRARY HEAD State Association Closes Annual Session at Gary. Bu United Press GARY, Ind., Oct. 26.—More than 300 delegates to the thirty-eighth annual convention of the Indiana Librarian’s Association closed a three-day meeting here with a trip through Gary works of the Illinois Steel Company. The final business session closed with election of officers for the ensuing year. Miss Marian Webb of Ft. Wayne was unanimously elected president to succeed “Frank Whitmore of East Chicago. Miss Clara Rolphs of Gary was elected vicepresident, succeeding Miss Florence P. Crawford of Terre Haute. Miss Grace Kerr of Indianapolis was named secretary to succeed Miss Myrtle Weatherholt of Crawfordsville; Miss Carolyn Dunn of Connersville was re-elected treasurer. William J. Hamilton of Gary was named delegate of the Indiana association. to the American Library Association’s general council, and Miss Ethel McCollough of Evansville was named a member of the Indiana association's loan fund committee for a term of three years. Death Being Probed Bu United Press VINCENNES, Ind.. Oct, 26. Coroner N. E. Becks has sent the stomach of William S. Foster, 48. to Indianapolis for analysis of its contents by state chemists. Foster became suddenly ill and died before a doctor reached him. An autopsy gave no clew to the cause of death.

Just Another ‘Dry’ Case Bu 1 :mi * Special ANDERSON, Ind.. Oct. 26. Glendon Layton has filed suit in Madison circuit court against Charles Dearwester. well driller, to recover $91.40 advanced to Dearwester while he was engaged in drilling on a lot owned by Layton? The complaint alleges the two men entered into an oral agreement.* by which Dearwester was to be naid at the rate of $1.25 a foot *f he located water and nothing If he failed. The defendant was unsuccessful in his attempt to find water and abandoned operations owing Layton. the plaintiff asserts.

Rensselaer Bank Robber Defendant to Face Trial on Nov. 4. Bu Times Special KENTLAND, Ind., Oct, 26.—Henry T. Davidson, charged with com- : plicity in the robbery of the State bank of Rensselaer, Sept. 7, 1928, is preparing for another bout with the law —his trial in Newton Gircuit court here, which is scheduled to open Monday, Nov. 4. After one of the most bitter extradition contests in Indiana’s history, Davidson was returned from Oklahoma to Rensselaer several months ago. A change of venue was taken to the court here from Jasper j circuit court at Rensselaer, and bond set at $15,000. During most of the I time since being returned to Indiana, j Davidson has been held at his present place of confinement, the Lake j county jail at Crown Point. It was deemed safer than the jail here, as | authorities feared there might be an ! effort to free the prisoner by persons j alleged to have taken part in the : bank robbery. Arrested in Oklahoma on a tip provided by a man who said he dis- ! posed of bonds taken from the bank ; at the direction of Davidson, the ac- ; cused man tried in almost every way |to prevent return to Indiana for ! trial. However, Jasper county auth- ! orities, aided by an assistant in the j office of Oklahoma’s attorney-gen-jeral, finally defeated him and he ' waived his right to carry his case !to the Oklahoma court of appeals after he lost in a habeas corpus proi ceeding. Jesse Schlarbaum. Chicago, alI leged to have had some of the stolen bonds in his possession, has escaped clutches of the law at least temporarily. Arrested in Chicago, he provided $5,000 bond and fled. The bond was forfeited. No trace of Schlarbaum has been found since. A third defendant, John A. Dunlap, convicted in the court here, has filed a motion for anew trial on ! which a ruling is likely within ten days. STUDENTS PLAN PLAY | “Sun Up” Chosen by Duzcr Du at De Pauw. B.u Times tivcciul GREENCASTLE, Ind.. Oct. 26. Miss Gladys Rohrig of Brazil and Chester Osgood of Springfield. Mass., have been given the leading roles for the first Duzer Du dramatic production at De Pauw university, j The play chosen is “Sun Up.” which will be presented in the Little Theatre here Nov. 7 and 8. Miss Rohrig will play the part of the Widow Cagle and Osgood that of Pap Todd. Franklin Cole of Winona Lake will portray the part of Rufe Cagle, son of Widow Cagle. The parts of Emma and ! Bud Todd, children of Pap Todd, jvyi be taken by Eva Robinson of j Greencastle and Dwight Neal of I Whitestown. The rest of the cast has been but tentatively chosen. TRAFFIC GROUP CHOSEN Anderson Club Selects New Committee for Problems. B.u Times Special ANDERSON. Ind.. Oct. 26.—A new I committee to handle traffic problems in Anderson has been made by the Anderson Traffic Club. Members of the committee are Frank D. Norveil. Union Traction iCompany, chairman: William TayI lor, Big Four railroad; B. F. Hite, American Railway Express; Ralph Georgia. Central Indiana railroad; H. E. Steele. Pennsylvania railroad, and Fred Waugh, Sefton Manufacturing Company. Plans are being made for an invitation meeting of the club to be held Dec. 12 Aviation will be the theme. Contest Officials Chosen Hu Timi s Special ANDERSON. Ind.. Oct. 26.—The Rev. Ernest N. Evans, secretary of tlie Indianapolis Federation of Churches, will be the principal speaker at a meeting of church representatives here Tuesday. Nov. 12. at which an Anderson federation will be organized. Virtually all local churches will be affiliated. The move is sponsored by the Anderson Ministerial Association.

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MORAL SIDE OF ABOLISHING WAR GIVENEMPHASIS Philosophy Instructor at Notre Dame Writes New Book. B\! Times Special NOTRE DAME. Ind., Oct. 26. Moral responsibility among nations must be the basis of world peace, according to Dr. William Francis Roemer, Ph. D., a teacher of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, in his new’ book. “The Ethical Basis of International Law.” Dr. Roemler in the book has undertaken to discover the “soul of international law” which undoubtedly exists despite the fact that international treaties and agreements alone seem to limit the horizon of modem statesmen. In his resurrection of the “soul of international law” Dr. Roemer discusses need for neo-scholastic philosophy to revive an ’ Interest in the rediscovery of man’s human soul for the enlightenment of those modern psychologists who deny man’s spiritual nature. While the latter school of “behaviorists” prefer to profess an inability on the part of man’s intelligence to penetrate beneath the surface of human behavior, scholastic philosophy retains Its medieval conviction that every man really possesses an immortal soul, Dr. Roemer declares. Going back to the Roman law, the canon law, and the early medieval codes in his study of the sources of international law, Dr. Roemer finds that since the treaty of Westphalia in 1628 it has become the fashion to obscure conception of natural law with respect to relations between nations. The book will be used in an eletcive philosophy course next year, dealing with international relationships and their ethical basis. Dr. Roemer has received requests for copies of his work from nearly every university in the country, from the department of state and the World Court Library in Geneya. The author is chairman of the historical committee of the Catholic Association for International Peace, and a number of the executive council of the American Catholic Association. CITY’S OLDEST WOMAN DIES Mrs. Lydia Thornburgh ot Newcastle Was 97. B.u Times Special NEWCASTLE, Ind., Oct. 26. Funeral services will be held SunI day afternoon for Mrs. Lydia J. Thornburgh, 97, Newcastle’s oldest woman, who died here Wednesday after a short illness. A native of Union county, the pioneer became the bride of Hiram Thornburgh, first white child born in Newcastle, when she was 17 years old. She lived here eighty years, having come to the city the day after she was married. At that time Newcastle had a population of 400. She has voted ever since woman suffrage went into effect, the last ballot she cast having been for Herbert Hoover for President in 192j8Mrs. Thornburgh leaves four children, Mrs. C. H. Hernley, Miss Ethel Thornburgh and S. P. Thornburgh of Newcastle, and Dr. F. L. Thornburgh of Middletown. SCOUT MERGER LIKELY Boys In Eight Southern Indiana Counties Would Be Affected. B v T'nitcd Press EVANSVILLE. Ind., Oct. 26. | Southern Indiana Boy Scout organi- ! nations, comprising eight counties* are expected to merge, and form | the southern Indiana area of Boy I Scouts of the Seventh region, it has been announced. Counties to be affected are Knox, ! Gibson, Pike, Dubois, Posey, Van- | derburg, Warrick and Spencer. ; Evansville probably will be selected as headquarters of the area. A field ; executive 4 with offices here and | others under him in the smaller I communities would constitute the \ organization. The change would affect 1,200 j scouts in twenty-one troops outside : of Evansville and twenty-four ; troops within the city. GUN SHOW COSTS SBO Indianapolis Man Proclaimed Self “Jack the Killer.” Hu I nit cl I'rcss LEBANON, Ind., Oct. 26.—A man | giving his name as Jack La Grange | and his home as Indianapolis was 1 assessed SBO in fines and costs here j when he entered pleas of guilty to j intoxication and driving while in- ■ toxicated. | Arrest was made after La Grange thrUst a gun against the ribs of an i attendant at a tire store and told ; him to spend up his work, as he was “Jack the Killer.”

Injured Hunter Aided by Dogs Bu United Press WESTPORT. Ind., Oct. 26. —Both of Roy Cruser’s hunting degs loved him, but each had a different way of showing it. Cruser fell from a tree and sprained his back while squirrel hunting. One of the dogs went to the owner of some kennels and attracted his attention so that he was led to follow to where Cruser was lying helpless. When the two arrived the other dog was standing guard and would allow neither man nor dog to approach. When relatives of Cruser came the dog allowed his removal.

DOCTOR, 73, TO FACE TRIAL IN DEATH OF BOY Grand Jury Indicts for First Degree Murder at Kokomo. Bu Times Special KOKOMO, Ind., Oct. 26—Dr. Josiah J. Shrock, 73, Greentown physician, faces a first degree murder charge as a result of the shooting of Darwin Curless, 11, at Greentown the night of Oct. 9. The boy died in a hospital here two days later. His body was riddled with shot. Following return of the murder indictment here by the Howard county grand jury, Prosecutor Hillis said he desired a trial as early as possible, and expressed a belief that the case may be handled during November. . In a death bed statement, the boy said he was not one of a group which had been throwing stones up a stairway leading to the doctor’s office, but merely looked up the stairway, when a shotgun was fired. Dr. Shrock has admitted firing, declaring he intended “to hurt him just a little and had shot at the boy’s feet.” The aged doctor, a prisoner in the county jail here, remarked on being told the boy died: “Well, now, that’s too bad.” The accused man is already under a suspended prison sentence of two to fourteen years, imposed in Howard circuit court, when he was convicted about one year ago on a charge of performing an illegal operation on a 17-year-old girl. His advanced age saved him from serving the term. PURDUE UNIT" IN NEW HOME Department of Gas Engineering Housed. Bu Times Special LAFAYETTE, Ind., Oct. 26.—The department of gas engineering, which was organized a year ago at Purdue university, is now housed in its new quarters in the mechanical engineering building. The west wing has been completely remodeled for the department. Purdue is one of two schools in the United States offerinr a specific curriculum in gas engineering. The chemical engineering school has the direction of the department. Professor R. B. Leckie, a graduate of Glasgwow Technical College with managerial experience in Scotland and six years 1 service in the United States, heads the department. The activities of the department are in two major divisions, education and research. Research activities have been confined to work on gas conversion burners for house heating boilers carried on in conjunction with the engineering experiment station. INJURED FLIER SEEKS BUYER FOR BALLOON Argentina’s Race Entrant Sends Call From Terre Haute Hospital. Bu Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Oct. 26. Lieutenant Eduardo Bradley of the Argentine flying corps desires to sell a good balloon used but three times, he announces from the Union hospital where he is a patient. The lieutenant was injured in the recent James Gordon Bennett international races when his balloon hit a tree near here. He has been in the hospital since then. The flier says his balloon cost $4,500, but in the United States would cost $7,000. Letters have been sent to the government officials and the Guggenheim Foundation seeking a prospective buyer. OFFICIALS FACE TRIALS Evansville Works Board Members Accused in Sewer Case. Bu T nitrif Press EVANSVILLE. Ind., Oct. 26.—Trial dates for three members of the Evansville board of works charged with conspiracy to commit a felony have been set forward. They were indicted in connection with an overpayment of $277,099 in construction of a $1,000,000 sewer here. William Baertrich will be tried Nov. 19; Joseph Healey. Nov. 25, and William Karges. Dec. 11. George Pontarelli, contractor who received the money, was found guilty of presenting false claims. BRAZIL PIONEER DIES Alfred Carr, 90, Lived on City’s Site Before Lots Were Platted. Bu Times Special BRAZIL, Ind., Oct. 26.—Alfred W. Carr, 90, who was buried here following his death at the home of a son, John F. Carr, in Indianapolis, was born on the site of this city where he lived five years before platting as the start of a town Was made. The pioneer was a carpenter in early life and aided in erection of many of Brazil’s oldest buildings. He was a veteran of the Civil war, having taken part in the famous march from Atlanta to the sea. Man, 97, to Celebrate Bu Times Special WHITELAND, Ind., Oct. 26 Daniel W. Brewer will hold a public reception Sunday at the home near here of his daughter, Mrs. E. E. Markley, the occasion being his 97th birthday. He has five other children, Joseph and Chester Brewer, Whiteland; Mrs. Riohard A. Flanagan, Franklin; Mrs. James McQuiston Greenwood, and Mrs. J. C. Gibbons, Tulsa. Okla. With the exception of Mrs. Gibbons, all the children will attend the birthday reception.

GIRL ON TRIAL IN SLAYING OF LOVER

Temporary Insanity to Be Defense Plea for Pansy Funk. B.u Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., Oct. 26. j Fansy Funk. 2D-year-old La Paz girl, i is on tral before a jury in St. Joseph circuit court here charged with the slaying of her married lover, Jesse Mater, father of two children. Mater was shot down on a street near his home in the summer. The girl has never denied the slaying, declaring she acted because Mater turned her out of the house and out of his affections for another woman. A technical plea of not guilty has been entered by the defense, which alleges temporary insanity. It is contended in the girl’s behalf that she was crazed because Mater spurned her and by the fact that she is to become a mother. After killing her lover, the girl turned a revolver on herself, and fired once, suffering a slight wound. ELECTION BODY GETSJNTO ROW Use of Machines Starts Anderson Dispute. B.u Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Oct. 26.—Interest in the Anderson city election is now centered on a controversy among members of the board of election commissioners. Trouble started when Harry Bart - low, Democratic member of the board, requested two voting machines in the large precincts. Sherman Harlan, Republican member, opposed the move, saying the heaviest vote in the history of the city was cast in the general election last November with one machine to a precinct and without one complaint being made of a voter being denied the right of suffrage because of congestion at polling places. Ray Hall, third member of the board and a candidate for re-elec-tion as city clerk, has not expressed an opinion. Harlan said the first year voting machines were used in Madison county two were set up in one precinct and resulted in confusion. Counters on the two machines showed more votes were cast than could be accounted for by the election clerks, Harlan asserted. GRAVEL DEAL OFF State Health Board Halts Brazil Plan. Bu Times Special BRAZIL, Ind., Oct. 26.—The city of Brazil has dropped its plan to go into the gravel business, due to disapproval by the state board of health. It had been proposed that the city be paid on a royalty basis for gravel taken from a municipally owned tract at the water works plant, the ! City Sand and Gravel Company bei ing the other party. | The state board in opposing the ! plan said the gravel acted as a filter ! for the city’s water supply and removal would likely lead to pollution. NEW DIRECTORS CHOSEN Executive in Industry, Attorney and Banker on C. of C. Board. B.u Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Oct. 26.—Five industrial leaders, a merchant, an attorney and a banker were elected directors of Anderson Chamber of Commerce in annual balloting by I the membership. Officers will be ! elected Oct. 31. ! New directors are Fred C. Kroeger, j president and general manager, Delco-Remy Corporation; Fred S. Kimmerling, president and general manager, Guide Lamp Corporation; H. Wayne Thornburg, manager, Central Indiana Gas Company; Elmo A. F'unk, secretary, Kreusch Ice Cream Works; Edward S. Ridley, vice-president of Anderson Banking and Trust Company; Glenn W. Gates, merchant, and Wade H. Free, attorney. DEATH DRIVER FREED Inquest to Follow in Foot Tapping Auto Tragedy. Bu Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Oct. 26.—James Brown, Chesterfield, has been released from the Madison county jail here upon recommendation of state motor police follwing an accidnt Sunday on the Madison-Delaware county line, which resulted in the death of William Scott, 19. Brown will appear at an Inquest by Coroner Earl Sells of Madison county. An automobile in which Brown and Scott were riding was demolished by a Union Traction Company car. Witnesses said Brown stopped the car on approaching the tracks and that Scott, keeping time with a foot to the rhythm of a harmonica he was playing, accidentally pushed down the accelerator and sent the automobile forward on to the track. The interurban struck the car, hurling it several yards and then hit it again. Boy Scout Fund Aided Pm Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind.. Oct. 26. Pledges received in two days to aid the Boy Scout fund totaled more than $2,000, according to W. G. Clevenger, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce. A final report of the drive will be made in a few days. Those who aided in the campaign were the Rev. W. E. Moore, Dr. Will Scott, Joseph Nurre, M. R. Currie, Dr. F. H. Austin,* John Hoadley, Robert Ellis, Will Karseil and David Wiley.

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By Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., Oct. 26.—For the first time in more than forty years Frank H. Vennett is away from his duties as railway mall clerk. He hasn’t become accustomed to his new place in life yet, even though he has a letter from Post-master-General Walter F. Brown assuring him that he has established an enviable record in the history of the postoffice for long and efficient service. He received the letter on the eve of his 70th birthday. Vennett was eligible for retirement eight years ago, but wishes to continue his duties in mail cars for the Pennsylvania, railroad so much that he was granted an extension. On the expiration of his first extension he applied successfully for three more.

Tragedy’s End Divorce Case to Be Finale to Slaying of Social Worker.

B.U Times Special Hammond, ind., Oct. 26. When the divorce case of Harriet Simpkins against Fred Simpkins is concluded in Judge V. S. Rieter’s court here Thursday, the final chapter in a tragedy which cost the life of Mrs. Lucille Meyers, social welfare worker, will have been written. Simpkins, father of six children, shot Mrs. Meyers down when she called at his home in March. 1925, to seek reasons for the absence from school of the children. He fled and no definite trace of him has ever been found. The wife and mother had asked Mrs. Meyers to call, but at the time was a patient in a hospital. Rumors have reached the wife that Simpkins committed suicide in Delaware and also that he had gone abroad. An ironical angle developed in the tragedy when the Community Chest, in the same field of work as the slaying victim, provided a comfortable home for the mother, the oldest of whom is now 13. PRISON TERMS POSSIBLE IN AUTO-TRAIN SCHEME Negroes Held at Jeffersonville for Trial in Hoover Special Case. Bu Times Special JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind.. Oct. 26. —Edward Wright and Charles B. Bullock, local Negroes, each face a prison term of two to twenty-one years as a result of placing an automobile on tracks of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad over which a special train bearing President Hoover and party was to pass. The accused men have beea placed in jail here, federal authorities turning them over to the Clark county authorities after taking them into custody at New Albany. Wright, owner of the car. hired Bullock to place it on the tracks so it would be wrecked by a train and lead to collection of Insurance. Before any train arrived the car was found and removed to safety. DE PAUW SERIES OPENS Tony Sarg and Marionettes First on Schedule. B.u Times Special GREENCASTLE, Ind., Oct. 26. The first of a series of fine art numbers given each year by De Pauw university will be the appearance Thursday of Tony Sarg and his Marionettes. Following Sarg the schedule includes the Aguilar lute quartet, Nov. 21; Ralph Dennis, Jan. 17; the Redroff quartet of Russian singers, Feb. 5, and the, Ben Greet Players, Feb. 15. The sixth production, for which no date has been set, is the Acapelia choir of Northwestern university.

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OCT. 26, 1929

ALLEGED AID OF CAPONE FACING MURDER COUNT _____ Nick Sudovich to Go on Trial Monday at Valparaiso. Bu Times special VALPARAISO. Ind., Oct. 26 —Nick Sudovich, described by authorities as the liquor king of Indiana Harbor and often referred to as an Indiana lieutenant of A1 Capone, notorious Chicago gangster, will go on trial in Porter circuit court here Monday charged with the murder of Uron Marovich of East Chicago. More than ordinary interest is ; manifest in the case, as evidence l is expected to develop some imporj tant matters in connection with the ; federal investigation of liquor and ! vice operations in Lake county, one | phase of which was closed recent ly ■ at South Bend with indictment of i 300 persons. While the federal inquiry was in | progress, A1 Armstrong, serving a ! life term in the Indiana state prison ' lor his part in slaying Marovirh, ; made a statement to District Attor- ! ney Oliver M. Loomis and Prosecu- | tor Oliver Starr of Lake county in I which he is supposed to have told I the real story of the Marovich killj ing. Fred Brenman was indicted |in the same case which resulted in ! Armstrong’s conviction, but was acj quitted when the man now in prison ; refused to testify against him. Sudovich is also facing charges of violating the prohibition law as a result of the grand jury session at South Bend, and his wife is likewise accused. Marovich was “taken for a ride” in approved gang fashion a year ago Easter. His bullet riddled body was found in an automobile. It is said the slaying was a result of a quarrel between Marovich and Sudovich over liquor operations, which developed because Marovich wished to expand his dealings. CHESTERFIELD'S WATER DISPUTE GETS AIRING Public Service Commissioner Hears Petitions of Both Sides. P.ii l imes Special ANDERSON, Ind., Oct. 26.—Commissioner Jere West represented the Indiana public service commission at a hearing in Madison superior court here on a petition of the Chesterfield Water Company to issue stock to construct a water works and petition of a number of taxpayers of the town of Chesterfield to declare void a franchise the town board gave the company. It was indicated at the ciose of the first day of the hearing that the commission has no authority to declare any franchise the board grants illegal over protest of attorneys for taxpayers who directed attention to a special statute. The hearing was commenced in a building on the Chesterfield campgrounds and transferred here because of a lack of heating facilities. Several hundred residents of Chesterfield attended. Evidence will be submitted to the entire membership of the commission before a ruling is formed. Suit for injunction against the water company is pending in superior court. Judge Lawrence V. Mays is withholding a decision pending ruling of the commission, I. U. PROFESSOR CITES NEED FOR 12 REFORMS Law Instructor Discusses Steps m Social Control. B.U Times Special BLOOMINGTON. Ind., Oct. 26. Twelve reforms are needed to develop an adequate scheme of social control, Professor Hugh E. Willis of the Indiana university law school declares in an article in the Kiwanis magazine. Writing on the subject, “On the Trail of the Bad Man,” Professor Willis lists the reforms os follows: “Theory of criminal law should be made over; civil law simplified and made uniform; best methods for obtaining and retaining best judges should be utilized; lawyers should be better educated; better class of men for all enforcement officers; all private warfare outlawed; disarmament of individuals should be required; courts organized to transact judicial business; legal procedure should be a means and not an end; criminals should not be glorified; trials by newspapers abolished, and obedience to law and social interests taught. EMBEZZLER SENTENCED Logansport Bank Employe Gets Two to Fourteen-!'ear Prison Term. Bu I 'nitcl Press LOGANSPORT, Ind., Oct. 26. After entering a plea of guilty to embezzlement Raymond Slagle, 31, former teller of the Logansport State bank here, was sentenced to from two to fourteen years at the Indiana state prison. The former cashier said he had gambled away $25,000 of the bank’s funds on horse racing. No evidence was heard before sentence was passed.