Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 148, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 October 1929 — Page 13

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ONTARIO DRYS SWAMPED BY BALLOTFLOOD Backers of Liquor Control Law Are Carried to Smashing Victory. EXCEEDS HIGHEST HOPE Tremendous Triumph Kills Prohibition Issue for Decade, at Least. II v i nitrd Press TORONTO. Oct. 31.—The Ontario electorate, reiterating its faith in the administration of Premier G. Howard Ferguson and the government liquor control act. returned the Conservative party to power by an overwhelming majority in the eighteenth general legislative election. With but few ridings to be heard from, complete returns from 106 cf the 112 constituencies today assured the at least eightynine seats, an increase of twelve over the seats held in the last parliament. The Liberals, led by M. E. N. Sinclair and considered the strongest opposition, carried off nine seats with the prospect of gaining one or two more when returns from rural districts are computed. The Liberals held twenty-one seats in the previous legislature. Other organizations assured of representation were Progressives, three; Independent Progressives, two, and United Farmers, one. The number of seats gained by the Conservatives exceeded by far the expectation of Its leader. Premier Ferguson, and party leaders. In a pre-election forecast organization leaders claimed but eighty seats. Ferguson, sponsor of the liquor control act in 1926. after Ontario. had passed through ten years of prohibition, during his campaign: pleaded that the electorate stand | behind him and the liquor law in j that "Education, and not legisla-; tlon, is the only road to temper-1 ance.” j The Liberals, advocating a plebiscite on the liquor issue, and the Progressives, with a bone-dry platform. suffered an enormous blow when returns from rural districts, usually dry, showed that sentiment had turned to Ferguson. With such a smashing victory for government controlled liquor sales, it was freely predicted today by observers that prohibition will not be advocated seriously in Ontario for at least a decade. ARGUMENTS MADE IN AUTO INSURANCE CASE Underwriters Seek to Enjoin State Order In Court. Arguments on an injunction petition of the Automobile Underwriters, Inc., to prohibit enforcement of an order issued by Clarence Wysong. state insurance commissioner, that reciprocal insurance associations can not issue nonassessable policies. were to be heard at 2 p. m. today by uperior Judge Linn D. Hay. Hay was selected to try the case after attorneys had filed a change of venue petition from Superior Judge James M. Leathers, in whose court the suit originally was filed. Leathers has issued a temporary restraining order aeainst enforcement of Wysong's order, and was based on an alllegation of the plaintiff that business has been seriously impaired by the insurance commissioners' rule. FORMER AUTO DEALER AND SALESMAN DIES John H. Ashley Will Be Buried at Kokomo Friday. John H. Ashley. 67. Indianapolis business man and former traveling salesman, died at the home of his daughter. Mrs. A. V. Briney. 420 West Thirty-ninth street, Wednesnight. Funeral services will be held in Kokomo Friday and burial will be in the Crown Point cemetery there. Mr. Ashley had been failing in health for many years. He was in the auto sales business in Indianapolis from 1915 to 1923. He was a member of the Presbyterian church. Survivors. In addition to Mrs. Briney. are another daughter. Mrs. Frank Derrickson cf Flint. Mich.; three sons, Roscoe C . Ralph W. and Glenn R. Ashley of Indianapolis, and two sisters. Mrs. Dora List of Galveston. Ind.. and Mrs. J- W. Mourehouse of Kokomo. STEALS BUTTER - LOAD Thief Takes Truck From Parking Place Downtown. The police department's vote for Indianapolis’ most slippery thief today was cast for the one who took a truck loaded with butter from its parking place in an alley between Meridian and Illinois, and Washington and Market streets, early today. The truck later was found on Bright street. Part of the butter was gone. The truck is the property of the Wad ley Creamery Company, North street and the Big Four railroad. Red Cross to Reorganize Bu Time* SpeHal ANDERSON, Ind., Nov. SI.—J. A. L. Sayer, Washington, D. C., chief clerk of the American Red Cross, will be here Nov. 8 to assist in reorganizing the Madison county chapter. A successor will be named to James A. Van Osdol, who resigned as chairman several months ago.

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Fair Friends for Rooster

The Democratic rooster is moving in fair company at Butler university these days as student members of the Butler Democratic Club campaign for their party's nominees in the Nov. 5 election. Miss Gwendolyn Schort (left; and Miss Helen Arzet, members of the club, are pictured parading the club’s mascot.

EMBEZZLER CALM AT PRISON GATES

Former Newcastle Water Clerk Begins 2 to 14Year Term. nII I'nited Press NEWCASTLE. Ind.. Oct. 31.—Oscar Grant, who as clerk of the city water department here embezzled $13,821. entered the state prison to begin a two to fourteen-year sentence, without any display of emotion, according to Sheriff Cannon of Henry county, who removed him to the institution. Prior to the sentence. Grant had j several emotional outbreaks, but the sheriff said he was calm and appeared utterly indifferent as the prison doors closed on him. Authorities here believe Grant had no accomplices in the embezzlement. They say he never even hinted that any one but himself was to blame. A representative of the j Aetna Casualty and Surety Com- j pany, which signed Grant’s bond for j performance of his duties as clerk, j said he questioned him and Grant maintained he was innocent. The representative indicated the company would make no effort to avoid paying the city $5,000 as a forfeiture of the bond.

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1 ’ll DENIES JOSS RULE Si Radio Speaker for G. 0. H H Denial that Coffin controlled t . nomination of Alfred M. Glo: 8 ! brenner for mayor was made o\ I 'the air from Station WFE \ .Jjjfy-V J ? | Wednesday night by Judson || •/ N> *xi§ 1 Stark. Marion county prosecutor. | Stark also made a plea 1 ■ jl support of the Citizens’ sch< ■ .IJUHiI ticket, in which he said; 9 i “Politics and whispers must ■ ueIIW i kept out of our schools or we £ 9 * • 4 ruined. The education of our be i and girls must not be the subji <,v # ' : '*/ of barter or sale. Our school afla jr f | ] must be above suspicion." r iH ALLIANCE CHARGE H Democratic Speaker Te of Coffin's Power. Charges that Alfred M. Glo brenner, Republican nominee : mnvnr nnd Genrce V. Coffin c

Above, the deserted house at 2161 Northwestern avenue, in which the body of Mrs. William Sonday, Central state hospital inmate, was found today. Resting on the knees, with the legs underneath, the body was ere ~oed into the small closet spa., shown at the right. Mrs. Sonc v had been dead several days, Coroner C. H. Keever said. Extradition Is Granted Extradition papers for return of Clarence H. Loucks, 29, to Detroit on a charge of removing contract property, were signed today by Governor Harry G. Leslie. Loucks has been hfld in the county jail.

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Club Speaker

Frank E. Strouse, Chicago, special representative of the general manager of the Pennsylvania railroad, who will speak at an Indiana Optimist Club luncheon Friday at the Claypool. He Is director of safety and general chairman of athletics of the western region of the raiiroad. He will speak on “Coast to Coast by Train and Plane.”

DENIES BOSS RULED Radio Speaker for G. 0. P. Asks Support. Denial that Coffin controlled the nomination of Alfred M. Glossbrenner for mayor was made over the air from Station WFBM Wednesday night by Judson L. Stark. Marion county prosecutor. Stark also made a plea for support of the Citizens’ school ticket, in which he said: “Politics and whispers must be kept out of our schools or we are ruined. The education of our boys and girls must not be the subject of barter or sale. Our school affairs must be above suspicion.” ALLIANCE CHARGED Democratic Speaker Tells of Coffin’s Power. Charges that Alfred M. Glossbrenner, Republican nominee for mayor, and George V. Coffin, city chairman, “understand each other perfectly” were made at noon today at a meeting at the Indiana Democratic Club by James Deery, former city judge. “When Coffin became a candidate for sheriff in 1914, Glossbrenner was on n of his sponsors, and he has sponsored every political battle of Coffin in the last fifteen years," Deery said. “The Republican nominee was drafted, not by the so-called business men’s committee, but by Coffin, and has consented to run for mayor, not for the purpose of serving the city, but for the saving, as well as the serving of Coffin.’*

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31,1929

LIQUOR VIEWS STRESSED IN MURDER CASE Nick Sudovich Defense Seeks Jury Without Dry Prejudice. ONE QUERY OVERRULED State Wins Point When Court Stops Reference to Convict Witness. Bp Times Special VALPARAISO, Ind., Oct. 31. Counsel for Nick Sudovich, reputed Indiana lieutenant of A1 Capone, Chicago gangster, revealed in questioning of prospective jurors in Porter circuit court here, where he is being tried on a first degree murder charge, that men with pronounced views in opposition to liquor dealing are not wanted on the panel. It is alleged Sudovich, whose headquarters were in East Chicago, killed Ukron Marovich, rival in liquor dealing, on Easter Sunday, 1928, supposedly the result of ill-feeling developed by keen competition in the business. Each man is asked by Sudovich's attorneys if he would be prejudiced against the accused if it develops during the trial that he was engaged in handling liquor or had been arrested for dry law violation. The state won a round when Judge Grant Crumpacker sustained its objection to the following question propounded to veniremen by defense counsel “If it developed that a convict would testify in the case, would you give his evidence the same weight as you would the evidence of another witness who was not a convict if he testified to the same facts?” This question referred to A1 Armstrong, serving a life term in the Indiana state prison, on conviction of being a party to the slaying of Marovich, and who will be a state witness at the trial. During the Lake county investigation by the federal grand jury at South Bend, Armstrong made a statement to District Attorney Oliver M. Loomis and Oliver Starr, Lake county proseoutor, on which the indictment of Sudovich was based. Sudovich is represented by a highpriced battery of lawyers, headed by William J. McAleer, who was chief prosecutor in the famous Harry Diamond murder case a few years ago. POLICE BAFFLED BY ‘TESSIE BILLIE BLUE’ New York Girl Stranded Here Will Not Reveal Identity. Police today were trying to identify a petite, blonde girl of 18, who gave her name as Tessie Billie Blue, and her address as New York. She came to police headquarters five days ago and said she became stranded in Paris, 111., when her girl friend left her and took the money they had been using to meet crosscountry hitch-hiking expenses. Miss Blue said she had $4 left and purchased a ticket to Indianapolis. Social agency officials and authorities have questioned the girl, but she will not reveal additional information about her home. She has asked Sheriff George L. Winkler to obtain a housekeeping job for her in Indianapolis. She is held in the county jail. ENVOY TO VISIT CITY Business Men Will Meet Tokio Attache Next Week. Business executives and the World Trade Club of Indianapolis will meet and hear Halleck A. Butts, United States commercial attache at Tokio, next Wednesday. Butts will speak at the World Trade Club's luncheon at the Claypool and confer with local exporters in the offices of Kenneth H. Dame, manager of the local bureau of foreign and domestic commerce of the department of commerce, 317 Chamber of Commerce building. Suicide by Drowning EVANSVILLE, Ind., Oct. 31.—The body of Edward H. Feldman, 59, who committed suicide by drowning in the Ohio river here, has been recovered.

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“Our Schools for Our Children; Not for Politicians,” reads the banner this group of Seventh ward mothers carried in its campaign to elect the citizens’ school committee candidates for school commissioners to rid the schools of political domination. The sixteen mothers pictured above, all members of the Parent-Teacher organizations at schools Nos. 2 and 9, are, left to right, Mrs Iva Lloyd, Mrs. Merle G. Harris, Mrs. Viva Youngman. Mrs. Winifred Car-

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Left to Right—Arch Grossman, Mayor L. Ert Slack, Norman Perry, John Ruckelshaus, Police Chief Claude Worley. Four of the above group formed a foursome in the Indianapolis Athletic Club-Columbia Club golf competition for first year possession of the George Marott trophy on the Country Club links Wednesday, and Mayor Slack, representing the I. A. C„ along with Arch Grossman, defeated Ruckelshaus and Chief Worley. The mayor turned In the best score of the lot. Norman Perry was an enthusiastic rooter.

SB,OOO VERDICT TO CINDERELLA German Girl Wins Victory Over Store Magnate. Bt/ Vailed Press , , , CHICAGO. Oct. 31—The love letters of a middle-aged five and ten cent store magnate won a German Cinderella an SB,OOO settlement of her breach of promise suit when she appeared in circuit court here. Miss Elfriede Worthmann of Berlin, a student of Columbia university medical school, testified she met August Deverman, operator of a string of “popular price” stores, while on her way to American in 1926. She was 19 at the time, she said. He was in his early 40s. Deverman promised to marry her Miss Worthmann testified, gave her valuable presents and agreed to buy her an estate on the Rhine. Lifelong Resident Dies ru: Tim vs Special EVANSVILLE, Ind., Oct. 31.—Miss Josephine Reitz, 80. lifelong resident of Evansville, is dead at the home here of her brother, Francis J. Reitz, former president of the National City Bank.

Guest Artist

Helen Oelheim, contralto, who will be the guest soloist with the Fada orchestra next Tuesday night at 9 in a broadcast over the Columbia network, including WFBM, Indianapolis. Miss Oelheim, who appeared first in New York as a member of of the Rochester Opera Company, later became a leading artist with the American Opera Company, from which organization she entered broadcasting.

ter, Mrs. Maude Smith. Mrs. Yvonne Jacobs, Mrs. Edna B. New, Mrs. Charles Radding, Mrs. Esther Matthews, Mrs. Leila Goldsberrv, Mrs. Charles Bolser, Mrs. George McCammon. Mrs. V. E. Funk, Mrs. E. W. Ross, Mrs. Pearle Dohne and Mrs. Viola Greenwell. Cit’zens’ school committee candidates are Mrs Maud Miller, Julian Wetzel. Russell Willson, Merle Sidener and Samuel E. Garrison.

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Leßoy New (left) and his brother Edward, sons of Edward F. New, 423 East New York street, who will entertain at the citizen’s school committee rally for Second, Third, Seventh and Eighth ward voters tonight at the Propylaeum, 1410 North Delaware street. Veteran Dies at 85 FRANCISCO, Ind., Oct. 31.—The first death in the family of James F. Paul, 85, Civil war veteran forty years, occurred Wednesday when the veteran succumbed to infirmities at his home here. He leaves the widow and four sons, two of them residents of Evansville.

HALLOWEEN REVELS HOLD RIGHT OF WAY

Vehicular Traffic Banned in Downtown Section for ‘Paraders.’ While youngsters celebrate Halloween with ticktacks and door-bell ringing, maturer merrymakers tonight will dine and dance away the night as elfs, golbins and witches. Three hundred couples have made reservations for the witches and goblins’ supper-ball at the Columbia Club. Dancing and cabaret numbers are on the program. Following a dinner at 6 p. ni. members of the Indianapolis Athletic Club will hold a "wooden soldiers’ ” hop. There will be dancing in the dining room and roof garden. The Woodstock Country Club will hold a masquerade and costume ball, and the Avalon Country Club will give a dance and party. The annual Halloween mardi gras ball will be given by Bruce P. Robinson post, American Legion, in Tomlinson hall. Cash prizes will be offered for the neatest costumes. Dr. Frank E. Long is general chairman in charge of the ball. At the Indiana Roof ballroom , two orchestras will provide the | dance music. Prizes will be awarded for the best costumes. For the safety of Halloween crowd* on downtown streets, Police Chief llaude M. Worley has prohibited vehicular traffic tonight on

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REALTORS WILL STAGEJXHIBIT Home Complete Exposition to Be Held in April. Ninth annual Realtors Home Complete exposition will be held April 5 to 12 in the Manufacturers’ building at the state fairground. This announcement was made today by committee members in charge of the annual event at the Indianapolis Real Estate Board luncheon at the Chamber of Commerce. The show will open Saturday evening, April 5, and will continue through the following Saturday night, with the exception of Sunday, April 6, when the doors will be closed. Several manufacturers and distributors of building materials have leased space for the exposition. Dan W. LeGore, committee chairman announced. J. Frank Cantwell again will act as director of the 1930 exposition.

! Washington street from Pennsyl- ; vania to Illinois; Illinois from Washington to Market streets, and on the Monument circle. Officials of the Indianapolis street railway will reroute cars to keep them out of the congested areas on Washington street. Add.tional “owl” cars will be provided to carry late revelers home. LOBBY QUIZ PUSHED Kirby, Head of Southern Tariff Group, Called. Bp Bcrivps-llaward Jtewsoapvr WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.—John Henry Kirby, the multimillionaire president of the Southern Tariff Association, will be the next witness to face the senate lobby investigating committee. Kirby of Houston, Tex., is scheduled to take the stand today and follows Joseph R. Grundy, president of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association. Kirby is looked upon as the chief financial backer of the southern association, which maintains headquarters in Washington and of which J. A. Arnold is executive secretary and the prime mover. Arnold also Is to testify. SLACK TOJJON AIR Mayor Will Talk on Radio for Sullivan. Mayor L. Ert Slack will speak over station WFBM from 6:40 to 7:10 p. m. tonight in support of the Democratic city ticket. Four other meetings will be held by Democrats tonight: Bp. m., 2405 Station street, Mayor Slack, Reginald Sullivan, William D. Headrick and James E. Deery, speakers; Thirteenth street and Senate avenue, Walter Myers, Mayor Slack, Sullivan, Headrick and Salem D. Clark, speakers; 802 West North street, Thomas D. McGee, speaker, and at 8:30 p m., 419 Agnes street, Mayor Slack Sullivan and the Rev. O. H. Banks, speakers. CANDIDATES TO SPEAK Junior Republican Group Sponsors Meeting Friday Night. Junior membere of the Columbia Club will hear Republican city candidates and campaign speakers at a rally sponsored by the Junior Republican committee in the criminal courtroom, courthouse, Friday night. Alfred M. Glossbrenner, nominee for mayor: Charles W. Jewett and members of the councilmanic ticket will speak.

U. S. WARSHIPS SPEED TOWARD CHINATRONT, Six Destroyers Are Sent to Shanghai to Guard American Lives. NEW REVOLT BREWING Powerful Rebel Armies in Field May Advance on Nationalist Chief. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.—Six United States destroyers are speeding today for Shanghai, where they will be handy in the event the new Chinese revoit gets out of hand and American lives are endangered. Asa sizeable fleet of river gunboats is station regularly in the Yangtze, the bringing up of reinforcements offers dramatic evidence that the latest civil war in that region shows signs of serious developments, despite the approach of winter. Apparently President Chiang Kai-Shek’s intensive carqpaign waged during the summer to unify China without resort to further bloodshed has failed, since he himj self just has Issued a proclamation i intimating that a finish fight now is unavoidable. “In spite of painstaking efforts to maintain peace and unity,” the proclamation declares, “the rebels, obsessed by feudalists ambitions, have joined hands with reactionaries, Soviet Russia, and the Communists in an attempt to overthrow the government. Fight for Unity “It is now a matter of fighting for unification,” the president’s manifesto concluded, adding that without unification China’s tremendous number of surplus troops can not be disbanded and failure to disband them would plunge the country back Into the same chaotic condition it i was in prior to the Nationalist revolution. The center of the disturbance Is the Yangtze valley, the Mississippi valley of China, with Hankow, the Chinese Chicago, as It focal point. At the head of the rebels Is the notorious marshal, Feng Yu-Hsiang, commonly known as “the Christian general.” This leader, one of the ablest in China, has under him a well trained army numbering approximately 200,000 men, whose loyalty has been proved by sticking to him through hardships such as are unknown to western troops. A second figure in the drama is j Marsh Yen Hsi-Shan, called “the model governor” of the province of Shansi. An intimate friend of the “Christian general,” he recently was reported as having placed the latter under arrest at the request of President Chiang, but subsequent events : tend to throw considerable doubt : upon the story. Three Generals May Join The “model government,” likewise, has the backing of a very efficient army and should he and the “Christian general” combine forces and march on Hankow and other Yangtze river points, the Nationalist oap- ■ ital at Nanking would be in jeopardy. And with It the Nationalist cause, as represented by its present leaders. A third factor In the situation is the attitude of the three eastern provinces known to the outside world as Manchuria. Ruled by the' young marshal, Chang Hsuch-Liang, who inherited his job from his father, the “old marshal,” Chang’ Tso-Lin, as a crown prince would; from a dying king, this is one of thej richest regions of China. For years it has claimed virtual autonomy though nominally paying allegiance to Nanking. A coalition of these forces—of the “Christian general,” the “model governor,” and the “young marshal” qf Manchuria—would find the Nationalist government of President Chiang Kai-Shek with its back to the wall and nothing short of df miracle would save it from annihil-f ation. STO CKSB REAKfWILL AID CITY BOND SALE] Controller Prepares to Take Bid Dec. 2 on Issue. Bids on the $875,000 bond l*su<H for city hospital building progranj will be received by City Controlle-.f: Sterling R. Holt Dec. 2. Holt said eight queries about th® bond sale had been received frorrm Chicago and New York bond houses® Several local bankers urged the cit# to provide a 4% per cent in teres# rate but Holt declined to fix th® interest above 44. “Well have no trouble selling ou m. bonds, in view of the recent Waljp Street activity,” Holt said. judge~loins _ speaker( Martin Pays Glowing Tribute Republican Candidate. Supreme Court Judge Olarenc £> M. Martin has been called to th|| ranks of Republican orators dafendp’S mg Alfred M. Glossbrenner, Repu|j.. j liean nominee for mayor, fflH charges of “Coffinism.” Judge Martin paid glowing tribufe to Glossbrenner Wednesday nlglsl at a rally at 4213 College in which he said: “Coffinism will not deceive manfl| Republican voters who know thtlpv the election of a political commiSt tee depends upon themselves juaß that defeat of the Republican tickX Is not essential to the lnter-aartff contest."