Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 191, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 December 1929 — Page 24

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MSS BURIALS ARE HELD FOR MINE VICTIMS Be Sure You Puts John’s New Coat on Him,’ Plea of Negro Mother. r.u Unite t Preen M’ALESTER, Okla., Dec.. 20.—A .nag procession of conveyances wound through the streets today with twenty-five caskets bearing the bodies of Mexican victims of the Old Town mine disaster. While a priest read the burial service the caskets were lowered into a long trench that had been dug by fifty convicts from the Oklahoma state penitentiary. Stores were closed and the town Joined the relatives of the Mexican miners in mourning. Burials will continue through today, Saturday and Sunday, until the last of the. ninety-nine bodies recovered have been laid away. Two miners, a Mexican and a Negro, still were missing, it was announced as final identification lists were completed. Search for their bodies will be resumed when the mine is entered Saturday for an investigation of the explosion. The Negro miners probably will be buried in a common grave, as were the Mexicans. One, Claude Dodson, will wear anew overcoat as a shroud. His aged mother had boy.ght it for him as a Christmas present. "Be sure you put John's new coat on him,” she told morgue attendants. "He might get cold.” A committee w r as distributing relief funds to destitute families. More than 812,000 had been received. SCHOOL PARLEY CLOSED Central College Session Ends With Prominent Church Speakers. Round table discussions on problems of higher education and speeches by prominent church officials comprised today’s closing session of the Indiana Central college annual educational conference. Speakers were Bishop H. H. Fout, Indianapolis; Dr. I. J. Good, president of the college; the Rev. Bash Arford, Wabash; the Rev. J. Hart Truesdale, Wisconsin conference superintendent; the Rev. ,0. T. Deever, Dayton, 0., head of the Young People's department of the United Brethren church, and Dr. J. B. Parsons of Indianapolis, superintendent of White River conference. The Rev. A. B. Smith of Corydon was secretary of the conference.

CASE READY FOR JURY 40-Page Charge Is Read as Textile Trial Nears End. Bv United Press BURNSVILLE. N. C.. Dec. 20.—A forty-page charge was read today to a Yancey county jury of eleven farmers and a carpenter trying the case of eight McDowell county deputies accused of second degree murder in the deaths of six textile strikers at Marion Oct. 2. The trial, which opened ten days ago, probably will reach the jury by early afternoon, climaxing one of the most bitterly contested court battles growing out of textile strike disorders in the Piedmont belt of North Carolina. ‘PRIEST’ SELLS LIQUOR Bootlegger Is Victim of Ruse In Detroit. Bn United Press DETROIT, Dec. 20.—Last week, when an undercover dry agent visited an alleged bootlegging establishment, he left abashed after “Father” John Driscoll in long robes and clerical dignity had given him spiritual advice. Another agent found a large quantity of liquor, but Discoll still is missing. Smith, Walker in Talkies By United Press NEW YORK. Dec. 20.—After-din-ner speeches given through talkie movies, with former Governor Alfred E. Smith and Mayor Walker of New York sitting back and listening to themselves speak, were a feature ot a dinner given Thursday night in honor of Winfield Sheehan, motion picture executive.

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HINT BROKEN HEART WAS SUICIDE CAUSE Loser in 5250 000 Balm Suit Against British Air Ace Ends Life. Bu United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—Esther Case, 40, former European opera prima donna, had been singing a song called “Forgotten” almost nightly from radio stations here. It seemed to listeners that there was a genuine sob in her voice. Thursday night she was found dead in her apartment. She had cut her wrist with a razor blade and inhaled gas. Miss Case had been melancholy since she recently lost a $250,000 breach of promise suit a-gainst Captain Reginald Sheridan Carroll, British war ace, who now lives at Baldwin, L. I. She left a note asking that several trinkets piled on her bureau be “returned” to Captain Carroll. The singer was born in California and had been on the European stage for fourteen years before coming to New York. CHEER DOUG AND MARY Thousands Gather at Yokohama to Bid Movie Stars Farewell. Bv United Press YOKOHOMA, Dec. 20. —Despite the bitter cold and rain, thousands of persons gathered at the harbor to wave farewell to Douglas Fairbanks, his wife, Mary Pickford, and Jack Pickford, who sailed on the Asama Maru today after a visit in Japan. During the movie-stars’ visit they were greetd enthusiastically in every city. Also on the Asama was the Chinese naval mission, headed by Admiral Tu Hsi-Kuel, who will visit American navy yards and air fields as official guests of the state and navy departments. Depositors Get Bank Assets "lo's ANGELES. Dec. 20.—Depcsitors of the defunct Pan-Amer-ican bank will te able to buy Christmas presents. Superior Judge Elliott Craig ruled that approximately $500,000 recovered from the assets of the institution may be distributed to 15,000 depositors.

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' Some 'Turk pj United Press LOS ANGELES, Dec. 20. Add to the Yuletide catastrophes that of W. E. Praudweine, who was injured so badly by a big turkey, he was about to behead, that he had to go to a hospital. The gobbler, sensing something was amiss, lashed out with a leg, kicking Praudweine’s knife into his arm and severing an artery. Then the turkey pounced on the wounded man and tore his shirt to shreds.

PAPAL JUBILEE HELD Fius XI Starts Celebration at St. John’s Lateran. Bii United Press ROME, Dec. 20.—With a simple ceremony, unobserved except by his closest companions of the church, Pope Pius XI today began the celebration of his sacerdotal jubilee by a low mass at St. John’s Lateran. At 6:30 a. m., the pope left the Vatican, metering privately to tt.% Bascila, where he was met by Cardinal Basilio Pompili, archpriest of the Lateran, and welcomed to the papal altar. All the canons of St. John’s were present. At the conclusion of the mass, the pope visited the missionary museum, remaining there until 9:20, when he returned by motor to the Vatican. OIL MAN IS DIVORCED Winfield Scott’s Third Venture Is Ended by Wife. Bv United Press FT. WORTH, Tex., Dec. 20.—The third marriage of Winfield Scott, millionaire oil man, has ended in divorce. Charlotte Morgan Scott, whom he married in California in 1927, obtained the decree on grounds of cruelty. She was awarded custody of a three-year-old daughter. The latter will get SIO,OOO in cash and SIOO a week for eighteen years, under the court order.

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GERMAN REDS CLASH WITH BERLIN POLICE Two Communists Hurt in Labor Demonstration at Berlin. Bn United Press BERLIN, Dec. 20. —Two Communist demonstrators were injured in a brief, but decisive clash between would-be rioters and the police, Thursday night. Strong police forces were thrown into strategic places in advance of the expected demonstrations against unemployment, and as the crowd attempted to march on the city hall, they succeeded in dispersing the mob easily. Only two street clashes were reported, one broken up by a charge of mounted police, and the other after the police had fired a volley over the heads of the rioters. The two injured Communists were struck on the head by truncheons. REVOLUTION IS QUELLED Revolt Leader Faces Firing Squad in Mexico. Bv United Press NOGALES, Soronora, Mexico, Dec. 20—The latest attempt to inaugurate a Mexican revolution was believed to have been thwarted with the execution of General Carlos Bouquet by a firing squad and the imprisonment of five of his comrades. Arms, ammunition, maps and other military equipment were seizecj by federal authorities. General Bouquet, credited with being the leader of the Vasconcelos malcontents on the west coast of Mexico, was arrested several days ago on orders from General Juan Rico, federal commander here.

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COOLEY BURIAL RITES DELAYED Former Local Man Dies in California; Widow 111. Due to failing health of the widow, Mrs. Cora Edson Cooley, of Lcs Angeles, funeral arrangements for William B. Cooley, 72, former Indianapolis business man. who died in Los Angeles Wednesday, have not been completed. Mr. Cooley w r ent to California In 1923 alter his retirement from active business life in this city. He was born in Hanford City, and was engaged in banking and manufacture ing in that city before coming to Indianapolis in 1903. He was active in real estate operations, and was connected with the Plaza garage in Indianapolis. He was a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Woodstock Country Club, Columbia Club and the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Survivors, besides the widow, are a daughter, Mrs. R. W. McKinnon, Evanston, 111.; a granddaughter, Mrs. Carl F. Cushing, Indianapolis, and a grandson, William McKinnon, Chicago. BISHOP CANNON FIGHTS CAMERA MAN; YIELDS Churchman Is Loser After He Scuffles With Photographer. By United Press LOS ANGELES, Dec. 20.—Bishop James Cannon Jr., who is visiting his son at Montrose, near here, today had gained more renown in a new style of warfare. The gray-haired religious and dryleader of the south tried his hand at battling newspaper cameramen, who insisted on photographing him outside a justice court where his son, Richard W. Cannon, won a legal skirmish. Bishop Cannon failed when he scuffled with a photographer in an effort to wrest away his camera. “What right have you’ to take my photography?” the bishop demanded indignantly. The elderly ecclesiast finally consented to pose.

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CITY MAN STRESSES NEED OF ADVERTISING Ayres Official Addresses Local Real Estate Board. Advertising first must sell ideas, which in turn will sell merchandise, Sydney A. Sullivan, L. S. Ayres & Cos. publicity director, said in a talk before the Indianapolis Real Estate Board Thursday. In discussing institutional advertising, Sullivan said, everything a store owner and his employes do, particularly In their treatment of customers, is advertising, either good or bad. "Every Institution should have an advertising appropriation,” he said, “even a peanut stand, the appropriation for which, need only be for sufficient extra fuel to keep the whistle blowing.” M 6Efe& \§Mvm * i,V/ ,’W N AMUSEMENTS COLONIAL PPW Coming Sunday ”3 EDDIE ISr, 1 WARE - IQ? | MOTION PICTURES GRANADA lots MRGINIA AYE. TODAY Robert Armstrong “OH YEAH!” ALL TALKING Talking Short Subjects J

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