Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 211, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 January 1930 — Page 2

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STEPS TAKEN TO PURCHASE LAND FROM CHURCHES Appraisers Must Be Named Before Plaza Ground Is Bought. Initial steps for actual purchase of the First Baptist and Second Presbyterian churches on the War Memorial plaza were being considered toaay by county commissioners Acording to the board president John E. Shearer, three must be taken by commissioners and church delegates before negotiations ore completed. They are: Adoption of a declarative resolution by commissioners and church trustees for an agreement between churches and county. Appointment of appraisers, the number of which has not been decided. Posting of a thirty-day notice to taxpayers lor submission of remonstrances and a public hearing. Issuance of bonds is the fourth step. Whether either measure will be undertaken immediately has not been expressed by the board, although it was indicated there will be delay. • "We can't hurry into this purchase without d'.sregarding the sentiments of some objectors, and this is not our intention, - ’ Shearer seid. ‘ Everybody has a right to be beard, and we shall manage the purchase so that there will be no backlash,” he said.

STORM TOLL HEAVY 38 Dead in European Gale; Tug Crew Drowns. United Pteux s LONDON. Jan. 13. —A violet storm which whiped across the southern part of England, the English channel, France, Belgium and Holland, took a heavy toll of life before it ended today, as sudenly as it had begun. At least twenty-eight persons were drowned or killed by accidents directly attributed to the storm. Damage in London. Paris and rural sections of England, France and Holland was great, with communications disrupted. The admiralty tug Saint Genncy sank thirty-two miles northwest of TJshant with tiie loss of twentythree lives. First announcement by the admiralty said twenty were drowned, but later advices increased the toll. The dead included Lieutenant Charles F. Paul who went down with his ship.

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‘Jim’ Sees Life —Inside and Out

BY EDWARD C. FOULKE HEAT of the July sun dropped heavily around the sixty toiling convicts in the shale pit where "Jim" Smith, artist, heaved a pick-ax day after day. ' Jim” is an old man now at 24, and he stares through the Manon county jail windows today thinking about the shale pit and his other adventures up to now. rivaling Diamond Dick and Merriwell. He laid aside his pencil and drawing pad to narrate the events .vhich, he says, are the four distinct scenes in his life.

recalls 16. and the “studio ’ in his St. Louis home where he first “ground out" youthful action pictures in pencil, and the visions he had of becoming an accomplished artist. But the call of the road was greater than the call of the pencil. a a a I -sOUR years later he married. { and the stork flew into the chimney of his Mansfield, 0., home as Cupid flew out. When his wife Edada divorced him, she given custody of Donald, the 4-year-old son. jim joined the army, leaving five months later with an honorable discharge. Even then, he says, age was overtaking him. “But. about that stretch I did in the Illinois state farm at Belleville after I left the army? “Ninety days, and every day I drew a picture,” he said. “I sat on the rock pile, pounding away, drawing mental pictures which I clapped on paper in my cell at night. Around one of these I hinged tne story of my domestic life and sold it to a St. Louis newspaper for S2OO. “It was out of prison and back again for me. In July. 1926. I was doing a year's ‘jolt’ at the Indiana state prison for receiving stolen goods. Two months had passed, and one day, while our gang was pounding away in the shale pit I got a funny notion. "In the shale I dug a hole, just big enough to hide me and my buddy. We crawled down into it one evening at quitting time. The gang and the guards trailed back to the “big house,” and we made our getaway. “I decided I was going straight, but the breaks must have been all wrong.

THE bulls picked me up one day and I was carted to the reformatory to do a one-year hitch for escaping. I did it, and got free again. “Meanwhile, I had met a girl at Marion, Ind.” The youth hesitated long enough in his tale to cast a glance toward the woman's section of the court.y jail. “She’s over there now,” he said. “Federal authorities are holding us both for the Mann act. We’ve both been locked up for 109 days.” “I love the girl.” he said in concluding. "If I ever get out in the free air again I’m going straight.” Each day the out-going mail at the jail contains sketches which Jim has drawn to pass the time away.

District legion to Meet 1 }j.u 7 ifvtcA Svccinl RUSHVILLE, Ind., Jan. 13. Reginald Faster post of the Ameri--1 can Legion will be host Wednesday i to a Si.xth district convention of the j Legion and auxiliary.

Jim Smith

Train Kills Two Boys SEELYVILLE, ind., Jan. 13.—’Two boys were killed and a third escaped death when they were struck by a west-bound passenger train as they stepped from the path of a freight train going in the opposite direction. The dead are Russell Walton, 12, and Clifford Walton. 9. Norval Walton, 15, was bruised. All lived near here.

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Optometrists Provide Dry Alibi

IF you can see green, farther than you can see red, in your indirect line of vision, you’re intoxicated. So declared Dr. W. Jerome Heather of the Pennsylvania State College of Optometry at the annual convention of the Indiana Association of Optometrists this afternoon at the Severin. Whenever a person’s normal sequence of color vision becomes disturbed temporarily and it can not be traced to organic defects, he is intoxicated.” This does ont mean, necessarily, through the drinking of liquor, but possibly by too many cigars, cigarettes or too much coffee, according to Dr. Heather. The normal sequence of vision is white, blue, red and green.

When a motorist approaches a red light and it appears white, the motorist is drunk, Dr. Hentles said. An optdhietrist, through use of the trigometric campograph, an instrument to determine the sequences of color in indirect vision, can tell immediately whether the driver is intoxicated, he said. Through study of the patient for several days it will become possible to determine whether one too many cigars, or one too many cups of coffee caused the maladjustment. All normal vision is such, that by looking straight ahead, a per-

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JUDGE STAMPS BRAND QF DRUNK ON ATTORNEY Maholm Lashed in Court by Collins for Action in Murder Case. Charges that T. Ernest Maholm, attorney, who is under suspended sentence for direct contempt cf court, was “beastly intoxicated” when he failed to complete the trial of a murder case, was hurled at Maholm today by Criminal Judge James A. Collins. Maholm appeared before Collins with his former client, Andrew to explain whom he had chosen for his attorney. Complications arose in the case recently after Maholm had agreed to retire as counsel under penalty of fine and jail sentence, and Alvah H. Rucker, attorney, was appointed. Rucker later withdrew and the law firm of Clawson, Bonifield & Ward entered appearance for Judt. Questioned today by Collins, Judt asserted he did not want Maholm as his attorney. Frank E. Blackman, former law partner of Maholm, who appeared as a “substitute” for the latter on Dec. 16. in the second day of Judt's trial, also was questioned by Collins for his interest in the case. Despite his previous declaration that ‘he had no interest in the Judt trial,” Blackman today asserted he had received more than half the fees in the case.” He filed a petition today, setting forth his connection. Evidently there are two attorneys oefore this bar who will not tell the truth,” Collins asserted.

son maw see white objects to either side. The next range of color will be blue and so on. Many times bad teeth cause the held of vision to become constricted and in that event within thirty hours after the extraction of the bad teeth the sequence will become normal. Dr. Heather also declared color blindness is a misnomer as it is really chromo amblyopia or dimness of vision, which may be remedied. The convention opened Sunday and will close Tuesday. A banquet tonight will be the feature.

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Wilbur Winship, who has been appointed street commissioner by the board of public works. He is a Democrat.

STRUCK BY CAR; HURT SERIOUSLY Man Steps in Path of Auto, Skull Fractured. Stepping from behind a sti'eet car at East Washington and La Salle streets Sunday night, Carlton Boilr, 28. of 2119 Gent avenue, was struck by an automobile driven by Ben Sowers, 40, of 701 North Bradley avenue. Boiler's skull is fractured, citv hospital attendants say. Miss Emaline Pulliam, 25, formerly of this city, was injured critically in an auto accident Saturday night seven miles north of Columbus, her present home. Her skull was fractured, and physicians say she may die. Two men, drivers of the autos that collided, also were injured seriously. Others hurt in week-end accidents here were: Ben Hull, 1424 East Vermont street, scalp wounds; Mrs. Nora Updik. 60, of 1441 Spann avenue, face cut; Everett Harrell, 22, of 1109 Fowler street, cuts on head; Vernon Dailey, 29, of 139 South Illinois street, and Francis Struther, 22. Negro. 2151 Boulevard place, bruised on head.

YOUNG GUNMAN NABBED Admits Intention of Shooting at Council of League. B I'nUed Pres* GENEVA, Jan. 13.—A 20-year-old youth who said he planned to fire a revolver in the chamber where the League of Nations council met today was arrested by Swiss police. The youth, Paul Strub of Winterbhur. had a gun in his pocket and said he intended to “call attention" to the necessity for study of cancer cures. His father suffers of cancer. He was turned oyer to the local asylum authorities.

ASKS PROBE OF COTTON MARKET TIPS TO GROUP Growers Aver Farm Board Member Was Paid $50,000. ; Bit Vnitrd Prrst WASHINGTON. Jan. 13.—A letter expressing the belief that Carl Williams, cotton member of the | farm board, may have received 550.000. “or at least part of it,” for , furnishing the Oklahoma Cotton i Growers' Association information on the Cotton market, was received today by the senate cotton price I investigation committee. The letter, from E. R. Talley of Magnum, Okla., declared growers in his county “would like to know if the Oklahoma Cotton Growers’ Association paid $50,000 for the marketing information, who this money went to.” “It is generally believed that Carl Williams received this money or at least a part of it, possibly through the American Cotton Exchange,” the letter added. Talley enclosed letters from W. O. Lawson and J. L. Powell, Magnum citizens, in support of the charge. The letter from Lawson said: “On or about Dec. 16. 1929, I sent you the following telegram: At a meeting of the board of directors of the Oklahoma Cotton Growers Association in September, 1928, Carl William in a talk said that he could forecast the price of cotton not only for the present year, but for the next year. Said not to make this public.’ ” Powell’s letter said: “On Mar. 18. 1929, I went into the office of S. L. Morley, general manager of the Oklahoma Cotton Growers’ Association, with my sales fixation blanks and asked Morley to fix the price on my cotton. He said, or asked me if I had to have the money then. I told him that I could wait a short time. He said that if I would*wait thirty or sixty days that the price of cotton would be 24 or 25 cents per pound. “This was according to the information that he said he had, the best information that could be had, as it cost $50,000.” Moreley, the witness before the committee, denied his association had paid Williams any money. BLAST MOTHER’S HOPE Description of Man in Prison Not lake U. S. Doughboy’s. ft ii United Prexn WASHINGTON, Jan. 13—Hope of an American mother that her son, reported killed in action during the World war, might still be living, but confined in a French military prison, was believed definitely shattered today. Senator Thomas (Demi, Okla.) announced receipts of a report through the state department which said the description of Merlin E. Pritchard, Oklahoma doughboy, does not coincide with that of the French prisoner, who claimed to be j Pritchard. The prisoner is five j inches shorter than Pritchard, it was j said.

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J. J. Gates, experienced garage manager and automobile mechanic, who has been appointed superintendent of the city garage. He is a Democrat.

SMUTS VISITS AMERICA L WASHINGTON. Jan. eral Jan Christian Smuts, former premier of British South Africa and pioneer League of Nations advocate, arrrived here today for a three-day visit. While here, General Smuts will confer with President Hoover and deliver an address on causes of war. Conferences with other officials also are on his program. He lunched today with members of the senate foreign relations committee.

Help Check Meningitis The Health Department asks your co-operation to prevent the spread of meningitis. At the first indication of any symptoms call your doctor. Meanwhile, avoid infection. Keep mouth and throat free from germs by using a mild, but effective antiseptic. La Lasine officially tested by the U. S. Government is an effective modern antiseptic for mouth and skin, mild enough to use full strength. Rinse the mouth frequently with i,a Lasine. Use it as a gargle or spray, especially before and after mingling with crowds. Before eating wash harftls thoroughly and rub with La Lasine. Make children do likewise. La Lasine kills germs. Keep La Lasine in your home and at your place of business. Carry the convenient pocket flask with you during the day. Use frequently. All drug and department stores have I.a Lasine. In bottles, one dollar size, also slxt.v-five cent size. In flasks, thirty-five cent size, also ten cent size. La Lasine The modern mouth and skin antiseptic.

JAN. 13, 1930

MATERIAL MEN OPEN TWO-DAY ANNUAL PARLEY Prominent Speakers Will Appear at Association Convention. Building material dealers, manufacturers and producers convened at the Claypool today for the thirteenth annual convention of tin Indiana Builders’ Supply Association, lasting through Tuesday. Paul V. McNutt, past national commander of the American Legion and dean of the Indiana university law school, was the principal speaker at luncheon. The morning's session included a meeting ol association directors. Other prominent men who will appear on the program are J. J. Kiser. Meyer-Kiser bank president; Harry A. Fenton, legal counsel ol the association: P. J. Combs, New York, Atlas-Portland Cement Company president: Frank Dunning, Cleveland, manager of National Builders’ Supply Association, and Brigadier-General Dan Edwards, retired United States army officer, who will be the principal speaker at a dinner Tuesday night. Officers of the association arc Heber E. Ellis. Greencastle, president; M. Y. Casill, Dayton, Ind., vicepresident; T. Vernon Lowe, Mishawaka, treasurer, and R. H. Hildebrand, South Bend, secretary’.

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