Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 213, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 January 1930 — Page 2

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MAYOR DENIES HE ACCEPTED BOOZE GRAFT Trial of East Chicagoans Near End; Case May Go to Jury Thursday. Bv United Press HAMMOND. Ind.. Jan. 15.—Trial of Mayor R. leigh P. Hale and nineteen other East Chicago men on liquor conspiracy charges, neared its close in federal court here today. Completion of defense testimony is expected before adjournement today, with likelihood that final arguments would send the case to the jury Thursday. Defense counsel expected to call only a ew character witnesses. These with several defendants who are to testify in their own behalf, will compile the testimony. Mayor Kale, Police Chief Jame? E. Regan and. three indicted policemen testified Tuesday in specific denial of ibe government’s charges. Four alleged underworld leaders —Grice Chandler, Sanford Overall, Eldridge White and Nick Sudovich — are not expected to be witnesses. Statement made to department of justice ai'-nts by Chandler and Overall formed an important, part cf the government's ease. Complaint that his force was inadequate o halt liquor law violations formed the basis of Chief Retan’s testimony. Nearly 4.000 liquor search warrants were issued to his officers in the last four years, he declared. Hale. Regan and the three officers, all denied they had accepted protection money. On cross-examination. Earl J. Davis, special government prosecutor, stressed acquaintance of Sudovich, known as the Twin City booze baron, with the officers. Chief Regan testified to appearance as a witness for Sudovich when he was convicted in Valparaiso last fall on a charge of conspiracy in the murder of Uron Marovich. District Attorney Loomis indicated the government would require only r short time for its rebuttal testimony, but a reported secret conference of his staff Tuesday night with Pat Roche, former ace of the justice department, now chief investigator for State's Attorney Swanson of Cook county. 111., indicated he might present some surprise testimony. REGISTRATION JAN. 21 AT INDIANA CENTRAL New Course in Meteorology to Be Given Second Semester. Mid-semester registration at Indiana Central college will be held Jan. zl, and classes for the second semester will be resumed Jan. 22, P. G. Snively, registrar, announced today. Enrollment figures will be near those for the first semester, according to college officials. More than four hundred students, including 175 freshmen, were enrolled the past semester. Dates for the spring recess have been set for April 16 to 22. New courses announced include a meteorology course designed for students expecting to enter United Staten weather bureau werk, and a course in business administration, offered by Snively. BOARD TO MAKE STUDY Survey to Determine Police, Firemen Fitness and Age. Careful investigation of the personnel of the police and fire departments to determine their “fitness for duty” will be made in the near iuture, it was indicated today. Frank E. Dailey, board of safety member, declared there is a need for a study of the ages and physical fitness of police and firemen. Such a check likely would result in retirement of a large number, it is believed. Fire in Waste Paper Spontaneous combustion caused a fire in waste paper in the basement of the Sears, Roebuck Cos. store, Massachusetts avenue and Alabama street, early today. There was no loss.

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NECLEY LOSES FEDERAL POST Veteran Agent Among Trio Failing in Tests. Hoy Negley, veteran of the Indiana federal prohibition enforcement force, and Clyde Haines, for a short time an operative in Indiana, ore among lour dismissed from service at Toledo today, according to dispatches. William A. Appleman, chief of the Toledo federal prohibition forces for three years, and three of his five deputies were dismissed for failure to pass government civil service examinations, which all agents have ; been forced to take. Negley, Haines and Frank Kennedy were the three released. Negley. a resident of New Albany, Ind., has been connected with federal prohibition forces since shortly after the federal machinery to enforce the Volstead act was set up. He operated throughout the entire state of Indiana, with offices here. He was transferred to Toledo about six months ago. Haines, an Ohio operative, was sent to Indian- about the same time, but was connected with the Indiana forces only a month and returned to Toledo. t PROPERTY IS SOLO Implement Company Takes Lease for Branch. Leasing of 12,000 square feet of floor space in the Indianapolis industrial center for five years was announced by Edward Barker & Son, realtors. Minneapolis-Moline Power Implement Company of Minneapolis, Minn., took the lease for their Indianapolis branch. Albert and Tharideus R. Baker bought, through the Barker firm, property located at 321 to 327 East South street from Patrick H. O’Donnell, commissioner for the heirs of Catherine Kennedy, for $15,000. H. Kohnstamm & Cos., laundry supply jobbers, leased 10.000 square feet in the industrial building. Benjamin J. Brown and Edwin Anderson took a five-year lease on a storeroom at 127 East Ohio street. NEW FREIGHT SERVICE _ Nickel Plate Will Provide Faster Train to Jersey City. A freight train between Peoria. 111., and Buffalo, N. Y.. will be inaugurated Jan. 20 by the Nickel Plate railway. A train out of Indianapolis at 4 a. m. daily will connect with the new train at Tipton at 5:45 a. m., reaching Cleveland at 9:30 a. m. (eastern standard time) and Buffalo at 5:45 the next morning. The new schedule will provide third morning delivery at Hoboken and Jersey City. N. J., of cars out of Indianapolis. J

READY FOR PLAZA RAZING OBJECTIONS

County commissioners today were prepared to accept remonstrances of taxpayers and organizations opposing the purchase by the county of First Baptist and Second Presbyterian churches on the War Memorial plaza. This is the second definite step of county officials and executives of both churches toward razing the edifices for completion in 1933. Commissioners Tuesday made the first stride by passing a declaratory resolution setting out intentions of the county to complete negotiations. Remonstrances must be filed by Feb. 22, the resolution declares, and at expiration of the time the county board ■will pass on the question whether the objections are sufficient to abandon the purchase. In event the board passes favorably on the purchase after that period, appraisers will be appointed —one by each of the three com-

GAIN CONTROL OYER DISEASE Meningitis Knowledge Is Aided, Club Is Told. Valuable knowledge of preventive and curative treatment of spinal meningitis was discovered during the recent epidemic in Indianapolis, according to Dr. Herman G. Morgan. city health officer. Serum treatment has been perfected to a degree far beyond the knowledge of medical science previous to the recent epidemic, Dr. Morgan declared Tuesday night before the Sherman-Emerson Civic League. Means of determining and controlling carriers have been discovered. Betty Jane Hall. 6, of 210 North Harding street, is the latest to contract the malady, making the seven-ty-fifth case in the last five weeks. No deaths were reported. Dr. Morgan declared the health condition of the city is the best it has been since early last fall. Majority of the carriers of the disease have been released and the quarantine on the remainder is expected to be lifted soon. Continued use of antiseptics was urged as a general hygienic measure.

Convictions in Criminal Cases Relatively Few

Safe Now By United Press CHICAGO. Jan. 15.—James A. Fields took no chances. He got an injunction to restrain his wife, Mrs. Mary Fields, from killing him and then he got a divorce so if she did kill him she could not collect his $17,000 insurance. Fields, driver of a light mail truck, testified he overheard his wife suggesting that a driver of a ten-ton truck smash into him and claim it was an accident.

missioners and an undetermined number by church executives. Board’s resolution declares the county should proceed alone in purchasing the land owned and oc upied by both churches, carrying oir. purposes of an act passed by the Indiana legislature, March 11, 1921. The purchase Is feasible, the resolution continues, because “the World War Memorial commission, instead of placing said memorial in the block in which it agreed to place the same, placed it in the block now occupied by such churches and caused agitation for said churches to be removed.” The shrine w-as to have been erected one block north of its present site, according to first plans of the Plaza. Resolution is attested by Commissioners George Snider, Charles O. Sutton and John E. Shearer, and County Auditor Harry Dunn.

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LAWYERS IN SESSION City Bar Body Is Host to State Organization. The Indanapolis Bar Association will be host to members of the Indiana State Bar Association at the mid-year meeting at the Columbia Club Thursday. James A. Van Osdol will speak on the Indiana crime conference at the 10 a. m. session and a luncheon will be .held at noon. During the afternoon session a debate will be held on the constitutional convention plans. James W. Beck, former solicitorgeneral of the United States and congressman from Pennsylvania, will speak at a night banquet.

Less Than’ Half Tried in 1929 Were Punished, Figures Show. Less than half the defendants tried for crimes in criminal municipal courts in 1929 were convicted, it was shown in year-end statistics prepared by County Clerk George O. Hutsell. Complete figures gives the number of defendants who paid fines or were committed to penal institutions as 9,843, while total arrests during the year were 31,379. It was the first year such figures have been compiled. Persons charged with being Intoxicated were the chief offenders, the record shows, with 4,528 slated for trial during the year. Fines were paid by 2.162; jail sentences were served by 114. and 292 served sentences at the Indiana state farm. Liquor law’ Violators numbered 2,489; 585 paid fines or served penal sentences. Drunken drivers were listed as 747, with 137 convictions. Motor vehicle laws were violated by 6,905 defendants, while 2,318 of the number were convicted, a majority paying fines. Only twenty persons out of 1.450 arrested for gambling served imprisonment sentences. Fines were paid by 232. In Marion criminal court 1,432 cases were tried last year, out of which number 534 persons received penal sentences, 104 were meted jail sentences, and 199 were fined. Liquor law violators held a majority with 282 cases, 134 of which paid fines or served sentences. Burglary cases numbered 133. with thirty-five convictions; assault and battery with intent to kill seventy-two cases wtih forty-one convictions, and robbery cases thirty-eight with twentyfive convictions.

NEW HARMONY BANK CLOSING NALTSMERGEB State Department Order Stops Consolidation Negotiations. Closing of the New Harmony Bank and Trust Company of New Harmony, Posey county, on orders of the state banking department Tuesday, is expected to interfere with merger negotiations between the closed institution and the First National bank of New Harmony. The negotiations had been reported to the state banking department and were in line with the department’s policy of consolidating small city banking units. A contract for the merger had been signed. The negotiations were interfered with several weeks ago, when J. W. Whitehead, president of the First National bank of New Harmony, committed suicide. The First National bank affairs were not involved in his death and the institution was not closed. Closing of the New Harmony Bank and Trust Company was ordered because of frozen assets and loss of deposits, Luther F. Symons, state bank examiner, said. Burglars Get 5664 Bv United Preß9 TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Jan. 15. Burglars entered the T.. H. I. & E. ticket office here today and escaped with $664 from a safe.

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The top photo depicts a scene common in Vincennes since the Wabash has gene on a rampage to drive scores of families from their homes and cause thousands of dollars of damage. Not an ark, but the home of J. M. Cooper, R. R. 16, Box 40, is pictured in the photo next below. The residence, surrounded with from two to three feet of water, even with the low floor window level, is located north of Liberty beach on the west bank of White river. In the third photo from the top workmen from the city street department, filling sandbags at Warfleigh. One hundred fifty men worked all Tuesday night filling and carrying the bags to nearby levees (next lower photo) through which water was seeping and, it w r as feared, undermining the banks. The bottom photo shows the Main street bridgehead at Vincennes, where the water has reached the street level, flooding the B. & O. tracks, shown in the foreground. The swollen stream is lapping at the steel girders supporting the bridge floorboards.

SELECT GROUP FOR INDUSTRIAL MOVE

Committee for the purpose of launching “Achievement week” and the “Forward Indianapolis” movement of the Chamber of Commerce has been formed, Linden E. Brooks, publicity manager of the “Achievement week” program, announced today. Milo H. Stuart, principal of Arsenal Technical high school, has been appointed chairman; Lester Nagley, executive secretary; Karl Wolfe, Jesse Hanft and Dr. Orien W. Fifer, members. Charles E. Watkins of Chicago, former district governor of Rotary’ from Indiana, will act as spokesman for the committee and educational director for Achievement week and the Forward Indianapolis program. He will speak to city clubs and civic groups, urging community organizations to act for civic advancement. Watkins will be in Indianapolis from Jan. 20 to Feb. 8. At the membership luncheon a’ the chamber today. Howard E. Galvin, director of the “Forward Indianapolis” movement, explained

PERSONNEL IS CUT BY SCHOOL BOARD

Woman Pays Wife Provides Fine for Spouse, Guilty of Annoying Girl.

A WIFE walked to the bench of Judge Thomas E. Garvin in municipal court Tuesday afternoon to pay $26 in fines assessed against her husband on charges he paid unwelcome attentions to another girl. William Hook, of 2105 Napoleon street, the husband, was fined $1 and costs on charges of assault and battery and $5 and costs for malicious trespass on testimony of Miss Ruth Davis, 839 South Meridian street, that he followed her home from work, hit her and twisted her arm and then kicked down a door to . ’ach her. She declared he -was married and denied she had ever been in his company. Hook’s defense was that the girl “would not leave him alone" and. he told Garvin, his wife was in court and knew of the affair. After hearing the girl’s evidence, supported by that of the landlord that sls damage had been done to his property, Garvin fined Hook. The woman, he pointed out as his wife, paid the fines. LUMBER GROUP OPENS SESSION Reports and Addresses Are Given at Meeting. More than 800 lumber company representatives met today for the opening of the forty-sixth annual convention of the Retail Lumber Dealers’ Association of Indiana at the Claypool. Exhibitors of lumber products from all parts of the country were present and 100 exhibits were dis-v played. Reports from Secretary C. D. Root, Crown Point, and Treasurer Harry Moore, Indianapolis, were read at the afternoon session. Speakers today included Dr. Paul Ivey, of Los Angeles, Cal.; Felix McWhirter, Feoples State Bank president; Ben F. Springer, Wisconsin Retail Lumber Dealers Association president, and J. F. Carter, of the Southern Pine Association. Sessions will continue through Thursday and close with a banquet for Indiana lumber retailers in the Riley room of the Claypool, Thursday night. Woman’s Arm Fractured Mrs. Nancy Ridgewood, 41, of 605 Sanders street, suffered a fractured arm when her automobile collided with a car driven by Marion Chapman, 56, Greenfield, at Sherman drive and East Washington street today.

that although the organization had obtained ample revenue from its membership to operate efficiently, an additional fund would be necessary to assist in the city’s industrial development. “The only way to obtain industries now is to ‘sell’ the city to the prospects,” he said, “and this requires working capital.” The board of directors in planning industrial development and a program of national advertising. Poor Teeth—Poor Health Can Von Afford to Neglect Your*? Good Work— Moderate Price* The People’s Dentists 36 West Washington Street HOURS—B a. m. to 6 p. m. Sundays—9 a. m. to 12 m. EVAN S' AT ALL GROCERS

20 Are Dismissed as Step in Program to Keep Within Budget. 'Determined to keep within the , budget, the new board of school ‘ commissioners Tuesday night approved the dismissal of nineteen . custodians and one matron, on recommendation of H. Frank Osier, acting superintendent of buildings and grounds. The board also confirmed the ac- \ tion of D. T. Weir, acting superintendent of schools, to dismiss Mrs. Lulu Mae Miller, special investigator for the superintendent’s office. Mrs. Miller, employed under the direction of Charles F. Miller, former superintendent, had no contract. Difficulty was encountered monthly m meeting her salary. “I did not want this kind of official," Weir explained. Teacher appointments recommended by Weir and approved by . the board included Ermal Bedden. Evadna Coveil and Anna L. Geis, all of elementary schools and under temporary contracts. Resignation of Byron Williams, director of research | and publicity, was accepted. Reinstatement of William O’Nan, foreman of custodians; Dan Nolan, labor foreman, and Philip Kersey, foreman electrician, on Osier’s rec--1 ommendation, also were approved by the board, as well as reinstatement of six custodians, a matron and a teamster, who had been : ousted under the old regime, j A $1,000,000 temporary loan resoj lution was adopted under suspen - ! sion of rules on the recommendation of A. B. Good, business director. A ! sum of $315,000 will be needed Feb. j 1 for the January pay roll, he [said, and $600,000 for the second ; month. These loans will carry the schools until the spring tax installment is received. Sumner Clancy, attorney for the board of trustees of Center township, appeared before the board and urged that negotiations be completed for the purchase of Center township school No. 1. The matter was referred to Good and Albert Baker, attorney for the board.

DISCUSS DEATH RATE ■ | Tuberculosis Commission in Initial Meeting. The tuberculosis death rate in Indiana hospitalization and education work, were discussed at the initial meeting of the special tuberculosis commission appointed by Governor Harry G. Leslie Tuesday at the Sunnyside sanatorium in Oaklandon. Members of the commission present Tuesday were: Woods A. Caperton, chairman, Indianapolis; John S. Wright, Indianapolis; Anders Rasmussen, New Albany; Miss Anna Lutz, Lafayette; M. A. Auerbach, executive secretary of the Indiana Tuberculosis Association. Robert C. Simpson of Vincennes, sixth member of the commission, was unable to attend the session. Padlocked Place Burns Bu United Press INDIANA HARBOR, Ind., Jan. 15. —The Indiana Inn, a resort recently padlocked by federal court order, after a raid in which it was found liberally stocked with intoxicants, was destroyed by fire this morning with a loss of $50,000. If Kidneys Act Bad Take Salts Says Backache Often Means You Have Not Been Drinking Enough Water. When you wake up with backache and dull misery in the kidney region it may mean you have been eating foods which create acids, says a wellknown authority. An excess §f such acids overworks the kidneys in their effort to filter it from the blood and they become sort of paralyzed and loggy. When your kidneys get sluggish and clog you must relieve them, like you relieve your bowels, removing all the body’s urinous waste, else you have backache, sick headache, dizzy spells; your stomach sours, tongue is coated, and when the weather is bad you have rheumatic twinges. Either consult a good, reliable physician at once or get from your pharmacist about four ounces of Jad salts; take a tablespoonful in a glass of water before breakfast for a few days and your kidneys may then act fine. This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with lithia, and has been used for years to help clean and stimuate sluggish kidneys, also to neutralize acids in the system, so they no longer irritate, thus often relieving bladder weakness. Jad Salts is inexpensive, cannot injure and makes a delightful, effervescent lithia-water drink. Drink lots of good water.—Advertisement. EXPERT TRUSS FITTING AT 129 W. WASH. ST. STORE Abdominal Supports and Shoulder Braces HAAG’S CUT-PRICE DRUGS 3ROOM OUTFIT Living room, bedroom and kitchen complete. Kecon- f1 1 Q ditioned V* EASY TERMS* Lewis Furniture Cos. United Trade-In Store It 14 S. MERIDIAN ST.

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EXCESS SHOWN IN PAYMENTS BY LAKE CO. Board of Accounts Probe Reveals Expenditures Over List Cost. New reports, bringing total excess payments on office furnishings ano paving materials in Lake county during 1924, 1925 and 1926 to $226,313, were filed today witn Lawrence F. Orr, chief examiner of the state board of accounts, by Charles E. Weybright and George R. Carlisle, field examiners. Excess payments of $174,016 to Edward W. Andresen of Chicago for a paving material, patented under the name "Tuf-Tread,” are shown in one report. Market price of the material and labor involved is listed I at $135,345, while Lake county com--1 inissioners paid $309,362. Total payi ment to Andresen during the period ! from Feb. 25. 1924. to March 28, 1927. are listed at $335,046. During the period two groups of county commissioners, all Republicans, and two county auditors, were in office. During a portion of the period. Otto G. Fifield, secretary of state, was Lake county treasurer. In a second report filed today, the examiners show excess payment ol i 31,297 on purchase of filing cases , for the office of R. M. Dering of Gary, Lake county controller. The list price was $395.75, on which the county was entitled to 40 per cent, discount, and payments of $1,693 are shown. A third report shows excess payment of $12,942 on office furniture for the office of Donald K. Groves of Hammond, Lake county treasurer. A total of $13,728 was paid for the furniture. Tlie reports are in addition to others filed about three months ago. in which excess payments of $50,000 were shown. All reports wlll.be turned over to Attorney-General James M. Ogden ! for action. Collection of the excess | payment will be sought. Train Kills Man TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Jan. 15. i William Denny. 51. foreman of the | Indiana Gas Utilities plant here, was i killed today when he stumbled and ! fell in front of a moving passenger j train. |l A Mortgage I || Loan Plan W ! 1 You Should U | \ Know About I 1 Under the Metro* 1 I C,rlo P p’‘o°‘’ 0 °‘’“ ;4 f 1 \ ot 1 I the property > | l only 6% interest. I For a foil eX^Tr ! ■ or call f°r 8 I tion,wr hc I 1 our folder, I | Metropolitan an I I Other Mortgag 9 Loan Plans. 1 1 Loans Wttedjo | I improved proper* 1 I t ym Indianapolis. I II fa commtsstott u I 1 Sniat Hanks Northwest Comer < Pennsylvania and Market jl hat Disfiguring Veil of Black Heads and Pimples Quickly Removed! XJ JK \ThataDifference3Dayß Will Make! QKIN Blemishes, Hull Sallow Pasty Complex- ° ions, and Blotches usually yield to proper treatment. The cause roust be removed. Moet blemishes come all too frequently from a toxic blood supply poisoned by intestinal stasis. Continued, the condition leads to auto-intoxication and many serious illnesses. These signs are Nature’s signals of a septic system, that lowers bodily-reeietance and makes infection easy. Few realize when they’re septic. It cornea on so gradually. There may be daily movements —partial elimination. No one will tell the Septio of his fetid breath and body odor. But your mirror will tell. Nature signals her need of a tiny Calcium uaferl Try This Ten-Cent Tent A ten-oent packageof Stuart's Calcium Wafers —the convenient pocket size—should work wonders for any septic. Gentle in their laxative action, they are thorough internal cleansers —they help to purify the system and the blood-stream of poisonous wastes. Quickened vigor—mental and physical—4s often the immediate result. The Skin clears. Blemishes vanish. Eyes become brighter and more sparkling. Radiant health glows from a live and colorful complexion. Let one dime open this easy way to skin-beauty for you. At AU Drug Store a; 10c and 60c Sixes STUART’S Calcium wafers