Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 217, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 January 1930 — Page 5

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MAX ADMITTED . TO OFFICERS BY • BANDIT 'VICTIM' *fwo Caught in Restaurant • Kitchen Preparing Steak Dinner. Confession of one bandit “victim” that his story of a holdup was a hoax, arrest of three men on burglary charges, and arrest of two others on vagrancy charges for investigation of possible connection with burglaries, marked police warfare against robberies in Indianapolis over the week-end. Harold Ely, 20, of 1723 Lambegt street, jitney bus driver, who reported a holdup Saturday morning In which he claimed $lO was taken ►from him by two men at Union |and Caven street Friday night, adtjpitted his story was false, detectives slay. He was arrested on charges of embezzlement. „ Former Employe Elmer Peace and Porter Stewart, both of 235 Oliver avenue, were charged with burglary after being arrested in a restaurant in the Graylynn hotel basement. Eleventh and Pennsylvania streets. The two rwere frying steaks when police entered. Peace, a former employe of the restaurant, said he entered through a window and opened a door for his companion. The place has been entered and food taken .several times recently, police said. George Cave, Negro, 41, 2046 Columbia avenue, was charged with burglary, alleged to have entered the nome of General H. Boyce, 1906 Martindale avenue, and to have -stolen clothing and goods valued at SIOO. Strong Box Taken Lester Johnson, 35. of 609 1 ■ Massachusetts avenue, and Christy Thorp, 29, of 32' iieauty avenue, were arrested on vagrancy charges and a third man who ran is sought for investigation in connection with burglaries. Police say the three were acting suspiciously near a filling stayiion on West Washington street. ’ Johnson carried a hammer when arrested. a Yeggmen entered the Meridian Hardware Company's office 305 North Illinois street, Sunday night and battered the combination off a safe, taking the strong box containing S2OO. Entrance was gained through another building by removal of a fire door and by boring around the office door lock. The yeggmen did not gain entrance to the safe’s • strong box, containing a larger sum Yeggmen battered the combination off a safe in the Shell filling station at Keystone and Southeastern avenues early Sunday and escaped with SBS. p Kidnaped by Negroes L. M. Gilliland, Continental Coffee Company salesman. Louisville, Ky., was kidnaped by two Negro bandits, who robbed him of $227 in cash and $163 in checks and his <rruck, driving him to Indianapolis, where he was released at Ohio street and Capitol avenue Sunday. Gilliland reported to police that the Negroes, apparently having trouble with their car near Jeffersonville. Ind., asked him for a uift” to town and then threatened him with guns. The stolen truck was found abandoned in the 300 block on North Senate avenue. Articles valued at SSO were taken from the home of Mrs. Grace Evans. 2435 Shriver avenue, by burglars. A window of the D. Newman & Son clothing store, 302 Indiana avenue, was broken and clothing was taken. FIRE CAUSES 5750.000 . LOSS AT EVANSVILLE Half a Block of Business Buildings Destroyed Early Today. r Bv United Press EVANSVILLE, Ind., Jan. 20. Fire swept through hair a business block in the heart of the Evansville business district early today, causing damage estimated at $750,030. All buildings in the block were ing stores and offices. The cause was undetermined. Main street was closed to traffic when the blackened walls were found to be weakened, threatening to topple into the street. The DeJong cloak house suffered the greatest loss. Guests in a hotel in the rear of the block were forced to flee in night clothes as smoke filled rooms. It was said that there was little Insurance on the buildings and stock. marriage Lasts here Gdiden Weddings Become Common in Small Minnesota Town. DUNDAS. Minn., Jan. 20.—More golden wedding anniversaries have been observed in this little city, in ■ proportion to its size, than any other ■ community in Minnesota, according to the contention of residents here. In addition to a high number of the past few years four others were observed here recently. Some of the wedlocks date back to when the community consisted of a few scattered farm houses, a store and a depot.

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BY CHARLES HODGES Authority on International Relations at New Vork University. fCopyrleht, 1930. NEA Service. Inc.) The real significance of the AngloAmerican naval negotiations is that the forthcoming naval conference in London should enable the w'orld to read its future for the next generation in terms of peace or war. There is nothing jingoistic in facing international facts. We all know that a more disastrous conflict than war between America and Britain can not be imagined. No war, unfortunately, is yet unthinkable. Indeed, everything which history teaches us shows that these two nations must change the oftrepeated course of events—or fight. The plain truth is ominous. To the British Empire, maritime supremacy has meant everything. Whether wresting it from Spain. Holland and France or keeping it against the threat of Germany, seapower for 300 years has been the

MRS. WIGGINS' FUNERAL HELD Driver Is Absolved in Auto Accident Death. Funeral sendees were held at 2 this afternoon from the home for Mrs. Sarah K. Wiggins. 55, of 3841 North Meridian street, wife of M. V. Wiggins, president of the Crescent Paper Company, who died Saturday of injuries sustained in an automobile accident. L. E. Williams, 24, of 831 North Capitol avenue, driver of a car which struck the machine in which Mrs. Wiggins was riding at Fall Creek boulevard and North Meridian street Friday afternoon, was absolved of blame for the accident by Coroner C. H. Keever. Emanuel Jones, Negro, 32, chauffeur for Mrs. Wiggins, told Coroner Keever he could not stop his machine on icy pavements when a traffic light changed. Private burial services will be held for Mrs. Wiggins at Crown Hill cemetery. She is survived by a son. William Floyd Wiggins, and her father, Jefferson Caylor, besides her husband.

PASTOR WILL SPEAK Englishman to Discuss War Causes and Results. Dr. Frderick W. Norwood, pastor of City Temple. London, England, an outstanding religious leader of the British Empire, will talk on “War— Its Causes and Consquences,” at the First Baptist church Friday night, Jan. 31, Dr. Ernest N. Evans, executive secretary of the Church Federation of Indianapolis, said today. Dr. Norwood, an Australian by birth, went to Europe during the World war, as chaplain of Australian forces there. In England he stopped once to preach at City Temple, and was secured immediately as its pastor. Since then, his rise among religious leaders of the empire has been rapid, until several prominent cathedrals in England have invited him to conduct services. His interest in world peace Isd him to campaign in the interests of peace, throughout Great Britain from October, 1926. until March. 1927. under auspices of the League of Nations Union. A German acrobat is pulling a car around Europe by means of a rope between his teeth.

most jealously guarded national asset of Britain. Every challenge—from Spanish Armada to German high sea fleet—has eventuated in ultimate conflict. The map of sea-power shows naval strength distributed among three groups—European, American and Asiatic. The largest number of major powers border the Atlantic. Two <?U£ of three contenders for maritime position prior to 1914. Germany and Austria-Hungary, have disappeared, to all intents, from the map in the naval sense. Two others, France and Italy, are primarily Mediterranean rivals. Britain remains the dominant naval power with a quarter of the world’s naval strength, just, as France occupies the premier place in the roster of land forces. Across the Atlantic, America equally is unchallenged in her naval primacy in the new world. Onequarter of the world’s sea power is under the United States flag. The

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2 Per Cent Increase During 1929 Is Revealed by Federal Survey. Retail food prices in Indianapolis increased 2 per cent during 1929, w’hile the national average index advanced but 1% per cent, according to a survey made public today by the department of labor in Washington. Detailed commodity prices from fifty-one cities spread from coast to coast serve as the basis of the national food price index. Thirtyfour of these cities reported increases during the year, ranging from 4 per cent in Kansas City and Cincinnati to less than 1 per cent in Savannah and Norfolk. A distinct downward trend was noted in all sections of the country during December. 1929, however. A r, a result, Indianapolis’ average food prices declined 1 per cent during the month, which was equal to the national average decline for the fifty-one cities. For the country as a whole food prices were 52 per cent higher on Dec. 15, 1929, than the same date in 1913. In Indianapolis they were 56 per cent higher; in Chicago, 72 per cent higher; in Salt Lake City, 36 per cent higher.

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" Vnited Pm* MODESTO, Cal., Jan. 20.—California, the state which boasts one automobile to every family and two for most, has at least one family of six children that never has seen an automobile. That is the odd story told here by Wesley and Ernest Hewitt, members of a local automobile firm, after a deer hunt in Mendocino county’s wilds. The two Modestans went so far back in the timberland of the northern county that they had to leave the roads and use packhorses. At the end of their journey, they found a mountain family with whom they boarded. The six children of the family, the Modestans said, tramped five miles daily to school, had never seen an automobile except in pictures, had never witnessed a "movie” nor heard a radio The hunters said the family lived among an abundance of food Meals served comprised eighteen different foods, grown or killed near the mountain cabin, they said. WOMAN HAS BUSY~POST Lady Mayoress of London on Job From Morning Until Night. LONDON, Jan. 20.—Lady Studd. Lady Mayoress of London, is said to be the empire's busiest woman. From 8:30 to 10 a. m., she is busy with correspondence. Then she begins a daily round of engagements which keeps her busy until midnight. She sometimes arranges ten different engagements in all parts of London for the same day.

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’’A B C” nations, the Latin-Ameri-can rivals, have but a twentieth of the total tonnage; it is now rapidly becoming obsolescent. In the far east, Japan is in a position of dominance similaf to that occupied by the United States in the new world. Japan enjoys an unmistakable supremacy in east Asia, from Kamchatka south to Formosa, and extends her power out into the equatorial Pacific, She commands virtually all insular approaches to the Orient. So, today, challenging sea power exists In the hands of only five nations—Britain and the United States, Japan, France and Italy. The contest for world power Is centered now by force of circumstance on the Atlantic. This struggle for sea power is a duel between but two nations —America and England. It threatens to repeat the heretofore inveitable Britain and her most dangerous maritime rival. The three other powers on the sea

WALES IS CHEERED Reaches Capetown En Route for Hunting Trip. By United Press CAPETOWN, South Africa. Jan. 20.—The prince of Wales landed here today. A large crowd greeted him with cheers as he walked down the gangplank. He appeared fit after his long sea voyage on the steamer Kenilworth Castle, and smilingly waved to the throng. He motored immediately to government house. The prince halted his automobile once to greet former service men, who had gathered to salute him at the War memorial. It is expected he will remain in Capetown several days, prior to starting into the hinterland on his big game hunting expedition. A round of receptions and other social functions have been arranged here.

TWO KILLED IN BLAST Escaping Gas Is Ignited by Spark From Hammer. By United Press DALLAS, Tex., Jan. 20.—A spark from a workman’s hammer was blamed today for an explosion of escaping gas in which two were killed, another seriously injured and two buildings of the Blue Ribbon laundry destroyed. The dead were: J. B. Gilliland and R. C. Gilliland, brothers. Cobb Vanway, a plumber called to repair the boiler, in which the explosion originated, suffered broken legs and probable internal injuries. His condition was serious, doctors said. Sparks from a hammer, he was wielding, were believed to have caused the explosion, which hurled pieces of the boiler and other machinery 100 feet. COSTS MONEY TO ‘FLAP’ Girl Must Wear Long Dresses, Hair, or Lose SI,OOO Bequest. SAN BERNARDINO. Cal., Jan. 20. —lt's hard to say whether SI,OOO is worth it—and harder still to say whether or not Jean Murray, 22, will abide by her grandfather’s will. He provided that she should never bob her hair, use cosmetics, wear jewelry 7 or short clothes. In return for this he willed her SI,OOO.

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have a close relation to the fortunes of the leading contenders. Japan, by reason of the interoceanic position of the United States on both Atlantic and Pacific, plays the greater role. The mikado’s land has a strategic opportunity of vast potentialities in case of trouble between the two main contenders. France and Italy, by their relation to the European balance of power, constitute the other parts of the problem. Theirs is the minor rivalry, subordinated to the ell-im-portant Anglo-American issue. Obviously, were Anglo-American relations restored to their earlier basis of mutual understanding, the question of naval armaments would pass from the realm of current world politics. For if the United States and Britain arrive at an agreement on sea power, no other nation can threaten peace on a world scale. First naval parity, then limitation, and eventually possibly disarmament, can follow’.

MURRAY FILES AS PROSECUTOR Democratic Candidate Was Nominee in 1928. Announcement of his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Marion county prosecutor has been made by Raymond F. Murray, local attorney. Murray was the Democratic nominee in the 1928 election. He has been engaged in legal practice in Indianapolis since 1912 with the exception of the period of the World war, when he served in the Eighty-second aero squadron. He was appointed special agent of Secretary of War Newton D. Baker in January, 1919, and was assigned to duty under General Leonard Wood at Chicago. Acting for the war department he assisted the district attorney there in many important cases and also wrote a military intelligence history of the central department. Murray was reared and educated in Indianapolis, attending Butler university and Indiana law school. He is a member of the Christian church and a thirty-second degree Mason. He is a member of Murat Shrine and Sahara Grotto, and the county and state bar associations. Good Samaritan Bobbed ST. JOHN’S, Mich., Jan. 20. William Carroll, 73, recluse, was recovering today from exposure suffered when three youths he sought to aid turned on him, trussed him up to a tree, and robbed him of $270. The men said their car was stalled in the snow, and when Carroll stepped out to aid them, they set upon him.

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Aviation EVERSON WILL TAKE PENNANTS ON AIR JAUNTS Presents of Students to Militia Chief Recall School Days. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 20—Memories of student days will accompany Major-General William G. Everson, former pastor and chief of the militia bureau, when he goes on inspection trips this year. He will travel with flags, or pennants, flying. Everson plans to familiarize himself with national guard problems by extensive journeys this year in the United States and Porto Rico. Baylor university authorities at Waco. Tex., where Everson once was a student, learned of his plans and sent him a pennant which he has promised to earn - with him wherever he travels. Franklin college, Franklin. Ind., and Central high school. Muncie, Ind., contributed pennants, and Everson will carry them. too. “At the conclusion of his trips.” the war department announced today, “General Everson expects to return the pennants to the respective institutions with lists of the places visited.” Claims Altitude Record B’l I yitrd I'n ss PARIS, Jan. 20.—A new French altitude record of 37,720 feet was claimed by the flier Lemoigne today after a flight over Villacoublay in a 450-horse power monoplane Sunday in which, however, he failed to pass the world’s altitude mark. Lemogne said he suffered intensely from cold. His instruments registered 76 degrees below Fahrenheit. Horse anil ( utter Jam Traffic By United I‘ress DETROIT, Jan. 20.—Police reserves had to be called out here Sunday to untangle traffic in Palmer park, caused by an old-fash-ioned horse-drawn cutter.