Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 220, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 January 1930 — Page 11

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PARTY GUESTS STRICKEN ILL WITH TYPHOID Unusual Case Results In Health Officials Probe at Ft. Wayne. PROMINENT FOLK SICK Maid Suspected as Germ Carrier Also Among Victims. Hu Tint'll Hfrrrinl FT. WAYNE. Ind., Jan. 23. While six of ten persons who attended a New Year's eve banquet here are 111 with typhoid fever, city health authorities are engaged in trying to find the source of the disease In one of the most unusual cases of its kind in Ft. Wayne's history. The party brought together at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. Leslie Popp, host and hostess, who are among those stricken, persons prominent in the social life of the city. Others ill are Mr. and Mrs. William Mossman Jr.. Miss Margaret Ann Keenan, and a maid employed in the Popp home. The maid is now at her home In Napoleon, O. Authorities are investigating a report that she was the carrier of the disease. Health officials declare the city water supply here has been testing pure for many months. They are inquiring concerning food served at the party. Others at the party who escaped the disease are Mr. and Mrs. Wayne L. Thieme, Miss Wilda Bowser, Don C. Thomas and J. Earle Wooding. The maid. Minnie A. Meyers, when first stricken, was believed a victim of appendicitis, but later her case was declared to be due to typhoid. No other cases of typhoid than those among the party guests have been reported in the city. Dr. Carl G. Miller, health board secretary, refuses to comment on the case pending a report of the investigation. RESUME RAID INQUEST Alleged Slayer of Two Dry Agents May Testfy at Hearing. Bv I nitnt Brian WEST PALM BEACH. Fla., Jan. 3.—The coroner's inquest Into the slaying of two prohibition agents here Saturday night by George W Moore, alleged bootlegger and rumrunner, was resumed today with the probability Moore would be called to give his version. Government and defense forces haves plit sharply on the question of whether Frank R. Morrison and James K. Moncure, the slain men, led the raid with a daytime warrant In daylight, or after dark. The defense claims illegality on that technicality. FORMER SENATOR ILL Only Woman to Fill Post Suffers From Bronchial Pneumonia, Bu l'nitnt Pros ATLANTA, Ga.. Jan. 23.—Anxiety over the condition of Mrs. Rebecca Latimer Felton. 94-year-old former United States senator, was increased trr’.TV bv a renort from Davis-Fis-cher sanitarium that her condition continued "very' serious." She spent *‘a very comfortable night,” it was said, but at 7:15 a. m. was unconscious. Mrs. Felton, only woman ever to sit In the upper house of congress, is suffering from bronchial pneumonia contracted more than a week ago. WOMAN HURT IN CRASH Suffers Head Injury When Auto Strikes Parked Truck. Mrs. Charles Spillman. 6365 Washington boulevard, was in St. Vincent’s hospital today, recovering from head injuries received when an '■l’to in wh'ch she was riding Wednesday night struck a parked tri it at Sherman drive and East Thirty-eighth street. The auto was driven by Roy Rounds, 3827 Broadway. The truck was the property of H. T. Lane, Mohawk. Ind. The driver of the truck wa c not at the scene, and police said it was awaiting repairs. GETS CAR THEFT TERM Youth Will Go to State Farm for Robbing Benefactor. Thomas J. Skeen, alias Thomas J. Baxter. Ind.anapolis. is in Marion county jail awaiting transfer to the state farm to serve a six months’ sentence imprsed by Criminal Judge James A. Collins. The youth was charged with stealing the car of Dr. John Smith. Spink hotel. According to testimony, Dr. Smith gave Skeen a "lift" in a western state a few days ago. and brought him to Indianapolis, furnishing his meals and hotel rooms on the trip. In this city Skeen departed with Dr. Smith’s car, only to be apprehended later. BABY SEVERELY BURNED Celluloid Comb Becomes Ignited , in Open Fireplace. Gilbert Parker, 1, son of Mr. and Mra. William Parker, 714 North Illinois street, suffered severe bums about the hands and face today when a celluloid comb, with which the child was playing, became ignited in an open fireplace. Police said the child’s mother was not at home at the time of the accident. The baby was taken to pity hospital.

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Heroic Rescue by City Man Is Recognized

Wiiliam G. Stroud

William Grant Stroud, 43, of 3139 Central avenue, garage service manager, learned through press dispatches from Pittsburgh today that he has been awarded a bronze medal by the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission for rescuing a man from drowning near Taylorsville July 15, 1928. His was one of twenty-five acts of heroism performed in the United States in the last three years that received recognition by the commission at its twenty-sixth annual meeting in Pittsburgh Wednesday. Stroud, employed by the LoseyNash Company, automobile dealers, saved James Baker. 37, an assistant garage foreman, while Baker was swimming. Baker grabbed Stroud and they were submerged. Stroud freed himself, rose to the surface, then dived again to Baker and swam until picked up by a boat. Baker was unconscious, but was revived.

FLOOD AID FUND REACHES $4,500 Soup and Bread Donated to Red Cross by Firms. With more than $1,400 in contributions reaching the Indianapolis chapter of the American Red Cross this morning, the total fund raised here for flood sufferers of southwestern Indiana and southeastern Illinois was ,above the $4,500 mark. William Fortune, treasurer of the i Red Cross, announced the campaign would be continued as re- [ ports indicated increasing needs for ; the relief and rescue work. The Columbia Conserve Company today donated to the Red Cross a carload of canned soup which will be sent to Vincennes for the relief work. The Taggart Baking Company donated 500 loaves of bread, to be baked Friday and forwarded at once. Radio station WFBM will give a relief program tonight. A benefit show' will be given at the Indiana theater at 9 tonight. NEGRO LEADERILAIN I Killer Declares Political Persecution Motive. ~ 'EVANSVILLE. Ind.. Jan. 23. Ernest Tidrington, 48, Negro, a leader in political, fraternal and church activities of his race w r as slain here Wednesday night by Luther Bell, proprietor of a poolroom, who Is in custody. As Tidrington sat in his automobile with his wife. Bell fired a shotgun, the load striking Tidrington in the back of the head. He lived for a short time, but did not regain consciousness. Bell declares revenge for what he : terms political persecution at the hands of Tidrington was his motive. The slain man was one of three Negroes appointed by President Coolidge in 1925 to an interracial commission to study problems and conditions of the race in the United States.

BOY OF 16 CHARGED WITH WIFE BEATING

Pm Times Svccial BLOOMINGTON. Ind.. Jan. 23. Paul Bell. 16, is facing trial here charged with assault and battery on his 15-year-o!d wife. An affidavit alleging the beating was filed against the boy husband, by his sister-in-law. Mrs. Helen Siscoe.

PITY JACK JOHNSON? NOT YET! HE KNOCKS ’EM DEAD WITH HIS BULL FIDDLE

BY SAM LOVE. I'niU-d F.-ess Staff Correspondent NEW YORK. Jan. Johnson, who always liked night life anyhow, is employed happily in a Broadway cabaret, sawing away at a bull fiddle. In case you are inclined to shed any sentimental tears about Li’l Arthur, first of the great ‘‘money" heavyweight champions and winner of $350,000 in one way or another when he kayoed Jim Jeffries twenty years ago—then don’t. Lil Arthur, now 52 years Old, still can take care of himself. It’s his orchestra that he's sawing in at the Canton Palace restaurant, cn after-dark chop suey emporium. It's old Jack's picture that s up in front.

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RUM SUSPECT IS SHOT DOWN BY U.S. GUARD Customs Officer Fired on Him Without Warning, Victim Declares. NO GUN AND NO BOOZE Man Left to Float Away in River, With Mercury Near Zero. Bu United Press DETROIT, Jan. 23.—While Walter Grundt, 27, lay seriously wounded in a Wyandotte hospital today from ornshot wounds, Clare Hopper, cusoms guard, who admitted the shooting, was held pending investigation. Grundt, said to be associate of rum runners, was shot about midnight last night, when he ran from Hopper and another customs officer and jumped into his rowboat on the Detroit river. The two officers later reported to Wyandotte police they had shot a man, but did not know who he was or where he had been taken. They refused to give their names. Customs officers later advised police that Hopper was held. It later developed that whan Hopper shot Grundt, he slumped in his boat and the craft floated out vvith the current. Rescued From Boat Hopper asserted he and his fellow officer tried to follow the boat from the bank. When they did come up to it Grundt had been rescued and taken to a hospital. H. A. Pickert, collector of customs, took over the case today, ordered Hopper held and began his investigation. He said he would not divulge additional details until the report was complete. At the same time it was learned a report of the shooting was being prepared for James E. Chenot, county attorney. John R. Watkins, United States district attorney, talked with Hopper. but refused to make a statement or indicate what the government i would do. After Watkins saw Hopper, members of the county attorney’s office questioned him. At the hospital Grundt said officers shot without warning; he was unarmed and that he was not carrying liquor. His story differed materially from that of Hopper. Sbot Without Warning e "A companion and I had been looking for a lost rowboat and we decided to land.” he told officers. ‘‘As I started up the bank, a uniformed man stepped up and shot without warning. I tumbled back into the boat and my friend rowed away. The officers made no apparent effort to catch us.” After the companion, as yet unidentified, landed the boat, he ran. Grundt said, leaving him to lie In the open boat in near zero weather for nearly an hour. His groans finally attracted attention of watchman, who called an ambulance. Later today, Grundt lapsed into unconsciousness. Physicians said the combination of his wound, shock and exposure might prove fatal. SINGS IN CLUB REVUE Miss Pearce on Victor Herbert Program Feb. 14-15. A Victor Herbert revue will be given Friday and Saturday nights, Feb. 14 and 15, by the Channing

Club of the All Souls Unitarian church, at the Civic theater. Miss Jane Pearce will sing several selections on the program. Selections from the following Victor Herbert compositions will be included: “Naughty Marietta,” “Fortune Teller,” Serena-

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Bell denies attacking his wife, asserting, “I held her to keep her from running away.” The trial has been deferred until Mrs. Bell’s condition will permit her attendance. She is at the home of Mrs. Siscoe and according to the sister, is under a physician's care.

And it’s old Jack's idea that waving a baton or a bow in the musical world is something not every ex-heavyweight champion would retire into. "This here orchestra of mine,” Jack told the United Press, “is one of the sweetest orchestras in the country, if I'm any judge of music.” When pressed. Jack admitted that he was, in fact, a judge of music. He wore a large bow tie, a tuxedo, and an expression that brooked no fooling. * m • “T> UFFO, Schipa. Gigli. MartiJtV nelli —all those fellows down at the opera house, are friends of mine,” said Jack. “I’ve heard ’em

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1930

After Train Had Dealt Death and Horror

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There was a piercing whistle, a deafening crash, the screams of mangled children, the grind of mighty brakes . . . and road crossing had claimed its toll. This picture shows the wreckage of a school bus in which ten children and the driver met death struck bv a fast New York Central train near Berea. 0., fifteen miles from Cleveland. Wreckage and bodies were huned lor maiiy ec . s struck by a the windshield blinded John Tayor. the driver, and he failed to see the oncoming tram.

‘CURFEW RINGS' IN BEECH GROVE No Transportation After 8 Is Dilemma. Beech Grove residents were undecided today as to action they would take to relieve themselves of a transportation dilemma caused by the Beech Grove Traction Company’s discontinuance of night car service after 8 p. m. between the town and Indianapolis. The 11:15 p. m. electric railway service was discontinued recently with the approval of the Indiana public service commission. According to some citizens, this discontinuance is the climax of a list of inconveniences in transportation service between Beech Grove and Indianapolis that threatens to make Seech Grove an “8 o’clock town.” In answer to the problem today, H. W. Britton, town board member, denied reports that the situation was such as to throw the town in an unpopular light, saying: ‘‘Citizens of Beech Grove do not like the idea of car service being discontinued. However, I believe reports concerning the situation have been exaggerated.” 'LOST' LAD IS FOUND Young Snow Shoveler Too Busy to Go Home. A juvenile “tired business man,” who had so much work to do it was impossible for him to return to his home since Monday, was found by police today after a three-day SBETChi In an apartment at 5347 College avenue, Sergeant Arthur Huber, found the 13-year-old boy, snuggled against a radiator in the hall, sleeping soundly. The boy told Huber he had been shoveling snow during the day to earn money and sleeping in buildings nights. Huber took the boy to the detention home. LIONS TO HELP BLIND Foundation Established at Club Conference. Lions clubs of Indiana have established a foundation to aid blind children of the state, interest from which will provide $2,500 annually for schooling the blind and helping them to find jobs. It was announced following the annual convention of sixty-three Lions clubs’ officers at the Claypool Wednesday. Each of the sixty-three clubs has arranged to contribute $1 annually ! for each member. Trustees appointed to handle the fund are E. O. Snethen, Indianapolis, district governor; H. D. Tumbleson, Indianapolis realtor; Dr. Elmer Ward Cole, South Bend, First Christian church pastor, and Charles Cares, Bedford. At a luncheon Wednesday, members contributed $lO9 to the Red Cross relief fund for southern Indiana flood sufferers. Walter D. Niman, Indianapolis Lions Club president. presided.

sing in Spain, France, Cuba and Mexico. Last time I heard Caruso was in Mexico City. He drew about 50X00 that night. “I love music—always have. Night clubs, day clubs or church, ycu can get me in any place where there’s good music. When I used to be training for my fights and I heard music I’d stop runn ng. I’d rather listen than run, any time.” Jack explained that he did not drift into playing the bull fiddle after tinkering around with violins, second violins, ’cellos and other instruments, as do so many musicians. The first bull fiddle he ever saw, confessed Jack, he knew immediately was his instrument. .He walked right up to it and took hold.

LIST FOR DIVORCE

Husband Has Much to Say in Suit

?j/ Times Svecial WHITING, Ind., Jan. 23.—Gilbert Brindley, Lake county deputy prosecutor assigned to courts, has the following to say about his wife, Mrs. Minnie Brindley, in a divorce suit filed in East Chicago superior court; While he was studying law nights at home, working as a laborer in the day time, she hid his books in a coal bin. She is a bowling devotee and often comes in late from alleys. The next morning she is too tired

Just Imagine His Embarrassment, Not to Mention Discomfort and Surprise.

Bn United Pros NEW YORK, Jan. 23.—Sam White sniffed and he decided it was smoke. Where there’s smoke, there’s fire, he reasoned. Under the circumstances there was but one thing for him to do. He walked over to a little red box in the building on the edge of New York’s financial district. “Open door. Puli hook down and release,” read the instructions on the door of the box. Sam did. The response was this: Four fire engines; two hook and ladder trucks; two battalion chiefs' automobiles; a fire patrol wagon; a police emergency wagon; an emergency gas wagon, and a deputy battalion chief’s automobile. -In dashed the be-helmeted, rub-ber-coated, high-hip booted firemen. “Where’s the fire?” they asked White, who was even paler than his name. “Fire? Fire? Oh. yes! Ha. Ha,” Sam laughed nervously. "There was one but it’s out. You see, I put my pipe in my hippocket—it was lit —and it set my pants on fire.” KITLEY FUNERAL SET Coroner Investigates Death of Shotgun Victim. Investigation into the death of Robert Kitley, farmer, 40, R. R. 9. Box 524, believed to have committed suicide Wednesday by shooting, was being conducted today by Coroner C. H. Keever. Kitley was found in a barn near his home, a shotgun charge in his head. Members of the family said he had complained of illness during the last few days. The gun was found at his side. Survivors are the father, John Kitley; a brother, Logan Kitley, and a sister, Mrs. H. A. Thomas. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Saturday at the home. Burial will be in Washington park cemetery.

“The bass fiddle,” said Jack, in the course of a dissertation, “is the fundamental of any orchestra. You get a good base fiddler, and It's this way: One of your boys gets out of line —a good bass fiddler can beat him right back in.” BUB ONLY a small part of Jack’s time, unfortunately, can be devoted to keeping his boys in line with his bass fiddle. "They don’t need it,” he said, “and, besides, I have to stand out in front mostly. You don’t show up good behind a bass viol.” Jack wa3 urged to reveal his favorite composition. “Pagliacci,” he said firmly and menacingly. “How do you spell it?”

to arise and prepare breakfast for her husband and children. She campaigned against him when he was a candidate for city clerk here last November, causing his defeat by telling voters he was a bootlegger. She took possession of a diamond stickpin he had borrowed for use while attending a wedding and he was forced to pay her SIOO to induce her to return it. These allegations are the basis of Bridley’s plea for a divorce on the grounds of extreme cruelty. The couple has two children, 9 and 14 years old.

GAS STATION ROBBED Lnne Bandit Gets $79 in Daylight Holdup. In a daylight holdup at 11 this morning, a bandit took $79 from Roy M. Keller, 1836 West Minnesota street. Shell filling station attendant at Prospect street and Madison avenue. The man, coming Into the station, asked permission to warm his feet. When Herbert Stoutman, a neighbor, left the filling station, Keller went to the safe to replace funds checked a short time before. The bandit menaced him with a revolver and took the money, making no effort to take a money changer Keller carried. Keller told police he did not believe the man had an automobile, but escaped on foot. SEEK AUTO DUTY HELP Manufacturers Ask CongVess Aid In Foreign Crisis. Bv United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—Appeal of American automobile manufacturers for aid in combating high duties on American cars exported to foreign counties has been taken to the senate. Denied assistance by the state department, thirteen manufacturers sent a telegram to Senators Couzens and Vandenberg of Michigan, asking congressional aid. The message said the manufacturers had received advices from France, advising them of proposed increases in duties, which, it said, are “prohibitive and evidently are proposed for the purpose of excludng foreign cars from France, and especially American cars.”

CLASH OF FATHER AND SON PROBABLE

B.u Times Svecial GARY, Ind., Jan. 23.—Father, the mayor, and son, the city attorney, may oe arrayed against each other here as a result of a decision by the city council for a finish fight against removal of three municipally built dams in the Deep and Little Calumet rivers. Mayor Roswell O. Johnson Is known to favor removal of the dams, but his son. Roswell B. Johnson, city

“You don’t have to spell it,” he said, “if you can play it.” Jack’s second favorite piece is “Swanee River.” He lined himself up firmly with Galli-Curci in this preference. Although he did some verbal toe dancing on the subject of music, and even watched his enunciation of “I,” about which, as a cosmopolite, he is a mite sensitive, the bull fiddle virtuoso, who burst upon a startling Broadway less than a week ago. settled down on his heels when the subject of boxing accidentally arose. B B B HE had been around to see Primo Camera, the toddling tower of Italy and newest of the

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LUTHERANS TO AID UNIVERSITY Church Forms Valparaiso Body in Indiana. The district organization of Lutherans in Indiana to aid Valparaiso university has been completed. The state is divided into five districts with one or more leading pastors acting as chairman. The districts and chairmen are: Ft. Wayne, the Rev. Paul Miller; Indianapolis, the Revs. J. D. Matthius and William Eifert; Logansport, the Rev. E. H. Reuter; Seymour, the Rev. J. Th. Destinon, and South Bend, the Rev. P. C. Barth. The organization will impart information about the university to pastors and the public, interest students and develop needed support. In 1925 the university was taken over by the Lutheran University Association, and became the first Lutheran university in America. Dating back to 1871. it played under H. B. Brown, a vital part in the educational w r ork of the Mississippi valley, training tens of thousands of teachers, doctors, druggists, attorneys and others, providing education at low cost. After the war, Changing conditions made the support of a financially able group imperative and the Lutherans assumed the responsibility to carry on. LIQUOR CONFISCATED Risto Bosich, 38. to Face Federal Charges. Risto Bosich, 38, of 1405 Rembrandt street, was to be arraigned today before a United States commissioner, on a charge of transporting liquor after police said they took a five-gallon jug of whisky from his auto Wednesday night. Sergeant John Eisenhut and squad hid outside a grocery at 1202 Nordyke avenue, operated by Nick Budack, and arrested Bosich, as he parked his car nearby. Budack, for whom police said the whisky was' intended, is to be tried in municipal court Friday on a charge of operating a blind tiger. Store Damaged by Fire Fire caused by an overheated flue stop resulted in SIOO damage to the Globe Dry Good store, 330 West Washington street, shortly before noon today. Several pairs of shoes and work pants were destroyed, according to Abe Unger, manager.

attorney, announces that he has filed a motion for a rehearing of a mandamus suit decided about a month ago by Judge E. Miles Norton in Lake circuit court directing the city to take the barriers from the streams. The decision was in favor of the Central Broadway Realty Company which contends water spreads over land adjacent to the rivers because of the dams.

watery heavyweight “sensations,” work out in Stillman’s gymnasium. Jack defended Primo’s feet, which are said to be twenty inches from stem to stern. Jack Sharkey, in the opinion of a simple musician who used to fight around 250 and now weighs 260, minus his bull fiddle, is the best of the heavyweights. “They say Sharkey isn’t game—a clever man doesn’t need to be game,” said Lil Arthur, somewhat left-handedly. “He doesn’t want to be hit and so he doss better than one of these boys that's all bulldog and smell.” Whereupon the ex-champion grinned a golden grin and reached dreamily for his bull fiddle.

SPUR PUT TO CITY BUILDING AT CONCLAVE Business Men Peidge Help to Construction Work at C. of C. Session. MANY PROJECTS LISTED Jobs Totaling $1,260,000 to Go Forward During Current Year. Indianapolis business put its shoulder to the wheel of prosperity at a meeting at the Chamber of Commerce today. Construction work totaling $1200,000 in Marion county projects will be speeded up to foster employment 'and stimulate business in Indianapolis and the county, business men ; were told by Paul Q. Richey, presii dent of the chamber. Following enumeration of the projects to be hastened in the county, Richey exacted promises from i every business man attending the i meeting to aid in construction work and expansion during the current ; year. Mayor Reginald Sullivan, introduced by Richey, explained the ! city’s part in the prosperity pro- : gram. Richey Voices Plea ' Richey asserted that by speeding I up new construction work, the city's business men not only would give I more employment and stimulate business, but would reduce the claims made on the city’s welfare agencies. G. M. Williams, president of the I Marmon Motor Company, in an address, argued it was not good busi- | ness policy for appropriations for construction projects to remain Uj j banks. “We should start money in circuj lation by bringing forward at once whatever Is projected in 1930,” he | said. He cited municipal airport and 1 city hospital improvements asap- : propriations in banks ready to be 1 spent. Construction work under jurlsdic--1 t.ion of the Marion county commisI sioners which will be started in 1930 | are as follows: Erection of a $150,000 addition to ; the board of children’s guardian*' home. Holt Road to Be Paved Paving of the Holt road from Washington to Morris street, West Tenth street to the county line; Arlington avenue from Tenth street to state road No. 67; Shelbyville road to county line; Harding street south of White river to Bluff road. Resurfacing East Thirty-eighth street to Emerson avenue; Keystone avenue from Millersville road to Sixty-fifth street; Troy avenue. Graveling of Rawles avenue from Stop 4 to Brookville road; J. W. Noel road in Pike township. Construction of anew laundry for Sunnyside sanatorium at a cost of ! $50,000. Erection of anew $200,000 deten- | tion home. Repairs totaling $30,000 for the Hospital for Insane at Julietta and the Marion county jail. Airport Ground Broken Mayor Reginald Sullivan, his secretary, Walter Watson, and Carl Moore, municipal airport superintendent, formally started ground breaking today for the new airport administration building as an initial move in public building program to relieve unemployment. “It is my earnest request that all of us unite in our endeavor to start public and private construction work at the earliest possible date,” th* mayor asserted at the Chamber conference. ‘‘Let us do our part to provide ; work for many citizens who are aski ing not for charity, but only a ; chance to earn an honest living.”

FIRE ISOLATES VILLAGE Far West Forest Blaze Sweep* Frozen Mountain Slope. Bv United Frets NORTH BEND, Wash., Jan. 23. A midwinter forest fire swept over ! frozen mountain slopes near here 1 today, destroying ranch houses, threatening railroad property and isolating the community of Cedar Falls, site of Seattle’s water project. Practically all residents of th* threatened areas fled their homea. CRIME GROUP TO MEET Report to Be Made at Luncheon by Leslie Commission. Preparations were near completion I today for the luncheon of Governor | Harry G. Leslie’s crime commission, which will be held Saturday at th* ; ClaypooL Commission subcommit- | tees will confer in Leslie's office beI fore the luncheon and a general rei port on crime conditions and prob- ; lems will be made at the luncheon. Seventy-five mayors, police chiefs | and representatives of civic, patriotic | and fraternal organizations through" i out the state will attend. NEGRO DIES SUDDENLY Collapses Near Restaurant After Eating Meal. Edgar Armstrong, 50 Negro, said 1 to live in the 1300 block Cornell avenue, died today after leaving the Manila bar, 56 Virginia avenue, where he had obtained a meal. Fred Kistner, proprietor, told police Armstrong said he was ill a* he left the place and collaps4 near the door.