Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 230, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 February 1930 — Page 2

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COUNTY OFFICE EMPLOYES SUE FOR PAY ORDER Clerk’s Budget Slash Basis for 27 Complaints Against Council. Twenty-seven employes of County Cleric George o. Hutsell today resorted to court action to obtain salary requests which the county council denied six months ago. Action was taken in twenty-seven mandate suits filed before Superior Judge James M. Leathers, seeking to compel the council to hold a special meeting to appropriate salary items which have been slashed from Hutsell's budget. If the action is successful, more than $9,000 will be added to the yearly salaries of Hutsell’s employes, some of whom witnessed their salary for 1930 cut below the 1929 mark. Councils action in cutting Hutsell’s budget from $70,100 to $60,900 at a session in September last year is generally interpreted as a political chastisement for his failure to “lme up" with the Coffin faction of the council. Mandate Asked The suits, identical in form, seek a court order mandating County Auditor Harry Dunn to call the council into special session, and further, to mandate the council to allow Hutsell’s original budget request. Dunn, with members of the council and county commissioners are named defendants. Allegations are made in the complaints that the salary of no clerk exceeds S2OO a month, and that the council “wrongfully and unlawfully" reduced salaries in several instances to wages lower than county employes have received for several years. It is charged further that a reconsideration of Hutsell’s budget by The council in January met with “neglect and refusal’’ on part of individual councilmen. Hutsell’s total force of deputies numbers thirty-five and the suits .are brought in behalf of twentwseven of that Aumber who were affected by the budget cutting. Anti-Coffin They include: One chief deputy, a chief clerk and bookkeeper, six typists, fifteen clerks in superior and civil municipal court, two file clerks, a probate court clerk, the marriage license clerk and a copy clerk. Hutsell in politics is regarded as one of the strongest anti-Coffin political forces in Marion county politics, and his adherence to the stand is believed to have provoked the council into the indirect rebuke. Simliar action will be taken soon in behalf of nine juvenile court probation officers whose pay was reduced by the council on the same political ground. Hearing date on the suits has not been set.

HALF OF INDIANA'S STATE ROADS PAVED Highway Ucjort Shows 2,670 Miles Are of Dustless Type. Os the 5,065 miles of road in the Indiana state road system, 2,670 miles are dustless types, the state highway department announced today upon receipt of a tabulated report from A. H. Hinkle, maintenance superintendent. This mileage is exclusive of 2,000 miles added to the ‘ dotted line” system recently and which will come into active maintenance as funds permit. Os the 2.670 miles of dustless types, all are pavement except 218 miles of bituminous retreated top. Os the 2,394 miles of non-dustless types, 780 miles are stone and 1,348 miles gravel surface. There are forty-eight miles of earth roads in the system and 173 miles torn up preparatory to paving. At least 500 miles of concrete will be laid in 1930, commissioners said. During the fiscal year 1929, the department added 408 miles to active maintenance. ‘THREE-WAY RULING' IS GIVEN IN AD SUIT MilHs Firm Gets Fund Division in National Lumber Case. Final decree in the Millis Advertising Company’s injunction suit against the National Retail Lumber Pealers’ Association has been handed down by Judge Robert C. Balttell in federal court. By its provisions, an advertising fund held in trust by the Peoples State bank and claimed by both parties is to be apportioned so $50,095 will go to the Millis company. $27,152 to the association, and the remainder. 812,121. to the association to be returned to various subscribers. The Millis suit, filed in April, alleged the company had a contract with the association to sponsor a five-year advertising program at a cost of approximately $4,000,000. and thkt the association failed to pay amounts due from the fund. TALK FAIR EXPENDITURE Agriculture Board Will Outline Improvement Program. Members of the state board of agriculture will meet at the statehouse Thursday and Friday to make plans for $50,000 building improvements to be made at the Indiana state fairground. These include a $30,000 addition to the agriculture and horticulture building and a $20,000 addition to the horse bam. In the Air Weather conditions in the air at 0:30 a. m.: East wind, 10 miles an hour: barometric pressure. 29.79 at sea level; temperature. 40: ceiling. 1.200 feet; visibility, three-quarters mile; field, muddy.

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Trigo farm, owned by Arthur Court. English derby lottery winner, presents this panorama to the passing motorist on the Noblesville road, twenty miles northeast of Indianapolis.

CROWDS VIEW CITY PRODUCTS Mild Weather Aids Success of Achievement Week. Mild temperatures and snowcleared streets aided in drawing large crowds to the business district Monday night and today to view window displays in the Achievement Week celebration. More than 1,000 exhibits, featuring Indianapolis - made commodities, provide a visual review of the city’s activities. Displays have been arranged in outlying business districts as well as the downtown section. The Indianapolis Ministerial Association Monday adopted resolutions urging all citizens to acquaint themselves with the city’s activities during the week. The association set Feb. 16 as Civic Sunday for the churches of the city. Charles E. Watkins, aiding in the “Forward Indianapolis” campaign, today addressed Rotarians at the Claypool, declaring the motto of Rotary' demands that all members aid in the “Forward Indianapolis” and Achievement Week movements. TWO RETAIN POSTS Governor Renames Moorman as Prison Trustee. Reappointment of John L. Moorman (Rep., Knox as trustee of the Indiana state prison and Sanford M. Kelton (Rep., Anderson as trustee of Indiana State Normal college at Terre Haute was announced today by Governor Harry G. Leslie. Moorman, chairman of the prison board, has served for sixteen years under five Governors. At the board meeting last week he launched the movement against giving paroled indeterminate sentence men publicity in the press as an aid to their return to society. The Governor also announced the appointment of Perry McCart. manager of the West Baden Springs hotel, to succeed to the place of the late Jerry Mugivan, Peru, on the Indiana committee to co-operate with the Chicago World’s Fair commission. Organization meeting will be held in the Governor’s office at 2 p. m. Thursday.

MASSACRE REPORTED Mass Killing by Soviet Police, Charged. B.u United Press LONDON. Feb. 4.—A massacre of former Russian naval officers, which, it confirmed, would prove to be the most sweeping mass execution since the Red revolution, was reported today by the Daily Mail’s Riga correspondent. The report, which lacks verification from other sources, says that the Soviet secret police have put to death between 400 and 500 officials, confined in various prisons, in the last two weeks. News of the executions, it was said, has reached relatives of the victims at Riga, from Moscow. STATE ROADS CLOSED Bus and Truck Traffic Is Barred Because of Thaws. Thaws brought closing of two roads to bus and truck traffic today. The state highway department announced state road No. 29 between state roads 32 and 26 in Boone and Clinton counties has been closed to trucks and busses and that state road No. 26 from Lafayette to state road No. 29 also is closed. State road No. 56 was opened today for the first time in three weeks, having been closed by the southern Indiana flood. All flooded roads are now open except No. 62 west of Mt, Vernon. CITY PHYSICIANS NAMED Hospital Head Recommends Seven for Resident Duty. Seven resident city hospital physicians, for the year beginning July 1 were appointed today by the board of public health, on recommendation of Dr. William A. Doeppers hospital superintendent. They are: El wood J. Meredith, Moreland. Ind.; Donald J. White Indianapolis, and D. G. Bernoske, Michigan City,-in medicine: L. Jewett Hord Jr.. Shelbyville; Donald H. McKeenan, Ft. Wayne, and James E. Jones, Indianapolis, in surgery, and Louis F. Reiseis, Colorado Springs, Colo., ear, nose and throat.

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Reginald H. Sullivan (left), mayor of Indianapolis, and James J. Thomas, mayor of Columbus, 0., snapped at Port Columbus, municipal airport in the Ohio city. Mayor Sullivan and his party from Indianapolis inspected the airport Monday.

Slayer of Two Given Life Term Bu United Press MUNCIE, Ind., Feb. 4.—A jury filed into the Delaware circuit courtroom at 9:05 Wednesday night and announced it had found James E. S. Wood guilty of murdering George and Elizabeth Heath and recommended life imprisonment. The jury deliberated less than four hours, and found Wood guilty on the first ballot. The rest of the time was spent deciding between the death sentence and life imprisonment. Wood betrayed no emotion as the foreman read the verdict. Silent, and with the dull, indifferent expression that marked his appearance throughout the trial, he was led from the courtroom. It was expected Judge L. A. Gutherie will pronounce sentence today. Wood ignored the questions of newspaper men-with silence. The defense counsel had laid its case on the theory that Wood was insane when he clubbed to death Mr. and Mrs. Heath, former employers. It was said the defendant had been mentally unbalanced since his return from overseas service during the World war. In the verdict, the jury disregarded depositions of Wood's neigh - bors and acquaintances, and the report of a commission of Muncie doctors, that Wood was mentally unbalanced. ACTOR DEMANDS BRIDE Rv United Press LOS ANGELES, Feb. 4.—Grant Withers, he-man of the movies, is going to fight for his bride. The screen player has filed a demurrer against the suit of his wife's mother, Mrs. Gladys Belzer, w 7 ho is trying to have the marriage annulled because the bride, Loretta Young, actress, was only 17 when the ceremony was performed. The laws of this state do not permit a girl under 18 to marry without parental consent. However, Attorney William Mann, representing Withers, pointed out the ceremony was performed in Arizona. ATTORNEY IS GUARDED AUBURN, N. Y., Feb. 4.—Police have been detailed to guard the home of District Attorney James J. Hosmer after a telephoned threat against his life, it became known today.Hosmer is prosecuting six convicts. charged with murder in connection with the slaying of another convict during the Auburn prison uprising of Dec. 1L

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At the left, the filling station, where Courts’ oldest son, Hollis, is attendant. Center, framework going up for the new dance hall which, when

PROGRAM RELAYED Radio Listeners Hear Long Distance Broadcast. SCHENECTADY, N. Y.. Feb. 4. Radio listeners-in on Station WGY today heard a program which came to them after having traveled approximately 20,000 miles, according to an announcement by C. D. Wagoner, General Electric Company official. The program was broadcast from Station 2XAF, the General Electric Company’s short wave station. VK2ME, at Sidney, Australia, picked it up and broadcast it back to WGY, which in turn rebroadcast it. Wagoner believes this is the first time a program has been broadcast approximately four-fifths around the world. It required only about one-eighth of a second to traverse the entire distance, he said.

The City in Brief

A collection of old pewter, brass arJ copper, owned by Charles Val Clear, an art student, will be exhibited in the art and music .room of central public library during February. Two early American rum bogles, property of Mrs. Arthur Zinkin, also are on display. A three-hour course in higher organic chemistry will be offered students of Butler university, Dr. Robert Aley, president, announced today. Dr. F. E. Cislak, who came here recently as research chemist in the laboratories of the P. C. Reilly Republic Creosoting Company, will give the course. Plans for construction of a model home as centerpiece for the realtors’ home show at the state fairground in April will be made by the Indianapolis Home Builders’ Association at the Spink-Arms Wednesday night. Dinner and business meeting will be the semi-annual event of the Indiana chapter of American Institute of Architects at 6:30 Friday night at Columbia Club. SCHOOT rUMOR DENIED Denial that Paul C. Stetson, superintendent of schools at Dayton, 0., is being considered more seriously for the post of schools superintendent here than some twenty others was made today by Russell Willson, school board president. , Stetson’s name was canvassed with other possibilities for the position here, school board members said. D. T. Weir has been acting superintendent of schools here since the new board took office Jan. 6.

APPEAL VERDICT IN MINE DEATH ‘Cop’-Slayers to Ask Ruling by Higher Court. Bu Script)s-Howard Newspaper Alliance FRANKLIN, Pa., Feb. 4.—Two of Pennsylvania’s ex-coal and iron policemen, found guilty of manslaughter in beating to death John Barcoski, a miner, will appeal their case to the higher courts. After five days of trial, a jury of eight men and four women brought in the verdict. They deliberated several hours to reach the agreement. The guilty men are Walter J. Lyster, a former lieutenant of the private police force of the Pittsburgh Coal Company, and Harold P, Watts, a private in the same organization. Frank Slapikis, a third member of the group of defendants, also a private in the police force at the time of the crime, was found not guilty. Announcement of granting a plea for arrest of judgment, pending a motion for the new trial, was made by Judge William B. Parker of Venango county, as the verdict was read. Under the law, the conviction is involuntary manslaughter, a misdemeanor punishable in the maximum by a sentence of two years to a penal institution selected by the court. The judge may Impose fines instead- of sending the men to prisons.

EMPLOYERS GATHER ‘ ( 200 Make Reservations for Dinner Tonight. Two hundred reservations had been made today for the twentysixth annual dinner meeting of the Associated Employers of Indianapolis, Inc., to be held at the Columbia Club at 6:30 tonight. “Constitutional Principles of Government” will be the topic of Harry F. Atwood of Chicago, and “Problems of Business Management” will be discussed by John B. Maling of Hammond. James M. Ogden, attorney-gen-eral, will preside as toastmaster. Atwood is president of the Const button Education Association, Inc., and Maling is a retired industrial executive. CITY SANITARY BODY PETITIONS $60,000 Sum Asked of Council Intended for Sewer Improvements. Appropriation of $60,000 of 1929’s $166,000 unappropriated balance was asked of city council today by the city sanitary commission, to enable the board to make several sewer improvements. Adequate pumps at the Meridian street and Westfield boulevard pumping station, repair of the Fiftyeighth and Sixty-first streets sewers, to stop infiltration of 4,000,000 gallons of water daily, and creation of a stream pollution crew are included in the program, according to B. J. T. Jeup, president. Pogue’s Run, north of New York street, will be excavated to abate a nuisance to that vicinity, Jeup said. The stream pollution crew will be headed by an engineer with an annual salary of $2,400. ALEY TO BE CHAIRMAN Butler seniors will make their first appearance in cap and gown at the seventy-fifth annual Founders’ day

celebration on the university campus in Fairview Saturday morning. Dr. Robert J. Aley, president of the university, will act as chairman of the program. Dean Thomas Arkle Clark of the University of Illinois will be the principal speaker. Assistant Professor Corine Welling will speak on Butler’s history. Dr. W. L. Rich-

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ardson, education department head, is in charge of arrangements. A banquet at the Claypool Saturday night will close the event. Dressmakers Strike Starts Bit United Press NEW YORK, Feb. 4.—The strike of New York's 35,000 dressmakers for higher wages and better working conditions, including annihilation of the “sweat shop” system, began today.

completed, will obscure the view of rigo's likeness, painted on the barn. Right, the new' and costly barbecue, “Trigo Inn,” with its manager, Arthur Court Jr., standing in the doorway.

BY ARCH STEINEL EIGHT months ago Arthur Court, 49, won $84,750 with a lottery ticket when an Irish bay colt, Trigo, was victorious in the English derby at Epsom Downs. His bank balance has dwindled today to just “several thousand dollars” and Court has gone to court in an attempt to save one of his investments. Eight months ago Court w r as an engineer at the Jackson building. Today ne can show for the luck of Trigo: One fifty-nine acre farm, twenty miles from Indianapolis on the Allisonville road, stocked with “some chickens,” “some cows,” a brick home, filling station and barbecue stand fronting the highway, a half-built dance hall, a white barn with one horse—on it, not in it—the black painted likeness of the Irish haymuncher that won him his w'ealth.

One 200-acre farm with planted wheat between Columbus and Seymour. A spar mine near Elizabethtown, 111., w'hich Court has in litigation in an attempt to gain control and prevent the loss of his money. An automatic refrigerator, radio, second-hand player piano, a Stutz sedan, six dozen sheets of bed linen, furniture. Hopes Money Goes Those are his assets or liabilities, whichever way you want to look at it, and Mrs. Court, at her home today, was quick to admit: “I’ll be glad w'hen the last several thousand dollars are gone.” Between last year’s bearish stock market, the buying of a mine “without getting it all in writin’,” and the expenditure of $5,000 in the barbecue stand and a filling station that haven’t paid for the knobby stones used in the barbecue chimney that doesn’t barbecue, Mrs. Court explains the sponging up of their Trigo coin. “We had most of the money we got in bonds. Well, when we’d try to sell the bonds we lost, sometimes SIOO to S2OO on each bond. They said the bonds would be good at their face value, but only some of the (she named an Indianapolis company) were good. Uncle on Farm “My uncle’s down on our 200acre farm. My husband bought the mine after he bought out here near Noblesville. It’s a spar mine. I don’t know just what that is, but it comes out of the ground like rock crystal. They use it to harden steel. “My husband met the man when he came to our house after hearing about our winning the money. Arthur’s down in Illinois now, in court, trying to get the controlling interest. He hired a chauffeur to drive him down—Arthur can’t drive. “You see, the fellow that owned the mine and sold my husband a half interest didn’t put it all in writin’ and we got to feelin’ he just was trying to get Arthur’s money to finance it.” She told how the filling station and barbecue stand were erected. “But the barbecue didn’t draw any business, so we decided to build a dance hall addition to the barbecue stand to see if it wouldn’t help. Yes, the barbecue stand is a right new building. Yes, we’ll have to tear but the back of the barbecue to add the dance hall. It’ll cost about $2,500.

Open House Planned “We ought to open the dance hall in March. Then we’re going to have a regular open house. Old-time fiddlers will be here from southern Indiana and everything will be free.” “We call this Trigo Inn—just try an’ go in ” Mrs. Court jocularly asserted. “Arthur Junior is running the barbecue stand and Hollis—he's the oldest —the gasoline station. Then we'll have Alvie with us soon. Alvie’s been in the army down on Honolulu. “But he went in as a minor and we’re getting him out, so’s he can help out on the farms. He farmed some before he went in the army. We’ve got six others growing up." The “rat-tat-tat” of hammers of carpenters working on the dance hall framework broke into her conversation. Trigo’s likeness on the white barn beamed down on the carpenters. “The dance hall will hold four

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sets. When we haven’t got fiddlers, we’ll use the second-hand player piano.” Junior, the barbecue-keeper, exi plained that a Virginia reel or some variation of the square dance would be alternated with the fox trot for customers. So as the Courts nurse the “several thousand” they have left from the $84,750 they won on Trigo. and as Trigo nuzzles his nose in his ban: in Erin, the black painted shadow of Trigo on the horseless Court barn will gallop nightly to strains from the dance hall of “Turi key in the Straw, Hee Haw, Haw.” DELAY STOKER MOVE Council Defers Action on City Hall Smoke. City council Monday night delayed - the ordinance authorizing stokers for city hall, although a smoke screen continues to pour from the city hall smoke stack in violation of the city building code. The ordinance was prepared by a former works board and the appropriation for stokers included in the 1930 budget by the former city council. The council postponed action on the only ordinance up for passage, to confer with the present works : board. It was introduced two weeks ago. FILE COURT ACTION TO CONTEST WILL Relatives of George Maas Seek to Set Aside Document. Suit contesting legality of the will j of George Johann Maas, Indian- ! apolis resident who died last fall, was filed Monday in probate court by three nephews and a niece. Defendants are nine persons who are beneficiaries under the will, and two executors of the estate, value of which was given as SIOO,OOO. Petition seeks to have the will set aside on the ground that Mr. Maas was of unsound mind when the document was drawn and contends plaintiffs are entitled to share Vi the estate. Petitioners reside in Marion county. ‘Y’ SCHOOL TO OPEN

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CANUCK, SHOT IN BORDER AFFRAY, ‘GOING GUNNING’ Sounds Warning to U. S. Agents Who. He t Claims, Wounded Him. WINDSOR. Out . Feb. 4.— Armed United States officers who cross the international border in search of rum runners, henceforth will be arrested by Canadian authorities, District Inspector Sidney Oliver of the Ontario provincial police announced today. The announcement came a few hours after Inspector Oliver arrived here to investigate the shooting Monday of Arthur Laframboise, a Canadian, by men whom he claims were American border agents. Bn Cnitcd Brest l WINDSOR, Ontario. Feb. 4.—Arthur (Muskrat) Laframboise, shot by mysterious gunmen whom he claims were American border agents acting in Canadian territory, is ;oing gunning” for his assailants as soon as he gets out of the hospital. he said today. “I’m going to get my friends together and if we find those fellows snooping on this side of the border again it’ll be too bad.” Lamframboise was reccing from his wound today, the second escape from death since lie started out Sunday night to help a friend drag a load of liquor out on the ice of the Detroit river. Followed Custom “Muskrat” claims he never crossed the international border line, but followed the usual practice of taking the liquor part way to be picked up by American rum runners who crossed the line. Near the boundary line, the ice cracked and Lafromboise heard the water swish over the top of his sedan as it sank. He smashed the windshield, fifteen feet under water and managed to come up at the same hole in the ice the car went through. Collapses Over Wheel Friends hardly had pulled him from the icy water when they saw a Group of men running toward them. The group scattered, Laframboise climbing into one of the automobiles nearby on the ice and starting to drive away. A rattle of revolver shots came from the group and he collapsed over the wheel. The car careened on across the ice and the shooters gave up the chase. United States customs border patrol headquarters here has had no report of a shooting by agents and officials insist Muskrat probably was shot by hijackers. Colonel S. C. Robinson and J Eccles Gott, members of the Canadian parliament, announced their intention of demanding that the Canadian government investigate. HELD AS 'BANANA KID’ Kenneth Hunt Is Identified by Taxi Driver as Roasting iandit. Kenneth Hunt, 21, of 1504 Blaine avenue, identified by one taxi driver as “the Banana Kid,” is held by police on vagrancy charges for investigation. The chauffeur who identified Hunt previously had identified another man as “the Banana Kid,” a bandit who has preyed on taxi drivers more than two months. The man, previously identified, presented an alibi.

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