Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 252, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 March 1930 — Page 3

MAR. 1, 1930

POLICE CLAIM 4 CONFESSIONS IN 33 ROBBERIES Safe Crackings, Car Thefts Cleared by Arrests, 4 Officers Assert. Arrests and alleged confessions of four men have cleared a total of thirty-three ho'dups. burglaries, car thefts and safe blov ings in and near Indianapol.*. police claimed today. George Wanslul, 19. of Los Angeles, is alleged to have confessed a taxi driver holdup and two other robberies. % f r.verett Perry. 22. escaped state reformatory inmate, and two alleged companions. Alphonse Head. 18, of 810 Prospects street, and Ralph Baines, 22, of 1313 East Mark ket street, are alleged to have confessed a long series of car thefts, safe crackings and burglaries. Police say confessions of the latter three show it was this gang that fled from a drug store at Sherman drive and Michigan street leaving the safe "souped" ready for a ni< -oglvcerine blast with wires and b; tteries attached, when police arrived. Near Holdup Scene According to the alleged confessions the three drove past the store wide police were there, ignoring danger of arrest. Other crimes police say the three have confessed are: ' Haag drug store. Audubon road end Washington street, safe blown, $154 cash; filling station, 5926 j North Illinois Street, wall safe | blown, no loot; drug store, Fifty- ] second street and College avenue, safe combination knocked off. no loot; filling station, Connersville, safe forced, S3B: grocery at Ft. | Wayne, safe stolen, blown, $l3B loot; coal yard safe. Huntington, safe blown, $185; filling station, i Marion, safe blown. S4O: filling station. Anderson, safe blown, SSO; hardware store, Richmond, revolver ! cartridges and shotgun; filling station, Kokomo, charged failed to open safe: hardware store, Dunreith, radio set and cartridges; fill- ! gtng" station. Greenfield, safe blo'm, | no loot; Piggly Wiggly store. La- j fayette. safe blown, $126; coal yard, j Lebanon, safe blown. S3O; stone I quarry at Bedford, dynamite taken. Burglaries Included Other crimes confessed, police say, ; by the three are burglaries at Ben | Davis and in Indianapolis, and two safe blowings at Bedford. The three rented a house at 3246 Emerson avenue, police say. and are j alleged to have taken a stolen radio j there for their amusement. Two stolen cars were used in the safe raids, police say, and thefts of other cars are attributed to the three. All are charged with burglary, grand larceny and auto banditry. Wansful. arrested Friday night, is alleged to have confessed holding up Lelland Monchein, 346 South Roena avenue, tax driver, Thursday night, getting $3 and Monchein’s cab which later ws abandoned. He also is* alleged to have confessed a filling station holdup at Cincinnati in which he is alleged to have obtained S4O. and burglary of a Cleveland pawnshop, in which police claim he stole three revolvers, cartridges, five watches and other goods. He arrived here Wednesday and Was preparing to leave the city when arrested, police said. He is alleged to have had four revolvers when arrested. SAFETY SESSION TO BE HELD TUESDAY School Heads Invited to Meeting of m Conference at New Albany. School superintendents, principals and officers of Parent-Teacher Associations have been invited by Secretary of State Otto G. Fifield to attend the second of a series of safety conferences to be held at New Albany Tuesday. Fifield and Charles B. Scott. Chicago, head of the National Safety Council, will be in charge of the program. Other speakers will include Roy P. Wisehart. superintendent of public instruction; James L. Bradley, head of the Indiana automobile licensing division; J. P. safety director on the Pennsylvania railroad, and Fred T. Gladden, superintendent of the Marion county schools. 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(The above photo is of a couple of sidewalk mariners photographed at McCarty and Madison avenue. They didn’t know their names, and who would on such a “no mean sea.”)

Here's Bill and Jack and Skipper Mack In their good ship Rubber Tire, | A ridin’ the foam on fantasy’s back | With pavements as their lyre. ! We met them down where the Madison flows, And the streams of traffic wend; Where stoplights are and the auto slows, To the avenue’s crook and bend. Bill’s the sober one of the craft, You can see it by his stare; But the skipper's Mack “Lay aft!” He shouts, as he rubs his salty hair. And Jack’s the dog, his tail the log, That wags with rudder glee, For self and Bill and Skipper Mack, Our pavement Sailors Three. GAS STATION ROBBED Lone Bandit Gets S2O From Sinclair Attendant. Forcing Miss Elizabeth Grubbs, 17, jof 155 West Pratt street, into a ! lavatory, a lofte bandit took S2O from Kenneth Metager, 23, of 5159 Arsenal ; avenue, Sinclair filling station ati tendant at Pratt street and Capitol avenue, Friday night, according to ! police. Miss Grubbs was talking to Metzger when the bandit entered. Metz- ! ger refused to open a safe and the ; robber did not persist in demands I for cash from it. Mrs. L. C. McCollum, 611 North Pennsylvania street. Apartment 25, ! reported women’s clothing valued at S9O stolen from her apartment by j burglars. STUTZ SUITS DISMISSED Detroit Man's Patent infringement Charges Held Unfounded. Two suits filed against the Stutz Motor Car Company of America by James Scripps Booth, Detroit, charging infringement of patents, were dismissed in federal court by Judge Robert C. Baltzell for lack of equity. Judge Baltzell held that Booth had not proved that he held a patent on the designs of a low gravity type automobile chassis he submitted to the Stutz company, and hence the company could not be I guilty of infringement. ASKS PETITION SUPPORT i Civic Club Federation May Aid in Plea to Cut Water Rates. Support of the Indianapolis Federation of Community Civic Clubs for a petition signed by thirty-five rate payers to reduce water meterization charges was sought by Leo K. Fesler at a federation meeting ' Friday night at the Chamber of ! Commerce. President Albert Neuerburg was authorized to appoint a committee | to recommend action. Annual election of the federation will be at the March meeting it was ; announced.

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2 HIT-AND-RUN DRIVERS SOUGHT Leave Victims in Street After Accidents. Two hit-and-run motorists were sought by today as a result of accidents Friday night. James E. Irvin, 27, Negro, 611 North California avenue, was struck by an automobile at Court and Illinois streets and was injured slightly. He was taken home. The motorist did not stop, he said. Alva Coffman, 18, of 1128 Spann avenue, was knocked down by a large car at New Jersey and South streets, the car running across both his ankles. He was taken to city hospital. William Stanley. 23, of 1119 South State avenue, was injured on the legs and head when his motorcycle and a car driven by Irvin Glaut, 862 Fletcher avenue, collided at Cedar street and English avenue. He was taken to city hospital. AUTHORIZE PURCHASE Two New Buses to Be Bought by Peoples Cos. Passengers who have complained they have been forced to ride “junker busses” and suffer from the exhaust gasses were rejoicing at the news today that the public service commission has authorized the ples Motor Coach Company, street railway subsidiary, to purchase two new busses for $11,290. The company was authorized to issue notes in payment. Sunshine Gardens Bus Company was authorized by the commission to extend its route on the Bluff road to the first road south of Troy avenue, thence west to J,he Harding street plant of the '’lndianapolis Power and Light Company, now under construction. BAR GROUP WILL MEET Indorsement of Judicial Candidates to Be Discussed by Lawyers. Plans for pre-primary indorsement of judicial candidates will be discussed at a meeting of the Indianapolis Bar Association at the Columbia Club Wednesday night. Charles N. Thompson will speak on “The Lawyer as a Pioneer in Indiana” and Louis B. Ewbank and Henry M. Dowling will discuss the same subject. Awarded Scientific Honor Miss Helen Cade of the Butler university home economics department was initiated into Sigma Xi honorary scientific fraternity, at the University of Illinois recently. Special research In some scientific field is necessary for membership. Miss Cade made research in nutrition.

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START PROBE IN * ALLEGED ABUSE OF CAR PLATES County Employes Charged With Shifting Licenses to Own Autos. County commissioners today j opened an investigation into re- : ported irregularities in the operation of county official cars and alleged shifting of license plates to personal vehicles of employes. Steps were taken by the board after The Times laid facts before | the body following a probe into activities at the county garage. Commissioners • declared “improper use of autos by employes will be punishable by discharge. Wrecked Auto The officials, after a brief check of the situation, admitted Alfred Coeffell, garage superintendent, four weeks ago wrecked an auto assigned to the county surveyor’s office. Coeffell. commissioners said, admitted he had a collision while driving the car after working hours and he was not on county business. The superintendent was reprimanded by the commission and had the car repaired without cost to the county, it was said. Commissioners also admitted they are going to employ Arthur Skibbe in the garage Saturday. Skibbe Wednesday completed serving a forty-day jail sentence on a drunk charge. Need Money for Fine Skibbe will be employed permanently. they said, if money can be obtained to pay a S4O stayed fine of his in municipal court three on a liquor charge. Skibbe formerly was employed by George V. Coffin, county political czar, "when the latter operated a downtown garage, and is praised as a “good mechanic” by commissioners. “We intend to give him a chance at the job,” commissioners said. “We feel we can help him more in that way than by criticism. He has promised us he will obey and behave. If he doesn’t he Is to be fired.” Discharging Lewis Commissioners are discharging Arnold Lewis who has held the post since Jan. 1 because he is “not a mechanic.” Lewis, however, charged he was being discharged to “make way for Skibbe” and that Coeffell had told j Lewis he was “not wanted.” Officials admitted they have dis- : covered many county cars being used “for rides home after w r ork” and that free license plates have j been used on personal cars “for a j few hours.” 1 It also w r as learned the commisj sion has received word that county | cars have been used over week-ends. TAX LISTS AVAILABLE 400,000 Blanks for Personal and Real Property on File. Spring tax assessment lists now j are available at the treasuer’s office lat courthouse, County Treasurer Clyde E. Robinson announced toi day. More than 400,000 blanks, includi ing personal property and real es- ! tate, are filed for distribution. Tax ; receipts by the county this spring ! are expected to total more than i $12,000,000. Final date for payment I is the first Monday in May, Robinj sen said. After that date, doors of | the treasurer’s office will be closed j for thirty days, when delinquency j charges will be added to the- regular ! tax.

SEEK NEGROES AFTER ATTEMPT TO ABDUCT GIRL One Believed Injured as Auto Is Wrecked in Police Chase. Wrecking a stolen car in which they are alleged to have attempted to abduct a young woman Fridaynight, two Negroes escaped capture in White river bottoms near Illinois street. t That at least one of the Negroes was injured- when the stolen car, missing the Illinois street bridge, plunged down the bank and struck four trees before coming to a stop, was indicated when an Negro later in the night engaged a taxi driven by Harold R. Kline, 23 West Henry street, at Sixty-first street and Washington boulevard. The Negro was bleeding about the head and arms and one hand was hurt badly, Kline reported to police. The two. after stealing a car owned bv G. A. Bass of 4003 North New- Jereiey street, from a downtown parking place, attempted to drag Miss Opal Oberlies, 23. of 1019 North Kealing avenue, into the machine in front of her home at 9 p. m., police were told. She screamed and her father and her brother ran from the home. Grabbing her purse and releasing her, the two Negroes fled* Miss Oberlies’ father and brother, pursuing them in a lighter car, were outdistanced. Two hours later the two were found near Fifty-second and Illinois streets by Motor Policemen Charles H. Felton and Dale Smith, who opened fire when the Negroes ! disobeyed orders to stop. The chase j lasted to White river, where the car ! was wrecked.

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Left to Right: William Fortune. Mrs. H. T. Wagner, Miss Mabel T. Boardman, national secretary of the American Red Cross, Mrs. Hugh McGibney and Mrs. William Johnson.

City Unit Hears Talk by Miss/Boardman on Group's Work. Miss Mabel T. Boardman, national secretary of the American Red Cross, visited Indianapolis Friday. She addressed students at manual Training high school in the morning and at noon spoke on women's work in community, state and nation at a luncheon given at the Columbia Club by the Indianapolis chapter of the Red Cross. Miss Boardman arrived at 8 a. m. and was met at the Union station by William Fortune, chairman of the chapter, and a group of club women. In the afternoon she visited the Riley hospital and at night she was the dinner guest of Fortune at the Woodstock Club. Eight Stores Robbed COATESVILLE, Ind., March 1.— Burglars robbed eight stores here of small sums of money. Albert Shane, sheriff of Hendricks county, is investigating.

PRESIDENT TO RESIGN Revolt Chief to Succeed Vasquez as Dominican Chief. By United Press SANTO DOMINGO. Dominican Republic, March 1. —Rafael Estrella Urena, lawyer and “supreme chief of the revolution.’ today became secretary of the interior and will mount from that pest to the presidency as soon as President Horacio Vasquez, "a weary old man," leaves the country. Urena’s appointment came as a climax to three days of conferences between administration leaders and the chieftains of 8,000 determined peasant soldiers who were ready to seize the government by force if the revolution could not be accomplished peacefully.

Paving the Investor The rates and fares which railway patrons pay are distributed three ways by the railway organization. One part, by far the largest, goes to the employes as wages. Another part, the second largest, is spent outside the railway organization for fuel, materials and supplies, other operating expenses and taxes. The third part, the smallest, goes to the owners and other investors in the railway property, their dividends and interest constituting what is- practically rent for the use of the plant which they have furnished. Everyone who ships or travels sees the employes who operate the railway plant and realizes’ that they must receive their pay. So, too, in a general way does everyone see the coal burned, the other supplies consumed, the taxes paid. Not everyone realizes, however, that every item in the plant which is being used is the result of someone’s toil or self-denial and that therefore the plant, too, deserves its pay. It is helps and occasionally to look at a piece of railway track and meditate on what lies back of its construction. Every tie, every rail, every spike represents the investment of money. Here may be found assembled, under the appearance of steel and wood, the slowly accumulated savings of many individuals. A single artery of the nation’s commerce may hold within its commonplace form the hopes and the savings of thousands of our people of every degree and locality. Looked at that way, the railway plant is at once conceded to be deserving of its pay. Human effort is represented in it, and its wage is as important as any. Upon the reward which railway capital receives depend the future advancement and improvement of the railway plant. The needs of the nation cause the railroads constantly to seek greater efficiency. That in turn necessitates added investment, and new investors are difficult, if not impossible, to obtain if their predecessors have had to go unrewarded. Constructive criticism and suggestions are invited. L. A. DOWNS, President, Illinois Central System. CHICAGO, March 1, 1930. —Dependable for 79 Years —

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IOWAN MINERS OFFER SUPPORT TO CITY GROUP Approve Stand Taken on Rump Convention Call in Illinois. Support of lowa union miners, claimed by Illinois insurgents who have called a convention at Springfield 111., March 10. was claimed today instead by the international executive committee of the United Mine Workers of America here. John L. Lewis, international president, announced receipt of. the following telegram from Iowa miners. District 13, in convention at Des Moines: "We, delegates assembled in District 13 convention, do hereby commend our international officials for the position taken by them in reference to the dual movement in Illinois and pledge our wholehearted and united support to the end that our union may be preserved and our membership protected.'" Previously, Illinois insurgents had claimed Iowa miners would attend the rump convention in Sprin instead of the regular convention called for Tomlinson hall here, on March 10. Bone Catches in Throat Police ais was asked when Mrs. Belle Whittington, 48, rooming house proprietor at 220 North East street, was choked by a bone caught in her throat while eating supper Friday night. A physician removed the bone.