Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 276, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 March 1930 — Page 3

MARCH 29. 1930.

G, 0. P. CHIEFS STUDY TASK OF BEATING FIFIELD Eschbach, Orr Mentioned as Possibilities to Win Secretary Post. BY' BEN STERN Combinations of Republican state convention delegates against Otto G. Fifield for renomination as secretary of state are the subject of Intensive study by Republican leaders. One group has begun a definite boom to nominate Jesse Eschbach of Ft. Wayne, former state accounts board head. The movement got Iflfjfr way in Indianapolis this week although Eschbach declares he has no intention of becoming a candidate. the campaign is gaining ground Even regular G. O. P. organization men controlled bv the George V. Coffin group with whom P’ifield has been allied closely, are pessmistic over the secretary’s chance to win this fall, even if nominated. “Fifield is a losing horse, but we may be forced to back him because he has sixty employes belonging to our organization,'’ a Coffin leader declared. Loud in Disapproval Anti-Coffinites, loud in disapproval of Fifield, have advanced the name of Lawrence F. Orr, incumbent accounts board head, if Eschbach is not received favorably. Tlie latter was a candidate for Governor in 1928 and long has been an outstanding Republican. Orr has been receiving favorable mention because of his investigation of Lake county graft charges. With 1.957 delegates to the G. O. P. convention, the winner must receive 979 votes. So a large number of delegates is expected to prove unwieldly to manage. Among the anti-Fifield combinations suggested are: Marion county with 256 votes, St. Joseph county with 89 votes, Vanderburgh with 68 votes, Vigo with 54. Allen with 81 eastern Indiana counties that openly have been expressing dissatisfaction with Fifield. Republican leaders flatly declare that if the Democrats nominate a strong state ticket, the G. O. P. state chances will be weak. Enthused by Poll Enthused by the Literary Digest poll showing a strong modification and repeal trend, two avowedly wet candidates for Congress already have filed and another is considering entering the race. Samuel B. Pettengill of South Bend has filed lor the Democratic nomination for congress on a wet platform and Charles A. Carlisle, who has announced for the Republican nomination, has adopted a similar platform. Andrew Hickey, Republican, Thirteenth district congressman, who is listed as a dry, is expected to file soon for renomination. Ira Holmes. Indianapolis attorney Vind Coffin organization leader has indicated he will be a Seventh district candidate for the Republican Vimination on a wet platform. I One of the most influential and Jutstfinding Democratic leaders in Indiana will step back Into the ’wings when Joseph M. Cravens, I “Uncle Joe.” of Madison, refrains filing for renomination and jgftf-election as state senator. Active 30 Year* For more than thirty years, he Wias been active in Democratic party affairs. his debut in 1894 when tRr was defeated for Clarke county state senator. In 1902 Uncle Joe was elected state representative. He ‘ did rot run in 1907 and was defeated in 1915. But In 1919 he entered the senate and has served continuously. “Uncle Joe's big moment came in 1924 when he entered the gubernatorial primary but lost the nomination to Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch. His valedictory was: “What’s the use of being a legislator any longer? “All the legislative power has been delegated to boards and commissions.” BACK BROKEN IN FALL Woman’s Condition Critical After Tumble Over Banister. Condition of Mrs. Mae Mattingly. 22. of 122 West Thirteenth street, Apt. 1, who fell o\er a second-floor stairway banister at her home Friday afternoon, was critical at city hospital today. Her back was broken tn the fall. $15,000 Church Bums B v Li,!, k surciii. SOUTH MILFORD. Ind.. March 29.—Fire destroyed the Methodist church here with a loss of $15,000. Insurance of SB,OOO was carried. Women members of the congregation “ad started a fire in a cooking stove preparatory* to a supper, and left for their homes. They returned to And the building ablaze. It is believed the stove exploded. WANT TO LOOK YOUNG? The secret of keeping young is to feel young—to do this you must watch your liver and bowels—there’s no need of having a sallow complexion—dark rings under your eyes —pimples—a bilious look in your face—dull eyes with no sparkle. Your doctor will tell you ninety per cent of all sickness comes from inactive bowels and liver. Dr. Edwards, a well-known physician in Ohio, perfected a vegetable compound as a substitute for calomel to act on the liver and bowels, which he gave to his patienU for years. Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets are gentle in their action yet always effective. They help bring about that natural buoyancy which all should j enjoy by toning up the liver and clearing the system of impurities. r>r. Edwards Olive Tablets are 30c,

DESTROY BANANA CROP Mexican Growers Throw Away Fruit Because of Low Price. Bv I niled Press VERA CRUZ, Mexico, March 29 They are throwing bananas away down here because the prices offered in the United States are too low. The fruit companies apparently And it cheaper to destroy the fruit and force the price up than to ship the bananas and sell on a low market. WIDOW ASKS JURY TRIAL IN ERLANGER CASE Rites Making Her ‘Wife’ of Theater Magnate Are Described to Court. It t'nih /I Press NEW YORK, March 29.—Surrogate Foley today is considering the application of counsel for Mrs. Charlotte Fixel-Exlanger for a jury trial of her claim to a share of Abraham L. Erlanger’s estate, estimated at $75,000,000. She is contesting the will of the late theatrical magnate on the ground that she was his commonlaw wife. Max D. Steuer. counsel for Mrs. Fixel-Erlanger in asking Friday for a trial by jury, charged that from the day of Erlanger’s death, there has been a campaign to discredit Mrs. Fixel-Erlanger’s right to a share in the estate. Tells of “Wedding Rite” He offered in evidence an affidavit by his client, describing Erlanger’s definite act of acknowledging Charlotte Fixel as his wife. She quotes Erlanger as saying: “Whatever doubt there exists or may have existed as to whether my marriage to you is lawful or not, I wish to remove. So far as I can make you my lawful wife, I want to do so, and I do it now. I ask you to take me as your lawful husband and to become my wife.” “I do not recall the exact words that I used,” Mrs. Fixel-Erlangers affidavit continues, “I cannot even swear positively that at that Instant I used any words. Acknowledged as Wife "I know that I put my arms around him to make him comfortable in his chair, for he had gotten up as he spoke. “I kissed him and said: Abe, you are my husband!’ “He said: ’Darling, I am.’ - “Then he put a wedding ring on my finger.” She said the incident took place on Nov. 3, 1927. at Atlantic City.

HOG VALUED OVER LIFE Farmer Kills Rancher to Escape Theft Prosecution. Bu United Press TEXARKANA. Tex.. March 29 Dave Goodwin, 42, Texas farmer.

was sentenced at Texarkana to die in the electric chair because he looked upon the theft of a hog as a more serious offense than the murder of a man. Goodwin declared he killed Lloyd Elliott. a hog rancher, in selfdefense and to escape prosecution of stealing a hog.

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ENDS 29-DAY FAST Woman ‘Ponzi’ of France Quits Hunger Strike. Bv United Press PARIS. March 29.—The woman Financier Marthe Manau, held in connection with alleged investment frauds, took food voluntarily today, having broken her twenty-nine-day hunger strike. It is claimed thousands of small investors were swindled when Mme. Manau’s Gazette du France failed a year of so ago.

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Automobiles reported to police es stolen belong to: Claude York, Dnaville. Ind.. Chevrolet coach. 584-344, from DanvUle. Hare Chevrolet Company, Liberty and Washington streets. Chevrolet coupe, from Massachusetts avenue and Michigan street. Tom Beall, 2822 Adams street. Chevrolet sedan. 752-047, trom 3547 Massachusetts avenue. George Hampshng, R. R. 3. Box 600. Chrvsler roach. 753-137. from Rav street and Marion avenue. F IV. Kreimer. 1222 Prospect street. Ford tourmg. 79-819. from Ohio and New Jersey streets.

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Stolen automobiles recovered by police belong to: Shannon Johnson. 1047 Roach street. Buick sedan, found on Walnut street, near Meridian street. H Morton. R. R. 16. Box 260, Ford roadster. found on Walnut stret, near General Motors Company. Arch Hughes. Terre Haute. Chevrolet sedan, found on Walnut street, near General Motors Company. Everett Henderson. 54 North Keystone avenue. Jewett sedan, found at Meridian and Walnut street. Joe Appleman. 234 North rvlaware street. Ford coupe, found at 30 West Walnut street. 3onaid Wickens. 214 Fifth avenue. Mars Hill. Nash coupe, found a: 636 East North street. Svlvester Neuhausel. 2011 East Maryland street. Overland tudor. found at 922 Mar on avenue. Auburn sedan. M-557. found at Indiana avenue and Vermont street. Chevrolet coach. 30-512. found at Walnut and Illinois streets. Reception Breaks Traditions Bv T utted Press LONDON, March 29. J. Ramsay MacDonald, Miss Ishbel MacDonald, and members of the British cabinet received the delegates to the London naval conference at a reception in the house of lords Friday night that shattered all tradition surrounding the sanctity of that venerable chamber.

POLICE BAFFLED BY MURDER OF NOTED SOVANT Encroachment of Science Upon Religion Clew in Mystery. Bv United Pres* MOSCOW, March 29.—A mystery worthy of a first-rate writer of detective stories centers around the death by shooting of Professor I. M. Michaelovskv of the Mid-Asiatic University, in Tashkent, one of the foremost physiologists in the world. The encroachments of science upon religion and the new ideas on family life are elements in the Tashkent affair. Professor Michaelovsky for years had experimented in a scientific domain dear to the hearts of Russian physiologists—the resuscitation of dead animals. His achievements won attention in publications throughout the world. Dead Monkey Revived After drawing all the bloftd from a body of a monkey, so that the animal remained “dead” for more than twenty-four hours. Professor Michaelovsky revived it by re-in-jecting the blood into its veins. His work, it seems, greatly perturbed conservative religious circles in and around Tashkent. This meddling with life and death, it was complained, undermined faith in God and was a menace to the community. The professor’s young wife, from all accounts, also had strong objections to his experiments. Just when certain of his tests were brought to a head, they failed —due, it wvs discovered later, to interference by his wife. Jealous of Work Why did Mrs. Michaelovsky spoil his experiments? Was it because she was under the domination of a “counter-revolutionary religious clique” interested in tearing down all science. Such is the theory of part of the Soviet press. Or was it because she was intensely jealous of his work, his career, in which he was undoubtedly more interested than he was in his wife and domestic duties? The questions will have to be answered more definitely by the police and by a court, because the suspicion of murder hangs over the wife’s head. BREAK STORE PANES Window-Smashing Burglars Busy Friday Night. Display window breaking was a popular pastime with burglars Friday night. Vernie Cook, Negro, 732 Douglass street, was arrested in the rear of the / Frank Dappis dry cleaning establishment, 56 South Illinois street. Police say he had a large iron bar, and a window of the store had been broken. A brick hurler broke two windows at the Jack Werner loan shop at 234 Indiana avenue. No loot was obtained. Display windows at the Kroger grocery, Twenty-fifth and Davidson streets, and at the John Joseph store, 2037 Landley avenue, were broken. Small amounts of foodstuffs are missing. Burglars stole s4l at the home of Miss Cora Bessinger, 931 South New Jersey street. FUNERAL RITES SET FOR MRS. BRYCE 80 Services Will Be Held Monday for Former Nursing School Head. Funeral services for Mrs. Abbie Hunt Bryce, 80, widow of Peter F. Bryce, who died Friday night at her home, 3308 North New Jersey street, will be conducted at 2 p. m Monday at Flanner & Buchanan mortuary. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Mrs. Bryce was the first superintendent- of nurses at the Flower Mission training school for nurses. Survivors are a sister. Miss Mollie Hunt of Cincinnati; three stepsons and two stepdaughters. Plant Survey Planned nv Timm Boecial RICHMOND. Ind., March 29. City, officials here have signed a contract with R. Husselman, Cleveland, consulting engineer who was retained by the Indiana public service commission in the Insull merger matter, to make a survey of the municipally owned light plant here. Officials especially desire to obtain data relatitve to a proposed contract with the Indiana Electric Service Corporation for standby service. “A Good Place to Bank * Marion County State Bank 139 East Market Street Buy Your Radio at PEARSON’S Choose from R. C. A., Atwater Kent and Philco 12H-30 N. Pennsylvania Strwl VON N E G UT T S Hnidqnart.r* for food itra.o and rnrdrn need*.. Only the bet Ingredients. no cheap snbstitntlon. VONNEGUT’S 120-124 E Washington Street ygty ON SAVINGS —jr/D few mti of Dtmsn State Savings and Trust Cos. 123 E. MARKET ST. ■■■■■■■ ■■

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SEEK HUSTON VOTE Quiz Group to Ask Senate’s View on Fund Charge. Bv United Press WASHINGTON. March 29.—The senate may be called upon to approve or condemn, by formal vote, the manner in which Claudius Huston, chairman of the Republican national committee, handled the funds of the Tennessee River Improvement Association, as disclosed by the senate lobby committee. Aroused by charges of “playing politics” in the investigation of Huston’s activities, members of the committee were planning today tc force a senate vote on their report next week of the way in which Huston handled the $36,100 given tc him by the Union Carbide Company for the lobbying organization. .

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EMBASSY LIQUOR LOW New British Ambassador Inherits Parley Stocked Cellar. By United, Press WASHINGTON. March 29.—The collar of the British embassy here is almost dry. If the new ambassador. Sir Donald Lindsay, decides to revoke the policy of former Ambassador Howard, who discontinued imports of liquor, he will have to bring in new stocks from abroad soon. “We took over the stock left by Sir Esme Howard, but there was practically nothing to take over,’’ Lady Lindsay said today. Commencement to Be April 18 Bv Times Special MEDARYVILLE, Ind., March 29. —The commencement address for graduates of the Medaryville high school will be given April 18 by Dr. Clyde Milner, Earlham college.

TIN PAN ALLEY ‘MUSCLED IN’ ON BY RACKETEERS Popular Song Numbers Are Hawked on Corner for Dime a Copy. Bv United Press NEW YORK. March 29.—'The gangsters have “muscled in" on Tin i Pan Alley, and the music publishi ers have set up a squawk that finally has reached the ears of William D. Mitchell, United States at-torney-general. It has to do with the song sheet I racket, in which street vendors : hawk as many as a dozen of the ! latest popular numbers, cheaply | printed on a single tinted sheet, for j a dime. i Although there is no doubt that ; the business of ignoring copyrights ! is dishonest to a degree, nothing of importance has been done about it | far in New York. One on Every Corner Almost every crowded street cor- : ner boasts a song sheet vendor and j they occupy the space in the crowd- ! ed subway passages formerly given : over—for some occult reason—to I the dirty-faced and frequently evil- ; smelling gentlemen who used the ; public corridors for peddling balj loon Zeppelins and jumping dolls. Broadway at night is thick with the | song sheet peddlers, j It Is a. new racket. It started in j a small way last fall at Coney Is- ! land. In the six months since, the | Music Publishers’ Protective Associ- | ation, which is the voice of Tin Pan | Alley, asserts that song writers and publishers have lost more than $5,000,000 and that the losses are con- | tinuing at the rate of more than $1,000,000 a month. Sales in Irving Berlin’s company alone are claimed to have dropped more than $6,000 a week since the sheets have been sold. Districts Are Divided The racket is so profitable that i it has passed entirely into the hands i of gangsters and the sales districts are divided among rival organizations who jealously protect their “rights.” So far, there have been sluggings and threats but no ma-chine-gunnings. With the first frosts the Coney Island pioneers moved into Dixie. The racket spread to Memphis, Atlanta and Dallas. Then it invaded Chicago, Syracuse. Boston, Baltimore, San Francisco. Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Detroit, Cleveland and Los Angeles. The Music Publishers’ Protective Association is very anxious to move against the dishonest song gangsters as soon as the government can find time to assist in a big way. The association would like for the public to help by refraining from i buying the sheets, but it hardly expects that because it has dealt with I the public for many years. PARKS POST VACANT Mayor Considers Successor to John E. Milnor. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan today considers appointment of a succes- | sor to John E. Milnor. park board member, who resigned Friday. Milnor’s resignation came as a surprise at city hall as there had I been no indication of his intentions | to give up the park berth which he held since 1925. Revolution Plans Charged Bit United Press MARSEILLES. France, March 29. —The Communists are planning a general revolution in French Indochina, the British and Dutch East Indies, the French Delegate Rigaud of the superior council of Annam said on arriving here.

FOUR KILLED IN CRASH Only One Member of Family Living .After Train Hits Auto. Bv Uniti and Pri ss MARION, 0., March 29.—Four members of a family of five were killed here Friday night when their automobile was struck by a Big Four passenger train at a crossing here. The dead, all of Columbus: William J. Stephens. 33; Nancy Stephens, 60, his mother; Mrs. Harriette Stephens, 27, Stephen's wife; Ralph Stephens, 9, a son. •TIGER' BITTER IN LAST DAYS. BOOK REVEALS Longed to Vent Wrath on Many Developments of Post-War Period. By United Press NEW YORK. March 29—George Clemenceau’s last days were shadowed by the bitterness of his quarrel with Marshal Ferdinand Foch, but. the Old Tiger found many other irritating post-war developments on which he longed to vent his scornful wrath. In the volume which Clemenceau wrote in the days when he was fighting off death, as he had fought off the Germans at gates of Paris, he penned an indictment of others than Foch. Faltering and Flinching “Whether in the government, In parliament, or in public opinion,” he wrote In the first installment of “Grandeur and Misery of Victory,” published in Collier’s today, "I see everywhere nothing but faltering and flinching. Our allies, dis-allied, have contributed largely to this result, and we have never done anything to deter them. “England in various guises has gone back to her old policy of strife on the continent, and America, prodigiously enriched by the war. is presenting us with a tradesmai’s account that does more honor to her greed than to her selfrespect.” In regard to his reply to Foch’s attacks on his direction of governmental affairs during the peace negotiations, Clemenceau shows much bitterness, but some signs of the softening of his relentlessness in the days of retirement. Everything Forgotten? “Ah, Foch! Foch! My good Foch! have you then forgotten everything?” he wrote, only to resume a few paragraphs further on, his attack on the marshal. He paid tribute to Foch's genius at the Battle of Ypes, giving him credit for knowing how “To impose his will upon the allies,” and he did not regret that he won Foch’s appointment as generalissimo although “the difficulty came mainly from the British side.” MAYOR TIGHTENS RULE City Employes Must Stick to Jobs, Is Edict by Sullivan. City employes will be required to put in “full time” at their jobs, Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan declared today. Sullivan asserteu city employes must stick at their desks and not spend their time loitering in the city hall rotunda with friends seeking jobs. FACE DOPE CHARGES Federal Agents Charge. Forging of Seven Prescriptions. Dolph H, Staub, 707 East Twentysecond street, and Claude Mitchell, 20 McLean place, were arrested Friday after federal narcotic agents alleged they forged seven prescriptions for various narcotics.

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GUNMEN ADMIT FOUR HOLDUPS. POLICE ASSERTs Two Held for Robbery of Checker, Yellow Cab Companies. Three robberies here and one In Columbus, 0., are solved by confessions of two alleged gunmen, Donald Joseph, 22, of 2044 Olive street, and Paul Pierce, 19, of 446 Shelby street, city detectives de- | dared today. Both are parole violators. They were said to have confessed holdup of a Checker Cab Company money truck in February; Yellow | Cab Company pay roll robbery March 11, and the Frlehofer Bakery Company holdup March 7. Last week in Columbus, they said, they lined up nine persons and robbed the Donaldson-Omar Baking Company of $1,500, according to police. John Hancock, 24, and his wife, Mrs. Hattie May Hancock. 19, of. 1013 South Illinois street, were arrested on vagrancy charges, and held under $5,000 bond early today after they arc alleged to have visited rooms of Joseph and Pierce and collected their belongings. Detectives say they will be questioned. Trapped In Statehouse Pierce and Joseph were trapped in State Police Chief Robert Humes’ office by Lieutenant Charles Bridges ’ and state policeman Merle Remley Friday w hen they entered to inquire about a certificate of title to their automobile. First holdup they committed In Indianapolis, they are said to have told police, was a filling station on the Brookville road, wheer they took $24 from the attendant. Aftfer'careful plotting, then, they bof.rded a Checker Cab Company truck at Henry and Meridian streets, forced the driver and John Dubuc, president of the company, to go to a road on the outskirts of the city, where they took $1,625, police assert. They divided the money and left the city, returning March 7 to rob the Friehofer bakery of S6OO, police say they confessed. Four days later, their alleged confession related, they robbed the Yellow Cab offices at 1406 North Illinois street, taking a S6OO payroll. When Pierce and Joseph went to the statehouse for transfer of title to their auto they were misdirected into Humes’ office. Stand With Drawn Guns Behind the door stood Bridges and Remly, with drawn guns. As the alleged bandits entered, | they slammed the door, and covered them with the weapons. “It’s a good thing we didn’t see , you first, or we’d have shot it out,” 1 Joseph said as he and his companion were disarmed of revolvers they carried. According to police records, both have served terms in the state reformatory on charges of auto banditry and vehicle taking, and were parole violators when arrested Friday. 1\ T. A. to Meet April 11 By Times Special WASHINGTON. Ind., March 29. The Daviess County Parent-Teacher Association council will meet here April 11. 4% Paid on Saving* Security Trust Cos. 11l North Penniylvnnla Street A GOOD BUSINESS SCHOOL! Strong business, stenographic, terra-\ tarial and accounting courses; lndl> 1 vldual Instruction In major subjects, 1 large faculty of specialists in their ro- 1 spectlve ITnea; Free Employment Bre-'\ lee, Fred W- Case, Prin. CENTRAL BUSINESS COLLEGE | Pennsylvania and Vermont, First D>| North V. W. C. A.. ladtanapoHa, Ilf