Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 280, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 April 1930 — Page 11
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Apple of Districts Eye
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It was a capital idea to choose comely Hannah Anderson as the District cf Columbia envoy of beauty to the annual apple blossom festival in Winchester. Va. Here you see her—the apple of Washingtonian’s eyes, no doubt—smiling out of a natural flowery frume after her selection had been announced.
SMALL CITIES REPORT FIRST CENSUS DATA Missouri ‘Center’ Claims to Be First Enumerated In Nation. Hv United Prim i WASHINGTON. April 3. First returns from a few small districts flowed into the census bureau today as *he government continued its national search for facts. Centerville, the exact geographic center of Missouri, claimed to be the first incorporated city completely enumerated and reported. Kootenai county, Idaho, wired the bureau it completed its census enumeration at 9:30 a. m. Wednesday. Census authorities anticipated no returns from larger cities before two weeks. While enumerators were busy in other cities, J. Sterling Moran, census supervisor for the District of Columbia, took a census of the White House family Wednesday. President Hoover had answered the questions in advance and gave the filled-out questionnaire tor Moran when he arrived. Mr. Hoover used the occasion to appeal for public co-operation with the census bureau. From other sections on the census-taking front came such reports as these: An embarrassed father asked the enumerator to call again next week and “therell be another name in the family.” An elderly couple reported two children. When asked their ages, they said: "a boy 46 and a girl 49." One man, checking off his seven children for the census taker, found himself in the predicament of forgetting the names of three of them.
HONOR HIGH MASONS AT SPRING BANQUET Scottish Rite Reunion Dinner Is Attended by 2,000 Members. Honor was paid thirty-second degree Masons at the reunion banquet of Scottish Rite, the climax of the spring convocation and reunion in the cathedral Wednesday night. Approximately 2,000 Rite Masons attended the banquet at which Dr, Gaylard M. Leslie, Ft. Wayne, Indiana Rite deputy, was chief guest. Tine P. Dickinson presided and Louis G. Buddenbaum, supreme council members, gave the address of welcome Responses were made by Herbert T. Owen and Emery M. Muncie. • Living in the Suburbs" was the address given by the Rev. Daniel Hogan, pastor of the First Congregational church of Kokomo, principal speaker. Month Without Auto Theft NEWCASTLE, Ind., April 3. No automobiles were stolen here during March. Police reports show an average of eight cars have been stolen monthly for the past several months.
GIRL ADMITS OFFER OF ARSON MONEY
Bn United Preen SULLIVAN, Ind.. April 3.—Miss Ada Belle Draper. 19, Shelburn, told Sullivan county authorities here investigating the death of James Blair, Shelburn. that Peter Brown, 45. had offered her half the insurance money on his house in which he and Blair lived in return for setting it on fire. Blair’s charred body was found in the ruins of Brown’s house, on the road between Jasonville and Hymera, Monday. Miss Draper, said to be a friend of Blair and Brown, made a sworn statement to Coroner William McOrew that Brown had asked her to #
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How Vulgahl Hoboes Are Too High-Hat for Millionaires These Days.
Bu United Pres* TT7ASHINGTON, April 3.—The ' * boys who used to swing the trail end of a western “rattler” and beg for “hand-outs” at the back door are going in for social exclusiveness these days—and it’s hard on the millionaires. Witness the case of James Eads How, millionaire hobo and patron saint of the International Brotherhood Welfare Association, or “hobos union.” For more years than a flapper can remember. How has “divvied up” with his brothers of the road and preached the gospel of hoboism. But now he’s in Dutch. By high and solemn resolution the I. B. A. W., in formal session here, censured him for carrying greetings to a communistic unemployment conference in New York. Dan O'Brien, “king of the hoboes.” announces to the world that he will seek a constitutional amendment of the I. B. A. W. barring millionaires from membership. “Plutocracy must be wiped out,” he declared.
GLIDER CRASHES, REPORTER P*ES Slack Rope in Tow Brings Death to Texan. FT. WORTH. Tex., April 3.—The clatter of machinery and bustle of harried persons working against time was less apparent than usual today in the office of the Ft. Worth Press. A vacant desk cast a somber note in the usually gay atmosphere. George Gambein’s desk was unoccupied. A glider crash wrote “thirty” across the genial reporter’s career Wednesday. Airplanes were Gambein's hobby, and recently passed government flying tests. Four times he had piloted gliders. Wednesday he went out to Meacham Held for a fifth flight in a motorless craft. The auto towing the glider turned to circle a haystack, the rope became slack and the glider crashed. Gambein died as he was being taken to a hospital. Gambein, who was 25, came here from Cleveland, where he was a member of the Cleveland Press staff. INSPECTS PARK SITE Llebcr to View 1.000-Acre Proposed State Ground. Director Richard Lieber of the state conservation department will inspect the latest proposed site for a state park along the Mississinewa river in Wabash and Miami counties next Monday. The two counties have agreed to donate 1,000 acres II the state will accept the project.
commit arson so that he could collect insurance money for his house. She said she refused the offer. Brown held here on a charge of intoxication since Blair’s death, denied the girl’s charges. He told authorities that he left Blair in an intoxicated condition alone In the house Monday, and that he must have set the house on fire with a cigaret. Neighbors, however, told authorities they saw Brown removing part of the furniture from the house a short time before the fire. It was also said he was seen to leave about a half hour before the fire was discovered.
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CITY WORK ON 70 PAVEMENT IOBS STARTED Total Cost of Projects Is Set at $550,000: 10.8 Miles Contracted. WIDENING IS DISCUSSED Nineteen Main Streets to Be Resurfaced: Bridge Approach on List.
With the arrival of spring weather, city contractors have started work on seventy street and alley paving projects costing more than $550,000. At the opening of the paving season this year, 10.8 miles of street j and alley improvements were under contract, according to Sherman A. Hendricks, assistant to the city engineer. Projects under contract will give the city an additional paved area of 193,000 square yards when completed, Hendricks said. Cost of the improvements will be paid by property owners.
Plans are near completion on widening and resurfacing of Delaware street, from Twenty-eighth to Thirtieth and Washington boulevard from Twenty-eighth to Thirtieth. Widening Is Considered The board of works also contemplated a widening project on East New York street, but the plan is not decided upon. Nineteen main streets will be resurfaced, and the approach to the Delaware street bridge at Fall creek will be built from the $200,000 bond issue now pending in council. Henricks estimated 85 per cent of the ninety-four resolutions adopted by the works board since Jan. 1 will be completed. They are divided as follows: Streets, 38; alleys, 10; grading projects, 17; walks, 19; vacations, 10. Street and alley improvements under contract: Alley east of Adams, Twenty-third street to Glen Drive, concrete; alley east of Adams, Twenty-fifth street to alley north of Twenty-sixth, concrete; Arsenal. Southeastern to Bates, concrete; second alley east of Arsenal, Vermont to Sturm, concrete; Bell street. Michigan to North, concrete: Berwick avenue, Michigan to alley south of B. & 0., concrete; Bolton avenue. St. Clair to Tenth, concrete; Broadway, Sixty-first to Westfield boulevard, concrete; alley west of Capitol, Sixteenth to Eighteenth, concrete; alley east of Carrollton. Fifty-first to Fiftyj second, concrete; alley south of Comer, Linden to Boyd avenue, concrete. Court street, east to Noble, asphalt; Court. Meridian to Illinois, asphalt; Dearborn Newton to English, concrete; alley east of Detroit, alley south of Southeastern to Bates, concrete: Ethel, Thirtyfirst to Thirty-second, concrete; fourteenth. Riley to Bancroft, concrete; Graceland, j Berkley road to Forty-sixth, concrete; Graham. Pleasant Run boulevard to St. Clair, concrete. Most Are Concrete Harlan. Southeastern to English, asphaltic concrete; Haverford, Fiftyninth to Slxty-tliJrd, concrete; Henry, Madison to Pennsylvania, concrete; Hinesley. Fifty-second to Westfield boulevard concrete; Holliday, Boyd to oolnt 498 feet east of State, concrete; alley west of Illinois. McCarty to seccnd alley south, concrete; Jackson, Pershing to Harris, concrete; Kenwood, Fifty-fouith to Westfield boulevard, asphaltic concrete; Keystone. Graydon to Southeastern, concrete; Leland, St. Clair to Pratt, concrete Linden, Raymond to Tabor, asphaltic concrete. Manlove, Fortv-second to Forty-sixth concrete: Massachusetts, Ohio to New York, widen and resurface: Massachusetts, east to Cornell, widen and resurface; alley east of McKlm. Southeastern to Bates, concrete; Meridian, Fifty-fourth to Westfield, widen and pave; Michigan, Sherman drive to Emerson, concrete; alley north of Michigan, Bradley to Denny, concrete; miller. Harding to Pershing, concrete; Neal. Washington to CCC & St. L.. concrete: New Jersey. Beverly Drive to Fifty-second, asphaltic concrete: Northern, Boulevard Place to Cornelius, concrete. Several Offers Listed Ogden. Thirteenth to Fifteenth, concrete; alley east of Parker, Roosevelt to Twentythird, concrete: Pennsylvania, La Grande to Raymond, asphaltic concrete; Pine, Harrison to English, concrete; Pine, Maryland to Harrison, concrete; Primrose. Fifty-ninth to Sixty-third, concrete; Ritter, Pleasant Run Parkway to Tenth, concrete: Rosslyn Fifty-ninth to Sixty-third; grading and curb: St. Clair. Emerson to Hawthorne, concrete; Sangster, Forty-sixth to Fifty-second, concrete. Alley west of Sheffield. Washington to Turner, concrete: alley north of Sixteenth, Capitol to Boulevard Place, concrete; alley north of Sixty-third. Bellefontaine to point 133 feet east, concrete: alley North of St. Clair. Pierson to Illinois, concrete; second alley north of St. Clair. Pierson to niinois, concrete; St. Joseph, Audubon j load to Graham, grade pnd curb; alley south of Southeastern. Detroit to Summitt. concrete; alley north of Southern. Ransdell to New Jersey, concrete; Sterling, Twelfth to Commerce, concrete; Stuart, alley north of Twenty-sixth to Thirtieth, concrete: Terrace, Sta e to second alley east, concrete. Alley north of Th;rty-flfth, Northwestern to Clifton, concrete; Thirty-ninth street. Boulevard Place to Cornelius, concrete: Tremont, Michigan to Tenth, concrete; Twenty-eighth. Illinois to Capitol, ! asphalt; Udell. Harding to Riverside, walk, gnu' ng, curb: alley north of Vermont, first to second alley east of Arsenal, concrete; Warman. T. H. I. & E. to Morris, concrete; alley north of Watson road, Carrollton to Guilford, concrete.
DOCTOR TRAILS WIFE’S INSULTER; FLUNG FROM CAR
THROWN off the trunk rack of an automobile, on to which he had leaped to trail a couple to their residence, Dr. Fred L. Hosman, 2330 Kenwood avenue, was cut and bruised Wednesday night. Attending the Uptown theater at Forty-second street and Col-
INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1930
Byrd Welcomed Back to New Zealand
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—Photo Copyright. 1930. NEA Service. Inc. Transmitted by Telephoto. This, the first picture of Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd to reach America since his return from the Antarctic where he spent two years in aerial exploration and flew over the south pole, shows him just afte rhe had landed at Dunedin, New Zealand. Beside Byrd is Mayor Black of Dunedin, with cameramen on the other side. This picture was rushed from Dunedin to Panama by a steamer that was waiting when Byrd arrived there, w r as flown from Panama to New York in a special plane and transmitted thence by telephoto. It was brought approximately 9,000 miles by the NEA Service for The Times.
MAN WHO HAD MILLION GETS LIQUOR TERM William P. Worth Came Back to Linton on Special Train in 1910. Bu United Pres* VINCENNES, Ind.. April 3.- Walter P. Worth, 57, who twenty years ago returned to Linton, his home town, in a special train after making a fortune estimated at a million dollars, is under sentence of six months at the Indiana penal farm in addition to a SSOO fine, the maximum sentence the city court here could impose on a charge of violating the prohibition law. A hitch hiker picked up by Worth in Illinois and failure of the tail light on Worth’s expensive automobile, resulted in his arrest. According to the hitch hiker, Worth compelled him to drink at the point of a revolver. Arrived here, the man hurried to police headquarters as soon as he noted where Worth parked the car. Police found it, noted the tail light was not on, and made a search. The rumble seat of the car hid forty-four quarts of whisky in bottles which were packed in cardboard cartons. Worth when arrested, carried a bottle partly filled with whisky and also a .32caliber revolver. In city court, Mayor Joseph P. Kimmell asked Worth if he had anything to say. “I guess there isn’t much to say,” the prisoner responded. ‘‘They’ve got the stuff in there. I guess that’s all there is to it/' With the $60,000. Worth broke into the Kentucky oil game, residents here who formerly lived in Linton told police.
FLOOD AID PROMISED $6,000,000 Set Aside for Farm Losers. lit / Times Special VINCENNES, Ind.. April 3.—Procedure by which farmers who suffered losses in the mid-winter floods in this section of Indiana may share in the $6,000,000 emergency relief fund recently set aside by congress was expiained here today by T. W. Harvey, a representative of the department of agriculture, to possible claimants at the office of H, S. Benson, Knox county farm agent. Aid will be in the form of loans, the money to be advanced to farmers only for purchase of seed and fertilizer. Sixteen states will share in the $6,000,000, and it is believed that of the total Indiana farmers will get about $500,000. V 0 C aT|O NA lT TRAINI N G FOR NEGROES SOUGHT City-Wide Campaign Is Decided on at League Meeting. Plans for a city-wide campaign to provide vocational training for the Negro population of the city were announced today following a meeting of the Urban League in the Phyllis Wheatley Y. W. C. A. * Beginning April 20, speakers will appear at churches, schools, clubs, and lodges in interest of the movement. H. L. Lord, Flanner house superintendent, heads the campaign committee assisted by Clarence Mills, vice-chairman, and Mrs. Margaret Smith, secretaary.
lege avenue, with his wife Wednesday night, Dr. Hosman remonstrated with a man and woman who left the theater at the closing hour and who are alleged to have crowded Dr. and Mrs. Hosman. The woman slapped Mrs. Hosman in the argument which followed and the
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Bu United Press RICHMOND, Ind., April 3. Charles P. Mullenix, discovered by the manager of a five and ten cent store here in the act of pocketing a padlock and a pair of rubber heels, was arrested. When he was searched, a bottle of liquor was found. Mullenix, instead of being o v rged with theft, was convicted of possessing liquor, and Judge Benjamin A. Ball, in city court, fined him SIOO and costs and sentenced him to sixty days at the penal farm. However, the fine and sentence were suspended. Mullenix said he did not intend to steal the padlock and heels. Police Car in Crash ANDERSON, Ind., April 3. Speeding to the scene of an accident, three policemen narrowly escaped injury when their car collided with an automobile driven by Mrs. Hubart Pritchard. Patrolmen Louis Lavell, Alvin Shinkle and
MURDER CHARGE BEING PREPARED Logansport Man Strongly Denies Wife Slaying. fiu United Pres* LOGANSPORT. Ind., April 3.—ln the face of stanch denials by James O. Ray, 51, that he knows anything about the murder of his Sl-year-old wife Wednesday, Prosecutor Miller Indicates that he will file first decree murder charges against the widower. Circumstantial evidence has weighed heavily against Ray in the preliminary investigation, and authorities know of no motive any orfe outside the family might have had for the crime. Mrs. Ray’s body was found beneath a stairway in her home, with a bloody hatchet nearby. Bloodstains on bedclothes and on the upstairs floor led officers to believe that Mrs. Ray was killed in bed and dragged to the foot of the stairway to leave the indication that she had fallen there. Ray has contended throughout that he went to his butcher shop about 6 a. m. to sell some chickens, and that when he returned home less than an hour later he found his wife’s body.
PLEDGE TRACK WORK Traction Officials to Take Care of Paving. Repair of pavement between Indianapolis Street Railway Company tracks will be included in the season’s budget, according to David Watson, company president. Company officials will meet April 8 to discuss the financial program and consider maintenance of pavement strips. City Engineer A. H. Moore said the city has made numerous attempts to get the railway to repair pavement in various sections of the city and has been promised a conference with railway engineers to discuss the needs. OPEN G. 0. P. OFFICE Republican Veterans’ Group to Have Lemcke Headquarters. Headquarters of the county committee of the Republican Veterans of Indiana at 607 Lemcke building will be opened with a meeting at 8 tonight, Howard Meyer, county chairman, announced today. The organization seeks membership of all Republican ex-service men.
man refused to give his name, Dr. Hosman said. Desiring to file charges against the woman for slapping his wife. Dr. Hosman leaped on to the trunk rack of the man's automobile. which bore Michigan license plates, to trail the two to their stopping place here.
Marcus Folsom extricated themselves from the wreck and walked three blocks to a railroad crossing where a train struck an automobile driven by Mrs. Eva Morton. Absent Husband Sued BRAZIL, Ind., April 3.—More than eight years ago John Larry deserted her, Mrs. Luella B. Larry alleges in a suit for divorce filed in Clay circuit court here. They were married Sept. 11, 1916, and Larry left Aug. 21, 1921, the wife alleges, and she has heard nothing from him since. Jury JProbes Bank Closing KOKOMO, Ind., April 3.—Judge Joe Cripe of Howard circuit court experienced difficulty when he attempted to convene a grand jury which is expected to investigate closing of the Fanners Trust and Savings bank here, due to absence of men called for jury duty. Charge Officer With Killing NEWCASTLE, Ind., April 3. William Griffith, Newcastle, brother of Wilson Griffith, shot to death by Patrolman Roy Crout, at Middletown, 0., the evening of March 19, has returned from Middletown, where he filed manslaughter charges against the officer. Whiting Mayor Fight Renewed GARY, Ind., April 3. Another round in the struggle for the mayor’s office in Whiting is scheduled in Gary superior court with filing of quo warranto proceedings by Walter E. Schrage, former mayor, who seeks to oust Thomas S. Boyle, now holding the office. Woman Is Awarded Damages GREENSBURG, Ind., April 3. Mrs. Pearl L. McKinney has received judgment for $440 as a result of a jury verdict in Decatur circuit court here against the S. B. Morris Company, operating a store at Shelbyville. Anderson Couple Is Sought ANDERSON, Ind., April 3.—Authorities have started a search for Lucinda Ellen Renforth, 15, Anderson, and Virgil Loomis, 27, Fortville. The pair left here Sunday in an automobile. Loomis has a wife and four children at Fortville. Business Slump Hits Churches HARTFORD CITY, Ind., April 3. —Methodist Episcopal churches of Ft. Wayne and vicinity have suffered from the business depression of the last several months, according to the Rev. J. Thomas Bean, superintendent of the Ft. Wayne district of the church, in an annual report to the North Indiana conference in session here. Seed Com Supply Short DUBLIN, Ind., April 3.—According to S. W. Milligan, Wayne county agricultural agent, seed com in eastern Indiana will be very scarce this season and he has advised farmers to hurry in getting supplies. No Work; Kills Self RICHMOND, Ind., April 3.—Long weeks without work were believed to have affected the mind of .William Shinn, 37, who committed suicide by turning on gas burners in the kitchen of his mother’s home here. Spinal Disease on Wane DECKER, Ind., April 3.—A ban on public meetings and school sessions at Decker probably will be lifted Monday, with the threat of spinal meningitis believed checked, Dr. E. H. Frigge, Knox county health officer, announced. 500 Chicks Die in Fire ARCADIA, Ind., April 3.—Fire which is said to have originated from an electric light wire destroyed a brooder house on the farm of Jams Bishop, near here, and 500 week-old chicks perished. Bishop is president of the Hamilton County Farm Bureau.
Learning of Dr. Hosman’s presence on the trunk rack, the driver swerved wildly several times in attempts to dislodge the trailer and finally swerved into Guilford avenue, throwing Dr, Hosman from the rear of the ear. Police today had not located the couple.
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CAMPAIGN FOR ILLINOIS SEAT NEARSCLMAX Mark Hanna’s Daughter Shows Strain of Bitter Battle. ' BY MERTON T. AKERS United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, April, 3.—Two patricians of the middle west —Ruth Hanna McCormick and Charles S. Deneen —fought the most spectacular battles of their long political careers today up and down metropolitan Chicago, with modern radio and time-tried innuendo, for the G. O. P. senatorial nomination. For Mrs. McCormick, daughter of one senator and wife of another, victory next Tuesday meant partial realization of a dream inspired by her “president-maker” father, Mark Hanna. To Senator Deneen. reared in the cloisters of McKendree college, victory meant favorable chances for another term and a fitting climax to almost forty years of public service. Three More Days Remain Only three more days of campaigning remained after today before voters go to the polls all over the state from the coal mining regions of southern Illinois to the metropolitan area on the northeast and the fight promised to wax warmer with each day. For the most part both candidates planned to confine their last minute campaigning to Chicago and its numerous suburbs. Mrs. McCormick goes to her home town, Rockford, where she owns a newspaper and near where her model stock farm lies, for a speech tonight. Then she comes back to her skyscraper offices and suite in the Palmer house few the windup.
Mrs. McCormick Shows Strain Senator Deneen concentrated his fight in Chicago, for many political observers believe as goes Chicago, so goes the state. The slender, dynamic Mrs. McCormick, who passed her 50th birthday anniversary on March 27, appeared tired and worn today after another strenuous night of speechmaking and baiting of her opponent. Beginning at noon Wednesday until far into the night she bid for votes in the crowded loop, in suburban Evanston and Brookfield, and even In Cicero, the stronghold of Scarface A1 Capone. Sandwiched In between was another radio address. The burden of all her speeches was that the United States should avoid becoming a member of the League of Nations through the world court, which she terms “the back door” of President Wilson’s dream of world unity. Enters Plane Contest NEWCASTLE, Ind., April 3. Wayne Harvey. Newcastle high school student, winner of the city model airplane building contest, has entered the plane in a show at Cincinnati.
TANK WEDDING PAIR QUARREL ON STYLE
Bv United Preen LOS ANGELES, Cal., April 3.—A prospective bridegroom who would no more think of wearing a cutaway at his under-water marriage scheduled for this afternoon than of donning tennis shoes with a dress suit, today was being sought for a last minute rehearsal of the swimming tank wedding. J. F, Gutrick, 26, handsome blond tile setter, failed to appear for '.he rehearsal of his unusual wedding Wednesday because his fiancee, Katie Wilson, 25-year-old telephone girl, insisted that he w r ear a cutaway and correct morning attire. The bridegroom held out for a Tuxedo. It was to be his first wedding and he had planned it that way. The fact that the rites were to be performed at the bottom of
ALL FIREMEN TO BE BARRED FROM POLITICS New Regulations Adopted by Board as Advocated by Chief Voshell. HELD EFFICIENCY BOOST Discussions on Religion to Be Under Ban in All Engine Houses. Participation of city firemen In politics is banned under new regulations for the fire department adopted by the board of public safety, on recommendation of Fire Chief Harry E. Voshell. Voshell drafted the new rule book after studying the regulations of the Detroit, New York, Chicago and other big city departments. About 1,500 copies will be published, to be distributed to every fireman, replacing the rule book which has been in use since the "horse-drawn” days. The new rules are expected to correct many of the factors of inefficiency that were dealt with in a recent series of articles by Dick Miller in The Indianapolis Times. “A fireman shall not participate in political affairs except to cast his vote in elections,” states one of the general rules.
Immorality Is Banned “Immorality, indecency, habitual profanity, and discussions on religion or politics will not be tolerated in engine houses.” Firemen who have been elected delegates to political conventions or caucuses or nominated to run for public posts will be considered as having “vacated their office” in the department, the rules declare. Firemen are not compelled to contribute to individuals or organizations soliciting political contributions, the book pointed out. The regulations bar firemen from engaging in other businesses or giving personal attention thereto. Soliciting or selling of tickets for any purpose is prohibited. Drinking or keeping intoxicating liquor around engine houses, and intoxication on or off duty will subject the offender to trial and discharge for cause. Sick Leave Pay Limited In an effort to eliminate chronic “sick cases.” the safety board decided to limit pay on sick leave to only fifteen days, except in special cases approved by the board. No applications will be received from persons over 35. They shall have been residents of Indianapolis more than a year and must continue to reside in the city. Specific requirements as to height and weight are set out. The board plans to confer with Mayor Sullivan on the proposal to require automatic retirement of firemen at 70. At present they may be retired by the board only for physical unfitness. It was pointed out that the 70-year age limit would relieve the board of embarrassment in cases of acquaintances or personal friends scheduled for retirement. There also has been discussion of stipulating a period of service. Trading of “days off” is allowed only with written permission of battalion chiefs, who in turn must advise the chief. The rule book sets out that “the chief is in full command of the department and responsible for strict enforcement of discipline.”
TWO YOUTHS HELD IN HOLDUP ARE CLEARED In Bod at Time of Robbery; Car Used Taken From Them. Vagrancy charges against two youths held Wednesday in connection with a filling station robbery were dismissed by Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter today when both boys proved they were In bed at their homes almost an hour before the holdup occurred. The boys, George V. Garrick Jr, 18, of 643 Arbor avenue, and Alton Nevitt, 18, of 1256 Oliver avenue, were dismissed by Judge Wetter. They were arrested after a license number on an auto used by the bandits was traced to one of them. The car had been stolen from In front of the youth’s home. Thomas Boylon, filling station attendant at West Washington street and Eagle creek, victim of the robbery, at first identified Nevitt as one of the bandits, but failed to appear in court this morning to reiterate his identification.
a swimming tank made no differ* ence. Perhaps he felt that the diving helmet he plans to wear would set off a Tuxedo to better ad* vantage. Anyway, he kept Miss Wilson, a minister and the wedding party waiting several hours and they were still in suspense today as the hour of the wedding approached. “Try his favorite eating places, ,, the bride ordered Wednesday, when scouts went out to find the sulking Gutrick. But he was not found enjoying a last restaurant meal. “Try the poolrooms.” she directed next. Neither was he telling the boys good-by. “We quarreled last night,” Miss Wilson said, “but I think it will be over in time for the wedding. That is, if we find him.”