Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 301, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 April 1930 — Page 2

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COOL RECEPTION DUE IN SENATE FOR SEA PACT London Treaty, However, Is Viewed Best Possible Under Conditions. WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Sfrippi Roward Forein Editor WASHINGTON. April 28 -Til naval treaty which the American delegation Is bringing back with it Tuesday, from London, Ls in for some tough sledding when the President submits it to the United States senate. Nevertheless it was the best that could be expected under the circumstances. Five thinjfs stood In the vay of a better treaty. Britain’s tradition of ruling the raves. Belief that America will accept ineriority rather than spend the noney to build up to parity if Iritish tonnage is kept high enough. Doubt as to the real meaning of he Kellogg pact and America's iews on freedom of the seas. France’s fear that England inends to wash her hands of Europe. Italy’s demand for partty with 'ranee. From the start, Premier MacDonald was aware that if he aereed to cut down British tonnage materially, he would be thrown out of office. Labor Would Lose A member of the cabinet told me that if an election were held today with naval reduction as the principal Issue, the labor government would come out loser. Nevertheless, the private opinion of Premier MacDonald was that if America had gone ahead after 1922 and built up to parity with Britain, he would have faced quite a different situation. It was his belief that he could have persuaded the British public to go along with him in reducing the fleet if, at the same time, he could have shown that America also was scrapping ships, ton for ton. with Britain. But America did not have the ships to scrap. She only had a program, and British public opinion never would had sanctioned the scrapping of actual warships while America merely scrapped blueprints —particularly since the majority of Englishmen are convinced that America will not build up to parity so long as the British fleet remains sufficiently large. Might Lack Courage The British are convinced that congress, spurred on by big business W'hich saw billions of profits in trading with a violator of the Kellogg pact, would lack the courage, when the pinch came, to shut off trade with such violator. Thus until the Kellogg pact ls implemented by the addition of a consultative clause, or otherwise is strengthened. Britain proposes to maintain a fleet, capable of performing blockades. As to France, her attitude was dictated by a well-grounded fear that Britain, instead of extending her commitments as guarantor of peace on the rontinent, actually is desirous of withdrawing from, or at least minimizing, those already undertaken. So, she concluded, she would look to her own defenses as she saw them. Another naval conference now Is scheduled for 1935. But untess the above obstacles can be removed between now r and that time, by diplomatic exchanges or otherwise, its failure may be set down as already certain. MURDER SUSPECT HELD Alleged Cruelty to Mule Brings An-est of Evansville Man. Bv United Pres* EVANSVILLE. Ind.. April 28. Alleged cruelty to a mule has caused arrest hero of Richard Wilson, 33. on a murder charge. Tt is alleged that during a drunken party Wilson took guests to his barn and cut out the tongue of a mule with a pocket knife. Guests notified yolice. Wilson was book for cruelty to animals, and later charged with the murder of Steve Daniel here in March. OLDEST RESIDENT DIES Francis M. Mark ley, 102, Logansport, 111 Only Four Days. Bv United Pr< .* LOGANSPORT. Ind., April 28. CaSs county’s oldest, resident. Francis M. Marklev, 102. died at his home here this morning. He had bmr ill four days. He was a cigar maker and had lived in Loeansport eight years. He made his home w’ith a 75-vear-old son, John. PLANE CONTEST OPEN ntry Blanks Available N'ow for Competition of Models. Entry blanks for the first mumetal Indoor model airplane contest xmsored by the city recreation de■artment are available, Hershell S. Cnight, chairman, announced to- ► lay. The exhibition will be staged at lutler university fieldhouse May 17 nd the aircraft may be tested at 1 . . m. May 10. Hurt in Leap to Elude Cops Diving out a second-story window vhen police raided an alleged craps game at 824*3 Cleveland street early today, Emory Patton, Negro. 1126 Myron street, suffered severe injuries to his head and face and was .sent to city hospital. Seven were arrested. Prepare for Scout Awards Indianapolis Scout troops began preparations today for their next court of honor session to be held in the Central public library Wednesday night. May 7. Saturday is the deadline for merit applications. 7,000 See Stone Laying BEDFORD, Ind., April 28.—Seven thousand persons witnessed the laying of the cornerstone for the mew Lawrence county courthouse §Mp Saturday afternoon.

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James L. Knowles as he appeared in his capture of three aUeged thugs. James L. Knowles, 24. 606 East Georgia street, restaurant operator, Sunday night clung to a spare tire carrier on the rear of an auto in which three thugs attempted to escape, and his feat resulted In the capture of the trio, now held on robbery charges. Two men knocked him down and robbed him of SSO at Vermont and Bright streets Sunday night. Knowles leaped to the tire carrier, and, despite blows from their blackjacks, hung on until the auto stopped at Vermont and California streets. There the trio alighted, and Knowles captured one of the men and held him until police answered his cries for aid. The three held are: Walter J. Allee, 31, of 672 Udell street, driver of the car; Daniel Casey, 33, of 526 Vinton street, in whose possession SSO takea from Knowles was found, police said, and Leßoy Norton, 30, Lafayette. HOLD 2 AS BANDITS Suspects Arrested in Bank Messenger Holdup. Two suspects were arrested today in holdup of Herman McMillan, 42. of 1160 North Pershing avenue, bank messenger, last Friday. On information given by Theodore Peters, 1843 West Washington street, who was a passenger on a West Michigan street car when three bandits seized $8,700 from the messenger, the tw r o suspects were found asleep in a shack in a city dump near the P. & E. tracks on Belmont avenue. The two gave names of Steve Eisner, 20, Cudahy, Wis., and Sam Deden, 18, St. Louis. They claimed they arrived in Indianapolis Sunday and denied knowledge of the holdup. A woman’s wrist w r atch was found in their possession. Both are held on vagrancy charges under bonds of SI,OOO each. POISON FOUND IN MILK LEADS TO INVESTIGATION Enough to Kill Several Persons Contained in Can Near Columbus. I! i/ United Press COLUMBUS. Ind.. April 28.—Columbus authorities are investigating circumstances surrounding finding of strychnine in a can of milk at the home of Mrs. Nell ’.thoman, northwest of here. Mrs. Rhoman gave the milk to two dogs after she found it bitter. The next day both dogs died. Analysis at the state laboratory at Indianapolis showed the milk held enough strychnine to kill several persons, according to Dick Huntington of the state crime bureau. After the discovery authorities questioned Fred Lewis, 18, boarder at the Rhoman home. He later escaped from the county jail and still is at large. It is not known what he told officers. Mrs. Rhoman said Lewis had acted strangely for some time and appeared to be jealous of another border, Robert Pearce. She said Lewis had made threats against Pearce. HEADS GLOOM CHASERS Fred llofTmark to Be Installed as Social Group President. Fred Hoffmark. newly elected president of Gloom Chasers, Inc., a

sopial organization recently organized, will take office Thursday night at the regular meeting at the English hotel. Other new' officers to be installed are Miss Peggy Beckwith, vice - president; Miss Stella Mae Guard, secretary, and Wilfred Cameron, treasurer. Gloom Chasers,

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Inc., organized as a small social unit among young people, has grown to a membership of forty. It arranges weekly social events for members. INJURIES CAUSE DEATH Aged Man Victim When Automobile Plunges Into CanaL Ru United Pres HUNTINGTON, Ind., April 28. Eight persons were injured, one fatally, when an automobile in which they were riding plunged into an abandoned canal, two miles west of here, on State Road 24. Joseph De Ford, 74. Wabash, died of internal injuries soon after he was taken to a hospital here. Otiters injured are Mrs. De Ford, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gill and their four children, Joseph, Betty, Robert and Oakline, all of Wabash. They suffered minor cuts and bruises.

CANDIDATES IN FINAL WEEK OF PRIMARY RAGE I Workers’ League Slate Is Expected to Be Big Campaign Factor. BY BEN STERN Candidates in the primary today entered tne final week of the campaign, determined to utilize every moment for proclaiming to the voters the;r own worthiness to hold office. The b-ggest single factor in the j campaign is expected to be the slate of the Workers’ Nonpartisan Political Action League. League leaders are expected to mail out 85,000 slates this week giving their preferences. If the result of the municipal election last fall is an indication, the slates will throw i a great deal of weight in the bal- j ance. Democratic voters are confronted j with three slates in their own organization and the Republicans are involved in an organization battle which may rear* t s toll in the fall j election. Discontent Is neard I Discontent with the incumbent ! judiciary is heard everywhere and the various bar associations of the city emphatically have registered their dissatisfaction with personnel of some of the courts. The lawyers indicated they desire a change in the prosecutor’s office and overwhelmingly have voted that Laurens H. Henderson is their choice for this post, instead of Judson Stark, the incumbent. The latter has been campaigning on a platform of strict law enforcement and non-participation in politics, while his conduct in the "chickenpox murder case’’ and in the attempt to lobby through the 1929 legislature a pay increase from $7,500 to SIO,OOO, has been recounted by his opponents. Delay Is Charged Speakers for Henderson also are declaring that Stark has waiting many affidavits which should be nolle prossed, but on which action has been delayed for some unknown reason. . Friends of Judge James A. Collins, candidate for the Republican renomination for the criminal bench, are pointing out to him that Stark’s 'candidacy is acting as an anchor on his own kite, and the weight of the prosecutor’s enemies may cause the judge’s defeat. Collins is answering that he has not pooled interests with Stark, but that they both were slated by the Citizens’ Republican League, the alleged Republican reform group. Meanwhile, regular organization men are stumping the county working up sentiment for Walter Pritchard, who is opposing Collins. The cry of “Coffinism” used by the Citizens’ League is not awakening the response it formerly did and an aura of gloom surrounds the league’s headquarters. Cite Wild Bank Case The opposition of John F. Engelke to Judge Mahlon Bash of the probate court is gaining ground as a result of the former’s attack on the court’s record in the J. F. Wild bank receivership. Republican members of the Wild Bank Depositor's League have been asked by Joseph J. Davis, president of the league, to support Engelke. The Democrats are having their own troubles as a result of the issuance of slates by three groups, the regular organization, the city hall group and Fred Barrett. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan today again disclaimed any indorsement of any group or of any candidate, and so weakened any claims that may have been made regarding his support. Eye to Fall Campaign All the Democrats are making harmony speeches with an eye to the fall campaign. Louis Ludlow, incumbent congressman, of course is assured the Democratic nomination, but the five-cornered Republican fight has muddied the waters so that not even organization leaders are able to make any certain claims. Ira Holmes and Ward B. Hiner, the wet candidates, are contesting bitterly each other’s claims to being the “simon pure’’ wet, while Asa J. Smith. Schuyler Mowrer and Archibald Hall are making similar dry claims. Although Holmes for years has been an organization pillar he can not count on its entire support because of his dry stand and Mowrer is expected to be the fair-haired son. Smith, however, has received the indorsement of reform lea erne and is making a vigorous campaign. HITS DRY AMENDMENT Candidate Declares Prohibition Tends to Nullify Constitution. “The eighteenth amendment is a despotic, irrational act of mankind, destitute of all reason, which tends to nullify the Constitution rather than amend it.” was the declaration of Allan M. Stranz, Democratic candidate for state senator from Marion county, to a questionnaire solicited by the Anti-Saloon League.

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Real Fresh-Air Taxi

This fresh-air taxi that hearkens back to the days of Dobbin and the doublerseater surrey runs the errands of four Plainfield high school s uiors pictured with it. They are: Paul Kellum. driver; James Kellum.-cranking; Dan Turner, in tonneau, and Carl Polley. standing. Accessories of the buggy days were collected by the youths after diligent scouring of Plainfield umk shops, and attached to the flivver, a machine of the vintage of '23.

TRAVELERS’ AID HEAD IS NAMED Mrs. Amorosi Is Succeeded by Utah Woman. Miss Roma M. Sater, former executive secretary of the Salt Lake City (Utah) Travelers’ Aid Society, will become secretary of the Indianapolis branch of the society May 1, Mrs. Wilbur Johnson, president, said today. She will fill the position made vacant by death of Mrs. M. Grace Amorosi Dec. 20, 1929. Miss Sater graduated from Drake university, spent two years at University of Redlands, California, two years at lowa State college and one year in graduate work at Michigan State college, before becoming connected with the Travelers Aid Society in Los Angeles, from which she went to Salt Lake. Before entering social work, Miss Sater taught three years in Montana and lowa high schools, and in Michigan State college, East Lansing, Mich. Her home is in Ames, la, SUICIDE FRUSTRATED Suspended Official’s Sister Prevented From Leap. Bv United Press NEW YORK, April 28.—Mrs. Marguerite Cooley Lawter, sister of the suspended New York probation chief, attempted suicide today in the Federal building after examination by the district attorney on pay roll padding. Mrs. Lawter allegedly received full time pay as provisional chief clerk of the probation bureau under her brother, Edwin Cooley, at the same time that she was teaching in her home town of Buffalo. She tried to leap through a seventh floor window, but was restrained by attendants. WOMEN VOTERS MEET IN ANNUAL SESSION Pioneers in Suffrage Movement Gather; Elect Friday. Bv United Press LOUISVILLE. Ky., April 28. Some eight hundred organized women voters, battling for more efficient government, establishment of amicable world affairs an* greater public welfare responsibility in government convened here today for the tenth anniversary convention of the National League oi Women Voters. Women who pioneered the movement for woman suffrage were included in the list of delegates, representir every state in the Union. The convention opened with a series of speeches and will continue until Saturday when a meeting of the general council will bring the conclave to a close. Election of officers is slated Friday. FLAMES FATAL TO TWO Father ajnd Daughter Die in Burning Home at Evansville. Bv United Press EVANSVILLE. Ind., April 28. Two members of a family were trapped in their burning home Saturday and perished while seeking to save belongings, after all had previously escaped from the dwelling. W. W. Russell and daughter Mary appeared at an upstairs window, but apparently suffocated before they could leap from it. Luther, a son, carried his aged mother to safety. APPROVES MUSIC MOVE Mayor Sullivan Urges Support for Civic Association. Citizens were urged to support the Indianapolis Civic Music Association, organized to sponsor a series of concerts, in a proclamation issued today by Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan.

LIBERTY LOSES IN POPULATION Union County Seat Has 61 Less Than in 1920. It;i 1 inn s Special RICHMOND, Ind., April 24. Census returns, according to Supervisor Thomas I. Ahl, show Perry township, Wayne county, has lost fifty in population, during the past ten years. The population now Is 677, of which 210 reside in Economy. Ten years ago there were 104 farms listed in Perry township. The new census shows but 80. Two Franklin county townships have been reported as follows: Fairfield township. 518, a loss of one person and a gain of nine farms. Blooming Grove township, 609, a gain of nineteen and a gain of two farms. Liberty is the first county seat town in the Ninth census district to report a complete census. It has 1,231 compared to 1.292 ten years ago, a loss of sixty-one. Green’s Fork, Wayne county, now has 332 population, a loss of fortyeight in ten years. Richmond, according to estimates of census workers, will reveal a city of more than 35,000 persons. U. S. TAX REVENUE IN INDIANA IS LESS $1,052,287 Decrease in .Collections Reported for Nine Months Federal internal revenue collections in Indiana fell off slightly during the first nine months of the current fiscal year, according to figures made public today in Washington, D. C., by the' treasury department. The fiscal year 1930, which began last July'l, turned into the last quarter April 1. For the nine months ending March 31. collections in Indiana were $20,311,292, against $21,363,516 for the corresponding period of the previous fiscal year. Both individual and corporation income taxes shared in the slight decrease. Nationally, internal revenues increased almost ninety million dollars during the nine months’ period. CLEANUP WORK ASKED Annual Campaign Will Be Closed at End of This Week. Residents of Indianapolis are urged to complete their renovation efforts this week, final week of the 1930 cleanup and paintup campaign. Persons desiring rapid removal of j ashes and rubbish should make it a j point to clean up this week because i the sanitary district next week will go on summer schedule and will call only at two-week intervals, Truly Nolan, city collection superintendent, has announced. Bridge Team Holds Cup The Columbia Club auction bridge team is in permanent possession of the Matson cup, winning the trophy the third consecutive year. Team members are: A. M. Briston, W. J. Pray, H. A. Payne and Harry Neeves.

I “I was feeling very weak and very nervous and I took fainting spells. My side also gave me a lot of trouble. Someone recommended your medicine and I got me a bottle-of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and took it. I feel a lot better in every way. I sleep well because my nerves are better and I have a very good appetite. I will answer letters and recommend the Vegetable Compound to other women who suffer.” —Mrs. Jessie Cook, R . No. 2, Box 88A, Murphy, North Carolina.

PASTOR FOUND GUILTY IN LOVE GASE SHOOTING One to 14 Years in Prison Faced by Aged Illinois Minister. OTTAWA, 111., April 26.—The Rev, James A. Wilson, convicted of shooting his sexton and the latter’s wife over a love letter to a widow, took refuge in his Bible today as he faced a sentence of one to fourteen years in the Joliet penitentiary. “The Lord giveth and the Lord taken away, the pastor murmured over and over while he awaited in the county jail sentence for attempted murder. The jury balloted twenty-nine times before they were able to agree on the fate of the minister, who for thirty years has preached the gospel from small-town pulpits and advocated “soft answers” and “turning of the other cheek.” “We were forced to believe a man who carried a gun carried it for no good purpose,” Ike Bennett, foreman of the jury, said. “The minister’s explanation that he was carrying the gun to commit suicide did not convince us.” Mr. Wilson appeared at tire home of his sexton, Amos Elliott, in Mendota, 111., one night last January and shot Elliott and Mrs. Elliott when they refused to give him a love letter he had written to Mrs. Emma Wagner, an elderly but comely widow of the Methodist congregation he ministered. The minister was accompanied by his wife, and after the shooting returned home and fired five shots at his head, but only succeeding in inflicting a scalp wound. Mrs. Wagner said the minister had made love to her, but that she spurned his attentions. CONFER ON CHARITY County, Employment Heads Talk Depleted Fund. County officials and the Indianapolis commission for stabilization of employment met in the Indianapolis Athletic Club for luncheon today to consider expenditure of county funds for relief of impoverished families. t Business depression and unemployment here during the first six months of the Community Fund’s fiscal year made necessary expenditure of SIOO,OOO of the Fund's $104,000 appropriation for such relief. An additional $70,000 will be necessary to carry on the remaining six months, according to Fund officials. Merchants and industrial leaders will be asked to aid in making up this amount. Religious Drama to Be Given “Saul of Tarsus,” religious drama, will be presented Tuesday and Wednesday night at the Walker theater under auspices of united Negro churches of the city.

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Fortune cast a piece of fisherman’s luck at R. G. Ropp, 2004 Park avenue. Sunday, when he went casting in Flatrock river and hooked this seven-pound bass near Flatrock, Ind. The strike came on the Heddon jointed pikie. pictured in the bass’ mouth. DARES ATLANTIC IN TINY CRAFT Greek Seeks to Span Ocean in 16-Foot Boat. Bv United Press MIAMI, Fla., April 28-Some-where off the lower coast of Florida, a lone mariner, Nicholas Gongopolous, slept aboard his sixteen-foot sailboat today. Perhaps dreaming of the day three months hence when he hopes to reach his native city of Athens, Greece. Gongopolous’ tiny craft is believed the smallest ever to attempt to conquer the Atlantic ocean. He took it out of Miami Harbor late Sunday, as hundreds gathered at the docks to bid him bon voyage. A Catholic priest blessed the venture. Aboard the 'sixt.een-foot sailboat are sixty gallons of fresh water, canned meats, hardtack, canned beans, other foods, also four extra sets of sails to propel the boat along the golf stream toward Gibraltar and beyond. Gongopolous said on leaving he planned to sail the boat at night and sleep during the day. MINISTERS TO CONVENE Disciples of Christ Pension Commission to Meet in City. Representatives from all states in w'hich Christian churches are located and from several Canadian provinces will attend a meeting Wednesday and Thursday in the Severin of the North American Pension commission of Disciples of Christ. Purpose of the meeting is to enroll ministers in the new pension system and draft plans for raising $8,000,000.

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BANK COLLAPSE MUDDLE GROWS WITH LITIGATION Suit Filed at Sullivan Asks $50,000; Bankruptcy Plea Filed. Bv Times Special SULLIVAN, Ind.. April 28.—A $50,000 suit filed In Sullivan circuit court here and a bankruptcy petition in Federal court at Terre Haute are the latest developments in the tangled banking affairs here. William A. Abbott, Spencer, asks a $50,000 assessment on stockholders of the defunct Citizens Trust Company bank here. Twenty-five persons are named defendants. Abbott and his wife are among the stockholders. It is alleged by Abbott that assets of the bank are not sufficient to pay Its creditors. A few' days ago, Ben C. Crowder, receiver of the bank, announced a dividend of 25 per cent would be paid depositors and checks are now being sent. Sued for Bonds This is the second time Abbott has appeared as a plaintiff in litigation resulting from closing of the bank. He sued to recover $50,000 in Liberty bonds he alleged he had left with the nstitution’s president, James M. Lang, who disappeared in February, 1928, but returned in the same month the following year. Abbott was the victor in the bond suit, which was tried in Knox circuit court at Vincennes on a chagc of venue from the circuit court here. Tlie judgment was against Crowder, the receiver, who appealed to the Indiana appellate court where the case is pending. Aged Man Loser The bankruptcy petition was filed on behalf of Charles B. Bolinger, aged Shelburn resident, whose son, Jessup F. Bolinger, former president of the defunct First State bank of that town, is serving a two to four-teen-year prison term for forgery. The father, formerly one of the wealthiest UP-n in Sullivan county, is among those who suffered as a result of note forgeries by the son. Liabilities, according to the bankruptcy petition, are from $50,000 to $89,000, and assets of $35,000. EDITORS’ MEETING SET Michigan City June 20-21 Slated Tentatively for Session. Plans have been made for the fifty-third annual midsummer meeting of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association at Michigan City, June 20 and 21. The date is tentative, largely dependent upon the adjournment of congress. The • association’s officers and committee met Sunday at the Columbia Club, Mrs. Liehr to Be Hostess Mrs. Tillie Liehr will entertain the Victory Club of Woman’s Benefit Association, 140, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Irwin Ressinger, 828 Dawson street, Thursday.