Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 312, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 May 1930 — Page 2

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OUSTER ACTIONS AGAIST GARY'S MAYOR DROPPED Election Loser and Man Who Held Office Dismiss Suits. Bn Times Bprnal GARY. Ind . May 10.—Mayor Roswell O. Johnson sits In his office, the undisputed chief executive of the city. Emmett O. White and Henry G. Hay, both of whom had filed suits ieeking to oust Johnson, withdrew them when called for trial in Jasper circuit court at Rensselaer before Special Judge Charles M. Snyder. White's counsel, in dismissing his case, declared "the financial drain too great to carry on." As Hay’s suit was a cross-com-plaint based on the complaint in White’s action, it could not exht ■without the other, and was formally dismissed also. Further Action Asked White in a statement with the dismissal urged that Gary citizens who believe Johnson should be ousted demand action by Oliver Starr, Lake county prosecuting attorney. Johnson, a Republican, defeated White, Democrat for mayor in the November, 1929 election, by 4,000 votes. However, while serving as mayor previously, Johnson was convicted of conspiracy to violate the federal dry law and served part of a prison term, it being cut short by a pardon from President Coolidge. Felony Stigma Denied An Indiana statute forbids a person convicted of a felony from holding an office, and this was seized upon by White as the basis for his suit against Johnson, who in defense, contended the pardon removed the stigma of felony. Hay, who was city controller, succeeded to the mayor’s office on resignation of Floyd Williams. In his cross complaint, he asserted he should retain the office, contending Johnson was ineligible because of the prison term and White because he did not receive majority of votes.

THIEVES POWER STOLEN BOAT, BUT LOSE LOOT Craft on Auto Trailer Hauled to River at Terre Haute. £.y Times Special TERRE HAUTE. Ind.. May 10.— Thieves who appropriated an automobile trailer on which was loaded a boat, then stole an outboard motor and installed it on the craft, lost all the loot. Shortly after J. A. Sloan reported theft of the trailer and boat, an anonymous telephone call to a desk sergeant advised that a trailer had been abandoned at the Big Four bridge over the Wabash river. With officers, Sloan went to the bridge to claim the trailer. In the water they discovered the boat, with the motor installed, all ready to go. Police learned the motor had been stolen from A. pale Houff more than a month ago. There are no clews to the thieves. MAN AND WIFE BURIED Only Four Days Separated Deaths of South Bend Couple. By Times Special SOUTH BEND. Ind.. May 10. Elmer F. Abernethy, manager of the insurance department of the St. Joseph Loan and Trust Company here for sixteen years, died of angina pectoris, a disease that brought death to his wife four days previously. Private funeral services for Mrs. Abernethy were canceled and double rites for the couple were held Friday afternoon. Mr. Abernethy was born May 13, 1861, in Utica. Mich. He came to South Bend with his wife. Mrs. Ella Kingsley Abernethy, in 1914, and had been connected with the St. Joseph company since. He was one of the organizers of the South Bend and Mishawaka Insurance Exchange of which he was the first president. and later served as president of the Indiana Association of Insurance Agents.

POLICE ASK FOR RADIO Richmond Department Seeks Permit from Federal Body. F’l Time* S| rrinl RICHMOND. Ind.. May 10.—The Richmond police department has filed an application with the Federal radio commission for permission to broadcast. A low wave band is asked Officials explained that granting of the permit would not mean an immediate installation of a police radio station. The city council has not acted on a proposal to expend between $1,500 and $2,000 for the work, nor is there any funds available for it. I. V. Director Spepks Sw ' Frr** NEW YORK. May 10.—A policy advocating more elasticity in entrance requirements of the National University Extension Association, thereby increasing membership and furthering extension education throughout, the country, was outlined at New York today by Professor R E. Cavanaugh, director of the Indiana university extension division, speaking at the fifteenth annual conference of the association. Sister of Executive Dies Bn l nit'-tl Frr** HUNTINGTON. Ind.. May 10.— Miss Lydia J. Wilhelm, sister of A. J. Wilhelm, manager of the Huntington Herald Press, died suddenly of internal hemorrages at her home here. She had undergone an operation a year ago, but failed to regain her health. Funeral services were held today. Business Man Dies Timtt special UNION CITY. Ind.. May 10. Edward Burris. 53, a metal worker, following an illness of three years, is dead here. He was formerly employed by the Union City Body Company, but recently has been engaged in business for himself. He leaves his widow; two daughters, Elizabeth and Mary, and three sons. Robert, Edward and Benjamin, all of Ahis city.

Among These Is De Pauw Prom Queen

NIGHT QUIZ IN MURDER CASE Farmer-Jurors Are Planting Corn During Days. Bp 'I tmm Special VALPARAISO, Ind., May 10. A Porter county grand jury is holding night sessions here in its investigation of the slaying of Guy Wade Thorpe, by Nick Vanderaa. Several of the jurors are farmers, now busy with corn planting, and the night sessions enable them to serve both themselves and the public. The slain man was known here as Fred Wade. His correct name was revealed when his wife, her brother and a sister came here to claim the body. It was sent to Chicago for burial. Thorpe was shot during an argument with Vanderaa, said to have started when he declared he was | going to leave the employ of Vanderaa, a farmer. MAKER OF MISSAL DIES Funeral Services at South Bend for Sisier Mary. Hyacinthe. P,>f Tim I h Special | SOUTH BEND. Ind., May 10.— Sister Mary Hyacinthe of the'Holy I Cross Order, who designed and decorated a jeweled missal being | used by the papal legate at the Eucharistic congress at Carthage, Tunis, this month, was buried Friday morning after funeral services in the chapel of Loretto at St. Mary’s College. Sister Hyacinthe died Thursday afternoon. She was born, Catherine Kelly, in Watervliet, Mich.

EMBEZZLER WEEPS OVER PRISON TERM

Aged Former President of Spencer Bank Is Sentenced. By Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind.. May 10 John Smith, 63,, once a bank president and reputed one of the wealthiest and most influential citizens of Spencer, is under sentence of two to fourteen years in the Indiana state prison. The aged man wept in Monroe circuit court here when Judge Herbert Rundell imposed sentence, which followed conviction of Smith by a jury two months ago on a charge of embezzling funds of the new defunct Exchange bank of Spencer, which he headed. After Judge Rundell overruled a motion for anew trial. Smith’s counsel made impassioned pleas that leniency be shown, but the judge, remarking that leniency would in effect set aside the jury verdict, spurned the pleas and assessed the penalty as fixed by statute. When the bank closed June 29. it owed depositors $290,000. Since then a receiver has paid them only a dime on each dollar. SEWER PLAN ADVANCED Report Made on Survey for Muncie’s $1,000,000 Project. By Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., May 10.—Preliminary steps toward construction of Muncie's million-dollar intercepting sewer and sewage disposal system, orobably will be taken within the next few days. A Chicago firm's representative explained to a council committee here the findings of a preliminary survey. Following visits to other cities where plants are now' being operated. the committee will make its recommendations to the council and steps will be taken to start the work. More Fertilizer Sold By Times Special Farmers have obtained 19.963 tons of fertilizer through their own state buying organization this spring, according to M. J. Briggs, assistant manager of the Indiana Farm Bureau Co-operative Association. This is the largest spring tonnage that has been purchased co-operatively by Indiana farmers since association was established several years ago. The tonnage figures show a gain of approximately 700 tons over the spring of 1929. Father of Five Dies By Times Special GREENCASTLE, Ind.. May 10.— James M. Wood, 76, lifelong resident of Putnam county, is dead at his home after five weeks’ illness of a complication of diseases. He leaves his widow and five children. Gilbert S„ and Charles, Greencastle; Thad, at home: Mrs. W. P. Matkins. Spencer, and Mrs. Lillie Bennett. Reelsville, and a sister, Mrs. Sarah Thompson, Seattle, Wash. Store Robbed of SSOO Bi Tailed Brest HAMMOND.'Ind., May 10.—H. A. manager of the Schulte c /ar store, expected it to be open it; the morning, but he didn't anticipate that the safe would be open, and the money and his clerk missing. Seaton told police he believed that George Moore, the clerk, had opeftfcl he shop and taken SSOO frond i

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Bn Times Special GREENCASTLE. Ind.. May 10.— Four of De Pauw university’s most beautiful co-eds have been nominated for prom queen to serve when the first formal junior prom of the university will be held Friday. The candidates are Katheryn Goodrich, Pendleton; Mary Niblack, Terre Haute; Marian Gravis, Martinsville, and Doris Lawler, Rushville. Election will be by vote of the student body. Miss Goodrich is a member of Delta Zeta 'sorority; Miss Niblack, Flappa Kappa Gamma; Miss Gravis, Kappa Alpha Theta, and Miss Lawler. Delta Delt Delta. An orchestra from the east will provide music. The committee in charge of prom arrangements is composed of Edwin Boswell, Indianapolis; Fred Axtell, South Bend, and Miss Gravis. Dance programs in old gold and black, De Pauw colors, will be the only favors.

Pound and Half Baby Lives in Incubator Nest

By Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind., May 10. —The baby daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Johnson, believed the smallest infant ever born alive, is being cared for in an incubator at a hospital here. The baby weighs one and onehalf pounds. Rolls of cotton are the only clothing of the baby and she is fed with a medicine dropper. The mite of humanity is the hospital’s most popular patient. Among her guests have been twenty women, members of the Altrusa Club.

GREENSBURG TEAM WINS STATE TITLE

Boy Stock Judges Place First in Two Groups at Roundup. P.y Times Special LAFAYETTE, Ind., May 10.—The Greensburg high school judging team was awarded honors as thebest among fifty-three from twentynine counties competing at the annual roundup of Indiana 4H Boys and Girls Club at Purdue university here. It won first in cattle and horse judging and fourth in swine. Members of the team are Roy and Gerald Robbins and Anthony Ernstes. The coach is A. W. McCracken. High individual judging honors were won by Mitchell Chasten, Scottsburg. Dairy judging honors were won by the Jackson township high school team, composed of Junior Anderson, Fred Eddleman and Frank Irwin, with Everett Duckworth as coach. Thirty scholarships in Purdue were awarded winners in the roundup and others outstanding m 4H, work during the last year. Scholarship winners and work in which the excelled are as follows: Food preparation. R*th Ellen Spear, Allen county: baking. Charlotte Etter. Putnam county; canning. Marv Davidson. Crawfordsville: clothing. Elizabeth Van Huss. Parke county: health, Frieda Steiner, Allen county: beef calf club. Herefords, Walter Schuman. Whitley county; Aberdeen-Angus. John Swaim Parke county: Shorthorn. Howard Harper. Noble county: dairy calf club. Holstein. Donald Zehr. Jasper county; Jersey. Turley Mace; Guernsey. Willard Berninger, Tippecanoe county. Poultry. Harold Deatline. Morgan county: corn. Ernest Nesius. Remington; Leonard Schutz, Tippecanoe county; Franklin Addison. Rush county: Gerald P.obbins. Decatur county, and William Breiner Posey county; potato clubs. Orville H. White. Pulaski county: John Glasgow, Jav county: Dale W. Simmons, Hancock ccuntv: John Van Hoy. Loogootee. and Willis Reid. Scott county: orchard, Robert Byers. Knox county: pig club. Poland China. Robert W. Maier. Tippecanoe ccuntv: Duroc-Jersey. Mark Casey. Henry county: Hampshire. William tp-j Haase, Morgan tountv: Spotted Poland* China. Charles W. Myers. WSyne county: Chester White Grant county: "t^Brei tweaier. Tipton; •rf' \ Roman. Marion V%!es L. Brown.

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BERNE BANK TO BE LIQUIDATED State Senator Gottschalk to Be in Charge. B 7 Times Special BERNE, Ind., May 10. T. A. Gottschalk, a member of the Indiana state senate, will assume charge of the closed People’s State bank here Monday, as liquidating agent. This course was approved by the state banking department after stockholders had urged that a receivership be avoided. It was announced that the loss to depositors will not be heavy and that immediately following the liquidation, the bank will pass out of existence. It Is said anew bank will be established. The bank was closed Wednesday. It has a capital of $60,000 and a surplus of $15,000.

BOTTLE CAP OUTPUT OF PLANT CEASES

Michigan City Company Heeds U. S. Supreme Court Decision. By Times Special MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., May 10. —The H. W. Angsten Company here has stopped making one of its chief products—bottle caps—in the face of the United States supreme court decision that manufacturers of any devices used in making home brew could be prosecuted under the prohibition law. In an announcement regarding the decision, company officials said: “We are takig no chances. We discontinued manufacture of the caps after the court ruling because we were not sure that customers who had ordered them would accept the orders after they were delivered. The company, of course, does not intend that any caps manufactured should be used in making home brew, although there is no question many of them were bought for that purpose.” It was intimated by officials that the company would not resume bottle cap manufacture. One said, “Well, I don't know what people who enjoy a glass of home-made root beer are gqing to do this summer.” Sentencing Thursday By Times Special ~ CROWN POINT, Ind., May 10. Erick Lund, North township trustee convicted of paying false claims from the township’s poor fund, will appear before Judge Martin J. Smith in Lake criminal court Thursday to receive sentence.

CHARITY BUYS LIQUOR Man Given Money to Feed Children Accused by Police. By Times Special SHELBYVILLE, Ind., May 10.— Police charge that Una Merrick, after begging a woman for money which he said would be spent in buying food for his children, bought denatured alcohol. He is awaiting trial on a charge of possessing liquor. Merrick’s children are wards of Shelby county and he contributes nothing to their support, authorities declare. Steel Worker Killed INDIANA HARBOR, May 10.—A moving crane struck and killed Oscar F. Freshley, 48, Hammond, at the Inland Steel plant, here, where he was employed as a department foreman. Politics Costs Auto GARY, Ind., May 10.—Party loyalty cost Jim Whalen his automobile, he complained to police. Whalen said he loaned his car to two men who said they wanted to use it to bring voters to the polls. That was on Tuesday, Whalen said, and the car hasn’t been returned.

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REGULATION OF DANCING UPHELD AT WASHINGTON Mayor Vetoes Effort to Repeal Chaperone Ordinance. Bp Times Special WASHINGTON, Ind.. May 10. Mayor John W. McCarty has vetoed an ordinance which would repeal one designed to regulate dance halls in this city, provisions including one that a woman chaperon attend. The city council will meet Monday and it is expected to take action on the ordinance. Five of the six members must vote for the repeal to override the mayor’s veto. This was the vote of the council in adopting the repealing ordinance. In refusing to affix his signature to the measure, Mayor McCarty said in part: “I fostered the passage of the original ordinance because 1 * of the conduct of persons attending public dances in this city, such conduct being in some instances immoral and in many instances unbecoming, boisterous and degrading on the part of persons attending such public dances to the extent that a strict regulation of public dances was necessary. I believed that the original ordinance meets this necessity. “I veto the repealing ordinance because I sincerely feel that a good woman as chaperon of the attendance of public dances in Washington will add a wholesome effect to such forms of pastime, and I see no reason why any dance hall proprietor or the proprietor of any place where dances are maintained should object to a wholesome regulation of this character. To repeal the original ordinance is to destroy this regulatory factor.’’

Auto Finance Bn Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., May 10.—Hershell Baxter, 20, used his wages to meet the payments on his new automobile and stole gasoline to run it, he told police. The youth was arrested on a charge of taking gasoline from the Monroe county garage. A ten-gallon milk can containing gasoline was found in the car.

FAINTING AND FIGHTING MEN APPEAR IN COURT Day’s Session Enlivened by Two at Columbia City. P ,// Times Special COLUMBIA CITY, Ind., May 9. All In one day, spectators in Whitley circuit court here saw one man faint and another threatened to stare a free-for-all fight. Ralph Hine, arraigned for petit larceny, fainted as he entered a plea of guilty. Garrett Hess, large and powerful man, arraigned on a check forging charge, was subdued by officers when he showed signs of using his strength after accusing the judge and prosecutor of “double crossing” him. He was given a 360-day penal farm term, the heaviest sentence it was possible to impose.

WIN IN THREE YEARS Healthiest Boy and Girl Thrice Delaware County Victors. By Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., May 10. Frederick Wingate, 19, Albany, and Miss Carolyn Boyle, 15, Gaston, named as the healthiest boy and girl in Indiana, .have been seeking the honor for the last three years. This was the third year that the two have been named the healthiest in Delaware county and have represented the county each year at the Purdue round-up. After winning the county championship, Miss Boyle explained that she did little to maintain her health other than to follow common sense rules. “I work hard and play hard,” she said. Wingate attributed his health to his outdoor life. Children in Parade By Times Special GREENCASTLE, Ind., May 10.— An audience of several hundred witnessed the annual May Day child health parade which was led by the Greencastle high school band and in which the three ward schools, Maple Heights school and the Mother’s Study Club took part. The Third ward was awarded a silver loving cup as a prize for the best health promotion project. Sunman Gets Meeting Bn Times Special RICHMOND, Ind., May 10.—The Hamilton (O.) conference of the Lutheran joint synod and the Dayton (O.) conference of the English district of the synod, in session here, selected Sunman, Ind., as the next meeting place in November.

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Frank E. Hering and the medal he received from the America War Mothers. Bn \EA Service SOUTH BEND, Ind., May 10. - When the morning of Mother’s day dawns, Frank E. Hering of South Bend probably gets a bigger kick out of it all than any other man in the country. Hering is the man who originated Mother’s day. He holds a medal, given him by the American War Mothers, bearing the title, “Father of Mother’s Day,.” Hering, former national president of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, former faculty member of the University of Notre Dame and now editor of the Eagles’ magazine, started the ball rolling twenty-six years ago in a speech at English’s opera house, in Indianapolis. Assembled were members of the Indianapolis Eagles aerie. Hering was then a young Notre Dame pro-fessor-notable chiefly as the first Protestant to win a place on the Notre Dame faculty. Lauded Motherhood In his speech, Hering traced all the goodness of men to mother love, all the advancement of civilization to the sacrifices of mothers, all the hopes of the future to the influence of mothers. He urged that in every Eagles’ lodge one day be set aside each year in which men would remember their mothers and make a point of paying especial homage to them. The idea caught on. Year after year, in Eagles’ lodges throughout the country, one day each year was devoted to mothers. Before the day was observed nationally, the Eagles were observing it annually. And it all goes back to that speech of Hering’s on Feb. 7, 1904. Initiative Recognized War Mothers went to work to trace Mother’s day to its origin. After long investigations, in which other claims to the honor were thoroughly gone into, the organization decided that the title, “Father

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Mrs. Elizabeth Hering, mother of the “Father of Mother’s Day.” of Mother's Day,” belonged to Hering and no one else. Last fall they sent a committee to South Bend to award him their medal of honor. On Mother’s day in 1925, at the invitation of the war mothers, he was the principal speaker on a program given at the Tomb -of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. So it is that Hering gets a peculiar satisfaction out of Mother's day; a satisfaction that no one else can share in. Incidentally, his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Hering. who makes her home with him here, always helps him celebrate the day.

STONE FREIGHT ' TO BE SUBJECT Indiana Case Hearing in Washington Monday. Bp Times Special BLOOMINGTON. Ind., May 10.— Indiana's stone industry, centered here and in Bedford, will be heard in Washington Monday when the interstate commerce commission will open a hearing on the industry’s application to eliminate a difference between freight rates on cut and unfinished stone. At present the charge for transporting the former is higher than on the latter. The state of Indiana will be represented at the hearing by George W. Starr, director of the Indiana university bureau of business research, acting for the office of James M. Ogden, Indiana attorneygeneral. Among those who appealed to the commission in the rate case were the Indiana Chamber of Commerce, the Bloomington chamber and Indiana representatives in Congress. Columbus Girl Hurt Bf/ Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind., May 10.--Miss Opal Bradley, 19, is in a hospital suffering from injuries she received in an autonlbbile accident on state road No. 46 west of here. She was crushed in the chest and back. Her condition is serious. Her companions, Miss Mildred Redman, Forrest Rice and Elmer Hewitt, all of this city, were bruised and shaken, but no bones were broken. The accident occurred on a hill when the driver lost control and the car partly turned over.

MAY 10,1930

QUICKSAND TO TAKE Cl 7,000 FROM CITIZENS Evansville Taxpayers Lose in Decision on Sewer Case. Bp Timet Special EVANSVILLE. Ind., May 10. Taxpayers of this city, aftet fighting for a year, have been defeated in their effort to prevent George Pontarelli, contractor, from collecting $217,000 additional because he encountered quicksand during construction of the North side sewer. By a decision of Warrick circuit court at Boonville, in what is known as the "blue slip” case, Pontarelli will proceed to collect. Judge Union Youngblood wrote the decision. Counsel for taxpayers announce they will appeal to the Indiana supreme c'ourt. The “blue slip” appellation was given the case due to the color of paper on which property owners assessed for the sewer were notified of additional amounts due from them because of the quicksand expense. Judge Youngblood upheld the contractor's right to more money was based on proof that specifications as set by the city were obeyed, and that Pontarelli had no way of knowing that the sand which put him to added expense would be encountered.

ENGLISH PROFESSOR TO BE SPEAKER AT I. U. Phi Beta Kappa Program Will Be Given Monday. Bn Times Special BLOOMINGTON. Ind.. May 10.— The Phi Beta Kappa speaker at Indiana university Monday evening, will be Dr. Robert Mowat of the University of Bristol, England. At the present, he is giving a series of lectures at Western Reserve university, Cleveland. Preceding the address of Dr. Mowat, which will be open to the public, there will be initiation services for thirteen newly elected members to the national honorary scholastic society. A banquet will be given for the new members Monday evening. New members are Mary Bass, London; Joseph Batchelor, Marion; Mabel Bortner, Richmond; Edmund Keeney, Shelbyville; Hazel Campbell, Crawfordsville; Thelma Myers, Hamilton; Willie RaynCs, Corydon; Gertrude Schuelke, Ft. Wayne; Joe Treon, Aurora; Esther Weber. Greenfield; Jane Williams, Cleveland Heights, O.; Palmer Zickgraf, South Bend, and Eva Zink, Michigan City.

MAYOR CHANGES MIND Ban on Cases in Muncie City Court Lifted for Third Time. Bn Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., May 10. Three times Mayor George R. Dale has ordered police not to file cases in Judge Frank Mann’s city court and three times he has revoked his order. His latest revocation came after an order had been effective a week. A high official in the police department said there was nothing else for the mayor to do if he wanted policemen to make any arrests. “We can’t take them into a justice of the peace court, Judge Guthrie in circuit court probably wouldn’t stand for them and the mayor said the city court was out, so you can see where we stood.” The mayor made no comment.