Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 8, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 May 1930 — Page 9

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CHILD NEGLECT CHARGE FACED BY BREEDLOVE Affidavit Against Father of ‘Rain Baby’ Prepared by Authorities. ABANDON FIRST PLANS Appeal Is Issued for Home or Work for Mother, Child. Basing a charg** of contributing to child neglect upon a legal background never used here before, juvenile court authorities will attempt to prove that William B. Breedlove of Bloomington, shared responsibility for abandonment of the Indianapolis roadside “rain baby” on the Bluff road here by the mother, Mrs. Bally Marie Breedlove. An affidavit charging contribution to child neglect has been prepared by Juvenile court authorities here. First plans to charge s he divorced husband of Mrs. Breedlove with wife desertion and child desertion have been abandoned. Under the charge of contributing to child neglect, juvenile court authorities declare Breedlove is partially responsible for abandonment of R<wert Eugene Breedlove, the year-old “rain baby” at the roadside if, because of his failure to provide funds, his wife lacked money with which to care for the child. May Deny Parentage Mrs. Breedlove is in jail here awaiting trial on child neglect charges. Breedlove will be brought here for trial in juvenile court when arrested at Bloomington, it was indicated today. His indicated defense will be that no court order exists providing that he pay for support of the “rain baby,” which was bom in May, 1929, after Breedlove and his wife separated in August, 1928. The couple was divorced in December, 1928. Breedlove’s indicated defense will be to deny parentage of the “rain bay” and responsibility for its support. Mrs. Breedlove’s trial on child neglect charges has been set for , May 28. Makes Appeal for Home Miss Bess Robbins, assigned by the Indianapolis Bar Association to defend Mrs. Breedlove, has issued an appeal for a home for the mother and her child. “Marie needs a home for herself and child,” she declared. “She is willing find anxious to work and work hard to support herself and the child. A home has been denied her by her parents, she says, and also by her husband. Marie can do housework and also has had experience in laundry work. "I would like to have something constructive to place beiore the court when Marie comes to trial. I would appreciate an; offers of work or a home for the girl.” OLD OFFICERS NAMED BT CLEARING HOUSE Frank D. Stalnaker Re-elected as President of Group. Meeting in annual session at 915 Merchants Bank Building today, members of the Indianapolis Clearing House Association re-elected officers without opposition. They are: Frank D. Stalnaker, president of the Indiana National bank, president; Elmer W. Stout, president of the Fletcher American National bank, vice-president; Arthur V. Brown, president of the Union Trust Company, treasurer, and George C. Calvert, secretary and manager. Appointments to the clearing house committee were Fred C. Dickson, president of the Indiana Trust Company, and Stalnaker as exofficio member. all p7and l. chiefs RE-ELECTED TO POSTS Four New Directors Are Chosen by Present Stockholders. All executive officers and seven directors of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company were re-elected and four new directors chosen by stockholders meeting in the utility company's offices today. Executive officers are: Norman A. Perry', president; Charles N. Thompson and Emmett G. Ralston, vicepresidents; William C. Richardson, treasurer; Elmer E. Scott, secretary’, and Walter C. Marmon, chairman of the directors board. Directors rechosen were: Arthur V. Brown, Harley L. Clarke, Marmon, Perry, Richardson, Scott and Thompson. New directors are: Elmer W. Stout, Frank D. Stalnaker, Ralston and Bernard Corbly. 13 KILLED IN CAVEIN Bu United Press CONSTANTINOPLE, May 20. Thirteen Turkish women were killed instantly and eight others were crushed when an ancient tower in whose shade they were drowsing after working in the opium fields near Smyrna collapsed Monday. ‘MINUTE MEN’ TO MEET A mass meeting of the Indianapolis chapter. Minute Men of America, ar organization to oppose chain stores, will be held at South Side Turners’ hall Wednesday night, E. L. Claghom, secretary, announced today. B. M. Ralston, realtor, will speak on “Community Conditions.” Close Friend of A1 Smith Killed TARRYTOWN. N. Y., May 20. William H. Buckley, 56. an associate of the late Nicholas F. Brady, utilities magnate and a close friend of former Governor Alfred E. Smith, was killed today when he stepped Into the path of an automobile.

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Britain to Build Two Fleets of Giant 40-Passenger Planes

Du United Press LONDON, May 20.—Two fleets of giant airplanes, equipped almost as completely as a modern ocean liner, are under construction for use over Great Britain’s new empire air routes. The fleets will be the latest in operation in the world. Each ship will have luxurious cocktail bars, smoking rooms and refreshment buffets, and will carry forty passengers. One of the fleets consists of eight forty-seater biplanes for use over land routes. The other consists of six forty-seater flying boats for operating over the water sections of the empire air routes.

Grover Whalen Is Through as Police Chief in New York

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GM CLEARS 3ISHOPCANM Prelate Absolved in Stock Market Case. Bu United Press Bu United Press DALLAS, Tex., May 20.—Bishop James Cannon Jr., of Virginia, apologized to the representatives of 3,000,000 Southern Methodists at their general conference today for his dealings in the stock market, acknowledging his mistake, and promising never to make it again. A statement exonerating the Virginia prelace of marginal speculation on the New York stock exchange was scheduled to be read to the general session today. It was prepared Monday night after the episcopacy committee tendered Bishop Cannon a full vote of confidence after hours spent considering the speculation charges. The episcopacy committee previously had exonerated the. bishop of charges arising from the activities against Alfred E. Smith in the 1928 presidential campaign. Bishop Cannon’s contention that the money he had deposited with the brokerage firm of Kable, & Cos. in New York had been for the purpose of buying stocks outright, was upheld by the committee. Nurse Turns Inventor Bu Times Snecial LAGRANGE, Ind., May 20.—Miss Neva Bushong, Lagrange county n.- is the inventor of a device designed to train children in care of their teeth.

Its Jonah and Whale Act Brought Up to Date

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A flock of amateur IS3O aspirants showed up today for a chance to play the leading role in the “Jonah and the whale” act. “They couldn’t be blamed, though, after they saw Miss Esther Riddle of Bridgeport take her place in the mouth of the monster mammal on exhibit in its special car at Kentucky and Oliver avenues. Miss Riddle was one of the hundreds of persons who viewed the whale today. The mammal will be

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Beau Brummel Resigns as Commissioner; Walker Picks Successor. Bu United Press NEW YORK, May 20. Police Commissioner Grover Whalen resigned today. The resignation of the man who left a SIOO,OOO position to head the city’s police at a salary of SIO,OOO a year had been expected for some time. Whalen handed his resignation to Mayor James J. Walker at city hall, effective Wednesday. Edwin P. Mulrooney, assistant chief inspector of the police department, was named Whalen’s successor. This move was a surprise, as many had believed Mayor Walker would not appoint a member of the force to the place. Failed to Nab Criminal Whalen had been in office seventeen months, succeeding the late Joseph Warren when the latter resigned because of illness. Previous to his appointment as police commissioner, Whalen had been a wellknown figure here. He was chairman of the mayor’s reception committee to distinguished guests, and organized the tumultuous receptions that New York gave to Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, Queen Marie of Rumania, and other celebrities. He took office with a specific pledge that he would solve the murder of Arnold Rothstein, notorious gambler, fatally wounded during Warren’s administration. Rothstein’s slayer still is at liberty. Whalen’s activities as commissioner include the devising of traffic plan for the congested theater district. Communists Thorn in His Side The chief criticism which his opponents have advanced against him is his attempt to put taxicab drivers in uniform and his handling of Communist demonstrations. Two Communist riots occurred in his administration, one resulting in jail sentences for Robert Minor and William Z. Foster, leaders of the party. , Whalen has received several decorations from foreign governments because of his facility in greeting visitors. His impeccable dress, with a white gardenia adorning his lapel and top hat glistening, earned for him the sobriquet of “New York’s best dressed policeman.” Whalen indicated his intention of returning to the John Wanamaker store. v halL goes tcTprison Leaves for Chillicothe, 0., in Custody of U. S. Marshal. Leslie Hall, convicted in federal court last week of conspiracy to violate the prohibition law, was removed to Chillicothe, 0., where he will serve a fifteen months’ sentence in the United States industral reformatory. A party of five, under charge of Harry Gates, deputy United States marshal, was removed to Chillicothe. The other prisoners are Louis D. Jones, postal violation, year and a day; Edward Mattice, Ralph Sharp and Walter Harrison, motor theft, year and a day.

Indianapolis orphans will be guests at the exhibition Friday. Ofcials of the exhibit will “throw a real party” for the childen, they .said. The whale was captured off the California coast several months ago and is being exhibited through the country by the Pacific Whaling Company. C. C. Rose, company representative, today sent letters to 2,000 school teachers, inviting them to visit the exhibition. A . special school program will be arranged duriri Utisi.lar.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, MAY 20,1930

Orders for both fleets have been placed by the Imperial Airways. The order for the eight forty-seater land planes is noteworthy not only as being the largest single order ever placed for airplanes, but also because all the eight machines are to be larger than any commercial land planes now in existence. Both types of planes will be fitted with four motors totaling more than 2,000-horse power. Handley Page, Ltd., has been given the contract for the land planes, which closely will follow lines of the present Handley-Page air liners,

PENNSYLVANIA BALLOTS ON DAVISJRUNDY Primary on Today; Intense Interest Marks Climax of Bitter Campaign. VARE IN THICK OF FRAY Fights for Secretary of Labor; Pinchot Wages Aggressive Battle. Bu United Press PHILADELPHIA, May 20.—The state’s voters cast their ballots today to decide the bitter disputes which have divided the Republican party in Pennsylvania since the refusal of the United States senate to seat William S. Vare. • James J. Davis, secretary of labor, solidly backed by Vare, has gone before the electorate as a candidate for the Republican senatorial nomination in today’s primary election, challenging the strength of Senator Joseph R. Grundy, who was appointed to fill Vare’s place and who gained fame first as a tariff lobbyist, then as a high tariff man in the senate. The issue of Vare against Grundy has been complicated further by the injection of a strong and militant wet ticket into the field, by Professor Francis H. Bohlen of the University of Pennsylvania law school, running for the senate, and Thomas W. Phillips for Governor. Further, there has developed a contest equally sharp and even more bitter between Gifford Pinchot, former Governor, and Francis Shunk Brown, 72-year-old Philadelphia lawyer, seeking the gubernatorial nomination. v>>st interest centers in the matter of how much strength Grundy can muster in Philadelphia in the face of the opposition of the strong-ly-intrenched Vare organization; how many votes Davis can draw in western Pennsylvania, where W. L. Mellon has turned the power of his organization to Senator Grundy; and what the independent forces led by the aggressive Pinchot will be able to do for their standard bearer in the face of better organized, opposition. ,

Chic Sale Says Dress Designer Is All Wrong

“Wimmin dress in th’ daytime t’ impress other wimmin, an’ they dress at night t’ impress th’ men.” That’s what a man in Paris named Jaques Worth sez th’ other day. He’s a dress designer an’ he ought t’ know. But he don’t know. An’ I’ll tell you why. In th’ first place, what’s a full grown man doin’ over there in Paris designin’ dresses fer wimmin? I don’t care if he is a Frenchman, it ain’t right. He’s a man, ain’t he? He has t’ shave, don’t he? Then why don’t he learn a trade an’ go t’ work fer somebody instead o’ gettin’ up designs fer wimmin’s dresses? I don’t care what that kind o’ feller sez, I won’t agree with him. If he was t’ walk in right this very minnit an’ sez t’ me, “Gee whiz, it shore is cold t’ day, ain’t it?” I woldn’t agree; I’d fall right down in my tracks an’ have a sunstroke. So I sez th’ wimmin dress at night t’ impress th’ other wimmin, and dress in th’ daytime t’ impress th’ men. Take a woman in th’ daytime. She’s got on an apron ain’t she? Is that t’ impress th’ other wimmin? No, it ain’t. It’s t’ make th’ men think she’s cleanin’ up th’ house. Take a woman at night. If she’s got on anew dress, does she say t’ her escort, “Let’s go t’ th’ movies an’ sit in th’ dark where can’t anybody see my new dress?” No, she don’t. She sez, “Let’s drop by an’ see wbat Emma or Mary or Francis are doin’.” I may " e wrong, but it’s jest th’ same if I am. No matter what ’a man sez or thinks about it, th’ wimmin are goin’ t’ wear what they dum please. vS <4.

ROBERTS VOTE IS UP

Senate to Vote Today on Supreme Court Judge. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, May 20. —The consent of the senate to the nomination by President Hoover of Owen J. Roberts of Philadelphia to be a supreme court justice was to be given or refused today Senate leaders predicted it would be given. Roberts’ name was placed before the committee late Monday by the judiciary committee indorsing him _

8A Graduates of School 9

Herman Sodemon, W?yne y\llen, Kenneth King, Earl Stroube, Eugene Ridgeway and Charles Hoffman,

Nora Buchanan, Audra Edwards, Sylvia Petrakis, Lora Wolfe, Eunice Eaton and Ruth Norris.

Winford Scott, Harry Otis, James Barrett, Edward Harrington, Bernard McMichael and Kenneth Barnard.

Mildred Benson, Edna Ljnn, Mildred Rose, Rachel Antle, Mildred Chamberlain, Lillie Ar.tle and Verna Midgett

Charles Robbins, Roy Wiennick, Ernest Stalions, Albert Moore, Alvin Davis, Maurice Henderson and Clifford Macy.

Chester Gaines, Warren Wood, Melvina Jennings, Norma Melton, Howard Carpenter, Alfonzo Fox and Lewis Douglass.

8A Graduates of School 36

Frederick Ellis, Vurn Swartz, Fletcher Johnson, Howard Harris, Mike Voivodas, Walter Summers and Jessie Zilson.

Esther Baker, Juanita Wood, Marjory Brugman, Mary Burrin, Virginia Love, Wilma Clegg, Annabelle Montague and Beatrice Mastellar.

KING WINS VOTE TIE Named to Legislative Slate Over Milton McCord. “We’re going to have an honest election,” said Clyde E. Robinson, G. O. P. county chairman, when the vote was called to decide the tie between John E. King and

Milton N. McCord for the eleventh place on the Marion county legislative ticket Monday night. “It’s about time,” came a voice from the gallery of the criminal court room, and the Marion county Republican precinct committemen filed by the ballot box, gave their names and dropped in their votes.

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“Johnny always has been a good organization man, ward chairmen said, so the vote was 330-121, and King again is on the legislative ticket. BOOKSELLERS AT ODDS NEW YORK. May 30.—A report of its Board of Trade to the American Booksellers’ Association said “Guerilla warfare” among competitive booksellers was endangering the publishing business. The drug store and cigar store rivalry was termed “disturbing.” Accountants Invited to Session Local accountants have been invited to atttend the eleventh International Cost conference, which will be conducted by the National Association of Cost Accountants hi Syracuse, N. Y., June ii to jpj • i ip.

except that their passenger capacity will be more than double that of the machines now in use on the London-Paris loute. All the flying boats have been developed from Sir Alan Cobham’s Calcutta flying boat, in which, in 1928, he flew from London completely around Africa and back to London. The new machines will be used on the present Imperial Airways’ route from London to Karachi, and on the new routes scheduled to come into operation late this year or early 1931 from London to Capetown, and Karachi to Australia, the latter as an extension of the present England-India route.

WABASH PROGRAM TO BE GIVEN JUNE 2

Commencement Period of College to Open May 31. Bu Times Special CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., May 20.—The ninety-second annual commencement period of Wabash college will open Saturday, May 31, and close with a program Monday, June 2, which will include presentation of diplomas. A meeting of the board of trustees the morning of May 31, will open the three-day program. A session of the Association of Wabash men will follow and luncheon will conclude the forenoon. The faculty-trustees luncheon will be held at 1 p. m. and the remainder of the afternoon program will include the faculty-senior baseball game, fifty-seventh annual Baldwin oratorical contest and at 6:30 the annual dinner of the association. Baccalaureate services will be held at 11 a. m. Sunday, June 1, with Dr. All -t G. Parker, president of Hanovei 'ge, as the speaker. The Phi' xppa breakfast at Ba.m. W St he program for commence >, Monday, June 2. For ■ w&tion of diplomas, there will „ processional at 10, and the <S .nencement proper will open at i .30 with Merle Leidster Shanklin and Byron Kightly Trippet as speakers. Campus luncheon and reunions will bagii\ at poon, and will conclude the pro-

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Kutered as Secord-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis

BOBBITT TO OPEN QUIZ State Auditor Leaves for Ga.'y to Probe “Gas Bootlegging.” State Auditor Archie N. Bobbitt left for Gary today where he will join Leland K. Fishback, state gasoline tax collector, and Earl Stroup, deputy attorney-general, in fuither investigation of gasoline “bootlegging” in northern Indiana. Bootleg gas is that shipped and sold in the state without paying the 4 cents a gallon tax. CONSIDER ROAD BIDS Highway Commission Members to Meet Wednesday. State highway commission members Wednesday will meet at statehouse to receive delegations asking for highway improvements throughout the state. Thursday the department will oil Road 38 from Monticello to Delphi, a distance of fifteen miles, according to John J. Brown, director. Bids for grading of state Road 3 in Delware and Randolph counties will be received June 10, a total of 38,700 cubic yards of earth being Involved in the grading. On the same day the commission will take bids for sale of used contractor equipment from the commission garage at Crawjfrdsville. The commission may ajMVednesday on bids taken a fleet of heavy trucks

MAROTT SEES RUIN IN TARIFF BILI.J’ASSAGE independent Dealer Would Be Forced to Wall, Shoe Man Asserts. DANGEROUS TO NATION Opportunities for Energy and Brains Will Pass, He Declares. The proposed Grundy tariff law will banish the boasted “opportunities” of America for brains and energy, George J. Marott, president of the Marott Shoe Shop and president of the Marott Apartment Hotel Company, declared today. Independent merchants will be forced out of business and the way will 1-e paved for foisting of giant monopolies on to the consumers of the .nation, he declared. Marott, who worked in his father’s store as a clerk and who rose through his own efforts to ownership of a store of his own, starting with a capital of $167, which represented his savings of nearly five yeas, sees in the proposed tariff the destruction of the system which made his rise possible and which makes for opportunities in the nation today. Leader in Business Marott has figured in organization and control of traction lines and was an organizer of the Indiana Railways and Light Company, which was later sold to the Central Power Company of Chicago. He also organized the Citizens Gas Company of Indianapolis, and has figured in many other business promotions and developments of the city. “If this tariff goes through, as it applies to leather and shoes, the independent merchant should quit business while the quitting is good,” he declared today. “This tariff measure would eliminate all independent merchants within a few years. “If this measure passes, men’s shoes, made half of paper, will sell for $5 a pair. If this measure is foisted upon the country, no poor boy or man with good brains and energy ever could become an independent business man. He could become a superintendent, a foreman, a boss, but never a business man for himself, in competition with the octopus of the leather and shoe manufacturers’ amalgamated trust. / Writes to Congressmen “I have advised our congressmen and senators that I believe the measure disastrous for the country. “Today the tariff is out of line. I am opposed to the attempts by government to upset the laws of supply and demand. “I understand that the tariff bill provides a 12 per cent tariff on leather and 20 per cent tariff on shoes. “I have been in business In Indianapolis fifty-five years, from shoe clerk to ownership of an independent business, which I have conducted for the last forty-six years. Factory shoe stores have come to compete with me, but good service and values at my store has not permitted their competition to succeed materially. “If this tariff law passes we would not have the broad markets now available. Independent merchants will not be able to go to all manufacturers and make selections based on capacity buying and judgment; of values. Would Lead to Gouging “If this tariff bill passes, it will permit leather companies to merge with shoe manufacturers and to throw their merged securities upon Wall street and dispose of inflated securities to the people over the country. “A tax of 20 per cent on shoes and 12 per cent on leather would permit the leather industry to consolidate and become a monopoly. “If this tariff passes, the American public will pay approximately 50 per cent more for shoes. Sound government is maintained and many business failures prevented when supply and demand are a basis in value, measured with the gold dollar, which is held to be standard.” SIDEWALK CONTRACT FOR PLAZA AWARDED University Park Work Ordered by War Memorial Board. The Indiana Gunite and Construction Company today was awarded the contract to build additional sidewalks and place lights in University park, to conform with the style of the Indiana war memorial. Memorial trustees accepted the $33,254 bid of the company after deciding to postpone action on about $20,000 worth of improvements in the park. In addition to the sidewalks, curbing will be placed on three sides of the park. Three other firms submitted bids. Freyn Brothers, plumber, received the contract to install water connections in the memorial building tract for $842. GETSFARM SENTENCE IN BAD CHECK CASE Tennessee Man. With Long Prison Record, Ghen 180 Days. Convicted in municipal court today on charges of issuing fraudulent checks, James Dunn, alias James P. Robertson, 30, Nashville, Tenn., was sentenced to 180 days on the state penal farm and fine ’ SSOO and costs. He was accused of passing a $lO check on a local store three weeks ago. Dunn is said to have a long