Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 10, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 May 1930 — Page 5

MAY 22,1930

HOME TOWN TO AID MOTHER IN RAIN BABY CASE Bloomington Residents to Testify to Povgly, Lack of Friends. Bloomington residents May 28 will tell Juvenile court here of the trials of poverty and lack of friends which attorneys for Mrs. Sally Marie Breedlove, 21, will contend caused her to abandon her year-old son, Robert Eugene, Indianapolis ‘‘rain baby.” Miss Bess Robbins, assigned by the Indianapolis Bar Association to defend Mrs. Breedlove on the charge of child neglect, back today from Bloomington, declared she had been offered voluntary testimony of a large number of Bloomington residents on behalf of the mother. Mother to Be Aid Mrs. Breedlove’s mother will be at her side when she faces the court and her older son, Vernon Lee, 3, will sit with her, Miss Robbins said. That she has evidence to prove legitimacy of Robert Eugene was announced by Miss Robbins today. She characterized claims of William Breedlove, divorced husband df the accused woman, that he is not the father of the abandoned baby, as on a par with his contention during his divorce trial that the older child was not his son. The circuit court at Bloomington, awarding the father a divorce on grounds of abandonment, held the older child legitimate and ordered Breedlove to pay $5 weekly for its support. Not Born Then The “rain baby” had not been born at that time and no court provision was made for its care. It never has been the subject of a court decision. Miss Robbins said. Breedlove, seeking custody of the older child since arrest of his divorced wife, has admitted parentage of this child in his petition, Miss Robbins declares. Mrs. Breedlove did ont file a crosscomplaint in the divorce action brought by her husband and no evidence was presented seking a decree in her behalf. “We will be ready for trial May 28,’” Miss Robbins declared today. “We do not want Sally to remain in jail any longer than necessary. We will contend she should be given her two children because, with tht financial aid given by two women who have deposited $2,200 for her, she will be able to care for her children as she should.” BROAD RIPPLE PARK TO BE OPEN SUNDAY Indiana Council of Red Men to HoIS Festival During Week. Broad Ripple park will open for the first time this season Sunde/ when rides and attractions will bs offered. The swimming pool will not open, but other diversions of the oark will be in operation. Work on the new entrance tower and other park improvements is nearing completion. The park will open formally Memorial day. The Indiana Council of Red Men will have charge of the first week's activity at the park with a state festival. During the week special drill team attractions will be offered by the lodges of the city and vicinity. BANK GROUP ELECTS Thomas Montgomery President of Fletcher Savings Club. Thomas Montgomery was elected president of the Men’s Club of the Fletcher Savings and Trust Company in an election at the offices. Market and Pennsylvania streets. Louis Engelking, cashier of the South Side State bank, was elected vice-president; Albert S. Johnson, savings department manager, was named secretary, and Roy Dilley, auditing department, was elected treasurer. George Frank E. Hopkins and Theodore Campbell were elected governors.

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Legion’s Poppy Sale to Raise Veterans’ Aid

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Sale of poppies by the Indiana American Legion auxiliary Saturday Is expected to raise nearly $200,000 for benefit of disabled veterans in this state, according to Pleas E. Greenlee, Shelbyville, state adjutant. “Although many poppies will be ordered just prior to the sale Saturday, advance sales in the state already total 350,000 flowers,” Greenlee said. “The success of the Legion program to aid the disabled veterans, depends upon the response of the public in buying the tiny crimson poppy that will be offered for sale,” he declared. The Legion service department of this state recovered a total of $163,000 in benefits for disabled veterans last year, according to Greenlee.

GOLF COURSE PERMIT LIKELY Works Board Will Act On Old School Site. The public works board probably will grant a permit for driveways along the former Shortridge high school site for a miniature golf course and parking lot, as a result of a conference with Edward H. Knight, corporation counsel. The board held up the permit | pending action of the Indiana World j War Memorial trustees, which under the state law have control of property within 300 feet. The trustees asked the board to prevent “undesirable occupancy,” but failed to act directly on the State Life Insurance Company’s plan for constructing the amusement lot across from the $lO,000.000 memorial plafea. “The building department and city plan commission had no right to approve plans for the golf course and refreshment stand on the site as long as the state law gives the memorial trustees jurisdiction,” saidE. Kirk McKinney, works board president. Promoters for the project told the board the golf course W’ould be “temporary” until 1932 when the insur- | ance company contemplated erection of a home office building on the site.

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Dixie’s broiling suns hold no fears for Miss Hilda Webb, above, of Birmingham, Ala., first to appear at a local swimming pool in one of the new 1930 “sunburn bathing suits.” Naturally, her suit caused a lot of back talk.

ACTOFIT9I IS OSED IN BATTLE ON SPEAKEASIES Excise Law That Brought on ‘Whisky Rebellion’ Is Under Fire. Bu T ailed Press BUTTE, Mont., May 22.—The liquor excise tax which inspired the historic “whisky rebellion” of 1794 will furnish the legal basis for federal prosecution of an alleged bootlegger under present day prohibition laws. Through the tax act of 1791, fortified by its 1866 amendment, the government hopes to establish its right to confiscate brass rails, cuspidors, chairs, tables, mirrors, and other fixtures which adorn the modem Butte speakeasy. The case is the libel-information suit against George M. Lewis, charged with violating the prohibition law, who announced he will contest the government’s right to dismantle and confiscate furnishings of his bar. Speakeasy proprietors have “chipped in” to raise enough money to contest the case, it was reported, declaring they want their “legal rights” clearly defined, and asserting they would carry the issue to the United States supreme court if necessary. The government contends Lewis

failed to pay his internal revenue tax, for there were no revenue tax stamps on the bottles of liquor in Lewis’ saloon. CHUTE CHAMP IS HURT Navy Jumper Finds Auto Perils Are Worse Than Airplane Leaps. By Ini ted Frets WASHINGTON. May 22. —The navy’s champion parachute jumper, William F. Scott, was out of the naval hospital today and was making immediate plans to resume his sky-diving hobby. Scott, who has made scores of jumps from planes without serious injury, had his jaw broken when an automobile in which he was riding skidded. PRISONER OF JEALOUSY Wife Says She Didn’t Even Want to Flirt; Gets Divorce. By United Press NEW YORK, May 22.—Mrs. Anna Van Houten said her husband put frosted windows in their home, nailed them down, and even took the disc from tho telephone to keep her from flirong. She never wanted to flirt, she said, and has filed suit for separation.

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COSTE TO MAKE TALKIE DURING ATLANTIC HOP French Flier Will Talk Into Apparatus During Ocean Flight. Bit Visited Press PARIS, May 22.—Dieudonne Coste has contracted to make talking motion picture films of his forthcoming flight from Le Bourget field to New York, which he announced Tuesday, will be attempted in June. So that the world may know what

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