Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 21, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 June 1930 — Page 2

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AL CAPONE AID STRANGLED AND LEFTIN ALLEY Hoodlums Believed Fearful of Detection by Means of Bullets. WAR TOLL NOW EIGHT Racketeer’s Killing Viewed as First Reprisal for Fox Lake Massacre. fin I nilrt) Prrnt CHICAGO, June 4 Gangland has adopted garroting, the Parisian apache's favorite method of committing murder, as a means of putting its enemies out of the way, it appeared today as detectives investigated the murder of Thomas Scmnerio, Capone racketeer, whose body was found Tuesday night in a west side alley. There were no signs of gun play, marking the first time in the long history of Chicago gang murders, police said, that the traditional automatic pistols, sawed-ofl shotguns and machine guns have been discarded for a strangling wire. One theory of the garroting was that ballistic experts have been too successful reading clews from rifling marks on bullets for gangsters to take chances. Eighth Victim of War Somnerio was the eighth victim of the latest outburst of gang warfare since last Saturday, when a gangster was assassinated on the street. Sunday three more were slain at Fox Lake, 111., and the remainder in ones and twos in Chicago. Detectives also investigated the possibility that the murder of Samuel Massillino in Argo, 111., also was connected with gang warfare. Massillino was shot to death in his room. Police are investigating the theory that he was an alcohol racketeer. Somnerio apparently had been tortured and taken for a “ride" by his gangland enemies. His hands had been tied and he had been hit on the head. Around his neck were deep furrors, indicating that he had been garroted with a wire noose. See Move of Reprisal In the death of Somnerio, once accused of complicity in the murder of Octavius Granady, Negro candidate for alderman in the “bloody Twentieth” ward,, police saw a first move of reprisal for the machinegun slaying of three gangsters at Fox Lake Sunday. Because of Somnerio’s close connection with the powerful Capone interests, quick retaliations are expected and “the worst” is liable to happen from now on, police said, unless gang leaders can be rounded up immediately. In a widespread drive to end the gang war, police had 215 suspects in jail Tuesday night. Among them tvere a number of notorious gangsters, including Myles O'Donnell, brother of the better known “Klondyke" O'Donnell; Harry Guzick, one of Capone’s beer syndicate partners; Hymie Levine, a Capone speakesy collector, and Vincent Accardo, extortionist. Two other hoodlums were brought ! in when “Terrible Terry” Druggan and Frankie Lake, beer barons, were charged with a SIO,OOO robbery.

HELD ON BOOZE CHARGE Deputies Charge Bad Check Suspect With Possessing Beer. Paul Marlow, 33. Shadeland drive and Thirty-fourth street, today faced blind tiger charges after deputy sheriffs, serving a Morgan county warrant charging issuance of fraudulent checks, raided his home late Tuesday night and found an alleged beer flat. One hundred quarts and eighty pints of beer were confiscated, deputies said. Negro Surrenders to Police John Gasby. 20. Negro. 758 Edgemont street, who surrendered on murder charges late Tuesday, today said Joshua Simpson, Negro, janitor of an apartment at 644 East Twen-ty-second street whom he slew, fired at him first when Gasby found his wife in Simpson's home Monday night.

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Law Students to Be Graduated

John A. Bach!, Burnside, Conn.; Reuben Berman. Marion; Paul Messick. BJocmfidd, Ind.; George Prime Jr., Robinson, III.; Ilyman Granofsky, Indianapolis; Forrest Hackley, Miles City, Mcnt.

Samuel Blum, Indianapolis; Lyman Cloe, Noblesville; Gerald Purdy, Indianapolis; Paid Schnaitter, Shelbyville; Robert Davis, Gary; John Little, A. 8., Indianapolis.

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Addison Dowling, A. B„ Indianapolis; Charles Foley, Martinsville; Robert Smith, Anderson; Kenneth Vandivier, B. S., Indianapolis; William Marshall, Arlington, Ind.; Theodore McCarthy, Indianapolis.

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Edward Gallagher, Terre Haute; Charles Gates, Greenfield; Wesley Wilson, A. R., Indianapolis; Elmon Williams, Greenwood, Ind.; Thomas McClean, Indianapolis; Edwin Metcalf, Kingston, O.

DEAF TO HEAR TALKM6MOVE Earphones to Be Tried at Plainfield Tonight. “Talkie” theaters of the future may have seats with ear-phones to enable the deaf to enjoy the synchronized films if an experiment to be tried tonight by the Indianapolis League for the Hard-of-Hear-ing in Plainfield is successful. The league will be guests of Dr. Ernest Cooper at his home in Plainfield tonight. They will attend a “talkie” theater in Plainfield and sit in several seats that have been wireil and equipped with ear phones connecting with the sound mechanism of the films. The outing is open to any person hard of hearing. The party will assemble at the hotel English at 5:30.

HOUSE CANVASS TEST CASE IS SCHEDULED Tea Firm Charges Town of Shoals With Class Discrimination. A case testing the right of a firm to solicit business by house-to-house canvass will be tried by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell Saturday. An injunction suit was filed today in the Evansville district by the Grand Union Tea Company of New Jersey against the town of Shoals and its trustees. The tea company alleges in its complaint that the town of Shoals makes it unlawful by ordinance to solicit coffee and tea orders from house to house unless a fee of $lO a day is paid to the town clerk. The suit further that the ordinance is unconstitutional because it is class legislation, not applying to traveling men, and that the fee asked is exorbitant. INDIA SALT RAiDERS STAGE COURT RIOT Sing, Shout and Give Fictitious Names During Trial. B v United Press BOMBAY, India, June 4.—A group of sixty satyagrahis (passive resisters) arrested in the Wadala salt raids, threw the court into confusion here today when they sang and shouted during their trial. The independence volunteers sang revolutionary songs and gave the clerk fictitious names. They refused to plead to charges. Most of them were sentenced to three months hard labor. Hotel Employe Is Dead John Nance, 55, of 433 East Washington street, Claypool hotel employe, died at city hospital early today. He suffered a stroke of paralysis at the hotel Tuesday. Thought Asthma Would Smother Her Sleeps All Night Now. Bronchial Cough Is Gone. Her prompt relief from asthma and severe bronchial coughs is described in a letter by Mrs. E. J. Bain, 1902 W. Vermont St., Indianapolis, Ind. She says: "1 had bronchial asthma and was so weak it just seemed I would drop at I'very step. 1 couldn'Nsloep at night. U hen I would lie down it seemed 1 would smother to death. Since taking Naeor. every symptom of asthma has 'eft me. and 1 did not have a bad cold >r couph ail winter." Hundreds of people who suffered for rears from asthma and bronchial •oujrhs. state that their trouble left and •as not returned. Their letters and a booklet of vf'al information will be H-nt free by Naoor Medicine Cos.. 40k State Life Bklir.. Indianapolis. Ind. 'all or write for this free information, and ffnd out how thonsnnds hate found lasting relief.—Advertisement.

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Lee Wexler, Inidanapolis; Earl Wynn, A. 8., Indianapolis; Norman Lefkowitz, New York; Louis Ichenhauser, Evansville, Ind.

At commencement exercises at 7:45 tonight in the auditorium of the Pythian building, these thirtyfour members of the class of 1930 of the Indiana law school will be graduated. Thomas A. Dailey, attorney, In- - diana law school graduate in 1899, will deliver the commencement address. A banquet at the Columbia Club will precede commencement.

POLL CONTEST SET Updike-Ludlow Hearing to Be Held Friday. Bu Timex Special WASHINGTON, June 4.—Hearings on the Updike-Ludlow election contest will begin before the house elections committtee No. 1, at 10 Friday, Chairman Eeedy announced today. The contest challenges the the right cf Representative Louis L. Ludlow to his seat from the Indianapolis district, on the ground that he was not a bona fide resident of the city at the time of his election in 1928. Former Representative Ralph E. Updike, who was defeated by Ludlow, filed notice of contest a month after the 1028 election. Ludlow denied every allegation of his defeated Republican opponent and submitted affidavits establishing his j Indianapolis residence. DR. HARPER SPEAKER AT WASHINGTON HIGH i . Evansville College President Will Make Commencement Talk. Dr. Earl E. Harper, pres;d'--it rs Evansville college, will speak on •What Ls Worth While in annual commencement exercises of Washington high school Thursday night, June 12. The baccalaureate sermon win i*S delivered by the Rev. T. J. Simpson, pastor of the West Washington Street Presbyterian church. Class day exercises will be held at the school Tuesday. Homer Conner, class president, will pass the gavel to Emil Unser, junior class president. The annual alumni dinner will be held Thursday, June 13.

INJURED IN EXPLOSION I City Metal Worker in Critical Condition After Blast. Injured when a metal paint drum he was cutting with an acetylene torch exploded in the P. W. Kennedy & Son boiler plant, 1201 Beecher street Tuesday afternoon, Frank Harmening, 50, of 2117 East Raymond street, was in a critical ; condition today at Methodist hos- | pital. Harmening suffered a skull fracture. ROCKPORT MAN SHOT Lender of Revolver Receives Bullet W’ound in Right Lung. Bu United Press ROCKPORT, Ind., June 4. Luther Mottler, 32, is held by authorities here charged with shooting Ray Dewitt, 30, through the right lung with a revolver. According to the mother of the wounded man, Mottler caxne into the kitchen of the Dewitt home and asked for the revolver he had loaned to Dewitt. Picking up the gun, Mottler ran to. the living room and hid. He fired as Dewitt entered.

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Members of the class who have been admitted to practice law before the bar of the respective country of residence were admitted to the supreme court of Itftiiana and United States district court bars, Tuesday. Class officers are Wilson S. Daily, president; Gerald Purdy, vice-president; Paul Messick, secretary, and Hyman Granofsky, treasurer.

PATIENT DECIDES HE’S CURED; WALKS OUT Carnival Performer Doesn’t Even Wait for X-Ray. There was a walk-out at the city hospital Tuesday and it had nothing to do with labor troubles. For when hospital attaches went to the r?m of William Johnson, 23, of Richmond, a carnival performer who was injured in a dive from a ladder Monday night, to notify him rhat an X-Ray examination of his injuries were to be made he was not there. Investigation revealed that Johnson had signed his own release from the hospital and had left, accompanied by his wife and a friend.

CITY AIRPORT HEAD MAKES SOLO FLIGHT Paul 11. Moore Wins Wings in Hop After Secret Lessons. Believing the superintendent of Indianapolis’ municipal airport should not be content merely to watch others fly, Paul H. Moore recently enrolled as a student at Hoosler airport. Tuesday afternoon, with Bob Shank, airport president and flight i instructor, watching him, Moore I made his solo trip with a Travel Air j biplane. He took off four times and completed four landings. Moore became interested in aviation more than six years ago, and was chiefly responsible for a movement which resulted in the establishment of the municipal air field here. He began instructions on May 15. “Well, I walked away from all of ’em, anyway,’’ he grinned after the fourth landing. RITES VALID; ACTRESS SUES FOR ALIMONY Court Holds Marriage Performed in Tia Juana Legal. Bu United Press LOS ANGELES, June 4.—Nora White, stage actress, today sought $250 a month separate maintenance from Philip T. Carling, wealthy land owner, as a result of a ruling that their Tia Juana, Mexico, marriage was valid. Carling claimed the actress’ suit for separate maintenance was not valid on the ground that their marriage in the border resort town was illegal. He said he was intoxicated at the time and that the ceremony was not performed by the proper officials. PITTSBURGH IS CHOSEN Presbyterians Select City as Site of 1931 Convention. Bu United Press CINCINNATI, June 4.—The general assembly of the Presbyterian church, closing its convnetion hefe today, selected Pittsburgh as the 1931 convention city.

DEMANDS FARM TAX BURDEN BE MADEJJGHTER Plea for More Mortgage Exemption Presented to State Group. “Farmers of the state demand a constitutional convention If that is necessary to establish an income tax and lift the tax burden from the farms.” This was the note sounded by Attorney Arthur H. Sapp, Huntington, before the Indiana tax survey committee today. He presented a brief on behalf of modification of the present taxation system on behalf of subscribers for the Farmers! Guide. This magazine circulates in 65 per cent of the Hoosier farm homes, he said. Exemption Too Little Today’s meeting was devoted largely to discussion of tax exemptions and Sapp urged that the present real estate mortgage exemption of SI,OOO be increased. Increasing real estate mortgage exemptions was the burden of a lengthy plea made by Attorney William J. Whinnery, Hammond. He represented the building and loans, building trades, contractors and real estate men of Hammond, he explained. “The present SI,OOO should not even be called an exemption on mortgages,” Whinnery declared. “It is merely a wholly inadequte deduction and is stifling the real estate development in Lake county and has put a halt to new building construction.” Suggests Solution Asa solution, he suggested allowing up to 50 per cent of assessed valuation on real estate for mortgage exemption and raising revenues by a Vz of 1 per cent tax on mortgages and chattels which now are escaping as “intangibles.” Sapp is chairman of the state aid school committee, which is to meet later with the tax committee. Today he advocated putting the essential school tax under state revenues.

FREEDOM IS VOTED Senate Group Favors Giving Philippines Liberty. Bij Seripps-H award, Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON , June 4.—The Philippine islands should be given their independence, says a report submitted to the senate today by Senator Hawes of Missouri for the committee on territories and insular affairs. The report, however, proposes that independence be granted at the end of five years, and then only after a plebiscite to determine if the Filipinos approve of the separate status that gradually is to be established during the five-year period. The Filipinos seek immediate freedom. The committee reached its conclusions after extensive inquiries, during which Filipino leaders and cabinet officers of this country, including the secretaries of war and state, were heard in executive session. HOSEA SELLS PHONE HOLDINGS IN INDIANA Thirty-eight Exchanges, All but One in State, Bring $1,000,000. Thirty-eight telephone exchanges, owned by Max F. Hosea of Indianapolis, have been sold to the United Telephone Investment Corporation for more than $1,000,000, it was announced today. With one exception, all properties are in Indiana. The purchasing company is owned by the United Telephone Electric Company, Abilene, Kan. C. L. Brown of that city is president, A. J. Roberts, Kansas, City, Mo., will be in charge of the Indiana holdings. F. M. Lantz, Monticello, Ind., will be Indiana resident manager, it was announced. Exchanges include those at Attica, Noblesville, Greenfield, Sheridan and Veedersburg. DISCUSS TAX SURVEY Realty Board to Ponder Approval of Leslie Committee. Two resolutions expressing faith in the tax survey committee appointed by Governor Harry G. Leslie will be discussed by the Indianapolis Real Estate Board at its weekly luncheon Thursday in the Lincoln. The resolutions were prepared by a special taxation committee, comprising Gavin L. Payne, chairman, and J. Edward Morris, Frank E. Gates, T. J. Owens and William L. Elder. NAME CHURCH OFFICIAL First Baptist Bible Class Elects Waggoner Superintendent. A. C. Waggoner, superintendent of the adult department of the First Baptist church Bible school, was elected general superintendent of the school at the annual meeting in the church Tuesday night. Other officers are: J. C. Moore, re-elected general secretary; R. W. Richards, re-elected treasurer; C. G. Jaquart, E. E. Allison and Mrs. C. S Dearborn, advisory committee. FOOTPRINTS ARE CLEWS Lead to Arrest of Three Negroes on Robbery Charges. Spying a print of a tennis shoe in a Kroger grocery at 2764 Roosevelt avenue while seeking clews to a robbery there early today, police followed similar footprints to 2726 Manlove street, where they arrested three Negroes. Tom Bostick. 30; Harvey Lee, 20, and Bennie Keys, 22, charged with burglary and grand larceny, confessed robbing the Kroger grocery and the Harry Lauber dry goods .tore, 2758 Roosevelt avenue, police :aid. More than SIOO worth of loot was recovered in the house.

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Skill With School Crayons Will Bring Rich Reward to Some Child. Boys and girls who read The Indianapolis Times today are offered the chance to display their skill with ordinary school color crayons in a contest which The Times and the Lyric theater are sponsoring, with the capital prize a beautiful, full-grown Shetland pony. Surely there isn’t a boy or girl in this city or vicinity who wouldn’t like to own the beautiful little companion pictured above. Imagine the fun you would have taking rides into the country, having your own one-ring circus, and entertaining all your friends. First, ycu must read carefully the following instructions and watch for more in The Times Thursday, Friday and Saturday regarding this contest. Otto Gray and his Oklahoma Cowboys, from whose pony ranch in Stillwater, Okla., this pony came, are opening a week’s engagement at the Lyric Theater next Saturday, and they are going to give each child who purchases an admission ticket an outline of the pony. All that further is required of you is that this folder with the outline is taken home and colored to the best of your ability. When you’ve placed your name and address on it, send it to the Pony Contest Editor, Indianapolis Times, before Saturday, June 14. Judges for the contest will be announced later. Winning boy or girl will be announced in The Times during the week of June 15. Remember, now, you don’t have to buy expensive paints or coloring pencils, just use those that you have used in your classroom, in coloring the pony. . Neatness will be an important factor in choosing the winner. So be careful not to soil or tear your folders when you receive them at the Lyric, starting Saturday. The contest is open to every boy and girl in the city or surroufiding territory, who is a reader of The Times and not more than 16 years of age. Art students, professionals, and employes of The Times and the Lyric are barred. The contest will be strictly an amateur affair. FUNERAL SERVICES TO BE HELD ON FRIDAY Dransfield Rites to Be at Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Funeral services for George (Pete) Dransfield, 28, of 12.9 East Southern avenue, who died at a Bellfontaine (O.) hospital early Monday, will be held at Sacred Heart Catholic church Friday morning at 9, followed by burial in Holy Cross cemetery. Dransfield contracted food poisoning while on a fishing trip to Indian lake, near Bellefontaine, with his brother-in-law, the Rev. Frank Curtis of Cincinnati. Curtis’ condition is serious at the hospital. Dransfield, who was employed at the Marmon Motor Car Company, is survived by his widow, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Dransfield, and three brothers and a sister.

NEEDLEWORK IS SHOWN Display of Membership Circles on Exhibit at Phyllis Wheatley Y. W. A display of needlework completed by membership circles of the Phyllis Wheatley branch of the Y. W. C. A. is on display in the music room of the building at 653 North West street. The membership circles are composed of members who can not leaves their homes to attend association meetings. ANNIVERSARY OBSERVED Hawthorne Community House Marks Its Seventh Birthday. Seventh anniversary of the Hawthorne Community house was celebrated Tuesday night with a dinner at the institution at 2440 West Ohio street. In a report at the dinner, the Rev. C. E. Baker revealed that sixtyone organizations aggregating an attendance of 30,000 held meetings in the community building in 1929. HEADACHE REUEVED . . QUICKLY CARTERS] Tki. Partly Ve*etble Pill IB ivn quickly corrects the l|mi£ digestive disturbTflSaSLi ances, removes the intestinal poisons, and sick headache quickly disappears. Your whole system enjoys a tonic effect, constipation vanishes, and you feel a renewed vigor. Avoid bromides and dope, they are depressing and harmful. All Druggists 25c and 75c red pkgs. CARTER’S ESSPaXS

COUNTY SOUGHT GAMING PROBE, OGDENSTATES Explains Office Ready to Help Local Officials When Requested. Attorney-General James M. Ogden sent an undercover man into Orange county to unearth alleged gambling at French Lick and West Baden, after his aid was sought by Prosecutor Walter G. Mead of Orange county, it was disclosed today. The investigator made a report both to the attorney-general and to Mead. That was some weeks ago. Nothing further has been heard from the prosecutor and no grand jury action has been instituted, Ogden explained. Ready to Co-Operate “This office still stands ready to co-operate with local authorities in putting down gambling, or any other law violations in any part of the state,” the attorney-general asserted, “When the Orange county prosecutor came to this office to ask assistance in stamping out gambling in his county, it gladly was given. That is oui job here and we expect to carry it out.” It is unlikely that Ogden will act without invitation from local authorities, he indicated. “Hands Off” Asked On Tuesday he conferred with Sheriff Ha! K. Hughes of Clark county in regard to stopping alleged gambling at dog races at Jeffersonville. His office will see that this is done, since both the prosecutor and sheriff have brought in complaints, Ogden declared. The matter may be in the courts all summer, however, since the community generally favors dog racing, it was said. Two hundred Jeffersonville citizens Monday urged Ogden to keep “hands off.” ORDERED TO PAY BILLS Police and Firemen Warned Against Neglecting Old Debts. Police and firemen must pay their bills if they hope to keep their jobs. Donald S. Morris, safety board member, reprimanded eight police and firemen at a safety board session today for failure to clear up long standing obligations.

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FARM AID PLEA MADE TO G. 0, P. CHIEFS BY GUSH Asks Committee to Take Step to Relieve Heavy Tax Burden. A plea that the Republican platform committee take some decided step to relieve the tax burden upon the farmer was made today by Lieutenant-Governor Edgar D. Bush who appeared before the committee drafting the resolutions. “Lift the 29 cents state levy and you will perform a great benefit to agriculture.” he declared. Bush declared he did not care whether the relief came through an income tax or sales and excise taxes, “but the burden upon real property is too heavy.” Time for Definite Step “For years the platforms have generalized upon taxation. It is time to take a definite step,” he warned. If the Republican party declares against a tax on real property and should the legislature concur, the expenses of state government would be paid through either income or excise taxes or both, and the real estate levies would be used only for the upkeep of local government units. The income tax proposal is receiving the most favor. Draft Is Sent Thurman Rigid supervision of state aid school funds is expected to be recommended, but no substitute proposal for the present system is expected to be made. A draft of the platform planks which shall cover national issues, has been sent M. Bert Thurman, G. O. P. national committeeman by Senator James E. Watson and will be incorporated in the resolutions, it was announced.

9 CASES ACTIVE; HOPE MENINGITIS BALKED Epidemic Which Started in December Believed Under Control. With only nine active cases of cerebrospinal meningitis in city hospital toda, health authorities were hopeful the epidemic which started last December is under control. With the arrival of spring weather the number of cases has been on the decline. A few sporadic cases may be expected during. the summer, according to Dr. Herman G. Morgan, health board secretary. In other cities which have been visited by the malady the second winter usually is less serious than the first year. Dr. Morgan said. The epidemic usually extends into the second winter, the disease spreading again with advent of cold weather. There have been 190 cases in Indianapolis and vicinity since, Dec. 9, 126 resulting fatally. Area Improvement Is Urged Importance of improving the area served by the Tibbs avenue and Eagle Creek Civic League was, stressed by John F. White, civic leader and former city councilman, before the league Tuesday night at School 67. —, “HEADACHES’’^ ~'mmm Consult Our Specialist Acme Optometric Cos. Eyesight Specialists Eyes Examined Glasses Fitted and Supplied 731 IC. of P. Bldg—(7th Floor) ■■■■ Expert Service HBBK I Money Loaned —ON—DIAMONDS Liberal. Reliable. Confidential SUSSMAN’S STATE LOAN OFFICE Legal Rales—Bonded Brokers Established 2k Years 239-241 TV. Washington St.