Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 121, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 September 1930 — Page 2

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M. E. PASTORS ARE ASSIGNED TO CITY POSTS The Rev. Guy 0. Carpenter, the Rev. A. H. Kenna Given Pulpits. Assignment of the Rev. A. H. Kenna to the pastorate of the Roberts Park M. E. church and that of the Rev. Guy C. Carpenter to the pulpit of the Irvington M. E. church, were announced today at the closing session of the Indiana conference of the M. E. church at New Albany. Pastor of the La Porte M. E. church for the last five years. Mr. Kenna will success the Rev. Edwin W. Dunlavy, who Sept. 1 became pastor of the Woodlawn Park M. E. church in Chicago. Mr. Kenna was bom in Mississippi, but has lived in Indiana since childhood. He studied at Taylor university and was graduated from De Pauw university and the Garnett Biblical institute. Served as Chaplain He served overseas as senior chaplain in the Eighty-eighth division during the World war and has been chaplain of the La Porte post of the American Legion. His charges have included Knox, Epworth, South Bend and West Lafayette. He is married and has four children, two of whom are students at De Pauw. Mr. Carpenter comes to the Irvington M. E. church from Crawfordsville where he held a seven years’ pastorate. Bom in Brazil, Ind., he graduated from De Pauw and the Boston university School of Theology. He was a captain in the World war. He is married and has two children. Mr. Carpenter succeeds the Rev. .1. B. Roscmurgy who, after serving the Irvington charge four years, accepted a call recently to the King avenue M. E. church, Columbus, O. Other Changes Made Other changes involving Indianapolis churches: the Rev. M. A. Farr, of Broad Ripple, assigned to Spencer, succeeded by the Rev. N. G. Talbott; the Rev. A. A. Know, of Blaine avenue, assigned to Beech Grove, succeeded by the Rev. L. G. Carnes, who, in turn, will be succeeded at Edgewood by the Rev. M. O. Robbins, formerly field secretary for the Methodist Children’s Home. At his own request, the Rev. George S. Henninger was appointed counseler in finance and conference evangelist. Four district superintendents appointed are: the Rev. J. W. McFall, pastor of Broadway church for Connersville. the Rev. E. Robb Zaring, New Albany; the Rev. J. M. Walker, Bloomington, and the Rev. E. L. Hutchens, Seymour. SEVEN PASTORS RETIRE: LIKE NUMBER ORDAINED Indiana Methodists Act at Session in New Albany. A’*/ Times Sore in! NEW ALBANY, Ind.. Sept. 29. During a session of the Indiana conference, Methodist Episcopal church here, seven men who have given the best years of their lives to the ministry, were retired on pension and a like number of young men were ordained in the ministry. Those retired are the Revs. John Tagle, Brooklyn: John Dyer, Columbus: Frank Lenig, Rockport; John D. Jeffrey, Indianapolis: Albert L. Bennett, Flat Rock; J. W. J. Collins, Indianapolis, and W. R. Halstead, Terre Haute. The young men ordained are the Revs. Roland L. Dorve, John H. Hanger, James H. Harrell, Charles S. Kendall. Carl V. McMillian,< Nathan J. Schoolfield and Archiless M. Brown. ROCKNE~WILL OPEN BROKERAGE OFFICE Notre Dame Coach, A1 Feeney Will Operate at South Bend. Knute K. Rockne, wizard of chalk lines and pigskin, will tackle the ticker tape as a stock broker beginning Wednesday, and with him will be A1 Feeney, one-time all-Ameri-can center, head of the Feeney Furniture Company here, according to dispatches from Cincinnati and South Bend. Rockne's brokerage work will not interfere with his coaching at Notre Dame university, where he is under contract as director of athletics, at least until 1935. Two in Auto Killed h v United Frees HAMMOND, Ind., Sept. 29.—Donald Murphy, 17, Hammond high vhool basketball star, and Harold Mauck. 19, were killed when an automobile in which they were riding with Philip Praza collided ■>.lth the car of Henry Filipiak of Whiting. Praza, in a Hammond hosital. is reported dying.

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EXHIBITS ON WAY Sent for State Industrial Exposition in City. i Varied exhibits, all products of Hoosier manufacturers, began arriving today for the first annual Indiana industrial exhibition to be held at the state fairground, Oct. 4-11. Manufacturers from all sections of Indiana have engaged booths to show their wares and practically all of the state’s industrial lines will be represented. Governor Harry G. Leslie will open the exhibition Saturday night, after downtown street parade of floats and bands. LABOR GIRDS FOR FIGHT Injunction Will Be Special Target in Coming Elections. Bn Serivvp-Itoward Xetespaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—Legislation to curb the abuse of injunction powers in labor disputes will be a cardinal issue in the forthcoming congressional campaigns, officials of the American Federation of Labor revealed today, as they perfected plans for their annual convention in Boston next month. The convention will mark the opening of a campaign to carry the injunction issue into every congressional district. vVhere senators are to be elected, the local labor bodies and state federations will be urged to press for pledges in favor of the anti-injunction bill in the December session of congress.

Actress Is Past Illness Crisis

Hu I nited Press HOLLYWOOD, Sept, 29.—Dolores Del Rio, screen actress, is conva-

lescing from a serious illness ‘hat has confined her to her home six weeks. The actress on Sunday passed the crisis of her illness, more grave than pr e viously disclosed. she will need at least an o t her month to recover, her doctors reported today. She was declared slightly ill from “something

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she ate” several weeks ago. United Artists has postponed her latest picture. Stove Ignites Woman’s Clothing Mrs. Ruth Heston, 35, of 4635 Hovey street, was recovering in city hospital today from burns suffered when her clothing was ignited by a kitchen stove in her home Saturday afternoon.

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Grand jurors at Martinsville, Ind., are probing an alleged home “love-nest” that resulted i’ the alleged death by poison of rs. Carrie Thelma Pryor. Top Photo—The home wuere Mrs. Pryor; her husband, Emest Pryor, who is under arrest, and Miss Elsie Ham, her cousin, lived. Center, Left—Mrs. Pryor. Center, Right—Miss Ham, alleged sweetheart of Pryor’s, who carried on a love affair with Pryor while residing with him and his wife. Lower—Pryor. PREDICTS EPIDEMIC END Tuberculosis to Be Under Control by 1940, Physician Says. Bp Vnited Pres* BUTTE, Mont., Sept. 29.—Tuberculosis will have ceased to be an “epidemic” disease by 1940, in the opinion of Dr. Allen K. Krause, president and director of the Desert sanitarium and institute of research at Tucson, Ariz., who attended the recent Pacific Northwest Medical Association convention here.

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TRAIN SMASHES INTO AUTO; TWO INJURED BADLY One May Die as Result of Crash at Bethel Avenue Crossing. Two men were injured, one perhaps fatally, when their auto was demolished by a Belt railroad freight locomotive at Bethel avenue early today. In addition, three fatalities and a score of persons injured marked the week-end’s traffic toll in near Indianapolis, according to police, sheriff, and hospital records. Crushed in the wreckage as the freight train carried his auto a block and a half, Otto Merrill, 48, of 205 South State avenue, Beech Grove, suffered a skull fracture, selacerations, and loss of the left foot. R. D. Reynolds, 37, R. R. 5, Box 227, his passenger, saw the train, leaped from the car, and ran down the tracks. The wreckage hit him, inflicting cuts and bruises. Two Killed in Auto Two Indianapolis persons died, and five others were injured when a speeding auto careened out of control in gravel on State Road 29, in Boone county, flipping upside down into Little Eagle creek one and one-half miles northeast of Zionsville. Oliver Webb Sr., 38, of 2501 Cornell avenue, driver, and Charles Webb, 2, his son, were dead when taken from the scene. Mrs. Mary Webb, 37, suffered fractured arms and internal injuries: James E. Chenoweth, 52, of 2853 Ruckle street, sustained head and body injuries; Mrs. Frances Chenoweth, 53, head and body bruises; Dorothy Webb, 14, and Oliver Webb Jr., cuts and bruises. Webb was said to have driven more than sixty miles an hour down a hill to a bridge over the creek, when the auto leaped in the loose gravel, plunged into the creek, bounded into the air, and came down on its top. Woman Dies of Injuries Motorists righted the car and rescued the occupants. Webb probably died immediately from injuries, but it was believed the baby was drowned. Its body was found in the water near the wreck. The injured were brought to Indianapolis hospitals. Herman Greenan, 72, of 47 Parkview avenue, was held on involuntary manslaughter charges after Mrs. Philip F. Frick, 65, of 1318 Marlowe avenue, died in city hospital Saturday of injuries sustained when his auto struck her Friday. Injured in week-end mishaps were: Archie Glenn. 27. broken leg; and internal injuries: Charles Sutton. 21. Glenn's Valley, cut on head and face, crash, state Road 37, near Glenn's Valley. Saturday night. Mrs. Robert Lyons. 30. of 1422 Laurel street, injured, collision. Laurel street and Woodlawn avenue. Sunday. Arthur Sanders. 103'/2 North Talbott street, charged with drunken driving, drunkenness, after series of accidents near Pennsylvania and Eleventh streets. Mrs. Lester Kassing. 26. of 686 East drive. Woodruff Place, minor injuries, collision Market street and Highland avenue. Sunday. Keneth Dinsmore. 18. of 1269 West Thir-tv-flfth street, arm lacerated, collision. Thirtieth street, west of Flackville. Sunday. George Petiakis. 12. of 346 North Noble stret. skull and neivic fractures, struc'- by auto. Ohio and East streets. Saturday. Joseph Hathaway. 70, Negro, 1205 East Thirteenth street, hit by auto at Thirteenth and Yandes street. Saturday. Richard Marley. 61. of 405 East Washington street, scalp wounds and fractured ribs, hit by auto at Twenty-third street ana Northwestern avenue. Saturday. Mrs. Nellie Riley thrown from auto In collision at Edgemont and Sugar Grove avenues, Saturday. Mrs. Prudence Albers. 49. of 3207 Graceland avenue, ankle sprained when foot caught in car track. .Tlinois and Ohio streets. Saturday. Arthur Jones. 48. of 2C24 Broadway: Mrs. Anna Jones. 51. and Vlovd Carson. 4? Urbana. 111. minor injuries, auto forced off road near Brownsburg. Saturday. Mrs. Frances Diliv. Z.ionsvillp. minor injuries. collision. Kesler boulevard and Michigan road. Sunday.

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Quick thinking and action saved the life of R. D. Reynolds, 37, R. R. 5, Box 227 (insert) early today when he leaped from an auto as a locomotive bore down upon it at the Belt railroad and Bethel avenue. Reynolds escaped with minor injuries, inflicted by flying wreckage. while his companion, Otto Merrill, 48, 205 South State avenue, Beech Grove, was critically injured. The photo shows workmen removing the demolished auto, crushed by the wheels of the engine. The two men were on their way to work in the Beech Grove shops. TWO HELD IN BOMB MURDER Auto Blast Killing Laid to Wife, Alleged Lover. By United Press AKRON, 0., Sept. 29.—Charges of first degree murder today had been lodged against Marshall W. Corniel, 48, and his alleged paramour, Mrs. Lula Esther Barnes, 37, with whom he is accused by police of plotting the death of her husband, Clarence Barnes, 43. Barnes was killed instantly last Tuesday when he turned on the lights of a car loaned him by Corniel, exploding two sticks of dynamite placed in the gasoline tank and connected to the lighting circuit by two pieces of wire. Police believe the pair have been infatuated with each other and wished to get Barnes out of the way. Edward McDonnell, detective chief, claims to have information that Corniel had offered an Akron underworld character first S2OO and later S3OO to “bump off a husband.’’ An attempt was made to kill Barnes last July, according to officers. A dynamite bomb in a burlap sack was said to have been tied to the exhaust of the car he was driving. Mrs. Barnes and Cornell were arrested at the Barnes home shortly after the funeral. Police say they were examining Barnes’s life insurance policies. Bavaria Prince. Is Dead B 'MUNICH."Sept. 29 Prince Leopold of Bavaria, 84, died of pneumonia here Sunday. Leopold succeeded Field Marshal Paul Von Hindenburg as commander-in-chief of the German troops on the eastern front during the World war.

$2,000 IN LOOT IS TAKEN BY BURGLARS

Housebreakers Are Busy in City Over Week-End, Say Police Reports. Housebreakers obtained,more than $2,000 worth of loot, mostly clothing, in a series of burglaries in Indianapolis residences over the week-end, according to reports to police today. Persons reporting thefts and amounts L. O. Willis. 4430 North Meridian street, clothing, $440; Beulah Stevens, clothing and watch, S3OO. B. Y. Dugan, 5370 Guilford avenue" S4O; Mrs. Louis Brown, 521 West Twenty-ninth street, clothing and jewelry, $515; Ed Yott, 1030 Windsor street, clothing and jewelry, $35; Harry Baldwin, 814 East Fortyeighth street, clothing # and silverware, $500; Alvin Wilson, 15 South Kitley avenue, clothing, $125, and Gordon Owen, 2039 Olive street, clothing, sl2. URGE DRYjHO VOTE Methodist Board Slams at Illinois Referendum. WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—Illinois drys are urged to vote in the prohibition referendum in that state by the Methodist board of temperance. prohibition and public morals which describes the referendum, however, as “absurd” and “unfair.” In its wekly clipsheet, the board says “when the votes are in, no one will know just exactly what they mean,” and declares that “ it does not go to the root of the matter and many drys will pass it by in contempt.” “It gives an advantage to the corruptionist, the gunman, the gangster, the beer runner, because he will vote more than once to legalize his trade,” the board continues. Arrest Two in Liquor Car Ransome Pruitt, 2903 South PenAsylvariia street, and William Newton, McCarty qnd Missouri streets, were held today on blind tiger and liquor transportation charges after police say they found 4 a five-gallon can of alcohol and a‘rifle in their automobile.

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Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to police as stolen I beioag to: ! H. H. Oglesby. 4057 Rookwood avenue. | Dodge coupe, 82-789. from Thirty-sixth i street and Central avenue. Modesta Allen. 506 West Fall Creex i boulevard. Ford Tudor, from North and | Blackford streets. I Austin Bots. Greenfield. Chevrolet dump truck. 111-502. from Greenfield. I Franklin Hahn, Brownsburg. Chevrolet I coupe, from Riverside park. James E. Whitney. 722 Fairfield avenue. Oakland sedan. 61-375. from East street and Massachusetts avenue.

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i Stolen automobiles recovered by notice belong to: Mary Green. 620 West Vermont street. Ford truck, found at 1900 Bluff road. Ford coupe, no license, no title car, found at 19 West Tenth street. KING ASKED TO QUIT 20,000 Republicans Hold Meeting in Spain. ! By United Press ; MADRID, Sept. 29.—The country s j chief topic' of discussion today was | the meeting of 20,000 Republican ; sympathizers which condemned dic- ; tatorship and monarchy in Spain and called for the resignation of King Alfonso XIII. The meeting was held in Madrid's famous old bull ring Sunday. Police and civil guard forces were mobilized. Machine guns were in ! evidence, but they were not necesj sary. I Spain’s troubles since the dictaj torshin of Primo De Rivera was es- | tablished in 1923 were reviewed in | in continual stream of oratory. MRS.' WHITNEY ENDS LIFE WITH BULLET Funeral services will be held at I 1:30 p. m. Wednesday for Mrs. Lois Whitney, 32, of 2008 West Vermont street, who committed suicide Sunday by shooting herself through the heart with a revolver. Services will be held at Shirley Brothers’ chapel, 943 North Illinois street, and burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Her husband. Fred Whitney, told police Mrs. Whitney had threatened suicide several times.

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NAME LEADERS AND AIDS FOR CHARITY DRIVE Community Fund Chairmen and Workers Chosen by Arthur R. Baxter. District chairmen and workers in the special gifts division of the Indianapolis Community Fund campaign, Oct. 17 to 27. were named today by Arthur R. Baxter, chairman of the division. In District No. 1. chairmen ara William J. Mooney Sr. and Leo M, Rappaport; District No. 2. Obie J. Smith and George S. Olive; District No. 3. Nicholas Noyes and A. D. Hitz; District No. 4, Chester Albright and Harvey B. Hartsock. Workers In the four districts are: District I—Hugh J. Baker. Ferdinand Barnickel. W. F. Cheeks. Brodehurst Elsey. Mortimer M. Furscott, W. H. Tnsley, Hugh McK. Landon. Arthur V. Brown, James W. Carr, James E. Bartlett, Irving Lemaux, Albert S. Goldstein. Charles J. Lynn, Fred Appel. Frank Stalnaker and Franklin Vonnegut. District 2—Berkley Duck, Henry Dithmer, Edgar H. Evans, R. H. Sherwood. Earl Conder. Donald S. Morris. Edward Weunsch, John Saulter. F. Durward Staley, Donald Test, L. L. Goodman. Carl Walk, Volney M. Brown. Harold West, J. W. Fesler and Harry Orlopp. , District 3—Rov Shields. Fredrlc M, J Ayres, Ralph Bamberger, Roy Adams, fj Fred C. Dickson. Sam Frommer. A. Kiefer V Mayer. Isaac Woodard. Ward Hacklemau, 1 Edward L. Mayer, Ross Wallace. J. Ed- 1 ward Stilz. Theo B. Griffith. Louis M. Huesmann and Albert S. Pierson. District 4—Wallace O. Lee. Clark 3. Wheeler. Frank Laird. Edward A. Kahn* Marshall D. Lupton. C. C. Welland. C. H* Rottgcr. J. L. Rodabaugh, J. I. Holcomb, Homer Lathrop. G. M Sanborn. Frank Z. Sherer. Leslie Colvin. Clyde E. Titus, Fcrmor Cannon. C. L. Harrod. T. N. Wynn a and Herman P. Lieber. Solicitation of pledges made bvj larger donors through the special a. gifts division already is under way, although the general solicitation j does not begin until Oct. 17. Tha | campaign goal is $865,000 and j Arthur V. Brown, president of (ha Union Trust Company, is driva chairman. Twenty-five hundred citizens will serve as volunteer workers in thej campaign. KINNEY ORDERS WAR ON UNSAFE DRIVERS Prevention of Traffic Mishaps in October Special Goal. October, worst month of the year in Indianapolis for traffic mishaps, | this year will be given special attention of Police Chief Jerry Kin- ! ney and accident prevention bureau heads. I According to Lieutenant Frank j Owen of the prevention bureau 243 | persons were injured and 17, of j which 14 were pedestrians, killed in October, 1929. Orders to motorcycle police today ;were*to arrest all motorists violat- | ing traffic signals or preferential ! street markers, and to allow no speeders or reckless drivers to go unarrested. During October, 1929, there were 426 traffic accidents, involving 597 ; passenger autos, 83 trucks, 17 taxis, 8 busses and 5 motorcycles. I IRIGOYEN HAS RELAPSE Condition of Deposed Argentine President Is Worse. Bn ViiUcd Press BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 29. Hipolito Irigoyen, deposed president, has suffered a serious relapse in health, government physicians reported today. The former president is held a virtual prisoner aboard the cruiser Belgrano. Irigoyen’s condition was reported to be due to heart trouble, induced by deep depression