Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 122, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 September 1930 — Page 9

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FIRST MEETING IN RED CROSS SERIESJPENS Richmond Host to Initial Session of Five in Indiana. VINCENNES TO BE NEXT Madison, Elkhart and Purdue University Also on Schedule. The first of a series of five regional Red Cross conferences in Indiana is ifi session at Richmond today. At each various phases of Red Cross work, especially in its relation to the home, will be discussed by officials of the national headquarters in Washington and delegates from neighboring chapters. The Richmond conference, covering chapters in east central Indiana, opened with a welcome by Will P. Edmondson, chairman of the Wayne County chapter. Speakers from Washington, who will address all five conferences, were William S. Hepner, assistant manager of the eastern area, and Douglas Griesemer, national director of roll call and public information. Eugene C. Foster, director of the Indianapolis Foundation, told about the responsibility of chapters to the exsoldiers. Mayor Windsor B. Harris, mayor of Richmond, delivered an address of welcome, followed by a round table discussion on disaster preparedness, led by George Hamilton, chairman of the disaster preparedness committee of the Wayne county chapter. The Junior Red Cross members held a special session and discussed their programs and reported on the service activities which are conducted in connection with their local chapters. Second at Vincennes Vincennes will be the scene of the second conference, to be held Wednesday, when delegates from southwestern Indian will assemble. There will be discussions on disaster preparedness, led by Elza Clark, chairman of the disaster committee of the Knox county chapter; on home service, by the vice-chairmen of the Evansville chapter, Forrest M. Condit, and on community objectives, by Hepner. Griesener will speak on membership as the foundation of Red Cross service. There will be a special Junior Red Cross session. The conference at Madison Thursday, over which the Rev. John C. Black, chairman of Jefferson county chapter, will preside, will open with a welcome address by Frank Pritchard, mayor. Besides addresses by national headquarters representatives, there will be talks on home service by Mrs. Peter C. Zanone of the New Albany chapter; a water safety program by Roger Walker, chairman of lifesaving for the Jefferson county chapter; public health nursing service by Miss Helen Bean, nursing field representative, and home hygiene classes in Jackson county by Miss Matilda Lebline, public health nurse of that county chapter. Junior on Program George E. Denny, president of the Madison Chamber of Commerce, will preside at a luncheon session, at which James Carr, junior delegate of Perry county chapter, will address the delegates on .’“Our Junior Red Cross.” During afternoon session there will be round-table discussions on disaster preparedness, led by the Rev. Theodore J. Destinon, chairman of the Jackson county chapter, with Griesemer leading the discussion on roll call methods. Delegates from the northern section will attend the conference at Elkhart, Oct. 8. Following discussions on roll call methods and disaster preparedness there will be a special Junior Red Cross ses<#>n. The last of the regional meetings In Indiana will be held in the Purdue Memorial Union building of Purdue university, Lafayette, Oct. 10. CITY POLICE NOT TO •AID’ ARMY DESERTER Refuse to Accept Confession That He Robbed Gas Stations. If the 21-year-old army deserter held in the Crawfordsville (Ind.) jail wants to spend the rest of his life in prison, he’ll have to get along without the help of the Indianapolis police department. For police headquarters here today flatly declared the youth, William C. Stuckey of Loogootee, “lied” when he “confessed” to Crawfordsville police that he held up fiftytwo Indianapolis filling stations in nine days. Stutkey has boasted he’s so tough that it's nothing uncommon for me to write my name in the blood of my victim.” But unless authorities find some truth In the deserter's claims to criminal distinction, he will have to be content with a sentence imposed by Crawfordsville's mayor, T. L. Cooksey, for the theft of a suit of clothes.

FEWER CHILDREN CAR VICTIMS IN INDIANA 182 Under 15 Killed in August, but Decrease Is Revealed. Although 183 children under 15 a ere Injured and twenty-two killed in automobile accidents in Indiana during August, the dead and injured list showed a decrease over July, tabulation by Secretary of State Otto G. Fifleld shows. The 138 total fatalities for the month was fifty-five less than July. There were 905 accidents reported, which also was a decrease of 147. Total injured in August was 1.194. a decrease of 111. There were thirty children killed and 196 Injured, according to the July report.

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JURY SILENT ON LYNCHING CASE Companion of Two Victims Indicted at Marion. Bv United Prcts MARION, Ind., Sept. 30.—The Marion county grand jury report, returned Monday, did not mention the lynching last month which claimed lives of two Negroes. Herbert Cameron, 16-year-old Negro member of the trio who were held responsible for the murder of Claude Deeter and an attack upon his fiancee, was indicted on auto banditry and robbery charges, with no mention either of the murder or the attack. His companions, Tom Shipp and Abram Smith, victims of the lynching, had been blamed for both of the major crimes. The grand jury stands adjourned until Thursday, when Investigation of the lynching will be continued. A charge of obtaining money under false pretenses was returned against John Pearson, who was arrested on complaints that he collected on fake insurance policies. DELIVERY BOYS FOR DRUG STORES ROBBED Lone Bandit Calls Youth to Empty Apartment; Steals sll. Two pharmacy delivery boys were victims of ruses Monday night which netted the perpetrators S2O. Robert Campbell, employe of the Harbison pharmacy, 1534 Central avenue, was called to a vacant apartment and robbed of sll by a lone bandit, he told police. En route to deliver an order. Jce Egbert, employe of the Dorn pharmancy, Massachusetts avenue and North sheet, said he was robbed of $9. „ CHINESE BIG-SWORD TROOPS ARE SUCCESS Shops Have Year’s Work to Equip Marshal Feng’s Men. Bv United Press PEIPING, 3ept. 30.—Surprising successes of the “big sword cavalry” in Marshal Feng Yu-Hsiang’s army during China’s latest civil war has revived the “big sword industry” in Tamachang, a suburb of Peiping. About twenty shops which have specialized in sword-making for centuries have orders to keep them busy for a year. Marshal Feng’s big-sword mounted troops were one pt the mainstays of his army. Their most spectacular exploit was the capture of an airdrome with thirteen new planes which Chiang Kai-Shek recently purchased abroad. Marshal Feng has decided to develop this section of his army.

DARROW QUITS RETIREMENT TO DEFEND HARASSED CHICAGO GANGSTERS

Bn Vnitrcl f’rm CHICAGO, Sept. 30.—Clarence Darrow, who defended Loeb and Leopold in the “thrill murder” case of six years ago, emerged from retirement to enter today into the bitter fight being waged between Chicago and its underworld. Declaring that Judge John H. Lyle's drive against the city’s twenty-six "public enemies” is an “outrage," Darrow returned tem- I poraril.- to the bar to defend two I notorit ;s gangsters charged with I toeing vagrants under the strict old

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WIDOW VICTORIOUS IN INSURANCE SUIT

Federal Court Judgment for $10,882 in Maple Case. Mrs. Joy D. Maple, widow of Edgar D. Maple, former president of tne People’s Bank and Trust Company of Sullivan, who was found shot to death in the bank, Jan. 16, 1929, was accorded a judgment totaling $10,882 against two insurance companies by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell, Monday. The defendants, the Employers’ Liability Assurance Corporation, Ltd., of London, will pay $5,536.69, and the Maryland Casualty Company of Baltimore, Md., $5,345.44, the court decreed. Refusal to pay the policies by the companies was based upon their opinion that Maple’s death was suicide to cover up dealing with Jessup Bolinger, former president of the First State bank of Shelburn, who admitted giving Maple’s bank SBO,000 in forged notes. Bolinger is serving a two-year prison sentence for embezzlement. The widow asserted that there was no proof of suicide and the coroner returned a verdict of murder at the hands of an unknown person. In a previous suit against the Aetna Life Insurance Company of Hartford, Conn., Mrs. Maple was awarded $54,050 on two $25,000 policies by c federal court jury at Terre Haute. RITES~WEDNESDAY FOR JAMES A. EVERITT Funeral Sendees to B e Held at Home for Feed Store Owner. Funeral services for James A. Everitt, 73. owner ot Everitt’s seed store, 32-36 South Illinois street, who died Sunday, will be held at 2:30 Wednesday at the home, 5831 East Washington street. Burial will be in Memorial Park cemetery. Born in Pennsylvania. Mr. Everitt came to this city in 1886. He had been in the seed business here fortyfour years. He w’as a member of Center lodge, F. & A. M. Survivors are the widow, Mrs. Laura Everitt of Indianapolis; a son, Sibley Everitt, Chicago, and a daughter. Mrs. Henry H. Prescott, Indianapolis. TrtAFFIC JAMS STUDIED Policeman May Go on Duty on Busy North Side Corner. , Attempt to correct traffic jams at Twenty-fifth and Delaware streets during late afternoon rush hours will be made by the police department. Safety board members today recommended a traffic policeman replace the automatic signal at the corner in an effort to relieve the situation.

law of 1874. The gangsters. William (ThreeFingered Jack) White and George (Red) Barker, surrendered late Monday after eluding for days the police, whom Judge Lyle ordered to bring every "public enemy” before him. a a a WHITE and Barker appeared in Judge George B. Holmes’ court accompanied by Darrow, W. W. Smith and Milton Smith, the most formidable array of legal talent ever assembled in a vagrancy trJJ.

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Dogs Wait at Hospital Door as Master Dies Bu Times Special GARY, Ind., Sept. 30.—Two mongrel dogs waited at the door of a hospital where Frank Bala, 64, died of injuries suffered when he w’as struck by the automobile of a hit-and-run driver. Persons who found the aged man unconscious at the side of a road said the dogs were beside him. When their master was placed in an amublance, the dogs rode with him. They w r ere barred from entering the hospital, but neither food nor coaxing vrould cause them to leave the door.

PLAN SHOW EVENTS Novel Entertainment to Be Offered Exhibit Visitors. banning of novel entertainment features for visitors to the show today occupied officials of the first annual Indiana industrial exhibition, as practically all work for the actual staging of exhibits neared completion. Housed in the cattle building at the state fairground, the exposition will be opened officially by Governor Harry G. Leslie on Saturday night and will continue until Oct. 11. A miniature golf course will be built to allow devotees of the pastime to continue their games while attending the exposition. Plans also were under way for special entertainment Tuesday, Legislators’ day. ENTIRE MILTON SILLS ESTATE TO HIS WIDOW Watch and Ring Left to Son, Diamond to Daughter. Bn United Press LOS ANGELES. Sept. 30. The will of Milton Sills, actor on file today, names his widow. Doris Kenyon Sills, as sole beneficiary of his $250,000 estate. To their young son. Kenyon, he left a watch and ring, and to his daughter by a former marriage, Dorothy. 18. he willed a diamond ring. Sills asked that a $300,000 trust fund established for his first wife, Gwladys Sills, and another for SIOO,OOO for Dorothy be maintained at those figures.

They had their bonds ready and were released under SIO,OOO bail each after being under arrest only about ten minutes. “I my resolve to keep out of criminal practice because I feel that this vagrancy campaign is outrageous,” said Darrow. The campaign he referred to was started by Judge Lyle as a desperate means of getting into court and under direct surveillance of the judiciary twenty-six men who were declined by the

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STYLE SHOW IS PACKING STORES Throngs Are Delighted by Furniture Displays. The Indianapolis home furnishing style show, being conducted in twenty-three leading local furniture stores, is gaining widespread attention. Throngs of viistors have passed through all the stores associated in the movement, viewing the displays of newest furniture styles. At all stores in the local show are shown the latest, most attractive styles in home furnishings and new ideas of furnishing the home most effectively and attractively. In addition, many of the stores have arranged special features which includes displays contrasting in effective fashion the furniture styles of the nineties with those in mode today. This display is complete to the last detail. Another display shows a complete four-room set up of the new early American furniture, with all furnishings arranged exactly as they would appear in the home. All the stores are displaying merchandise in ensemble groupings. Most of the stores are holding open house each evening from 7 to 9 to accommodate all who wish to attend. It is entirely an open house event, no admittance iee being chared at any of the stores, nor is any attempt made to induce visitors to buy. START FOR CONVENTION Legion Delegates Leave for Session at Boston Next Week. A delegation of thirty-five American Legion officers left national headquarters here Monday for Boston to attend the twelfth annual legion convention, opening next Monday. Legionnaires from this state will leave from Indianapolis and Vincennes in two delegations Saturday headed by Floyd Young, Vincennes and Forest A. Harness, Kokomo. HUNT NEGRO ASSAILANT Alleged to Have Assaulted Poolroom Owner on Money Refusal. Police Jess Le Graffenreid, 25, Negro, alleging he struck Mike Calioff, operator of a poolroom at 2442 Northwestern avenue, Monday night. Calioff told police the Negro asked for money and when he was refused, struck Calioff with a bottle and billiard cue. Wildcat Killed Bji Times Special BERNE, Ind., Sept. 30.—A large wildcat was shot by Fred Dubach, aged farmer living near here. The animal took to a tree after being chased by Dubach’s dog.

Chicago crime commission to be "public enemies.” n n n THE old law which Lyle invoked provides that any man who can not prove he is making an honest living is a vagrant. The offense carries a jail sentence. Lyle believes that getting the men in court eventually will lead to solution ol the Alfred Lingle murder and the clearing up ol other gang mysteries. Warrants for all the twenty-six

STATE POULTRYMEN WILL HOLD SESSION

Annual Meeting to Open Wednesday at Lafayette. Bv Times Special LAFAYETTE, Ind., Sept. 30—The twelfth annual meeting of the Indiana State Poultry Association will open here Wednesday to continue in session through Friday. The first session will be held on Wednesday afternoon, with L. J. Demberger, Stewartsville, head of the association, presiding. Dean J. H. Skinner of Purdue university agricultural department will deliver an address of welcome. Other speakers will include Reese V. Hicks, Kansas City, Mo.; James H. Buswell, Kalamazoo, Mich, and Dr. W. L. Mailman, Michigan State college. In the evening a supper conference will be held with J. T. McClaran, Gary, presiding. A discussion of the economic situation in the nation by Dr. E. C. Young of Purdue will open the Thursday morning session. Others on the program for the day will be Lynn Robertson, Stephen Walford and W. W. Underwood, Purdue; Dr. Robert. Graham, University of Illinois, and R. D. Girard, Tipton. The annual association banquet will be held Thursday evening. P. L. Sanford, Toledo, 0., will be toastmaster. Friday’s speakers will include Professor C. W. Carrick, head of the Purdue poultry department; J. H. Ellman, Richmond, and William Kohlmeyer, Purdue. quits boozeTocTlate Mail Order Still Owner Tells Cops Next Batch Was to Be Last. If Mark Pickett had made one more batch of whisky police never would have arrested him, he told them today in city prison where he is charged with possession of a distillery and blind tiger. When he was raided Monday night, Pickett said he had made one batch of whisky from his mail order still, disposed of it at $5 a gallon, and intended to make one more batch before retiring as a liquor manufacturer. The raid was at his home, 2503 West Morris street, where he lived with his wife and 3-year-old child. FEAR _ EPIDEMIC SPREAD State-Wide Quarantine of Schools in Kansas Considered. Bv United Press TOPEKA, Kan., Sept. 30.—Steadily Increasing reports of infantile paralysis cases caused Kansas health officials today to consider possibility of a state-wide quarantine of schools.

men were sworn ot and police squads placed around all their homes with orders to arrest them on sight. “If the authorities wish to harass the iawless they should indict them and try them on charges of which they are guilty, but there s no such crime as being a public enemy,” declared the attorney in explaining his defense of the gangsters. "The law provides that a man charged with vagrancy shall be released on aaregular bond of

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Liquor-Filled Water Bottle Mans Pillow Bu Times Special GARY, Ind., Sept. 30.—After a hurried trip following a report that the ride victim of gangsters was lying dead in a street, Patrolman Opie Cross found John Szeschak, who was unconscious and had his head pillowed on a water bottle. The officer, madis suspicious by an odor, examined the bottle and found it contained liquor. So did Szeschak. Brought to headquarters, Szeschak remembered that when arrested two years ago on an intoxication charge, a pocketknife was removed from his person, and demanded in belligerent tones that it be returned to him. In city court he was sentenced to sixty days at the state penal farm.

LEAGUE VOTES HELP FOR INVADED NATIONS Adopts Measure to Provide Funds in Event of W’ar Threat. Bu United Press GENEVA, Sept. 30.—The most important work of the eleventh assembly of the League of Nations—the adoption of a convention for the financial assistance of a nation invaded by an aggressor—was concluded today. The convention was debated lengthily by the league’s disarmament committee, and finally was passed under the alert eye of Lord Robert Cecil. It was backed strongly by the British government. The convention provides ways and means for an invaded country to acquire a sound financial status in the event of war or threat of war, and is one of the most complete documents for the prevention of war yet conceived by the league. STRIKE AREA IS QUIF.T Textile Workers Jeer Owner, Clerks but Offer No Resistance. DANVILLE, Va., Sept. 30.—Strike of 4,500 textile workers in the Dan river and Riverside mills here progressed quietly today with both owners and operatives standing unmoved on their respective demands. The mills were shut down. Pickets effectively guarded all entrances to the property, preventing any but clerical force members from entering the mills. Overseers and clerks were jeered, however, as they passed through lines of strikers.

SIOO. Yet men are being taken into court and required to furnish SIO,OOO bonds. It is unlikely that any of them ever will be tried on vagrancy charges.” a u a DARROW said he had not discussed fees with his clients, but said if any was charged it would be small. He was ordered to produce the men before Judge Lyle today and it was expected he would demand jury trials ior them and .probably ask changes of venue.

MAYOR FIGHTS STATE SLASH OF TAX RATE Goes Before Board: Backed by Civic Groups, to Defend Levy. MIESSE IN OPPOSITION Taxpayers’ League Secretary Charges sl.lO Scale Needs Paring. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, backed by all but one of the city’s civic organizations, appeared before the state tax board in the house of representatives today and defended his $7,476,099.99 administration budget and the retention of the SI.IO tax rate. The one organization appearing m opposition was the Indiana Taxpayers’ Association, which carried tne appeal to the state board. Secretary Harry Miesse of the taxpayers’ association had hired Louis B Eubank, former supreme court judge, as spokesman for his proposed budget reductions. However, Ewbank was unfamiliar I' v 11 tiie budget. His procedure was to read a bit and then argue; read and argue. The result was postponement of th bickering, after two and one-half hours, to Oct. 10. Civic Groups Represented Besides the mayor and the city administration, those appearing in favor of the budget included representatives of the civic affairs committee of the Chamber of Commerce Indianapolis Real Estate Board, Indianapolis Clearing House Association, Indianapolis Federation of Community Civic Clubs and the Marion County Bankers' Association. Central Labor Union officials appeared to declare that the fate was too low, rather than too high, and to oppose any reduction. About seventy-five citizens and taxpayers were present, and with the exception of Miesse and his men, only State Senator Robert L. Moorhead (Rep.) offered objection. He admit'ed that he lives outside the city limits and had come principally to protest against the Marion county levy. Scores Expenditures “All budgets should be cut at the time,” Moorehead asserted. “We should declare a holiday for modern, governmental folderol. The idea that public expenditures will relieve distress is fallacious. The money must be wrung from the taxpayers, whichjpeans the entire people.” Moorehead explained lie is a member of the civic affairs comi mittee of the Chamber of Commerce, : but had not been asked to vote approval of the city budget. Dwight Ritter, who represented the civic affairs Committee in asking budget approval, pointed out that the approval was given by a special budget subcommittee, which had been given power to act. This has been the custom followed for years, he explained. Cites Expense Increase Mayor Sullivan cited $479,411.10 increased expenditures in the budget which were forced on his administration by previous city action. These included such items as the police radio, airport, flood prevention, World war memorial and various bonded and funded debts. It also included the $44,000 reduction due to lowered assessed valuations and increased interest. Should these things have been eliminated, the administration could have cut the rate 7 cents the mayor declared. The mayor’s contingent fund of $25,000 was defended as being needed for a possible recurrence of spinal-meningitis epidemic this winter. Ask Other Cuts Miesse asked this be wiped out as not specifically budgeted, and also that other cuts be made, including the thoroughfare fund. Objection to the latter being cut was presented by Albert Stump for the Hoosier Motor Club and by Irvington residents. Marion county’s proposed budget of $1,673,693 and rate of .355 cents also was opposed by Miesse and his men and defended by county officials and the civic affairs committee. This afternoon objections to township and the sanitary district budgets and levies will be heard by the board. Chairman James Showalter in a speech at the close of the city hearing indicated that the board considers itself duty bound to make cuts, if possible. REBEL LEADER RETIRES Chinese Northern General Gives l?p After Peiping Surrender. Bii United Brest SHANGHAI, China, Sept. 30. Retirement of Feng Yu-Hsiang, coleader of the northern rebel government at Peiping, was announced today by the national government at Nanking. Feng’s armies in Honan province had been resisting the nationalist troops despite the surrender of Peiping to Manchurian forces last week and the retirement of Yen Hsi-Shan, chairman of the northern regime. STATE GAS WAR ENDED Standard Hoists Prices on Auto Fuel to 18.1 Cents. War of gasoline dealers in Terre Haute, Brazil and other surrounding cities ended today when the Standard Oil Company boosted auto fuel from 15 cents to 18.1 cents a gallon. The Standard’s price jump does not affect Indianapolis stations where the price will remain at 17.9 cents. Township Trustee Dies ANDERSON, Ind., Sept. 30.Stonevrali J. Hunter, 60, trustee of Union township, is dead. He leavfs his widow and three children