Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 124, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 October 1930 — Page 9
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PARENTS Will , LEAVE THREE TO “DO TIME” Father and Mother Given Penal Terms for Sales of Liquor. GUILTY YOUTH LAUDED Ownership of Wine Admitted As Protection to Companions. Bu Times Bverinl BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Oct. 2. Peter Baxter and his wife, Faye, parents of three children, 3, 7 and 9 years old, have been sentenced to penal Institutions on a charge of selling liquor. The father was fined S2OO and sent to the penal farm for 180 days. The mother was fined *IOO and given a 100-day sentence to the Indiana woman's prison. Persons who bought liquor at the Baxter home, including a 17-year-old high school boy, were state witnesses in the case. Some of them had been convicted for being drunk. Conviction was solely on evidence of sales as officers in three raids on the home failed to find any liquor. Bu Timm Special GARY, Ind., Oct. 2. —Anthony -Piscone, who with three other men was in an automobile from which a bottle of wine was hurled, “took the rap'* when arraigned in city court before Judge Herman L. Key, admitting he threw the bottle. Had the driver of the car admitted the act, he would have lost the machine due to conviction of a felony, transporting liquor. The other companion of Piscone had a wife who was seriously ill. Judge Key praised Piscone, who has no one dependent on him, for assuming blame. A fine of *IOO was Imposed with a thirty-day Jail sentence, the latter being suspended. A police booze squad searched the home of Thomas Muraido for four hours before finding a bottle the officers supposed contained wine. In city court, where Muraido was arraigned, a chemist announced the bottle contained vinegar and Muraido was released. THREE ACCUSED OF AUTO LICENSE FRAUD State Police Charge Cheaper Plates Used on Heavy Trucks Lieutenant Charles Bridges of the state police arrested three men today on charges growing out of alleged illegal use of state automobile license plates. • They are Harry Cooper. 36, of 1813 West Morris street, owrirr of several five-ton trucks hauling gravel to the Indiana Girls school at Clermont, and two drivers, Charles Richardson, 33, of 1533 Sheppard avenue, and Theodore Dean, 24, of 723 South Audubon road. Bridges charges that the trucks were operating on Ford license plates instead o fthe *lO Oones demanded for heavy trucks. ACTS IN TORCH CASE Holmes Moves to Quash Schroeder Charges. Reaching the first milestone in the legal battle to free Harold Herbert Schroeder, Mobile (Ala.) business man, of blame in the High School road torch car murder mystery, Ira M. Holmes, defense attorney, announced today a motion to quash the grand jury’s first degree murder indictment will be filed at Schroeder's arraignment Monday. The state’s battle to convict the Mobile garage owner of using one of three methods to kill an unidentified man in the torch car May 31 following the speedway races will begin with filing of the motion to quash. It will be followed by arguments at a later date and a ruling by Criminal Judge James A. Collins. The state will demand the death penalty for the man who has offered several explanations of the death. 'CHUUfFAILS T(H)PEN; DROPS ON TENT TOP Life of Jumper Saved When He Bounds Into Canvas. Bu Vnited Press BOYNE CITY, Mich., Oct. 2. Pulse beats of Leo Blodey, parachute jumper, were back to normal again today after a thrilling brush with death. Blodey jumped from an airplane above the county fair grounds Wednesday and his parachute failed to open. Death seemed certain as he hurtled earthward, frantically tugging at his chute. To the surprise of the horrified fair crowd, he escaped injury when he landed on the taut top of a large midway tent and dropped through the canvas to the ground. He missed the center pole by inches.
Happy Horse Bu United Press DENVER, Oct. 2.—The order transferring Frank E. McGraw, patrolman, who weighs 265 pounds, to the mounted squad was a mistake, and McGrath 1s glad of it. The order which McGrath received, and which caused him no little distress for a time, should have been issued to another officer, it was found. "And it was a good thing, too,” grinned McGrath. "Imagine what the Humane Society would have done if they’d seen me rldin’ a horse. They’d of had me jugged sure.”
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MOTHER JONES IS NEAR DEATH Labor Officials Advised to Pay Visits at Once. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—The word has gone out to officials of the American Federation of Labor that Mother Jones is dying and that those wishing to see the 100-year-old labor leader would do well to hurry. William Green, president of the A. F. of L., visited Mother Jones Wednesday at the farmhouse in .earby Maryland where she is spending her last days. She rallied somewhat from the stupor of several days past and talked for some time with him. “What we need is more men like Lincoln,” she told him, “but alas, they’re hard to find these days.” Green later wired other federation officials, advising them to stop off if in this vicinity, for the opportunity to visit the woman who is fighting labor’s battles to the last soon would be ended.
Toddy Spree Cop Blames Just One Wee Drink for His Arrest as Burglar.
Bu United Press CHICAGO, Oct. 2.—One little drink of hot toddy was blamed today by patrolman Charles Osterman for a catalogue of charges against him, including robbery, burglary’ and malicious mischief. Osterman, a 6-foot athletic looking bluecoat, 37 years old, w r as hailed before Judge John H. Lyle, after fellow-officers had arrested him, attired in uniform, rifling a billiard parlor. “What a dream,” Osterman explained to the Judge. “It’s hard to believe, but one hot toddy started me on such a warpath, your honor. Yes, sir, and honest—l’ve never taken a drink in all the ten years I’ve been on the force.” A taxi driver who had been robbed of *2l, a neighbor who had a broken window in . his home, a chain store manager with a similar charge, and a fourth complainant nursing a head, bruised, he said, by a brick tossed by Osterman, appeared against the policeman. There also were two other policemen who said they had fired five times to halt Osterman after they discovered him rifling the broken showcase of a billiard parlor of cigars and cigarets. Judge Lyle ordered the officer held to the grand jury. SOCIAL LEADER HELD UP Bandit Terrorizes Wealthy Woman, Robs Home; Loot Is Small. Bu United Press CHICAGO. Oct. 2.—A bandit entered the Lake Forest home of Mrs. Leverett Thompson, wealthy society leader, early today, terrorized and robbed Mrs. Thompson, her brother, Abram Poole, a New* York artist, and a maid and escaped. The total loot amounted to about SSO ffi cash and. possibly, some silverware. As Mrs. Thompson was ill she was unable to investigate to determine if any of the silver had bceu taken.
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Police Assert Martinsville Man Confesses He Gave Her Arsenic. By Times Special MARTINSVILLE. Ind., Oct. 2. “I want to get it all over.” With this exclamation today in his cell in the Morgan county jail, Ernest Pryor, alleged confessed poisoner of his wife, forecast possibility that he would throw himself on the mercy of the court and plead "guilty” to a first degree murder charge. Pryor, authorities say, confessed in a written statement late on Wednesday night that he administered arsenic on Aug. 18 and 19 to his wife in order to collect $3,000 insurance at her death. He gave as his second motive for the crime the desire to be left alone in the world with his sweetheart, Miss Elsie Ham. Repudiates Two Statements His alleged confession came after two statements had been signed by him and later repudiated. The first statement charged his paramour, Miss Ham, with poisoning his wife. The second statement made Wednesday afternoon shortly before the alleged murder confession admitted to giving Mrs. Pryor arsenic, but termed it a mistake with the declaration that he thought the arj senic was a “stomach powder.” i Fearing repudiation of his latest i confession Morgan officers assert ! Pryor may be taken into court for a j "guilty” plea today. Confession in Part Pryor's alleged confession said in j part: “I was in love with Elsie Ham and wanted to get my wife out of .the way so that I could be with her without fvr~i nr* wife. At the same time iV-.nned to collect the insurance on her. “After I took out insurance on her I spread a rumor that my wife was i very ill. On Aug. 18 1 gave her a large dose of arsenic that was not effective. “The following day, the 19th, I saw my wife was getting better.-: . . She complained of cramps and asked me to get her a dose of bismuth. Inste- getting* the bismuth I put three heaping tablespoons of arsenic in a glass. My wife readily took it, never doubting it was poison. Quarrel Over Girl I got the arsenic to kill moles. “We quarreled often over Elsie Ham. If it had not been for Elsie I still would be a respectable man with a home. I loved my wife, despite our quarrels. She was a good wife. I believe by making this confession I will see my wife in the hereafter.” Miss Ham, blamed by Pryor for his act, returned to Brazil following her testimony before the grand jury which indicted Pryor. She was cleared by Pryor of any complicity in the murder of his wife in his alleged confession. OFFERS JOB~SOLUTION Suggestion that persons in need be assigined to city jobs and be paid in food and clothing was to be made today to officials of the Indianapolis Community Fund, by David B. Kilgore, city recreation director. Kilgore’s plan is to permit persons needing aid to work in the park, street,fi sanitary and hospital departments.
COP CHASED AND CHASTENED BY FIRST LADY
'T'HERE'S u, chastened policeman in Indianapolis today. And he’s chastened because he was chased Wednesday afternoon by the First Lady of the Land. It all happened thus: Several hundred little Girl Scouts were gathered on the lawn of the home of Governor Harry G. Leslie to see Mrs. Herbert Hoover, who was in Indianapolis to attend the national Girl Scout convention. The hour announced for the appearance of Mrs. Hoover was 3:30. As the time stretched out to 3:45 more and more children gathered.
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TRAGIC CASES WILL BE GIVEN GRANDJURORS Monroe County Body Will Study Four Death Mysteries. TWO KNOWN MURDERS Real Story of Christy and Olpihant Fatalities Not Revealed. Uv Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Oct. 2. Four unsolved Monroe county death cases will receive attention of the grand jury, which will convene here Oct. 13. While there is nothing at this time to indicate solutions in any of the cases, the jurors will hear law enforcement officers’ reports on information obtained since the inquisitorial body last met. Medlock Case Scheduled Among the cases is that of Ellis Medlock, whose partially burned body was found in a heavily-wooded area in the southwestern part of the county after he had been missing several weeks. There was a wound in the back of the head, apparently Inflicted by a blunt instrument. It is said Medlock had oeen dealing in liquor. Tragedy followed an investigation of the case several months ago, when three brothers were suspected. Only one, Robert Hendrickson, is now living. One of the brothers died of injuries received while working in a quarry and the other committed suicide at his home in Chandlerville. Pedestrian Slain John Christy was fatally shot while walking on a street here. He managed to reach a grocery before collapsing, but died without making a statement. At first it was believed holdup men had Inflicted the fatal wound, but later developments tended to establish a theory that Christy was the victim of an enemy. The list of unsolved slayings also includes the Campbell and Oliphant cases. In the former a Dolan storekeeper was shot during a robbery. The body of Oliphant was found in his automobile in the southwestern part of . the county. Indictment Attacked By United Press RICHMOND, Ind., Oct. 2.—lnvestigation of the slaying of Willard Hoover, a white youth, as a result of which Charles Smith, Negro, faces a first degree murder indictment, will be taken up again by a Wayne county grand jury now in session. .Counsel for Smith contends the indictment is faulty. Prosecutor Haworth intends to submit additional evidence in the case, trial of which has been taken to the Randolph circuit court at Winchester on a change of venue. gloatinglver SLUMP CHARGED Senator Robinson Attacks Democratic Publicity. That the present Republican niministration of the United States ! has served under the greatest stress and trying conditions was asserted in a radio address Wednesday evening by Senator 1 Arthur R. Robinson. ! “Legislation beneficial to all classes of American citizens has been enacted and pledges made at the last nationa’ election when Herbert Hoover was elected Presi- ! dent of the United States by an i overwhelming vote have been rigI idly adhered to,’’ said Robinson. “Facts and decency have been thrown to the winds and misrepresentation by innuendo and insinuation have been ground out of this mill in veritable torrents,” declared Senator Robinson in an arraignment of the Democratic propaganda and publicity bureau operating in Washington under the supervision of the Democratic national committee. “This bureau was founded by John J. Raskob, multimillionaire national chairman of the Democratic party, with the sole purpose j in view of attacking President Herbert Hoover in a vicious and unfair manner,” he charged. HOLD COIN SUSPECTS Counterfeiting Scheme Is Believed Smashed. By United Press EVANSVILLE, Ind., Oct. 2.—Jack Miker was in jail today as an alleged member of a counterfeiting ring. He was arrested by Evansville police and the Warrick county sheriff after a chase which began seven miles out of Evansville, at Miker's camp. Two alleged accomplices were understood to have been arrested at Toledo, O. Federal agents said their captures i in Toledo and Evansville climax a nation-wide search for what they I believe to be one of the most ; extensively operated counterfeiting j rings in the country.
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HUSBAND SAVED BY HEROISM OF WIFE
Man Dragged From Room Filled With Gas, After Tank Explodes. Love that sent Mrs. Joseph Adkins, 6138 Evanston avenu, to work with her husband every morning for thirty years was responsible for a
provident act of heroism today. When an ammonia tank exploded at the Joe Adkins & Sons Ic Company, 6319 Cornell av e n ue, early this morning, overcoming Joe Adkins, 57, proprietor, his wife, who had accompanied him as usual to his work, dragged him irom the gas-filled room and saved his life. A fireman, Ralph Charles, 927 Ri v e ria drive , summoned by Mrs. Adkins, ad-
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ministered first aid treatment. Adkins was taken to the city hospital and later returned home. Facing danger fearlessly, Mrs. Adkins, a former nurse, resorted to knowledge gained in nurse’s training. She held her breath while dragging her husband to safety and immediately closed the door to the gas-filled room, thus escaping the fumes. At the ice station where ammonia odors permeated the atmosphere, she nervously told of the accident this morning. “I was standing on this porch when I heard the explosion. Holding my breath, I ran into the tank room, grabbed my husband by the coat collar and pulled him into the open air.” “A habit of helping my husband every morning probably was responsible for my being with him,” she said. In Broad Ripple, where he has been delivering ice for years. Adkins is well known. He is assitsed by five sons, who help him care for delivery routes.
pushing the youngsters in the front row closer and closer to the porch. Mrs. Hoover came out. She came down the steps of the porch on to the lawn. Cameras churned and clicked. . Mrs. Hoover raised her hand to stop the photographers. “Here, here.” She turned to the cop. “We don’t want a policeman in this picture. We do not want an officer of the law in a picture with Girl Scolfcs.” And shooed him out of range of cameras before you could sa y “knML • m
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‘Moo’ Speech Cow Is Speakers’ Table Guest as Governor of Wisconsin Talks.
Bn United Press /CHICAGO, Oct. 2.—A cow, the U kind that moos, was guest of honor at the speakers’ table in the Hotel La Salle Wednesday, when dairymen of the midwest gathered to hear Governor Walter J. Kohler of Wisconsin speak on milk production. The cow, Pabst Creator Korndyke Heather, is something of an expert on the subject, as she has been winning prizes during the last five years for her owner, Fred Pabst, Milwaukee cheese manufacturer. One year, for instance, she gave 25,000 pounds of milk. So Heather chewed her cud contentedly while the Governor outlined the dairy situation in the midwest. Atmosphere of a metropolitan hotel confused her not one whit.
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Top Photos—Senator Smith W. Brookhart (left) and Arthur Garfield Hays. Center (left to right)—Dr. Charles G. Obermeyer, Professor Edward Saphu* and Whiting Williams. Below—Dr. Horace M. Kallen (left) and Maurice G. Hindus. Lecture, Debate Program of Fifth Season Ready; Opens Oct. 26. Seven distinguished leaders of present-day thought who will be heard on the Indianapolis Open Forum program for 1930-1931 were named today by officers of the Jewish Community Center Association, under whose auspices they will appear. Entering its fifth season, the Open Forum again will ofter a series of debates and lectures, open to the public at nominal cost, and designed to stimulate thought on modern problems. Capacity attendance is expected in Kirshbaum Community Center, Meridian and Twenty-third streets, for the opening event of the program Sunday night, Oct. 26, when United States Senator Smith W. Brookhart will debate prohibition with Arthur Garfield Hays, civil liberties champion. To Discuss Liberties On Nov. 23 Dr. Horace M. Kallen, writer and professor of philosophy, will lecture on “Freedom in the Modern World,” discussing increasing restrictions of personal liberties in the modem scheme of living. “What Is Industry Doing to Us?” | will be the topic of Whiting Williams, Sunday, Dec. 14. Williams is a noted industrial investigator and I well-known writer on labor condi- 1 ' tions, social unrest and strikes. On Jan. 18 Dr. Charles G. Oberi meycr, English philosopher, will lecture on -“Education—Today and Tcmrrow,” criticising educational methods and gauging their future effects. “The Sex Dilemma” will be the topic Feb. 15 of Professor Edward ! Sapir, anthropologist of Chicago university. He is to discuss the effects of ‘ sox freedom” on the presentday social and moral structure. Russ Student to Talk Maurice G Hindus, student of ' Russian development and author of “Humanity Uprooted” and “The Russian Peasant and the Revoluj tion,” will lecture March 29 on “The Russian Problem.” As in former years an open forum discussion will follow each lecture, the speaker answering questions written by the audience. Nonmembers of the Jewish Community Center Association are admitted at nominal cost, and even lower admissions are provided season ticket purchasers, for whom a section of seats is reserved. A portion of members’ dues has been alloted to provide their admission. All lectures will start at 8:15 p. m. The Forum committee includes Dr. Louis Segar, chairman; Mortimer C. Furscott, Carl Lyman, Isador Komblum, J. L. Mueller, Joseph M. Bloch, Mrs. J. A. Goodman, Mrs. I. G. Kahn, Jack Harding, Abe H. Goldstein, Leonard A. Strauss, Sidney J. Sternberger and Allan Bloom, general secretary of the Jewish Community Center Association. DEGREE is CONFERRED Grand Lecturer Presides at Rites of Royal Arch Masons. Degrees were conferred on members of Oriental chapter No. 147, Royal Arch Masons, at inspection Wednesday night by Herbert L. Graham, grand lecturer, Indiana chapter. More than 150 Royal Arch Masons attended. Inspection followed J a diner at. the temple, 3#ol CejmaS 1 avenue.
DRAW UP PLAN TO REFINANCE STREETCARS Nationally Known Utility Bankers Would Be Named as Managers. INFERIOR SERVICE CITEi Trackage Is Worn Out am Equipment Is Obsolete, Survey Shows. Financial rehabilitation of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company, which on April 18 went into the hands of a receiver, George C. Forrey Jr., president of the Fletcher American Company, is provided in a plan of reorganization completed by four committees of stockholders and mailed today. The plan provides for the appointment of Halsey, Stuart & Cos., national known utility bankers as the reorganization manager and includes a resume of a survey made of the property by the Midland United Company, an Insull holding organization. This survey shows that, due to inferior service and automobile competition, there “has been an alarming decrease in traffic and in revenue in recent years and that the bonded indebtedness of the company L; so large that it absorbs the money necessary for adequate maintenance." Trackage Worn Out Twenty per cent of the trackage is completely worn out, the survey reveals. The remainder will require extensive repairs and replacement. Os the 441 street cars owned, 100 are compltely obsolete. Os the remainder, 331 are obsolete in types, expensive to operate, slow and unsuitable for modem transportation. Only twenty-one of the motor coaches operated by the company and Its subsidiary are in good condition. Sixty-nine must be replaced. In order to put the transportation system in an up to date condition, the following plan is proposed: In readjustment of securities and obligations the total capitalization, exclusive of *9,315,000 for rehabilitation, will be reduced from *19,069,000 Jo *12,211,166. Issue New Securities New capital then will be provided by the issuance and sale of securities in the amount of approximately $9,935,033. In addition to the new securities to be traded for the old, all stockholders and creditors will be given an opportunity to purchase common stock of the new company. To insure the necessary for the required rehabilitation theTGtidland United has agreed to underwrite the *5,503,033 of shares and the remainder of the new money will be obtained from the issuance of *2,200,000 of new first mortgage bonds and *2,232,000 of new car trust notes as needed. Two Companies Planned To effect the reorganization, * vo new corporations are to be org lized. One is to be known as .>e Indianapolis Railways, Inc., and ti other is the Traction Terminal Corporation, which will acquire the Terminal building adn adjacent real estate. Proposed securities are: Indianapolis Railways, Inc., *2,200,000 in first mortgage bonds, none of which are to be exchanged for stock of the old companies: a minimum of *4,618,500 in thirty-five-year 5 per cent gold debentures, which will be used In the exchange for Indianapolis Street Railway Company securities, *2,232,000 in car trust notes, whl b will be a lien on the rolling stock to be acquired by the new company; 100,000 shares of $3.50 prior preferred stock of no par value, paying* *3.50 annually to the holders, and redeemable at any time that the company sees fit for $55 a share, plus an amount equal to al unpaid cumulative dividends: 100,000 shares of *3 convertible preferred stock, entitling the holder to receive $3 a year, redeemable at *52 a share at any time that the management thinks it advisable; 150,000 shares ol common stock. Give Stock Rights The railway will issue "assessment warrants A,” which will entitle the holder, within two months aftci operations begin, to purchase blocks of stock in the new company for SSO. each block consisting of one share of prior preferred stock, a sixth oi a share of convertible pmferrcc stock and five-sixths of a share oi common stock; “assessment warrants B,” which will entitle the holder to purchase a specified number of blocks of stock at SSO a block including one share of prior preferred stock, and at the option o the holder, either a third of a share of the convertible preferred stock and a third of a share of common stock or two-thirds of a share o; common stock within two month: after the company begins operation: The manner and rate of cx-J change of stock in the old companic I which comprised the Indianapoli Street Railway Company is detailed in the printed copies of the pi? sent all stockholders. COAL TONNAGE LOWE The weekly estimate of bitumi nous coal production in the United States, prepared by the National Coal Association from incomplete car loading reports, shows that there was little change in the weekly rate of production during the week ended Sept. 27, as compared with the preceding week. The total output for the week ’ ended Sept. 27 was about 9,000,000 net tons. The bureau of mines reported tonnage for the week ended Sept. 13 as 9,145,000 net tons and for the week ended Sept. 20 as 3,915,000 net tons. Anderson Man Dies 1 Bu Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Oct. 2.-Ben-i jamin Wilson, 60, a plasterer IMP many year* As dpfL-