Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 139, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 October 1930 — Page 3

OCT. 20, 1930.

5450 LOOT OF CITY'S GUNMEN OVER WEEK-END Bandits Slug Victim With Pistol During Robbery; ff Terrorize Women. Depression In banditry proved a frnyth as police reports Indicated tnorc than $450 went to gunmen "who beat one victim with a pistol butt, terrorized two women, and held up several persons over the jveek-end. Two bandits surprised Philip Pollock, 38, of 3409 Clifton street, as he entered his home Sunday night. One of them slugged him with a pistol butt, and, after taking $250 and trying to tie him with towels, they escaped, with Pollock in pursuit. The bandits evaded their {Victim. A masked bandit threatened Mrs 25. Wishmeyer and Miss Florence Klein, 2125 East Raymond street, (with a gun near their home Sunday night, taking $lB. Pharmacy Loses 5100 Charles Armitagc, Ji. R. 18, Box 340, Gem Laundry truck driver, surrendered $65 to a Negro bandit, who leveled a gun at him as Arsmitage stopped at the curb in the 300 block West Michigan street Saturday night. Another bandit held two clerks at bay in the Michel pharmacy, 1857 Shelby street, and escaped with SIOO Saturday night. Other taxi and pharmacy holdups netted bandits t less than SSO. Church Is Robbed S Thieves who entered the Simpson ,sM. E. church. Eleventh and Missouri streets, Sunday during church services, stole clothing valued at S7O. according to report to police. Orville Hensley, 2055 Houston street, manager of a Standard grocery, 3209 East Twentieth street, Sunday reported theft of merchandise from the store. Theft of equipment, valued at SIOO. from the Blue Bird inn, 2432 West Sixteenth street, was reported to police today by Cal K. Faught, proprietor. COOSIE LEE USES LEG OF CHAIR ON PROWLER Clubs Intruder in Mother’s Shop, Holds Him for Cops. Harry (Goosie) Lee, Negro, who by virtue of numerous gambling and blind tiger charges often has viewed the bluecoats of the law with alarm, welcomed a squad of “harness cops” into a tailor shop operated by his mother, Mrs. Maggie Lee, at 516 Indiana avenue, Sunday. Goosle saw a shadow in the shop as he w a Iked past the door. With the leg of a chair he laid low the | intrduer, Haiold Walker, 22, Negro, ! f>43 West Seventeenth street, and j mounted guard over Walker while j police were summoned. Walker is charged with entering s house to commit a felony. NOTED HORSE GUARDED •Mare Trained by Rudolph Valentino Feared Poison Plot Object. ■Jtu Times Special COLUMBIA CITY. Ind., Oct, 20. Lady, a black mare formerly owned by Rudolph Valentino, the movie actor, has been brought to the farm of Stephen Jones to protect it from an alleged poison plot. The horse had been trained to perform and had been used by Valentino in some films. On a recent tour of exhibition conducted by the present owner. Dr. Robert H. Thompson, Santa Monica, Cal., an attempt was made to poison the horse, believed by a* person having an aversion for the dead actor. Lady probably will remain here, it is said. BAD LIQUOR KILLS FOUR Seven Others Treated in New York for Acute Alcoholism. .20/ United Press NEW YORK. Oct. 20.—Poison alcohol caused four deaths in New York City over the week-end, health authorities reported today. Seven other persons were treated at Bellevue hospital for acute alcoholism. Students to Issue Paper !Bu Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Oct. 20. '{The first issue of the Vagabond, stu-' dent, publication at Indiana university. for the current term, will appear early in November. Robert JHallstead. Ithaca. N. Y., is editor fend Palmer Bechtel, Dana, business pianager. Fall Causes Death Pit Times Special FT. WAYNE, Ind., Oct. 20.—Fujieral services were held here for August F. Meyer, 73, an employe at the Allen county courthouse for twenty-five years, who died of injuries suffered in a fall down an elevator shaft.

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FUNERAL SERVICES SET Mrs. Earl Robbins, 28, Worker in Wheeler City Mission, Dies. Last rites for Mrs. Earl Robbins, 28, of 36 McLean place, who died Saturday at her home, were to be held at 2 today. Burial was to be in Crown Hill cemetery. Mrs. Robbins was active in civic affairs and in work at the Wheeler City Rescue mission.

DEPUTY SAVED AS SHOT FAILS _______________ Officers Menaced by Gun in Making Arrest. Because a cartridge failed to explode, two deputy sheriffs came tlirough a gun fight unscathed and Joseph Petty, alias McNeely, 22, R. R. 9, Box 310, was held on vagrancy chrages today, in lieu of $5,000 bonds. Deputy Sheriffs Ernest Crickinore and William Burleson followed footprints of a chicken thief to Petty’s home Saturday night. Battering in the door when no one answered their knock, they found McNeely asleep. After submitting to search by the deputies, Petty went upstairs for his hat, broke away from his guard on the stairs, grasped a revolver, and fired pointblank at Crickmore. The cartridge was a dud. Two of three shots Crickmore fired as Petty raised his gun again grazed the prisoner, one clippng the left ear, while the other seared his chest. Petty, whose home is in Tuscola, 111., is wanted in Madison. Ind., on automobile banditry charges. He is a parole violator from Illinois state prison, police said. Mourners Injured Bu United Press LAFAYETTE, Ind., Oct. 20.—Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Applegate, Chicago, were injured when their automobile crashed into the rear of a truck near Lafayette. Applegate suffered fractured ribs and injuries of the mouth and his wife was cut severely on the face. Both were removed to a local hospital. The couple were driving to Cincinnati to attend the funeral of Applegate’s father. Probation Officer Chosen Appointment of Mrs. Alice Shoemaker to the position of probation officer of Whitley county is announced by Mrs. Florence Riddick Boys, state probation officer. The appointment was made by Judge Arthur F. Biggs. Mrs. Schoemaker’s appointment completes establishment of probation in every county in the northeast section of the state, Mrs. Boys said. Receiver Sues for $37,800 Bu Timet Special WABASH, Ind., Oct. 20.—1n a suit filed in Wabash circuit court here. Ike Duffey. receiver for the closed Citizens State bank of Lagro, seeks to recover $37,800 from Theodore Gillespie, former cashier of the bank. It is alleged Gillespie converted to his own use money presented at the bank for depositing. SIO,OOO Loss in Fire I Bu United Press NEWTOWN. Ind., Oct. 20.—Fire which destroyed the Herbert Campbell home and ignited several others Saturday afternoon did damage estimated at SIO,OOO. It was extinguished with the assistance of fire I fighters and eqiupment from several , surrounding town. Onion Grower Gets Bond | Bu United Press RENSSELAER. Ind.. Oct. 20. | Bond of $l,lOO was provided for I John Mellon by the Pittsburgh | Fruit Corporation, so that he might j harvest $7,500 worth of onions which the company has contracted to buy. Mellon faces charges of being drunk and resisting an officer. War Wounds Fatal Bv United Press EVANSVILLE, Ind.. Oct, 20World war wounds resulted in the death of Christian Wuetherich. who has suffered constantly for twelve year Trom injuries sustained in the .Battle of Chateau Thierry

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At a regular meeting of the board of directors of the Indiana National bank last week, R. Malott Fletcher (upper left) and William P. Flynn (lower), were elected vice-presidents of the organization. John J. Madden Jr. (upper right), was elected a director, succeeding his father, who died recently. Fletcher has been with the bank for over twenty years and was cashier when elected to the directorship. He will retain his office of cashier. Flynn has been chief examiner for the Indianapolis Clearing House for the last nine years and prior to that was assistant national bank examiner at Chicago. Madden is president of the Madden Manufacturing Company of Indianapolis.

SUICIDE CLAIMS LIVES OF THREE . Gas, Pistol Shot Used by Two Men, Woman. Illuminating gas, carbon monoxide and a pistol shot ended three lives in Indianapolis during the week-end. The deaths were suicides, according to Coroner C. H. Keever. John Burkett, Detroit, who rented a room at 1610 Sturm avenue Thursday, went to a garage in the rear of the rooming house Saturday night, lay down with his face in front of an auto exhaust, and died from carbon monoxide fumes. A son-in-law arrived in the city from Detroit Sunday. night and claimed the body. Marvin Carskaddon, 53, 108 South Oriental street, address of the T. N. T. Exterminating Company, where he was employed, shot himself Saturday night. Leaving a note to her employer with directions for funeral services, Mrs. Hettie Norris, 54, housekeeper at the home of David Hadley, 4577 Carrollton avenue, inhaled gas from a kitchen range Sunday. A son in Chicago, and a daughter, somewhere in Indiana, are said to be the only survivors. SLAYING GUILT DENIED Anderson Authorities Hear Statement of Three in Curry Case. Bu Times Special 1 ANDERSON, Ind., Oct. 20.—Authorities here have advised that three men held at Danville, 111., deny knowledge of the circumtances fsurrounding the death of .John H. Cmy, 38, Mt. Vernon, whose body was found beside a road near here a week ago. The prisoners at Danville are Little Mike Davis, Muncie; Leonard Day, Indianapolis, and Charles Murphy, Muncie, arrested primarily as robbery suspects. Postoffice Erection Started Bu United Press ’ LAFAYETTE, Ind., Oct. 20.—The Lafayette postoffice today was moved into temporary quarters, where it will remain until anew $190,000 federal building is completed. The old building was abandoned Saturday and workmen spent Saturday night and Sunday moving equipment. Work of razing the old building was started today to make room for the new structure. Snow Plows Bought Bu United Press SOUTH BEND, Ind., Oct. 20.—St. Joseph county commissioners, preparing for winter, have purchased three snow plows for the county highway department at an expense of $3,380. |

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COPS-GANGLAND DRAFT DEALINGS DEUEVEDDARED Chicago Grand Jury Probe Reported to Have Found Parole Racket. Uu United Press CHICAGO. Oct. 20.—A grand jury was reported today to have uncovered evidence which indicated an alliance between certain Chicago police, politicians and racketeers. The jury, called particularly to investigate racketeering, was interested especially in the recent parole of George (Red) Barker, notorious labor racketeer, now back in Pontiac reformatory to serve the remaining three years of his sentence. The jurors called for testimony State Senator Victor P. Michel of Peoria and Chauncey H. Jenkins, | former director of public welfare in j Illinois. Barker’s parole was granted | by Judge T. N. Green of Peoria when I Senator Michel appeared as his at--1 torney. Michel and Jenkins were said to ! have been drawn intq the investiga- | Lion by testimony of John Sheridan, | secretary of the coal teamsters’ union. Sheridan was quoted as admitting he hired Jenkins to handle | the Barker parole, paying an SII,OOO i fee. Assistant state’s attorney Homer I Dodge said the grand jury had re- | ceived information indicating dues | of several unions were raised sharp- ! ly to provide the fee for Barker’s ! attorneys. The raised feess, Dodge added, | gouged honest laboring men to free Ia convict who was jo gouge them : more. Barker was serving one to ten years for robbery when he was paroled. His activities in “muscling in” on the union treasury caused authorities to send him back to serve the rest of his term.

Nag, Nag, Nag Causes Most Modern Day Marital Trouble, Pastor Is Told.

Bu United Press Chicago, Oct. 20.— it isn't anything modern like golf or bridge, but old-fashioned nagging that most often causes rrforital troubles, the Rev. Clinton C. Cox of Drexel Park Presbyterian church has decided after studying answers to qustionnaires he sent out to 300 couples he has married. There wasn’t a case of a “golf widow” or “bridge widower” cited among the entire 300 sets of answers he received, Mr. Cox told his congregation Sunday night at his annual “married couples’ service.” Mr. Cox noted with satisfaction that the first time since his annual questioning of the folks he has married, not a case of trouble being caused over drunkenness was listed. He noted also that the high cost of marrying apparently has had quite a drop. Last year, he said, the average minimum per week set by the couples as necessary to wedding bliss was SSO. This year it was $35. One couple said $25 was enough. The couples almost were unanimous in declaring “in-laws” do not frequently cause trouble between husbands and wives. “In fact,” one man wrote, “I’d much rather live with my wife’s folks than with my own.” RAIL INJURIES FATAL Switch Tender Dies After Being Hit by Train. Injuries suffered when he fell beneath the wheels of a train Sunday night proved fatal several hours later to Joseph Griffin, 25, of 1511 Prospect street, switch tender. Griffin was struck in the Big Four yards, near South Alabama street, by a Pullman and switch engine. Railroad officials said they believed Griffin stepped backward from the path of another train directly in front of the Pullman. Both legs were amputated.

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Charles V. Bob, pictured here, capitalist, promoter and mining engineer who disappeared in Chicago on Thursday, Oct. 9, may face criminal charges if he is discovered. When Bob failed to return to New York by air, as scheduled, associates expressed alarm and it was found that he was missing, but that his airplane had been stored. An investigation into the affairs of Metal and Mining Shares, Inc., an investment trust controlled by Bob, revealed alleged irregularities, as well as the fact that* $6,000,000 in securities were missing from his safe. A business associate of the capitalist was believed to be sharing his seclusion.

LESLIE PRAISES DRIVEOFLIONS Club to Spend $8,000,000 as Depression Blow. Proclamation of Governor Harry G. Leslie Saturday indorsed a movement by International Lions clubs to aid in restoration of business by a week’s campaign in which each member of the club is pledged to spend SIOO. The Indianapolis Lions Club is carrying on a campaign to enlist >other organizations and individuals in co-operating with them during business confidence/ week, Oct. 19 to 25. Luncheon clubs, civic organizations and other societies are expected to join the Lions in pledging members to spend SIOO during the week to stimulate business. Local ministers have been asked to announce the movement Sunday. With all the eighty thousand Lions in the United States ready to buy SIOO worth of necessities during the week, an $8,000,000 turnover at least is assured, according to H. B. Moore, chairman of the committee in charge of the campaign here. Merchants will be asked to put on special sales of commodities families will need during fall and winter months. ADMITS _AX_ KILLING Soldier Accuses Woman of Plotting Mate’s Death. Bu United Press SAN ANTONIO. Tex . Oct. 20. Murder charges were prepared for i filing today against two Ft. Sam j Houston soldiers and Mrs. Clara j Uhr, widow of Daniel H. Uhr, in- j valid, slain with an ax Friday night. Private Lexie Jones, 38, confessed he killed Uhr as he lay bedridden by paralysis, for SSOO the woman promised him from her husband’s $2,500 insurance policies, police said. He implicated a fellow soldier, Donald Walker, charging Walker introduced him to Mrs. Uhr.

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WORKERS FOR STATE LEGION AREJELECTEQ 14 Committees Are Named by Indiana Commander of Veterans' Group. State committees to carry on worki of the Indiana department, American Legion, were announced today by Floyd L. Young, Vincennes, department commander. L. V. Hauk, Morristown, is state rehabilitation chairman; Elmer Sherwood, Bloomfield, welfare chairman; the Rev. Daniel Hogan. Kokomo. graves registration chairman; Dale Miller, Indianapolis, state athletic committee head, and John Oakley, Gary, state historian. Committees to begin work immediately are: Kniehtstown Home Committee—Charles Theders, ConnersviUe. chairman; Martin Lansr, El wood: Rue Hlnshaw, Carmel; Marion Amlck. Columbus, and B. W. Breedlove. Indianapolis. Department Sneakers Bureau—Ollie A. Davis, Tipton, chairman; Frank A. White. Indianapolis, vice-chairman: Norval Harris. Sullivan: Sam Clelland, Ft. Wayne, i and John McFaddin. Rockville* Board of Publication of The Hoosler Lej eionnaire—Floyd L. Yount:, Vincennes, j chairman: Ollie A. Davis. Tipton: Herman Weniee, Jeffersonville, three years; August [ -Freeze Jr.. Ft. Wayne.vjwo years, and Earl Merry. Dunkirk, one year. Department Americanism Commlt.ee— James J. Fatchell, Union City, chairman: Felix J. Brown, Bloomington: Howard Smith. Indianapolis: Albert Rumbach, Jasper: William A. Malczewskl, Gary; Colonel A. J. Dougherty. Indianapolis, and Dr. I. M. Casebeer, Clinton. Department Distinguished Guests Committee—Paul V. McNutt. Bloomington, chairman: Claude Gregg. Vincennes: Gen- ; erel L. R. Gignilliat. Culver; Dr. C. B. ; McCullough. Indianapolis: Edward M. i Sonntag, Evansville, and Halford Mc- \ Naughton. Muncie. i Department Finance Commitee—Bowman | Elder. Indianapolis.* chairman; Horace Parker. Richmond, and Robert F. Daggett, I Indianapolis. j Department Legislative Committee Ralph Gates, Columbia City, chairman; ! Carl Gray. Petersburg; J. It. Scott, Gary: j Forest A. Harness, Kokomo; John M. Caylor, Indianapolis: Sherman Menton. New Albany: William Dobbins, Coiumbus; Clem Smith. Terre Haute: Dr. A. C. Arnett. Lafayette: Jay White, South Bend, and Ralph Daly. Anderson. Special Child Welfare Committee—Don S. Stivers. Goshen, chrirman; Edgar Mills. East Chicago: Leonard J. Haag. Lawrenceburg; Harry Kauffman. Summitville, and Stanley Hayden, dannelton. State Rifle Committee—Roy Gardner. Camden, chairman; Carl Burkhart, Peru; Howard Snyder, Brownstown, and Norman Sallwasser, La Porte. Poppy Committee—Clarence A. Jackson, Newcastle, chairman: John W. 'Wheeler Crown Point, and Joe Zimmerman, Evansville. Boy Scout Committee—Ernest L. Lutz. Boonville, chairman: the Rev. Fred Hill, Pierceton: Exton J. Porter. 'Whiting; Alton Reeves, Edinburg, and Harry R. Hall. Marion. National Convention—Pleas E. Greenlee. Shelbyville. chairman: Phil Bash. Huntington: Ralph W. Sines. Logansport; Leo T. Mulva, Whiting: Max Diggs. Winchester; George Miller. Evansville, and William H. Lacey, Ft. Wavne. Music Committee—Carl Preble. Bedford, chairman; Bowman Eld=r, Indianapolis, and Frank H. Henley, Wabash. Employment Committee—Guy Wainwright. Indianapolis, chairman: Barney McCarthy. Gary; E. Arthur Ball, Muncie; O. P. Hartman, New Albany; John R. Ecker. ULinton. and William O. Nelson, Anderson. Appointment of Ollie A. Davis, Tipton, as department adjutant, and John R. Ecker of Linton as department service office, has, been affirmed by the state executive committee and both have taken up their duties at state headquarters. PROTEST NEGRO OPERA Bu United Press FRANKFORT, Germany, Oct. 20. —Prince Tqkamatsu, younger brother of Emperor Hirohito of Japan, was among those who hurried from the opera house Saturday night- when stink bombs were thrown in protest against the Negro opera, “Mahogany.” The opera was in progress when the bombs were thrown. The police cleared the theater, but a parade formed outside. In the confusion which followed, the police in dispersing the crowd, arrested several of the leaders.

GOULD CASINO OPENS 1930 GAMING SEASON Spectacular Players on Strike Due to Heavy French Taxes. Bu United Press * NICE, Oct. 20. “Faites vos jeux,” droned the croupiers. The little white ball whirred around the track, dropped into its groove, and the 1930 gambling season at Frank J. Gould's $10,000,000 Nice casino was on. In another gorgeous room, where players scorn roulette, the opening baccarat game of the new—and eternally old—battle for fortune began Sunday night. But it began without the most spectacular gamblers of Europe in attendance. The famous Greek syndicate is on strike against the French government, which last year taxed the players heavily on their millions of francs profit. The Greeks’ places were taken, however, by “Signor Baptisti,” famed Italian plunger, whose calm figure has been seen throughout the season for several years, bending methodically over the tables of chance, and who admitted to “splendid success” at the close of the spring period. Pupils Given Serum Bu United Press OAKLAND CITY, Ind., Oct. 20. A clinic was held in schools here today so pupils wishing serum treatment against diphtheria might obtain it. Four diphtheria cases have been reported at Somerville and an epidemic is feared in Gibson county.

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HOUSEBREAKING > THIEVES BUSY ON NORTH SIDE t Hundreds of Dollars Worth of Clothing. Jewelry Week-End Loot. Housebreakers, who worked chiefly on the north side over the week-end, stole hundreds of dollars worth of clothing and valuables, according to reports today to police. Robberies reported: John King, 4815 Washington boulevard, clothing, $600: Herman Guddel. 118 East. Forty-sixth street, clothes and jewelry, $67; Marshall Dale, 4505 North Delaware street, clothes jewelry, $175; R. A. Shirley, 4934 Washington boulevard, clothes. $150; David M. Monigfeld, 837 North Sherman drive, S7O; and A. C. Schaub, 5264 Pleasant Rim boulevard, S4B. Murder Charge Follows Party ! Bit Times Special KOKOMO, Ind.. Oct. 20.-A first degree murder indictment has been returned by the Howard county grand jury against Joe Bell, 27, Negro, accused of the fatal shooting of Florence Liggan, 25, Negro, at* a “pigs’ feet" supper here.