Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 144, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 October 1930 — Page 3

OCT. 25, 1930

STEPMOTHER TO FACE COURT IN CHILD SLAYING Brother-in-Law Also to Be Arraigned Before Denver Judge Today. I mtert I’rcss DENVER, Oct. 25.—Mrs. Pearl O’Loughlin and the brother-in-law, whom police said she implicated in the slaying of 10-year-old Leona O’Loughbn, her stepdaughter, both planned to enter not guilty pleas when arraigned today on charges of murder. Charges against the brotlier-in-iaw. Frank O’Loughlin, were made at the request of Mrs. O Loughlin’s husband Leo, a city detective, who •said that was the "surest and quickest” way of clearing his brother of the insinuations? The detective, who became violently ill after eating some of the •.amc food which made Leona ill before she was struck on the head and her body thrown into Berkeley lake, has contended his brother is innocent and has said repeatedly he will "stick by him,” despite his wife’s claims. Contending she had been "forced” into giving police an oral confesion that she had participated in the slaying, attorneys for Mrs. Q'Loughlin asked a petition to present the officers from “molesting” her further, but the petition was denied by Judge Henry Calvert and detectives, including OLoughlin. planned to grill her again in the hope of getting a signed statement. Earl Wettengsl, district attorney, is undecided, he said, whether the death penalty would be asked for Mrs. O’Loughlin and added he would not decide until police could give him “the exact words” of the oral confession they said Mrs. O’Loughlin made to them. Officers claim Mrs. O’Loughlin served food containing ground glass to her husband and stepdaughter, not allowing her own 8-year-old son by a former marriage to eat any of it, that she then struck Leona on the head with a tire tool and took her body in the family automobile to the lake. The body was found three days later.

SWAN-MYERS JOINS WITH CHICAGO FIRM Merger of Comp >.nies Will Result in Increased Employment. Merger of the Swan-Myers Company, Indianapolis pharmaceutical firm, with the Abbott Laboratories of North Chicago, was announced today by R. M. Cain, president of Swan-Myers. The merger brings together two large plants and will result iu. the expansion of the Indianapolis firm with the employment of more men. Cain w’ill become' vice-president and director of the merged companies. F. W. Scheigert, secretary of Swan-Myers, will become secretary and director of the new’ firm and O. H. Myers, vice-president of the local company, will remain in this city. Alfred S. Burdick, president of the Abbott company, will continue in that capacity. SHOTGUNS ARE STOLEN Thieves Smash Show Window of Hardware Store. Thieves who smashed a show window of the Bayron Hardware Company. 751 Massachusetts avenue. early today stole three shotguns valued at S6O, police were informed. John Jefferson. 937 West drive. Woodruff Place, reported to police that thieves stole sl3 from his residence Friday night.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to police as stolen Oto B Morsan. 1451 North Belle Vieu place. Nash sedan. 735-765. from Noble and North streets. Elztabeth Holtsclaw. Gem hotel. GrahamPaice sedan. 81-239. from 23 West Ohio t rret. John Commlns. 545 North Belle Vieu place. Whtpppt sedan. 768-710. from 702 Warman avenue. Robert Dav. 425 North La Salle street. Lord cotine, from Market street and Senate avenue.

BACK HOME AGAIN

Stolen automobiles recovered by police belone to: George Mercer. 6335 West Morris street. Willvs-Knisht coach, found at Carrollton and Fairfield avenues. Mnraaret Hieains. Lumiey apartment. Meridian and Sixteenth streets. Ford tudor. found at Capitol avenue and Henry street. United Cab Company. Dodce taxi cab. iound in allev in rear of 529 Buchanan Bramlitt Orav. PlainiieH. Ind.. Chevrolet tourintr found at 850 Wright street. Ford roadster. 78-601. found in rear of 1705 North Alabama street.

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City Becomes Capital of Air, Realizing Wrights Predictions

— * - Two Plane pioneers Com< Here 20 Years Ago for Hfev BY SHELDON KEY Today, just twenty years afte. Wilbur Wright, inventor of the air | plane, predicted Indianapolis wouli **"""*"*‘ l ' " 1 ili’.i i cun r i‘rn"n‘i‘" - Ti n*f- 1 m . •rn n f TW/~ii ra f nn POQ ct ft

Above—Ray Harroun, winner of the first 500-mile auto race, in one of the first airplanes constructed in Indianapolis. It was built by Harroun in 1909. Latest model Ford tri-motored transport plane which will be used on the coast-to-coast air mail line through this city. Below—Soaring in the early days. Photo of W. A. Brookings, Wright pilot, as he started his altitude record flight from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 1910.

WFBM RETAINS AIR SCHEDULE Radio Commission Denies WSBT Petition. A ninety-day license to continue operation under .the same time schedule as is now in effect, was granted WFBM, station of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company, Friday by the federal radio commission. The ruling was in answer to a petition by WSBT, South Bend station, sharing the same frequency with WFBM. that the two stations each use half the available time. The only change in operating time made by the commission was that WFBM* go on the air a halfhour later each week, 7:30 a. m., instead of 7 a. m. The Sunday schedule remains unchnaged. Nine at De Pamv Pledged P,y Times Special GREENCASTLE, Ind., Oct. 25. Phi Sigma lota, national honorary romance language fraternity, held formal pledging for two members of the De Pamv university faculty and seven De Pamv students. Those pledges were Miss Mildred Dimmick and Louis Audre Vigneras, instructors; Frances Cauble, Chicago; Imogen Cooper, Greencastle; Lucile Hunt, Marion. O.; David Kingman, Saugus. Mass.; Betty Snow, Chicago, and Lucille Stewart Losantville. The organization is open only to those who have completed the third year of study either in French or Spanish. Geese Prevent Sleep Z?,v Times Special COLUMBUS. Ind., Oct. 25. Residents here were kept awake when a flock of wild geese southward bound, became lost over the city due to the lights and kept, up a constant, squawking. The geese were first heard at about 6 p. m., at which time they began circling over the city and continued flying in circles until daylight. Hunters who hurried out to open spaces in an effort to shoot at the geese counted at least seven flocks in triangle formation. Oil to Be Sought Ha Times Special COLUMBUS. Ind.. Oct. 25.—Approximately 5.000 acres of Bartholomew county land is under lease drilling by the Oakland Oil Company.

Danger Years First Four Years of Your Married Life Hardest, Says Judge.

By United Press CLEVELAND, Oct. 25.—It’s the first four years of married life that are the hardest, according to Common Pleas Judge A. J. Pearson, Cleveland jurist, who claims to dispose of more divorce cases annually than are handled by the courts of Reno, Nev. Husbands and wives who stay clear of marital obstacles during the first four years of married life probably will live together in harmony the rest of their lives, Judge Pearson said. There is little possibility of them asking divorces after that periodThese four years are considered the “trial period” by the judges. During this time the husband and wife are becoming accustomed to each other’s likes, dislikes and peculiarities. Judge Pearson bases his views on marriage and divorce on a study of lengthy questionnaires filled out by principals in every case which comes before him. The questionnaires disclose that a majority of all divorce suits begin within four years after marriage. The average age of persons applying for divorce is 25. Attorney Sued for $250 Bill Times Special MARION, Ind., Oct. 25.—Harry E. Roberts, Marion attorney is made defendant in a suit for $250 damages filed in Grant circuit court by attorneys for Daisy Anderson. Roberts is alleged to have overcharged Mrs. Anderson for services in prosecuting a claim before the state industrial board. The board awarded her $4,000 after the death of her husband, injured while employed in a Marion factory. * Furniture Bids Received TV/ Times Special MARION. Ind., Oct. 25.—Bids on new furniture for Civic hall which is being remodeled into a city building were received Friday * by the board of works. The bids will be referred to the state tax board which has withheld action on a remonstrance to a proposed $8,500 bond issue to pay sos the furniture. City offices will be moved to the remodeled building as soon as the furniture is received. Young Wife Dies TV' Times Special GREENCASTLE. Ind.. Oct. 25. Mrs. Josephine Hunter Collett, 24. wife of Paul Collett, died suddenly at her home here. Mrs. Collett had been suffering from a disease of the lungs for several days. Until recently she was society editor of the Greencastle Banner. She leaves her husband, her mother, Mrs. Nora Hunter, and a sister, Mrs. Lovell Knauer, all of this city. Locked Brakes Cause Suit Fp Times special HAMMOND. Ind.. Oct, 25.—William R. Anderson asks 550.000 damages for injuries he sustained when brakes of his new automobile locked, causing the machine to turn over several times. Defendants are two sales agencies. K. of C. Hears Naval Man \ Lieutenant Stuart A. Bishop of fYie naval reserve, addressed the Knights of Columbus council at luncheon in the Spink-Arms Friday on “Why Navy Day, Next Monday.”

Honest Man! By United Press NEW YORK. Oct. 25.—Michael Cuneen thinks Isidor Waltzer. cobbler, is the world’s most honest man. Cuneen took a pair of his wife's shoes to be repaired. Waltzer found in one of the shoes a small bag containing $5 000 worth of jewelry which Mrs. Cuneen had put there for safe keeping. He returned t|je jewelry. ~

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Two Plane Pioneers Come Here 20 Years Ago for Exhibition. BY SHELDON KEY Today, just twenty years after Wilbur Wright, inventor of the airplane. predicted Indianapolis would lie an important point on coast to coast aviation trunk lines, citizens | saw the first New York-Los Angeles air mail plane swoop down at Municipal airport. How the city has marched through I two decades of flying history since Wilbur Wright made this statement, is a narrative touched with humor and enlivened with foresight and sacrifice. Sacrifice by pioneers who set out in 1910 to make Indianapolis an air center. It was that year that the Indianapolis Motor Speedway was scene for the first licensed aviation meet ever held in America. The | Wright boys were there. New Hazardous Amusement A few days before the Wrights shipped three planes here from training quarters at Montgomery, Ala., newspapers anounced that “a new and hazardous amusement” was to be introduced in the city. Pilots arrived several days before the meet to assemble their planes and as they explained, "accustom themselves to the Hoosier climatic conditions.” For months previously, the Wright fliers had been doing a lot of flying at Dayton and Montgomery, Ala. Among the crew that came for the meet were such noted pilots as A. L. Welsh, Frank Coffyn, W. A. Brookins and Captain G. L. Bumbaugh, well known balloonist. Orville Wright opened the meet, June 13, by making two complete circuits of the speedway at the startling altitude of seventy-five feet, increasing his height to 125 feet on the second lap. Only a handful of spectators attended. Wind Checks Issued \ These had been insured against ‘ choppy skies” by wind checks which had been issued by the gateman along with customary rain checks. Precautions of the Wright crew are amusing today. They looked askance upon taking off in mid-dqy, but waited until calm twilight, when winds subsided, before venturing from the aerodrome. By the second day of the meet, pranks of the intrepid fliers had attracted a crowd of several thousand to the speedway. Then Brookins announced he would try for the world’s altitude record. Indianapolis was astounded when the fearless Brookins soared to an altitude of 4,384 % feet in his crude craft and remained in the air thirty minutes and twenty-five seconds. Startled the World The news that he had broken Louis Paulhan’s- previous record of 4.165 feet startled the world. It was unbelievable. Brookins’ plane was the first in history to reach a po nt over the business section of Indianapolis. Compare this with the present world’s record of 41.704 feet. The Wright brothers equally were surprised at the feat and while watching the flight, witnesses say, ’Orve” estimated that "Brookins must be going forty miles an hour, a dangerous speed.” From that hour, tipis city has been known as an aviatidn center. When the municipal airport is completed, it will be third best in the United States.

Arrivals and Departures Mars Hill Airport—A. B. Cleveland, Los Angeles to Dayton, Stearman; Embry-Riddle passengers to Chicago included J. S. McLeod, New York; F. Levinson, Los Angeles; T. V. Moss. Chicago, and C. Slohnesing, Philadelphia; passengers to Cincinnati included A. Kiefer Mayer, Indianapolis; T. A. TANARUS, passengers westbound: Mrs. B. B. Hails, Richmond, and Briant Sando, Indianapolis advertising man; eafet-bound passengers included George ‘ George M. Spindler and John Spindler, both cf 4011 North Meridian street. Hoosier Airport—Rodney Lamont and James Phelps, pilots, Standard Oil Company Ford plane; Joseph Vail. Madison to Indianapolis, Waco; H. C. Brooks, pilot, and Ashley Brooks and J. C. Thompson, passengers. returned from Cleveland, Travel Air. Capitol Airport—C. E. Vlast, from Decatur. 111., Cavalier, overnight, Harlan Hadley, Indianapolis passenger; Elmer H. Jose Capitol airport president. Indianapolis to Ft. Wayne and return, Ryan. Wins Pilot License Luther Dillon, Capitol airport pilot, passed his transport pilots license examination at Hoosier airport Friday under direction of Charles Wethem, department of commerce inspector.

C. OF G. PROBE OF STREET CAR PLAN STARTED Book Begins Survey to Find Value to Public of Insult Proposal. Exhaustive investigation of the i proposed transportation' franchise for the city, its “service at cost” feature and the method of setting up a city transportation commission was begun today by William H. Book, secretary of the civic affairs committee of the Chamber of Commerce. Book will go into the proposed Insull plan for rehabilitation of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company from the standpoint of the public and the manner in which I the city’s transportation users will i be affected. The probe was inaugurated at a meeting of the civic affairs commit- ! tee Friday afternoon when the proposal was explained by Gavin L. Payne, chairman of one of the ! stockholders’ committees. City Officials Hear Plan Members of the works board, city council and city organizations heard Payne set up the following contenitons: z z z z z z z “Neither the city nor the public guarantees the transportation company a profit on its investment, nor does the city guarantee operating expenses. “It is not proposed to begin the new plan with an increase of rates.” “After the purchase of new equipment, we feel that all classes of the public w r ill be willing to use the street cars and busses and this increased business will provide sufficient return so that the fares will not be increased.” Franchise to City Soon The proposed franchise will be submitted to the city within three or four w r eeks, Payne declared. If it meets with the approval of the city, an enabling act will be framed for presentation to the legislature. This act will set up the machinery for the operation of the city transportation director and commission.

PERJURY HINTED ' IN NORRIS CASE U. S. Attorney Is Convinced Nye Witness Lied. Bu United Press OMAHA, Neb.. Oct. 25.—Charges of perjury will be brought against at least one witness who testified in Senator Gerald P. Nye’s investigation into the Nebraska primary when a special grand jury is called into session late in November, C. J. Sandall, United States district attorney here, said today. Sandall said he is convinced Senator Nye, attempting to determine who supported George W. Norris, broken Bow (Neb.), grocer, in his short-lived campaign against Senator George W. Norris for the Republican senatorial nomination, did not learn the full truth. W. M. Stebbins, Nebraska state treasurer who opposed Senator Norris after Grocer Norris had been barred from the race, told Senator Nye, chairman of the senate investigating committee, that he alone supported Grocer Norris’ campaign with a SSOO contribution. “Stebbins testimony proved conclusively that Victor Seymour, prominent Nebraska politician, was not telling the truth when he said he knew nothing of Grocer Norris’ plan to file,” Sandall said. BOY SUES FOR SIO,OOO Injuries Suffered in School Bus Crash Alleged to Be Permanent. L'.'i Times Special NOBLESVILLE. Ind., Oct, 25. Paul Moore, 13, a schoolboy, by his next friend, Herman Moore, has filed suit against Oren Kelley and William Rockey for SIO,OOO damages for personal injuries sustained in an accident, Kelly was the driver of a school bus which crashed into an automobile driven by Rockey. It is alleged the boy was permanently injured. Nine other school children were hurt in the crash, but none of them seriously. The defendants are accused of reckless ABDUCTOR SENTENCED Man Gets Ten-Year Term on Testimony of 17-Year-Old Girl. By United Press TERRE HAUTE. Ind., Oct. 25. Sentence of from one to ten years in the state prison was imposed upon William Sampson, Paris, 111., by Judge Joseph Jeffries in Vigo circuit court here on his. conviction of a charge of criminally assaulting 17-year-old, Elizabeth Antic, Newcastle, Elizabeth told the court he forced her, under threats, to accompany him to Terre Haute and live with him as his wife for four days. Judge Jefries recommended that Sampson be compelled to serve tlte sentence in full. Republican Women Meet £V/ Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Oct. 25. Republican women at a luncheon here were addressed Ly Miss Genevieve Brown, clerk of the Indiana supreme and appellate courts; Miss Dorothy Cunningham, national vicechairman; Miss Mary Sleeth, state vice-chairman, and Mrs. Arthur Robinson. At an afternoon meeting, which was also attended by men. an address was made by Fred S. Purnell, representative in congress from the Ninth district. One Woman Seeks Office Bu Times Special MARION, Ind, Oct. 25.—Mrs. George Van Cleave has been selected as candidate for trustee in Center township on the Democratic ticket to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, who was nominated in the primary. She is .the only woman seeking an office in Grant county. Her selection received #he unanimous approval of member# of the township central committee. ,

HELD IN ASSAULT CASE Negro Charged with Knifing and Intent to Rob. Police today held James Branham. Negro. 33, of 704 West Twenty-fourth street, on a charge of assault and battery with intent to rob, after he is alleged to have attempted to snatch the purse of Mrs. Luther Coleman, 2407 Paris avenue, Friday night. Coleman found Branham after his wife reported the robbery attempt, and when he accused Branham of the crime attempt, the Negro cut his wrifet with a knife, he told police.

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"Mirror MIRROR, Tell Me True” T TALLO playtime of witches and ghosts and elves, approaches throughrihe haze of Autumn. Ancient customs still prevail... maidens fair seek the faces of favored swains in mirrors at the witching hour of midnight. "Mirror, Mirror, tell me true ...” Perhaps just at that moment a {ouch of the modern is injected into the picture by the tinkle of the telephone bell, and His voice comes over the wire. For all occasions, it’s so quick, dependable and inexpensive to visit by voice, no matter where you are or with whom you desire to talk! Indiana Bell Telephone Company

FOUR HELD ON BOOZECHARGES Two Are Arrested After Refusing to Talk. When occupants of an automobile at Washington street and Senate avenues early today failed to respond to his questions, Lieut. John Sheehan searched the auto.

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confiscated three and one-half gallons of liquor, and arrested Ralph Fisher. 3340 East Thirteenth street, and Raymond Leathers, Coatsville. Fisher and Leathers were charged with blind tiger and transporting liquor. The car was owned, police say. by Herbert Skaggs, 33. of 708 ! a Bates avenue. Skaggs was arrested Thursday onl similar charges while driving Fisher’s car. After pursuing a car nine miles through Brightwood Friday night, sergeant Roy Conway and patrolman Naumsek arrested John Primus, 19. Negro, 1213 East Thirteenth street, on blind tiger charges. Police say they confiscated five gallons of alcohol in the machine.