Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 183, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 December 1930 — Page 11

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DEATH THREAT TO SUB-DER IS LAID TO YOUTH Chicago Society Figure Is Charged With Menacing His Sweetheart. By United Frees CHICAGO, Dec. 10. William Kuhn, 23, who hfid access to gold coast drawing rooms, faced Judgq John H. Lyle today, charged with threatening his sub-deb sweetheart with kidnaping and death. “It’s all a mistake,’’ said Kuhn’s brother, Wendell, a wealthy broker, after posting $7,500 surety bond to secure William's release Tuesday night after his arrest on charges of wilting threatening letters to Miss Marion Wright, 18. Detectives and typewriting experts declared, however, that the arrest was neither a ‘‘mistake’’ nor “absurd,” the latter being the extent of the youth’s remarks regarding his detention. The son of a wealthy retired California broker and a resident of the exclusive Ambassador East hotel, young Kuhn is well known in Chicago society and until three weeks ago, when they quarreled, was friendly with Miss Wright. Would “Get Even” As they parted after the quarrel, Miss Wright admitted to police, Kuhn remarked that he would “get even.” She thought nothing of it, she said, until she received the first of five letters, all signed “Lester McKay.” The letters, she said, demanded $25,000 be sent to “McKay,” in care of general delivery, and that if they were not either Miss Wright, her mother, or her father, William V. Wright, who is an executive of the Edgewater Steel Company, would be killed. “Think of a deadly dart that can hit its mark at 3,000 feet! I hope I won’t have to use it,” one of the letters stated. Complained to “Secret Six” Miss Wright, who will make her debut Saturday and who recently returned from France after her graduation from a private school there, made her complaint to the "secret six,” the powerful undercover investigating committee of the Chicago Chamber of Commerce. Learning of the “get even” remark, detectives visited the investment house where Wendell Kuhn is an executive and where William is a clerk. Samples were taken from seven typewriters in the business house and the detectives declared that by comparison they learned that all the five letters to Miss Wright had been written on one of these machines.

BRILLIANT BEAUTY ENDS HER OWN LIFE Intense Study of Philosophy Causes Columbia Graduate’s Suicide. By United Press ALTADENA, Cal., Dec. 10.-In-tense study of philosophy led beautiful Elizabeth Arthur, 23, Columbia university graduate, to despondency and suicide. Miss Arthur, said to be one of the most beautiful girls in Altadena, shot herself, authorities announced today, bexause she felt she had failed, despite intensive study, to discover “any meaning in life.” At Columbia, where Miss Arthur recently completed a four-year course in journalism, she made a brilliant record as a student. Her father, W. A. Arthur, is a wealthy cotton planter at Texarxana, Tex. U. S. IS MODEL FOR INDIA GOVERNMENT Plan for Two Chambers of Parliament Being Drafted. By United Press LONDON, Dec. 10.—A plan for a government, for India, patterned, in part, on the government of the United States, was being worked out today by delegates to the round table conference. The delegates, representing every caste and class of India, took up the question of federal structure and constitution, and the rights of minorities. The western parliamentary system ..1 ready has been adopted in principle by the subcommittee, which agreed that there will be created the office of a chief minister who corresponds to the European premier and two chambers corresponding to the American congress. BOONE OFFICIAL DIES Trosecutor John A. Sunderland Succumbs Following Operation. By United Press LEBANON, Ind.. Dec. 10.—John A. Sunderland, 49. prosecutor of Boone county, died today in the county hospital following an emergency operations for appendicitis. He was serving his third term as prosecutor. He was defeated for reelection, Nov. 4. His term was to have expired, Dec. 31. Sunderland was a Spanish-Amer-ican War Veteran and for more than twenty years was a motorman on the northwestern division of the T. H.. I. & E. Traction Company. He leaves his widow, a daughter and his father. 5-DAY WEEK FAVORED Doak, New Labor Secretary, Sees Proposal as ’Very Satisfactory.’ By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. The principle of the five-day week is supported by William N. Doak. sworn in Tuesday as secretary of labor in the Hoover cabinet. "In my experience,” said Doak. "the five-day week has been very satisfactory.” -Alleged Held By Times Special SOUTH BEND. Ind., Dec. 10.— Herbert Smith, 35-year-old Negro captured in Minden, La., will be returned to South Bend to face a charge of murdering his wife on Oct. 3. After shooting his wife. Smith fled to Gary, where he is sa-cl to have confessed to a Negro minister By the time the police answered the minister’s call, Smith had vanished.

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BANDITS SHOOT MAN IN STORE Operator Seriously Hurt by Waiting Negroes. One of the two Negro bandits who attempted to rob him early today, shot and seriously wounded Harry Russe, Elizabeth apartments, No. 4, in his cigar store a( 238 Indiana avenue. Russe said he had entered the store and turned on the lights when the Negroes, both armed, commanded him to put up his hands. Russe, instead, grappled with one of the Negroes. The Negro fired and the bullet entered Russe’s left hand and ripped it open from one side to the other. The bandits ran. Russe was taken to city hospital. Picture Recalls Tragedy Bis Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., Dec. 10.—A picture of four persons who lost their lives by drowning in the St. Joseph river here June 4, 1876, has been presented to Northern Indiana Historical Society by Mr. and Mrs. J. Frank Kline of South Bend. The victims of the tragedy were Eugene and Adele Seizas, Miss Mollie Miller and Charles Waterhouse.

INSULL AID UPHOLDS CITY RAILWAY PLAN

Motives of Midland United Explained in Detail by Robert M. Feustel. (Continued from Page One) the Indianapolis Street Railway Company. Midland at first determined to have nothing to do with this riock, Feustel said, but as merger proceedings progressed, “it became apparent that someone would be obliged to* reorganize and revamp the Indianapolis Street Railway.” “Midland United felt that this duty was more or less trust upon it,” Feustel asserted, “because it was in control of the largest electric properties in Indiana.” Asked to Act He related that “modest amounts” of securities of the street railway company and T. H., I. & E. were acquired, and that after the merger was denied by the public service commission, Midland was approached by the protective committee representatives of the street railway security holders. The reorganization plan was the result. Asserting delivery of power to the street railway company, as proposed at about 1 cent per KW-AC,, as at present, would afford “no huge profit.” Feustel declared: "The principal interest the Midland United has in the reorganization of the Indianapolis Street Railday is that of a general business interest in the state. The subsidiaries of the Midland United operate properties of a total value of $250,000,000. scattered over the entiro state. Business Is Retarded “The last census indicated that the central and southern portions of Indiana were not progressing industrially as rapidly as the average for the entire state. Indianapolis itself showed only a very moderate growth. “We believe that a part, of. the Industrial under-development in Indianapolis is due to the fact that it has no adequate local transportation system. “We are operating numerous interurban lines into the city. Anything which directly helps the growth of Indianapolis and its suburban territory in the long run indirectly would help the Midland United subsidiary companies, although we do not own. directly or indirectly, any utility property in the city of Indianapolis. Defending the proposed partnership with the city in a “service-at-cost plan” as “absolutely essentia! to the success of any plan,” Feustel said a virtual monopoly is necessary. Experience in Indianapolis and every other large city in America, he said, has demonstrated “that completing bus or competing jitney operation only destroys the street railway transportation system, without furnishing a successful substitute for handling patrons.” Board Acts as Check • I Tlife city transportation director would have joint responsibility for the amount and kind of service gendered, Feustal contended, and the local transportation board

Kingsford-Smith By United Press MELBOURNE! Australia, Dec. 10.—Commander Charles E. Kings-ford-Smith, one of the outstanding fliers of aviation history, was married today to Miss Mary Powell of Melbourne. Miss Powell, a vivacious, blackhaired girl, who spent many sleepless hours during the flight of Kingsford-Smith across the Atlantic ocean and on other daring trips, previously % had said the aviator promised her to give up long-distance and hazardous flying after they were married.

would be a check on waste or ex-J travagance. The suggested 8 per cent rate of return, Feustal defended as “necessary to maintain the credit of the company to such point that new money required, after the rehabilitation program is over, for extensions and betterments, can be obtained when needed.” The $11,000,000 valuation requested, Feustel said he regarded as fair. That the property admittedly would not bring that amount if sold at foreclosure is no more a gauge of its value than the forced-sale price of a residence under mortgage foreclosure, he insisted. The Midland Company has agreed to underwrite the sale of certain common and preferred stock securities in case they are not taken by present security holders, he said, , because bankers would require such | guarantee before being willing to ; sell bonds of the company. Nothing Special to Gain i Expressing hope that present sej curity holders would exercise their | right to buy securities under the proposed plan, Feustel said Midland will do so if security holders don’t. Arguing Midland has nothing to | gain in the street railway contract I except as it gains along with industrial Indianapolis, Feustel concluded: “An improved condition in the capital city of any state indirectly benefits all the state. The Midland United Company is not remotely trying to force its way into Indianapolis in any utility business. We | are not now into Indianapolis and [ are glad to remain in our present position. “Our present holdings in the Indianapolis Street Railway are not | sufficiently large to encourage any ! special effort on our part tQ put ' through a reorganization plan. It | is silly at any time to waste effort on useless industrial controversy. “It is doubly so at a time of iftdustrial depression, when work might be started which would benefit the entire community. “If there is a better plan to be I offered than the one proposed in ; the interest of the public, it should be proposed promptly. The Midland ; United will not have the slightest j hard feelings if it is not allowed to \ participate in any 'proposed new I plan,” Feustel concluded. I ‘BLACK AL CAPONE' FOLLOWERS JAILED I Six Alleged Negro Gangsters Are Captured by Detectives. Detectives who secreted them- | selves in a house, at 810 Drake | street, early today arrested six alleged Negro gangsters and their I leader, Willie Holloway, 24, of 304 North Senate avenue, whose noth | de guerre of “Black A1 Capone” is : familiar throughout the Negro underworld here. “Black Al” was toting a .38caliber revolver and faces charges of carrying concealed weapons, police ! say. Jack Smith, 21, was slated on ; similar chrages. accused of secreting . a razor in a pocket, and the others ■ were held on vagrancy charges.

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EINSTEIN FINDS PUBLIC LIFE’S GREAT PUZZLt I Scientist, Who Will Land in New York Thursday, Dislikes Crowds. Dp United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 10.—A short, gray-haired man, who can't quite understand the general public and who knows the public can’t understand him, will reach New York Thursday morning, traveling as quietly as his multitude of American admirers will permit. The man is Dr. Albert Einstein, physicist, whose scholarly career as a mathematician has been interpreted in the mind of the average layman as a long series of fantastic adventures in which the eye of a telescope has carried him to the far, star-strewn ends of the universe. Professor Einstein, who is en route to California for a period of research work, has been at a Ibss to comprehend the public interest in his work, which first made the word “relativity” widely used. Amazed by Public Interest He was amazed last winter when his new theory renewed such interest that the New York police were unable to handle a riotous crowd flocking to hear an explanation of the theories of a man who was sitting quietly at home thousands of miles away in Berlin. “But they can’t understand it,” he exclaimed, when told of public interest in his theories. Nevertheless, he understood the meaning of publicity, of the groups of reporters who came to his home when he made public “the field theory,” and he is making his trip to California with as little stir as possible. Professor Einstein’s aversion to publicity is emphasized by the simplicity of his home life, where interviewers often find him in baggy dressing gown and slippers, or in an old sweater which he had on when“e left his little laboratory- ! tower to receive them. Keeps Away From Crowds He has been deprived of his pipe and of his coffee by orders of his doctor. His chief exercise is rowing a boat on a quiet German lake. The present trip, on which he is accompanied by Frau Einstein, has been made with every effort to keep out of contact with crowds. Professor Einstein and his party boarded the at Antwerp after traveling incognito from Berlin and has spent his time on board in considerable seclusion. He .visited the United States some years ago to lecture on relativity. The party will not remain long In New York, continuing on the Belgenland, which sails again Dec, 15, to San Diego, where the vessel is scheduled to arrive Dec. 21. NEWSPAPER EMPLOYE SLAIN BY DETECTIVE Cleveland Plain Dealer Circulation j Manager Shot on Street. Bp United Press CLEVELAND, 0., Dec. 10.—Witnesses were subpenaed before the county grand jury today to testify in the death of Joseph Fortini, 22, district circulation manager of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, who was shot Tuesday night by City Detective Patrick McNeely as he walked along a busy east side street. The investigation was ordered by Assistant County Prosecutor Emerich B. Freed after McNeely admitted shooting the newspaper representative in the mistaken belief he was “Smiling Joe” Filkowski, suspected murderer and gang leader, for whose arrest police had been instructed to “shoot on sight.” N EIV’ELECTIONS"MAY BE HELD IN FRANCE Visioned as Only Means of Solving Present Cabinet Crisis. By United Press PARIS, Dec. 10.—President Gaston Doumergue may be forced to dissolve parliament and call new elections as the only means of solving i the present cabinet crisis, various political quarters believed today. Refusal of parties to co-operate in the formation of a ministry to succeed that of Andre Tardieu, overthrown in the senate, indicated that negotiations might continue for weeks without results. “There already is talk of dissolution,” the United Press was informed. “If Pierre Laval does not succeed in forming a cabinet there will be no use in calling others. It only will be a waste of time.” rotarFans hold party Wives and Members Attend Annual Dinner Dance at Hotel. | More than 600 members of the I Indianapolis Rotary Club and their j wives and guests attended the an- • nual night party of the club at the Ciaypool Tuesday night. The new officers of the club were introduced at the dinner, which was followed by a dance and a program featuring Frank Bennett’s Chicago Concert Company. Birney D. Spradling. chairman of the entertainment committee, presided. FORM DRAMA COUNCIL By-Laws anti Purposes of Group to Be Mapped Today. By-laws and purposes of the Municipal Dramatic Council will be outlined this afternoon at a meeting of city recreation and dramatic leaders at the Civic theater. In a session Monday night atI tended by 100 persons, proposal to I stage plays in community buildings throughout the city was launched. Speakers for the movement included John Kuntz, assistant director of the theater, and Claude Seifertt, i Butler university instructor of dra- ; matics. Bandit Takes “No” Iteply By Times Special RENSSELAER, Ind., Dec. 10.—A young man, who accosted Miss Audrey Carson as .she passed along a sidewalk near a church here, took her at her word when she answered “No ’ to his query, “Got any money?” Although the man was pointing a revolver -at her. Miss Carson continued walking and passed around Mm as she answered his question.

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