Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 195, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 December 1930 — Page 7

|DEC. 24, 1930.

POLICE HUNTING TWO IN 550.000 DIAMOND THEFT Well-Dressed Couple Are Sought for Robbing City Concern. With nothing except descriptions on which to work, detectives today were probing theft of $50,000 in unmounted diamonds reported by Edward Petri, Inc., Jewelers at 206 Guaranty building late Tuesday. Edward M. Petri, president of the company, told police the robbing was made by a well-dressed, impressive appearing man. with an attractive woman accomplice. Shows Woman Stock He was displaying the loose diamonds to her when the man entered, and she asked to be shown the liver ware stock. When Petri took her into an adjoining room, the man stepped to the counter, picked tip a dispatch case with the diamonds, and escaped, Petri said. A flw minutes later the woman made a minor purchase and also departed Petri said it was ten minutes before he discovered the robbery. Both the man and woman visited the salon Monday afternoon, but 'left, when several customers arrived, Petri declared Visited Salon Tuesday When the man came into the shop Tuesday, he explained to Miss Florence Cain, 1503 North Pennsylvania street, a clerk, that he wished to see Petri concerning purchase of a clock. The clerk was waiting on another customer in the same room when the gems disappeared, but said she did not see the man approach the counter on which the dispatch case was lying. llie man was about 40. dark, and wore a biack mustache, which police ■ elieve was false. The woman w’ore an expensive mack fur coat and was about 35. The gems are said to have been insured.

successful in creating motion \ 6— now presents a trio of ex- ~ ccptionally talented players in |||||||| tv Wjgm&M Mgßgj §l|||f Hie story is by: l|pl|y iflH| Louis Bromfield—brilliant young m author of "The Green Bay Tree/’ "24 Hours'’ and other popular novels and Sidney Howard Pulitzer Prize |*YSy || dramatist, author of many Broadway ><successes —"Silver Cord” and "They Knew hat They Wanied.” Nacio Herb Brown who com- || ■ Belong To You,” "Pagan Love Song,” many oilier hits. W LEON — whose limber legs and HEARST I GRANTLAND RICE W nnrtT METROTONE SPORTLIGHT ERROL 00.. NEWS “Parand Double Par” LAST THREE DAYS NFW yfap’Q fvf D. W. Griffith’. Production _ _ _ _ ~ . “ABRAHAM LINCOLN” MIDNIGHT PREVIEW *£ HUSTON JS Picture 11 Stan—LAUREL and HARDY—Oliver I JOAN <<n A . rx „ in “ANOTHER FINE MESS” CRAWFORD ~ “AID

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MOVE 29 EMPLOYES Nickel Plate Workers Are Ordered to Other Offices. Twenty-nine employes of the local Nickel Plate railroad office were ordered to move to other cities in a consolidation order announced today. C. R. Wright, district engineer of the L. E. & W. division and four-

The candy cane of fairyland became a reality when Robert Banta, son of Mr. and Mrs. Willard Banta, 1933 Broadway, and. his little companion, Phyllis Barker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nat Barker, confectioner at 2319 College avenue, got their hands on this one. “My daddy made it!” Phyllis boasted proudly. Bob p o n dered which end to attack first.

teen subordinates, will transfer to Frankfort, and use the Clover lieaf offices. Fourteen others employed in the accounting and other departments will transfer to Cleveland, the system’s main office. Announcement also was made that the Peoria division offices of the' system will consolidate with the Indianapolis division at Tipton, but the legal, freight and telegraph employes will remain in the Nickel Plate building at Noble and Washington streets. Reduction of expenses was given as the reason for the changes.

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EXTEND SEARCH FOR MAN WHO KILLEDPARENTS Photos and Fingerprints of Paul Brown Sent Over Nation. Nationwide search for Paul Brown, Nashville (Ind.) parent killer, was instituted today by Chief E. L. Osborne of the Indiana crime bureau. Six hundred and fifty photographs, finger prints and descriptions of the former Purdue student are being sent broadcast to police, sheriffs and criminal bureaus in the forty-eight states. Meanwhile supposed clews to Brown’s whereabouts continue to come to the bureau, Osborne said, and each report is being investigated carefully.

Latest call came from a southern Indiana sheriff, who reported that Brown was said to be in hiding in the hills. Brown fled from the parental farm near Nashville, Ind., a week ago Monday after shooting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Brown, and burning the house down. He also wounded Chester Bunge, a hired hand. First motive for the crime was the theory that Brown, who is 28 and working on a radio invention, ! was insane. But finding of $20,000 i buried on the place and the belief j that he may have escaped with ! SIO,OOO to $15,000 more has caused . the insanity idea to be abandoned, Osborne declared. Fire Damages Home By Times Special PETERSBURG, Ind., Dec. 24. Fire started by a defective flue did damage of $1,200 at the residence of James Wellman. Scalds Cause Death BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Dec. 24. Scalds suffered by Garnett Sexton, 6, when he fell into a tub of boiling water Friday, resulted in his death.

FIFTY YEARS FROM NOW, MAYBE THIS “Just Imagine” Gives One a Look Into Future Regarding Love, Dress, Marriage, Drink and the Law. DE SYLVA, BROWN AND HENDERSON, creators of “Sunny Side Up,” are the producers of “Just Imagine,’ - anew comedy with music which opens at the Apollo. Saturday. This production is said to be a spectacular departure from the usual in talking picture. The entire story is projected fifty years into the future, with only one “holdover” from the modem age in El Brendel, the premier Swedish character comedian. . “Just Imagine’’ serves to bring anew star into prominence in the person of Maureen O’Sullivan. John Garrick, the leading man, isTn love

with Maureen, but owing to the, peculiarity of the marriage laws of I 1980, his rival, Kenneth Thompson, has been successful in winning the girl. However, Garrick has the right to appeal, which he takes. His friend, Frank Albertson, consoles him the best he can. Frank, it seems, is too much in love with Marjorie White to understand any one else’s troubles, and this situation proves to be one great laugh after another. The picture is novel in its theme and represents a tremendous task in building De Sylva, Brown and Henderson's conception of New York in 1980 as a background for the story. They have also provided a group of snappy song numbers which may prove evefi more popular than their unforgettable hits in “Sunnyside Up.” David Butler directed and Seymour Felix staged the dance ensembles. Vitaphone Varieties, "Booze Hangs High,” and “Showing Off,” round out the program. tt a u “JONESY” WILL OPEN THURSDAY NIGHT The great and familiar American family of good class. is glorified in the comedy, “Jonesy,” announced for English’s opening, on Christmas night. The Jones family is a moderately

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prosperous one. There is Mrs. Jones, a fussy, adorable mother; there's dad, worrying for the whole tribe of them, including himself; there’s Wilbur, the handsome young son of the house who has a desperate crush on Diana Devereaux, the leading lady with a local stock company; there’s Anne, the owl like younger sister and pretty nearly the most level-headed member of the family; there’s Mildred Ellis, the excruciating girl next door who insists upon being engaged to Wilbur, and there's Billy Morgan, a snobbish college friend of Wilbur's, not yet dry behind the ears! And, of course, there is a cook—funny Katie, who really runs the household, and there are a couple of plumbers and a policeman and an injured autoist, and so on and on—each recognizable elements in a home community play about nice people. When Wilbur makes a luncheon date with Diana ancf his father, having been told of it by mother, meets the girl in his son’s stead and warns her to keep away from his boy —and Wilbur wakes up too late and learns the trick that has been played upon him —well, there’s merry fun popping! Diana turns out to be the niece of the wealthiest man in town—a man Papa Jones has been trying to •get to for business purposes - for

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Bottle Death By United Press BOSTON, Dec. 24.—William, four-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Wright, choked to death Monday when the nipple of his nursing bottle lodged in h's throat.

many weeks. Then there’s more fireworks. But it all ends happily—wholesomely, handsomely and romantically. u tt a Indianapolis theaters today offer: “Abraham Lincoln” at the Palace, “Outward Bound” at the Apollo, “Maybe It’s Love” at the Ohio, Little Jack Little at the Lyric, “Sea Legs” at the Indiana, "The Virtuous Sin” at the Circle, movies at the Colonial, and burlesque at the Mutual. BANDIT JCILLS GUARD $17,000 Pay Roll Is Stolen; One Is Wounded. By United rrcss WEST HAVEN. Conn., Dec. 24 A guard was killed, a paymaster wounded and an automobile carrying the $17,000 pay roll of the American Mills Company, Allingtown branch, stolen by a lone bandit today. The bandit w - ho stepped from behind the gate tender's house as the automobile entered the gate, ordered the men to “stick ’em up” and surrender the pay roll. Joseph Ordazzo, gateman who was acting as guard to the cash, reached for his revolver and was shot dead. The bandit then wounded C. K. Kern, chief clerk and paymaster of the mill.

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AGED MAN SHOT DURINGROBBERY Filling Station Proprietor Grabs Bandit's Gun. Resisting robbery by two Negroes, Charles S. Swlck, 71, of 3353 Sutherland avenue, proprietor of a filling station next to his home, Tuesday night was shot in the left arm by one of the bandits. When the Negroes demanded money, Swick grabbed the revolver held by one of them and attempted to shoot his own gun but the bullet failed to explode. The bandits fired four shots, one of which struck Swick. The thugs took a money changer containing $5. Several car lootings, minor robberies and house ransackings also were on the list of felonies reported to police. Among them were: Mrs. Maude Coats. Negro, caretaker at 1 West Twenty-eighth street, clothing. *150: Mrs. G. Woodward. Cleveland. *9 i the Rev. A. J. Irving. Negro. 637 Karl Eleventh Street, house ransacked, loot uni estimated: Mrs. F. K. Prutzman. 3324 Caro rollton avenue, purse containing *25 stolen* Misa Elizabeth Taft. 1644 North Talbo* street. *2 and Christmas gifts: Standard grocerv. 930 West Michigan street, looted but loss unestimated: Ben Laglin. 801 West Tenth street, grocery, cigarette; Charles Koehrtng. hardware store. B*2 Virginia avenue, window smashed but no loot obtained: several ears ransacked at Market and Delaware atrets. *100; Mrs. Rebecca Redd. 825 Locke street, clothing, *SO. Charles Achev. 1624 Montcalm street, clothing. *SO: j. L. Egan. 5733 Oak avenue clothing. *l7. and George Stockton. 3202 Kenwood avenue. *3B.

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LAST DAYi JOE E. BROWN “Maybe It’s Love” Xmas Day—“ Half Shot at Sunrise’’