Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 197, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 December 1930 — Page 2

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‘TRUE FRIEND’ TRIBUTE PAID KIN HUBBARD Meredith Nicholson Tells of Love for Famous Hoo- „ sier Humorist. Mrrrdith Nicholson, ditliniui'hrtl Indiana novelist and essayist, was associated with Kin Hubbard on The Indianapolis News and they were neighbors. enjoying the closest friendship. Out of his intimate knowledge of the great American caricaturist and wjj. Xtrholsoo hrie paint' a picture of Mr. Hubbard. BY MEREDITH NICHOLSON One of Indiana's most distinguished citizens lies dead today and all over America thousands to whom his wit and humor have brought cheer will mourn his passing. But to the gfiat company of us who knew and loved Kin Hubbard, who were blessed with - his warm and sincere friendship, his death is a shock that leaves us comfortless. We have had in Indiana no clearer case of genius than that presented in Kin Hubbard. It will be said of him a thousand times that his humor was unique; and this is the only fitting word for his peculiar ‘ slant,” his ability to shoot at folly on the wing. We shall indeed miss that regular last page feature with the droll picture and those two statements that gained in humor from the fact that they were so ridiculously unrelated! It had been with great delight that I became his neighbor only a few months ago and we were looking forward to many years oi neighborly contacts. Associated on News Our friendship began when lie first came to Indianapolis and we were associated on the Indianapolis News. For a time we shared the same room, in a remote part of the building accessible only through the composing room. Kin was a continuing joy in those years of our comradeship. He had not discovered ‘ Abe Martin” then, but did illustrations of the old chalkplate type and caricatures for the paper. We did much ’kidding" in tnat dingy upper chamber. If the skies were low - . Kin always projected some witticism that lifted the skyline. He was the best of fellows in all the term implies. Loved His Home Ho was a wholesome character; his outlook on life was as clean as it was keen. Amiable and tolerant of most things, he hated sham and hypocrisy. ‘ Bunk” was sure to invite one of his characteristic jibes. His pride in the new' home he had so long projected was deeply touching. He would rise early in the morning and go down to do his day's stiht and return home as quickly as possible to work in the garden that w-as his especial delight. He could be seen all the rest ol the day busily at work. Nothing among all his sturdy, manly characteristics was more beautiful than his devotion to his wife and children. One never met him in the street that lie did not refer to Josephine or Tom or Virginia. Fame was negligible to him when he had his family about him. Always a Boy The boy in him was never obscured. He saw the passing show with youthful eyes. To discuss politics w T ith him, or any other serious business, was to find him interjecting some pertinent but laughable comment that ended the conversation. And yet he attained with the years a fine dignity. His finely molded head, his handsome countenance and his splendid eyes invited admiration in any company. Modest in all things, he was not unaware of his wide reputation; but he had his own amusing way of turning a compliment. It is said of him that by sheer forcc of his own pluck and genius he wrote his name high on the records of our state. He attained national fame and had lately been recognized and applauded in England. He was loyal and tender in all the relationships of life; and those who enjoyed his friendship and profited by his good cheer are richer for having been brought within the circle of the charm that.made him the unforgettable good comrade. LAWYER IN FAMOUS MURDER TRIAL DfES Charles D. Thomas Led Defense in Chester Gillette Cast , J>> / Vnitcd Pretx HERKIMER. N. Y.. Dee. IS Charles D. Thomas. 70. chief defense counsel in the famous Chester Gillette murder trial here in 1907, died suddenly today from a heart attack. He was former district attorney of Herkimer county and a leading figure in state bar circles. Thomas gained national prominence in his unsuccessful attempt to save Gillette, slayer of his youthful sweetheart, from the electric chair. The case later formed the text for Theodore Dreiser's “An American Tragedy.” ADMITS TWO ROBBERIES Police C’lim Confession From City Man, Charged With Vagrancy After he attempted to flee from police, Earl Cogwell, 45, of 1932 Ralston avenue, late Thursday was tracked to his home and apprehended. He is charged with vagrancy and police say he has confessed to two grocery burglaries. According to statements to police, Cogwell admitted robbing a Standard grocery at 3216 East Twentythird street recently and another, the location of which he did not recall. Police said they found merchandise in his room that had been obtained at stores. HOME IS RANSACKED Silverware. House Appliances, Valued at $135, Is Stolen. Theft of silverware and house appliances. valued at $125, by burglars who wrecked furniture in their ransacking. was reported to police today by Miss Essie M. Connors, 365 West Twenty-eighth street. Miss Connors told police that, in addition to the theft, the ransackers slashed open pillows and broke up other furniture, including a radio. •

Sinclair Lewis’ Wife Stricken

By Vnitcd Prctf BERLIN. Dec. 26 Mrs. Sinclair Lewis, wife of the American winner of the Nobel prize for 1i t e rature, underwent a successful operation for appendicitis here today. Mrs. Lewis became ill suddenly and was taken to a hospital at 3 this morning. Hier condition is reported satisfac-

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tory, after the operation. Lewis and his wife arrived here recently from Stockholm. where he was awarded the Nobel prize. They intended to spend some weeks in Berlin.

‘SLAIN' GUNMAN RETURNS HOME TO PLAY SANTA Leo Mongoven, Full of Life, Comes to His Wife and Two Boys. * By Vnitcd Pres* CHICAGO, Dec. 26.—Leo Mongoven, small town boy who became a big town gangster, gunman and beer runner, has escaped his executioners’ bullets, and still lives, the United Press learned today. Although it is true, as a Chicago newspaper reported recently, that the chief assistant to Bugs Morgan was marked for death last May, and walked, half knowingly, into a trap, Mongoven was not slain. He was wounded. One story has it that for days he was near death, so successful was the machine gun marksmanship of i his enemies. At any rate, he even- I tually recovered. Wednesday, he appeared at his home in Villa Park, a suburb and : played Santa Claus his tw r o boys. He Likes to Play Santa Mongoven’s enemies suspected that he Jiad cheated them of the death they had planned. They were not certain, and Mongoven added to the doubt, by remaining absent from old scenes. This gave rise to the rumor that he w’as dead. But Mongoven, despite his being chief assistant to Moran when that north side gang leader was A1 Capones formidable rival, likes to play Santa Claus. He also likes to exercise his dog. To those two circumstances are due the knowledge that he is alive. Prior to his voluntary withdrawal from gang circles, Mangoven maintained headquarters at a west side hotel. Few knew that he had a real home elsewhere. Home on Quiet Street That home is a green and white bungalow' on a quiet street in a Dupage county town, Willa Park, eighteen mlies west of Chicago. It is occupied by Mrs. Mongoven and the two young Mongoven boys. The Mongoven home is modest, its interior expensively, but simply furnished, and none would suspect the attractive housewife of being other than a widow of a modest income. The Mongovens neighbors are not more than ordinarily curious about w - hat goes on at the bungalow', so no cne noticed just when it was this w ; eek that a man who had not been seen for a long time arrived. His Sentiment Bared It wasn't until the man took the Mongoven dog for a long walk on Christmas day that he was recognized. It was Mongoven himself, and he whistled cheerfully. The Mongoven boys ran from the house the same afternoon, and joined the other children of the neighborhood at play, eager to tell of all the Christmas presents Santa Claus had left them. The Santa Claus was Mongoven, w'ho was sentimental enough to choose Christmas week for his return to his own fireside—at the time his death” was being announced belatedly in newspaper headlines. LOST AIRMEN FOUND Bodies of Bill Cannon and Mechanic Discovered. Bit Vnitcd Press MONTREAL. Dec. 26.—Lost forever a year in the desolate wastes of northwestern Quebec, the bodies of Pilot W. H. (Bill) Cannon and his mechanic, Leonce Lizotte, who disappeared Oct. 9. 1929. while flying from St. Felicien, Que.. to Chibougamau, have teen found by Indians. *• An airplane of the Curtiss-Reid Company, Ltd., will leave Saturday for Roberval to pick up the Indians who brought news of the discovery and to find the scene of the accident. MENACE GARAGE MEN: TWO HELD BY POLICE Charged With Brandishing Revolver; Others Sought by Cops. Two men are under arrest and another man and a woman are sought by police today after they are alleged to have threatened garage operators with revolvers, Thursday night. . The men are Charles McNeal, 23, Louisville, charged with drunkenness, operating a vehicle while drunk, transporting liquor and vagrancy. and*William Merrill, Linden hotel, charged* with drunkenness and vagrancy. First reports were obtained, when two garagemen in <he vicinity of Sixty-third street and College avenue said the men pulled revolvers. They were arrested after they are alleged to have threatened employes at the Maple Road garage, Maple and Illinois street.

JUDGE LYLE TO SEEK POST OF CHICAGO MAYOR 7 Arch-Enemy of Criminals Wishes to Finish Job of Drive on Gangs. By Vnitcd Pres* CHICAGO. Dec. 26.—Chicago’s complicated mayoralty race became more turbulent today w'ith the entrance of Judge'John H. Lyle, militant anti-crime campaigner, on a “drive out the gangsters” program. “I'm going to finish the job I’ve started,” Judge Lyle said in announcing his candidacy for the Republican nomination. “That job is to purge Chicago of the criminal gangs that infest it.” Judge Lyle already has tw T o competitors for the nomination. Mayor William Hale Thompson and Charles V. Barrett, county reviewer. Anton Cermak, chief of the Cook county board of commissioners, is the only Democratic candidate. An “alliance” of Republican leaders who hope to defeat Mayor. Thompson by throwing their support to one candidate has beep conferring for more than a week. Known as Beau Brummel Judge Lyle’s name was on their list of possibilities but it was reported that he w-as opposed by several factions. Lyle, known as a Beau Brummdl, veteran first-nighter of the theater and opera, and arch-enemy of criminals, said he had been requested to become a candidate by “literally thousands of citizens.” “I hesitated because of the work I already am doing to remove crime from Chicago,” his, announcement continued. “The mayoralty office, however, is the one spot where all the lines that touch on x crime and racketeering converge. “With this in mind, and believing that as mayor I promptly and completely could finish the work that I have been engaged in as judge, I have decided to become a candidate.” Prohibition Is Blamed Indicating that one plank in his platform would be the divorcing of crime and politics, Judge Lyle said that as mayor he also would insist on “using policemen against professional criminals and not for breaking into homes and undertaking to regulate private lives.” Judge Lyle several times has been quoted as saying that prohibition is responsible for Chicago’s criminal gangs, which battle for right to dispense liquor in certain sections. Judge Lyle was originator of instituting vagrancy charges in a campaign to “harass” gangsters and also started the system of holding gang leaders on "prohibitively high” bail bonds.

BRITON SLAIN IN INDIA WARFARE Rush Troops to Scene of Native Uprising. By United Pres* RANGOON.. Burma, Dec. 26. British machine gun troops were dispatched today to the Tharrawaddy district, where native warfare has resulted in the murder of a British government forest engineer, H. V. W. Fields Clark. Other casualties included four military police dead and several wounded and about twenty rebel natives dead. Authorities considered the outbreak serious. HOLIDAY TOLL 200 Bad Liquor, Fires, Crashes, Claim Many Lives." Bv Unit'd Pres* Christmas celebrations in all parts of the United States were marred by tragedy, according to more than 200 accidental deaths, a jsurvey by the United Press showed today. Fires, shootings and traffic* accidents claimed many lives. Eleven died of poison liquor in New York. WIFE KEEPS RECORD OF HUSBAND’S TASKS Daily Weather, Doings of Mate for 35 Years, Shown by Diary. By United Press NEW LEXINGTON, 0., Dec. 26. Mrs. Edgar Duffy knows just what her husband has been doing every day for the past thirty-five years. She knows also what kind of weather New Lexington has had every day for the same length of time. She has one of the most complete diaries covering every day happenings in this section. It shows the weather and what her husband did in the way of work each day in that period. POINCARE RECOVERING Former French President, Convalescing. Now Is Able to Eat Regularly. By United Hicss PARIS. Dec. 26.—Raymond Poincare reached a state of convalescence in recovering from his recent illness today. The former president now is able to eat regularly. $4,000 Home Burns By Times Special FRANKLIN. Ind.. Dec. 26.—Loss of $4,000 resulted when fire destroyed the farm home of D. L. Wheeling, four miles northeast of here. Sparks from chimney are believed to have started the fire. He Saves His Appetite By United Press WORCESTER. Mass.. Dec. 26. Fearful that ether would spoil his appetite for Christmas dinner, 10-year-old Roy Bourgeault had a broken ankle set without an anesthetic. Aged Physician Dies By Times Special PORTLAND. Ind.. Dec. 26.—Dr. Grant Chaney. 65, a physician here twenty-seven years, is' dead at Rochester, N. Y.

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When Lincoln Borglum, above, 18-year-old son of Gutzon Borglum, famous sculptor, was graduated from a Wyoming preparatory school recently, he didn’t follow the usual course of heading at once for college. Instead he went to Abilene, Tex., where he is working for a public utilities company. He plans a European tour next summer—and after that he’ll start thinking about going to college.

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U. S. PROBE OF REALTY FIRM IS SPEEDED UP Washington Officials Approve Further Investigation in Indiana Estates. Federal investigation of the activities of che Indiana Estates Company, catch-as-catch-can realty firm formerly located at 601-15 Meridian Life building, was speeded up today. Preliminary inquiry by postoffice inspectors had brought about a report to officials in Washington. Inspection of the report brought formal approval of the probe. Lists of victims now are being compiled by A. C. Garrigus, postoffice inspector, who, it is expected, will interview personally a dozen or more complainants whose cases are the most severe. Should sufficient evidence of fraud be gathered, it is predicted by officials that federal grand jury indictments, charging conspiracy to use the United States mails with intent to defraud, will follow. The grand jury convenes late in January. Officials and salesmen of the con-

cern have scattered since its closing several weeks ago. James F. Huteson, financial backer, is believed to be living in Chicago. William McElroy Dozier, one of the so-called “partners,” is reported be in Montreal. Mell J. O’Keefe, the other “partner.” was reported from Washington, where he was said to be seeking anew connection for further operations. C. E. Henshaw, named in many of the complaints, is in Texas. Lloyd E. and Lyle J. Arnold, brothers, whose operations brought the majority of complainants into the office of the Better Business Bureau seeking redress, left Indianapolis several days ago in an automobile, spending the first night at Ft. Wayne. It is said they ar* heading for the west coast. George Kipper, another financial manager.” whose name frequently appears in the more than sixty recorded complaints, still is believed in Indianapolis. At the Better Business Bureau today. T. M. Overley, manager, through whose co-operation with the exposure of the concern's activities was made, was compiling all data in his posasssion for submission to Inspector Garrigus. At a recent meeting of the directors of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board, resolutions were passed commending The Times and the Better Business Bureau, Inc., for “curtailing the activities of real estate organizations whose practices are considered unethical and detrimental to the best interests of the public and the real estate business.” Both organizations, the directors

declared, ''should receive recognition of the public at large for the civic spirit which prompted them to take action on behalf of the public as a whole and the valuable device and assistance given individual cases.”

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Greenfield Spends 522,890 4 By 1.~ t‘ if id PrcNC ‘1 GREENFIELD. Ind., Dec. Nets equipment for the munieipr s light plant has been purchased the city counicl at a cost of $22,850. It includes a Corliss engine with a 503-kilowatt generator, the third unit of the kind in the plant.