Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 206, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 January 1931 — Page 3

JAN. 6, 1931.

THUGS, GUNMEN ACTIVE IN CITY; LUOT IS HEAVY Customer Is Slugged With Pistol in Holdup of Pharmacy. Gunmen. thugs and burglars again were active Monday night and early today, according to police v records. Two white bandits held up Jacob Kline in his grocery at 234 North Davidson street Monday night, taking SIOO. Roughly dressed, the bandits made their escape in a light , uaadster. trio accomplished two holdups nr- a few minutes Monday night, striking first at the E. M. Crawford pharmacy, 813 North Delaware street, where they herded several ele'rks and customers into the postal substation and escaped with abotu STJS. “ During the robbery H. W. Fahrnow, 2027 North Illinois street, taxidriver, walked in to buy cigarettes. * J’Come back here!” a bandit or<Jpred. ' “Don’t bother me, I’m in a hur- : w,” Fahrnow retorted.

Customer Is Slugged tine gunman slugged him with a pistol, and he joined the other UUioners on the floor. About $25 CT the loot was government funds irom the postal substation. While police were investigating this robbery, the same bandits held Op a Haag Drug Company store at South and East streets, escaping with $99.73. They forced the manager and a clerk into the rear of the store and guarded them while the cash drawer was rifled. A Negro bandit leaped to the , cunning board of an auto driven by Eugene Williams, Negro, 424 Bright street, at Pennsylvania street ;id Fall Creek boulevard Monday night, and took sls and the auto. Held Up In Military Park When he saw two men hiding near a fence in the 1000 block West Forty-second street, where he had b£en sent with an order and change for a $lO bill, Robert Smith, 24, Negro, 1827 Talbott avenue, delivery boy , tor a Barnhardt pharmacy, Fortysecond street and Boulevard place, drove his motorcycle into a gate, fell off and yelled. The two men fled. Walking in Military park Monday night, W. C. Deasy, 1035 West New York street, was accosted by a bandit to whom he surrendered sl. Smashing three plate glass windows in Cohen Brothers dry goods store, 2503 Station street, burglars entered and removed seven dresses, two suits and two women’s coats. Their value has not been determined. After report of Blanch Smith, 844 Hadley street, that clothing valued at more than SIOO had been stolen from her home, police arrested Ed Moreland, 626 Blake street, on petit larceny charges. Yeggs who entered the Frank Powell Coal Company office at 1516 Madison avenue early today blew a safe that had stood empty four or five years. Probably the same gang entered the Campbell Oil Company filling station, 2003 Madison avenue, and drilled a hole above the combination of the safe. However, they Tailed to break it open. Police today held Albert Ray, 35, of 569 Dorman street, and Charles Musser, 17, same address, on vagrancy charges after they are said to have confessed five robberies within two months.

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Bobby Trout to Observe Her 25th Birthday With Party in Plane. By United Pres* LOS ANGELES. Jan. 6.—A sudden rainstorm, borne on a fifty-mile gale, failed today to daunt the spirits of two girl aviators seeking to set anew refueling plane record for women that will stand for all time. The two fliers equalled the world’s endurance refueling record for women fliers when they still were aloft at 8:46 a. m. (Pacific standard time) today, after 42 hours 16 minutes in the air. The previous mark, set by Miss Trout and Elinor Smith last summer, never officially was recognized, but the flight now under way has the sanction of the National Aeronautical Asosciation, and is timed by an official,Miss Trout planned to celebrate her 25th birthday Wednesday with a party in the tiny cockpit of the Lady Rolph, the plane named for the wife of California’s new Governor. The girls were forced to refuel at the height of the gale, but members of the ground crew said that Miss Copper, who handled the “leaking” end of the gasoline hose, worked like a veteran. Within ten minutes she had poured seventy-five gallons of gasoline into the tanka and had taken aboard supper—and a highly prized mirror. A note asking for the mirror be-

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POLICE PROBE THREATS SEHT OWEN YOUNG Disgruntled Inventor Sought as Author of Letters Foretelling Harm. I JEW YORK, Jan. 6.—A disgrunled inventor, who, police claim, is l:nown to them, was sought today as the author of many threatening letters to Owen D. Young, noted financier. Police Commissioner Mulrooney admitted Monday that a city detective had been assigned as bodyguard to Young for the last month. The financier has received about wenty-flve letters in all, it was said. The inventor claims, according to Mulrooney, that a device invented by him and placed in the custody of a Chicago firm fell into the hands of the Radio Corporation of America, which never has paid him for it. Young is chairman of the board of the Radio Corporation. The inventor threatened that unless the matter were adjusted he would cause the financier “psychological torture and bodily harm.” Other threatening letters were reported to have been received by Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, pastor of the Riverside church, the new $4,000,000 edifice on Riverside drive. The church, much of which was financed by John D. Rockefeller Jr., was given police protection, although Dr. Fosdick refused any person bodyguard. Senator Clarence C. Dill of Washington, a staunch opponent of the radio interests, also was reported to have received letters from the same man.

Indiana Marches Forward... as an Industrial State AMERICAN industry today is finding its natural center in the middle west. Indiana and bordering territory is in the heart of this industrial development. Indiana is today an industrial state. Growth of industry in many parts of the state and particularly in the northern region has been rapid and extensive. The great industrial district at the southern end of Lake Michigan has been called "The Workshop of America.” Here are located one of the largest steel producing centers in the United States and the greatest oil refinery center in the middle west. Here also are built railroad passenger and freight cars, automobiles and hundreds of other products used in the factory, the office, the home and on the farm, i This territory is the meeting place of coal and ore. It is the cross-roads of the continent. It is the natural economic location for the nation’s production center. Lake Michigan on the north furnishes water transportation on the Great Lakes and to the Atlantic ocean. The Ohio river on the south furnishes water transportation to the Gulf. The state is criss-crossed with a network of railroads. Raw materials are easily accessible and the territory is surrounded by markets for the finished products. To the south of the great industrial district of northern Indiana, the march of industry is making its way. What formerly were rural communities have become industrial centers. Many industries have located factories in the smaller communities of central Indiana where working and living conditions have been bettered for their employes. In southern Indiana are the Indiana limestone quarries and mills and the coal mines. % Serving this great territory with electric power and light, gas aid transportation service are the subsidiaries of the Midland United Company. A few years ago, a large part of the state was served by small isolated public utility companies. These 'companies were acquired and placed under one centralized management. Communities were interconnected with electric transmission lines and in many instances with high pressure gas pipe lines. New, modern gas manufacturing and electric generating stations were built. Small companies were merged into groups of larger and stronger subsidiaries which today render adequate, reliable and efficient utility service in a large part of the state, making possible further industrial expansion. This is the first of a series of advertisements in which will be described how these companies have been brought together under one co-ordinated management and control with the result that service has been bettered, rates have been reduced and adequate and efficient public utility service has made possible the growth of communities on a scale never before possible. Midland United Company PRINCIPAL OPERATING SUBSIDIARIES: Northern Indiana Public Service Company... Gary Railways Company Interstate Public Service Company . • ■ Indiana Service Corporation Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad . . . Indiana Railroad Central Indiana Power Company’s operating subsidiaries.

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Earl Quinn (above), alias Earl Howard, former Missouri convict, is being hunted by police of Blackwell, Okla., for questioning in the murder of Jessie and Zexia Griffith, sisters, who were shot to death near Blackwell while on their way home from a Christmas vacation. HELD AS BOOTLEGGER While charities supplied his family with groceries and rent, John Higgs supplied a portion of the world with booze, he admitted to police today, following his arrest on a blind tiger charge in a raid at his home, 1256 West New York street, Monday night. Eight gallons of whisky and eighty-tw’o quarts of beer were confiscated, police said. He has a wife and five small children. Police declare he confessed to bootlegging over a period of two months.

STATE DECISIOH ON TEXT BOOKS TO BE DELAYED Matter Is Postponed Until Jan. 19 After Meeting of Commission. With savings to school patrons outweighing profits to publishers as the governing factor, adoption of Indiana school textbooks still hung fire today. Governor Harry G, Leslie has taken the leadership in insisting parents’ interests shall overshadow those of publishers. After spending Monday in executive session, while the statehouse corridors swarmed with book salesmen, members of the state board of education, sitting as a textbook commission, emerged with the matter postponed until Jan. 19. This date originally had been voted as March 27, which would take the adoption out of the hands of Roy P. Wisehart, superintendent of public instruction, who was defeated for re-election and retires March 15. But with Superintendent W. W. Borden f South Bend absent from the room, the date was switched back to Jan. 19, putting the matter again under Wisehart’s regime. Borden was a pioneer in pronouncing for readoption of present texts as a saving for parents and also in opposing an attempt of Wisehart to have the whole matter disposed of Monday. The whole textbook matter may be investigated by the legislature in gathering facts for discussion of free textbooks bills which will be introduced, it was reported today. Before the Jan. 19 meeting, tables

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SCHOOL 81 IN NEWBUILDING Ceremony Observed as Pupils Make Change. Led by the Technical high school band,, pupils of School 81 moved from their portable building. Seventeenth and Rural streets, to their new building at Nineteenth street and Brookside parkway today. Julian Wetzel, chairman of the board of school commissioners, was to lock the old portable and Paul C. Stetson, superintendent of city schools; A. B. Good, business manager, and other school officials were to attend the ceremony. The new building accommodates 400 pupils and incorporates latest types of school construction. Miss Adelaide McCarty is principal. Building Permits Dora Marshall, dwelling, 346 Congress, S3OO. Empire Oarage, office partlon, 150 East Wabash, SSOO. E. F. Jones, garage, 442-44 West Twentyfifth. $225.