Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 223, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 January 1931 — Page 3

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SSOO LOOT IS TAKEN IN CRIME OF WEEK-END Toll Would Have Been More If Several Robbery Tries Had Not Failed. Week-end crime netted almost *SOO In loot, and the toll would have mounted higher If several robbery attempts had been carried off successfully, police records disclosed today. As he opened doors of a garage early today, J. J. Logsdon, 905 West Twenty-ninth street, laundry truck driver, was robbed by a Negro of $45 in cash and checks. Logsdon told police he was preparing to take his truck out of the garage at 921 West Twenty-ninth street when the Negro slid from a hiding place in an alley and drew a revolver. The money was Logsdon's collections Saturday. Victim of Negro Thugs Sitting in front of 616 North Senate avenue early today, where, he told police he was waiting for a friend, John M. Fisher, 503 East drive. Woodruff Place, was the victim of two Negro thugs, who dragged him from his car, beat him, and escaped with $45. Later police arrested Edward Jones, 627 Roanoke street, and Fred Mason, 914 Muskingum street, whom Fisher identified as the robbers. Jones had a watch taken from Fisher, according to police. When Herbert Rumble, 2842 North Dearborn street, employe of the Acme Monon Coal Company, opened the company’s offices this morning, he found the safe had been blown.. Yeggs took about SIOO. Overpowered by Yeggs Yeggs fled offices of the Charles H. Freihofer Baking Company, 359 East Merrill street, when a charge of “soup’’ blew open the heavy outer doors of the safe Saturday night. The detonation was heard by persons in a nearby barber shop and they ran to the street to investigate. The four or five men in the gang had overpowered Harry Till, 3449 Carrollton avenue, superintendent, as he was leaving the building by a side door. Taking him back inside the office they ordered him to open the safe, but he replied he did not known the combination. Then they struck him, bound him to a steam radiator and tied up L. T. William, 913 Greer street, the janitor, beside Till. Behind an inner door of the safe lay the company’s receipts, untouched by the burglars. Safe Stolen From Store Police are holding William Roe, 19, and Robert Roe. 22, as suspects in the robbery. Both have extensive criminal records, according to police. Safe of the B. E. Barnhart pharmacy. Forty-second and Boulevard place, was removed from the store Sunday night by thieves who pried open two doors to gain entrance. The safe has not been located by police and Barnhart was unable to estimate amount of funds in the strongbox. A roughly dressed foreigner held up eight persons in the Dorn pharmacy, Pennsylvania and Thirteenth streets, Sunday night, shot several -times, and escaped with $25. Other robber victims included: Standard grocery, 1402 South East street, holdup, S3O, Saturday night; Standard grocery, 608 North Illinois streets, Saturday night, S2O. W S. Kegley. 36 East Fifty-seventh etreet, robbery, $7, Sunday. Coble restaurant. 802 West Washington street, mint machine and S3; police arrested two 16-ycar-old youths charged with the robbery. , Janies Marx, 20. of 1331 Brookside avenue. Bryce Oil Company filling station attendant, 20 West Michigan street. s2l, Sunday night. . .. „ Myrtle Martin, purse snatched, $12.50. police arrested Guy Busclagia, 30, on petit larceny charge. Tucker pharmacy, 1201 Madison avenue, delivery boy held up. S2O. ... Mrs. Genevoeve Sliter. Apt. 8. Bichlieu apartments. North and Massachusetts avenue, two diamond rings, S3OO.

RITES ARRANGED FOR NATIVE OF GERMANY Mrs. Margaret Reichel, 68, Dies; Active In Church Work. Funeral service for Mrs. Margaret Reichel, 68, of 4070 Boulevard place, who died Sunday, will be held at 2:30 Wednesday, at the Zion Evangelical church. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Mrs. Reichel was bora in Germany and moved to Shelbyville in 1887. She had lived in Indianapolis twenty-four years. She was active in affairs of the Zion church several years. Survivors are the husband, Adam Reichel: three daughters. Mrs. Raymond Beinburg and Mrs. Charles Flaskamp of Indianapolis, and Mrs. Richard Berry of Chicago: four sons, George, Carl. Rudolph and Louis Reichel, all of Indianapolis, and two brothers and a sister residing in Germany. GEN. KUTZONPRQGRAN Engineering Group Will Meet With Building Organizations. Delegates to the fifty-first annual meeting of the Indiana Engineering Society Thursday night in the Lincoln will hear Brigadier-General Charles Willauer Kutz of Washington, representing the American engineering council on public works, as principal speaker. The dinner will be held jointly with the Indiana Society of Architects, the Associated Building Contractors of America, the Indiana Building Congress and the Indianapolis Building Congress. form‘west^side~club Naturalized Aliens Organize and Elect Officers. Organization of the West Side Social and Outing Club, composed of foreign-born persons who are naturalized, has been completed. Officers are: Felix Blazich, president; John Hights, vice-president; Edward Bensic. secretary, and George Walker, treasurer. CRIMi~BOARD~fO~MEET Legislators Invited by Probers to Attend Dinner, Hear Report. Members of the legislature have befen invited as guests of the Indiana crime commission at dinner tonight at the Claypool, where the 11 n&l committee report and recommended bills growing out of its survey, will be outlined by various exgertt on the subject.

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Paul R. Jones, above, auto salesman, is held at Coffeyville, Kan., in connection with the murder of Mrs. Maud Martin, who was to have been the chief witness against Dr. S. A. Biainard, who was awaiting trial accused of killing a girl by means of an illegal operation. Miss Muriel Sullivan, 20, is said to have admitted shooting Mrs. Martin, and asserts that Jones gave her SBS for the job.

I. U. LECTURES ARE ANNOUNCED Course Will Be Given by Faculty Members. A feature offered next semester by the Indiana university extension center, 122 East Michigan will be a series of eleven lectures on the life views of great men of letters, according to the announcement here today of Miss Mary B. Orvis, secretary of the Indianapolis center of the Indiana university extension division. These lectures will be given by eight members of the regular Indiana university faculty at Bloomington. The course may be taken with or without credit. The speakers, their subjects and dates are: Feb. 17—President W. L. Bryan, “Mark Twain. Famous American Humorist.” Feb. 24—Professor Lillian Gav Berry, X. U. Latin department, "Virgil, Homan Author.” March 3—Professor John C. Andressohn. history department. “Abelard. French Philosopher. ' March 10—Professor Andressohn. “Bocsaclo, Italian Author.” March 17—Professor H. H. Carter, head of English department. “Ruskin. English Essayist.” March 24—Professor C. J. Sembower. English department. "Percy Shelley English Autor. ’ March 31—Professor Roy A. Tower, English department. “Count Leo Tolstoi, Russian Author." April 7—Professor D. S. Robinson, head of philosophy department, "James. Famous American Psychologist.’’ April 14—Professor Velorus Martz. education school, “John Dewey. American Educator.” April 21—Professor Robinson. “Henri Bergson. Frenph Philosopher.” April 28—Dr. Robinson, "Bertrand Russell. English Philosopher and Author.” The final examination is scheduled for May 5. The course is the fifth of the ‘‘Education for Enjoyment” series, which was started here two years ago.

CHIROS OBJECT TO SENATE GILL County, City Health Board Proposal to Be Fought. Indiana chiropractors are up in arms again. In a meeting of their association at the Denison Sunday they voiced vehement objections to Senate Bill 90, creating city and county boards of health. They claim the bill would: Increase the tax burden of the citizens from $3,000,000 to $4,000,000 annually: create a gigantic political organization with the state board of health as the head; permit illegal search of private homes and property without warrant; unlawfully place unlimited power in health matters in the -state board of health and deny any citizen the right to appeal therefrom. Co-operating wTh officials of the Indiana Naturopathic Association, the chiropractors said they would petition for a public hearing on the bill'before the senate committee on state medicine and health. LICENSE BLOOD GIVERS Official Supervision Ordered for Donors of Vital Fluid. Bp United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 26—Marketing of human blood for medical purposes was placed under official supervision today with the establishment of a bureau for the licensing of all blood donors by the New York health department.

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INTEREST IS ON COMMITTEES AT STATE CAPITOL Free Textbooks to Be Talked at Meeting of Education Gi;oup. The third week of the general assembly opened today with committee hearings and their action took the center of the stage. Free textbooks and the various measures introduced which would provide them will be discussed at the meeting of the house committee on education at 1 p. m. Tues. day. Thd committee is scheduled to meet following adjournment today to discuss other education measures. Representatives William J. Black (Dem., Madison), Fred S. Galloway (Dem., Marion) and William H. Lee (Dem., Gibson), who are sponsoring the measure providing for free books, and another which would have a tax on malt and cigarets ‘‘pay the freight,” will appear before the committee to present their views and information. Discuss Lynching Bill Among the committee hearings today will be that on state medicine and public health. The committee will discuss the measure providing for issuance of injunctions to prevent unlicensed dentists from practicing and to increase the examination license fee from S2O to $25. Consideration of the “anti-lynch-ing” bill, and another providing that only those received a minimum sentence of ten years shall be entitled to appeal bail will be topics at the meeting of the committee on criminal code at 3 p. m. today. Two poor relief bills will be considered by the committee on county and townships at 2 p. m. today. Want Insurance Changes Strengthening of the law authorizing operation of reciprocal insurance companies in Indiana probably will be recommended by the committee on insurance which has before it the Weiss bill providing for complete repeal of the law. It is understood, however, that the author will consider a compromise tending towards strengthening of the provision of the law and providing for more stringent regulations of reciprocals. Two special orders of business in the house for this week which are attraling attention are the Babcock bill providing for modifications of the teacher tenure law, and the Crawford bill which would permit trust powers of banks continued by new corporations in case of mergers. Crawford Bill to Floor Babcock’s bill would repeal the 1927 tenure act insofar as it applied to townships and cities under 2,500 population. A split committee report re com- ,

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Mrs. George W. Akerson, ifor some time one of the most prominent members of Washington society, is about to leave the capital and make her residence in New York. Her husband, secretary to President Hoover since the inauguration, has resigned to accept a business position in New York.

mended indefinite postponement and it was moved it be made a special order of business for Wednesday at 10:30 a. m. and the bill be printed. Crawford’s bill was recommended for passage by the committee on banking, of which he is chairman, but after a short debate on the floor it was decided to bring it up for discussion at 11 a. m. Tuesday.

ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE HEAD FLAYS WET PLAN Lewis E. York Advances Views on Liquor Control in Address. “The wets’ plan for governmental control of booze differs with saloon days only that we formerly drank at bars until we had to sit down and they propose to sit at tables and drink until they can not get up.” This declaration was made by Lewis E. York, newly elected superintendent of the Indiana AntiSaloon League, in an address Sunday morning at the Memorial Presbyterian church. He stressed the fact that with prohibition wives and mothers were buying “dry goods,” when in the saloon days, husbands, sweethearts and sons purchased “wet goods.” Veteran Cashier Dead INDIANA HARBOR, Ind., Jan. 26.—Emmett L. Markey, for twentytwo years cashier of, the Indiana Harbor National bank, died at his home here today. The widow and five children survive.

SPEED KING IS IN FLORIDA FOR TRY ATRECORD Malcolm Campbell Seeks to Lower Mark Set by Late Henry Seagrave. Bp United Press DAYTONA BEACH. Fla., Jan. 26. —Captain Malcolm Campbell, British automobile racer, inspected the hard-packed sands of Daytona beach today and hoped for a strong northeast wind. Campbell, the only man living who ever drove a motor car faster than 200 miles an hour —206 to be exact—arrived with his entourage at midnight Sunday and spent the day looking over the scene of his forthcoming assault on the 231.36 miles an hour record of the late Sir Henry Segrave. V His Bluebird 11, powerful land craft equipped with a motor capable of 1,450 horse power, is expected here early this week for preliminary

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tuning. The 'attempt to lower the record will be made in about two weeks, providing the northeast winds develop. There are slight irregularities on the sand surface of the beach which Campbell believes can be rectified only by such a wind which will create a leveling-off process of the sea. FOODFUNOSSOUGHT Money for Hungry School Children Is Asked. An appeal for funds to feed hungry school children was renewed today by W. A. Hacker, assistant superintendent of schools in charge of social service. Various Parent-Teacher Associations already have responded to requests for help Li serving free milk to 2,235 children in public schools. The social service department is spending approximately $l9O a week for milk to distribute without charge. Checks may be sent to the social service in the public school headquarters, Ohio and Meridian streets.

RITES SET FOR JAMES HOOKER Services for Company Head .to Be Held Tuesday. Funeral services for James H. Hooker, president of the SinkcrDavis Company and a director of the Citizens Gas Company, who died Saturday, will be held Tuesday afternoon at Ills home, 670 West drive, Woodruff Place. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Mr. Hooker remained actively at work until be became ill six weeks ago. He was a batchelor and was 72 years old. Bora in Indianapolis. Mr. Hooker began work with the Sinker-Da vis Company as an errand boy when the concern was a small machine shop, and remained to become its president about forty years ago. The company is at 230-270 South Missouri street. Survivors are two sisters, Mrs. Henry R. Bliss and Mrs. H. J. Thompson; a nephew, Henry W. Bliss, secretary of the Sinker-Da vis Company, and three cousins, Miss

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Ella Poor. Miss Jassamtn* Poor and R. Q. Wilkinson, all of Indianapolis. WOMAN SWIM VICTOR CHICAGO. Jan. 26.—Mrs. M. L. Doty, who says she is “pest 60,” defeated Judge Elmer D. Brothers, 70. in a one-mile swimming race at the Hamilton Club pool Sunday

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