Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 226, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 January 1931 — Page 5

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OGDEN TO SEEK ! MORE DETAILS IN CHECK PROBE Principal Figures in Rate Increase Case to Be Questioned. Effort to uncover more details In regard to the checks alleged to have been used for “promotional expense” in putting across a Southern Indiana Telephone and Telegraph Company rate increase order with the public service commission will be made by the attorney-gen-eral’s office today, it was announced by Attorney-General James M. Ogden. George W. Hufsmlth, deputy in charge of the utility investigation, lias gone to Seymour, Ogden said, where he will question both Lon Orifltts, former president of the company, and Dr. H. Lett, Seymour postmaster and one of the principal figures in the transactions. Coart Action Planned The questioning Is to be brought into court in a civil case brought by the company against Griflitts, Ogden explained. Meanwhile Commissioner Calvin Mclntosh of the public service commission continues to defy Odgen’s request that he resign, having been the author of the unanimously approved Seymour rate order around which the Investigation centers. Governor Harry G. Leslie, who could request the Mclntosh resignation, refuses to do so and is leaving the entire probe in Ogden’s hands. Vindication Is Sought Mclntosh sought vindication through a legislative inquiry into the entire affair, but this move is meeting with small success. Unless there are new developments from the Hufsmlth questioning the matter is likely to drift along until Mclntosh’s term expires May 1, when Ogden has assurance that Mclntosh will not be reappointed by Leslie. Talk of a grand jury investigation, first voiced by the attorney-general, has diminished. 250 PUPILS MARCH TO SAFETY IN FIRE SCARE Escaping Steam Thought to Be Smoke in School 40 Alarm. Two hundred and fifty pupils marched from School 40, Walnut street and Senate avenue, this morning when escaping steam, •'which teachers thought was smoke, caused the sounding of the fire alarm. The school alarm rang simultaneously with the alarm sent to the fire department by H. M. Riley, principal. When fire apparatus arrived the children were assembled in the school yard. The steam escaped from a faulty valve on a boiler in the basement and filled every room. Heroes of the fire scare were fifteen trained school traffic officers who, after the children had left the building, checked every room in the building to see that all had reached safety. SEEK NEW EQUIPMENT FOR STREET REPAIRS Present Machinery Compared to Junk by Commissioners. Charging that equipment in the city street department has deteriorated until It has reached a level below “common junk,’’ Wilbur Winihip, commissioner, presented a requisition with the works board Wednesday for new equipment. He estimated it will cost $71,000. Items listed were: Pavement cutter. $400; street flushers, $28,000; road oiler, $7,000; two gravel trucks, $13,000; sewer cleaning machine, $10,000; sweeper, $6,600; tractor, $3,000, and grader, $1,850. The present equipment has been in use ten years, he said. DRY LAW FIGHT LOOMS Section 29 of Volstead Act Target of Senate Attack. Hu Serious-Howard Ncxcsnavcr Alliance WASHINGTON. Jan. 29. Although the federal farm board has loaned California grapemen $16,000,000 and the California antiialoon league head has declared himself satisfied with Section 29 of the Volstead act, a drive will bo made upon this section next week by Senator Morris Sheppard <Dem., Tex.). auto injuries fatal Woman Hurt When She Walked Into Side of Car, Dies at Hospital. Mrs. Lucinda Thompson. 71. of Highland place, died Wednesday night at city hospital of injuries received Tuesday when she walked into the side of a car driven by Keith Hinton. 28, of Frankfort. The accident occurred at Highland place and Thirtieth street. Death was due to concussion of the brain. Hinton was not held. Funeral arrangements have not been announced. C. of C. Meeting /■;, Times Special CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., Jan. >9.—Attendance of 150 is expected Tuesday night for the quarterly meeting of the Chamber of Commerce. Russell Thompson, chamber secretary, is arranging for the affair. The principal speaker will be Thomas K. Kelley, Minneapolis. Dinner will be served. Wives of members have been invited. Negro Writes Poetry /rj Times Special GARY, Ind., Jan. 29.—H. Wendell Winslow, Gary Negro, is janitor by day but a poet and composer of music by night. He has written fifty poems and is the only Negro whose work appears in the Spring Anthology, which is published in London. England. He is the composer of a fox trot. “Why Must We Say Goodby?” Farmer Killed by Auto i;,j United Press MARION, Ind., Jan. 29.—Samuel i Hursch. 70, farmer of Converse, was , killed Wednesday when his auto was truck by another machine. A son. 1 Marvin, escaped uninjured. Driver of the other auto. Dr. C. O. Bowland. veterinary surgeon, suffered oi-jy slight injuries.

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Hill to Enter Guilty Plea Friday in Slaying of Lottery Operator. Carrying out an agreement made several months ago with defense attorneys, Prosecutor Herbert Wilson announced today that life sentence will be pronounced Friday on William C. Hill, 25, former policeman, held for the murder of Charles Zeller, lottery operator, Hill will be sentenced in the Hamilton circuit court at Noblesville. Hill, formerly of 3522 Prospect street, will plead guilty to the charge, electing to avert trial in which acquittal or the death penalty are verdict alternatives. The guilty plea will be accepted under an amended indictment returned by the Marion county grand Jury. Hill confessed shooting Zeller to death March 12, 1930, in front of the Zeller home, 320 Southern avenue. Hill planned to rob the lottery operator of $2,000. Zeller was shot when he scuffled with Hill. Harold Lester, 26, of 1129 Finley avenue, held as a conspirator with Hill in the robbery, will be tried in criminal court. Hill’s case was venued to Noblesville after the former policeman made a sensational, but unsuccessful attempt to escape while being arraigned in court. He was removed to the Indiana reformatory for safe keeping. “We are permitting this man to plead guilty to the murder charge and accept life Imprisonment to save the county expense of a jury trial,” Wilson said, adding: “We believe this step is justified in view; of the death penalty being mandatory in murder robbery cases.” EX-AUDITOR TO PEN Prison Sentence Is. Given Hendricks County Man. By United Press DANVILLE, Ind., Jan. 29.—A state prison sentence of two to fourteen years was given Lloyd Whicker, former Hendricks county auditor, when he was returned here and pleaded guilty to a charge of forgery, Wednesday. He was returned from Pratt, Kan., after being a fugitive since Nov. 8, 1928. Whicker was serving his second term as auditor when he left his office and disappeared after writing his resignation. Investigation by the state board of accounts revealed embezzlement of nearly $3,500, it was charged. Had Whicker stood trial, it was believed that other Hendricks county residents would have been implicated in an SBO,OOO overdraft in the auditor’s accounts. Money was borrowed to replace the overdraft, it was reported. NINTH DEATH FEARED . AS RESULT OF FIRE Baby Sole Surviving Member of Family After Blaze. By United Press WILLIAMSPORT, Pa., Jan. 29. With eight members of the family of Clyde Smith, Powys, near here, victims of the fire which swept the family home, a ninth death was expected today because of the critical condition of Marlow Smith, 18 months, youngest of the family. Bums received in the fire caused the death here Wednesday night of the mother, Mrs. Clyde Smith, 38. The father, Clyde Smith, and six other children perished during the fire. REFUSE STREET LIGHTS Pending Assessment Suits Given as Reason for Denial. Lights will not be installed on Fifty-fourth street and Westfield boulevard, while suits on the matter are pending, A. C. Sallee, superintendent of parks, indicated today when the works board decided to recommend the park board go ahead with the work. Property owners had sued to prevent the city from collecting assessments on widening of the street. The works board reviewed citizens’ demands this morning asking for lights. Country Club Elects I'-'j Times Special CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., Jan. 29.—James Peterson has been reelected president of the Crawfordsville Country Club and A. H. Flannigan elected vice-president. Walter Hulet was re-elected secretary treasurer.

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HIT-RUN AUTO SUSPECT HELD Man Is Accused After Girl Is Hurt in Crash. Herman M. Voggs, 1415 College avenue, today faced charges of drunkenness and failure to stop after an accident, after he is alleged j to have struck and seriously injured Miss Mary Fansler, 17, of New Bethel. Voggs was arrested when a woman who heard the description of the car and the license broadcast over the police radio informed officers the car was parked at Twenty-second street and College avenue. The accident in which the girl was hurt occurred at Thirty-eighth street and Keystone avenue. The car in which she was riding was driven by J. E. Fansler. CHANGE IN STREET LIGHTING PROPOSED Better Service for Residential Districts Suggested. Plans to reduce use of downtown street lights between 1 a. m. and daylight and revert the financial saving into a fund to permit additional lighting in residential districts, was disclosed today by the works board. The plans call for an additional cable throught the present downtown conduits and thus cut off the lights in every other light standard after midnight. P. W. Ross, street lighting engineer of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company, protested because of the cost of installing the cable and added that the company was losing money now on the city contract. E. Kirk McKinney, board president, challenged this statement and indicated the city was willing to drop the contract at any minijte. BANDTTSUSPECT HELD David Duggar Accused of Part in Teeter’s Pharmacy Robbery. Returned here today from Somerset, Ky., David Duggar, 38, will face trial for automobile banditry in connection with the robbery Oct. 30 of Teeter’s pharmacy, 6301 West Washington street. Duggar is alleged to be the third of the bandit gang to be arrested. Charles Dexter and James Wilson, recently were sentenced ten years each at the Indiana state reformatory. HOLD THEFT SUSPECTS Two Youths Arc Quizzed on Series of Purse Snatchings. Two youths, said to have been identified by a victim, were held by police today on vagrancy charges, as suspects in a series of recent northside purse snatchings. Mrs. Margaret Watson, 624 East Forty-ninth street, named Paul Scalf, 2454 North Olney street, and Paul Banks, 2818 North Gale street, as the duo who robbed her of sll2 Jan. 18. Both are 16. HITS BAIH^AsTuXURY Governor Should Wash at Home Instead of Capitol. By United Press ATLANTA, Ga., Jan. 29.—Luxuries of Governor Russell's private bath in the capitol were decried by Representative H. B. Edwards, who asserted Russell should wash at home to save taxpayers’ money.

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ALLEGED BANDIT HELD BY POLICE Robber Shoots Hole in Floor After Taking $9. After he was alleged to have robbed a woman and fired a shot through the floor of her residence, LaVeme Barlow, 26, of 420 East Forty-seventh street, was arrested early today on robbery and larceny charges. According to police, who arrested him at the his home and recovered $9, Barlow is alleged to have stolen from Miss Helen Minor. 515 East Wabash street, the shot he fired struck an unidentified man in the house. Other robberies reported: Robert Long, taxicab driver, 2240 Kenwood avenue, $2; William McDaniel, 54 South Edgehill road. sl2, and Jacob Zinmeister Jr., 3852 English avenue, truck driver, S6O. $30,000 Estate Ready By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Jan. 29.—The $30,000 estate of Mary E. Wood, Anderson resident, will be distributed as provided by her will. Charles Corbett and Charles Wood are each bequeathed $2,500; Sarah Wood. Ella Corbett, Goldie Harold and Harry Corbett, each $2,000, and Carry Richardson, SI,OOO.

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