Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 266, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 March 1931 — Page 2

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SLAYER DUE TO DIE IN CHAIR AS LESLIE YACHTS Chance o? Reprieve Seems Lost, as Governor Is on Vacation. Once more Governor Harry G. Leslie will be cruising the Caribbean while a prisoner of the state pays the death penalty without an appeal to the supreme court, stay of execution or gubernatorial reprieve, it appeared today. Just one year ago a similar case .irose and the Governor could not be reached on the yacht to get possible executive clemency. The man slated for death this time is Frank Scott, Negro. He is in the death row at the Indiana state prison at Michigan City awaiting electrocution March 26. Governor Harry G. Leslie on that date will be yachting off the Florida coast under his present vacation schedule. Sentenced Nov. 24 Scott was sentenced in superior court at South Bend, Nov. 24, 1930, for the murder of Isham Hampton, Negro, whom he alleged had an affair with Scott's wife. The shooting of Hampton took pla.ee July 16, 1930. Judge Orlo R. Deahl pronounced the death sentence, first in St. Joseph county in forty years. Edwin Sommer, pauper attorney, defended the prisoner. No appeal was taken to the supreme court. There were no funds for that purpose. In Indiana the death sentence can not be executed until 100 days elapse. The March 26 date is 129 days afte* the sentence. Its speed is excelled only by that of the prisoner executed under similar circumstances in 1930. First to Die in 1931 He was James Britt, sentenced for a murder growing out of the vote fraud scandals in Lake county. He had no money, no appeal and no chance for a reprieve. It was but a few days over the 100 minimum when he was electrocuted. There were 213 murders in Indiana that year. Britt was the only murdered to suffer capital punishment. State board of health statistics disclose there also were 213 murders in Indiana in 1929 without a single execution by the state. Scott will be the first to die in 1931—probably the last. Reprieve Net Requested Gaylord Morton, secretary to Leslie and in charge of prison affairs, said that he had inquired at the prison if anyone would be scheduled to die during the Governor’s postlegislative vacation cruise and was told there was not. Later he learned of Scott's plight. He said today no official request for executive clemency has come to the Governor’s office. If there should be one, lie will “try and get in touch with the Governor,” Morton said. The pauper defense attorney said after the trial he would seek a commutation of sentence, according to reports from South Bend to the United Press. The report also states that he said that he prepared a petition for relatives.

ARGUE ON BOND ISSUE State Tax Commissioners to Visit Proposed Decatur School Site. State tax commissioners will visit the proposed Decatur township school site and also inspect the building plans in deciding upon a bond issue, size of which has been protested before the state board. Pro and con of the building plans were argued before the board members Tuesday with Chairman James Showalter presiding. Opponents assert that the building program now is too elaborate and the site and building costs would mount to more than $250,000. The township trustees plan paying SSOO an acre for land when a good site could be bought for S3OO an acre, they contended. GAS ATTENDANT ROBBED Two Bandits in Ford Truck Get S2O and Pistol. Two men in a Ford truck held up Lloyd Murphy, 812 West New York street, attendant at the O’Connor Brothers’ filling station, 951 West New York street, early today, taking S2O and a pistol from Murphy’s pocket. BOY SERIOUSLY HURT Melvin Mahoney, 9, Struck by Auto, Is in Critical Condition. Condition of Melvin Mahoney. 9, of 417 South Warman avenue, who dashed from a curb into the path of an automobile at Belle Vieu place and West Washington street Tuesday afternoon, was critical today, city hospital physicians reported. His skull was fractured. Russell Tipton, R. R. 12, Box 284, the driver, was not held.

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Camera to ‘Shoot’ Inner Ear Invented by Local Physician

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BUTLER MAY BE REINSTATED School Association to Act on Petition Soon. Prospects for reinstatement of Butler university in the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools today appeared bright as action on Butler’s petitin was promised by Friday. J. W. Atherton, Butler financial secretary, late Tuesday received a telegram from Dean J. W. Putnam, who with President Robert J. Aley, is attending the association’s annual meeting in Chicago. Putnam said action had been promised Friday and that the committee members appeared to receive the petition favorably, holding that Butler practically had met all requirements for reinstatement. The association dropped Butler from the accredited list a year ago when it was charged athletics had assumed a magnitude too great in proportion to size of the institution’s endowment. Criticism was made that George (Potsyi Clark, athletic, coach, was being paid a larger salary than Dr. Aley and smallness of the endowment and lack of certain library facilities also were cited. MAN GIVEN 4 FINES. SENTENCE AT ONCE Blind Tiger, Traffic Charges Pressed; Speeding Count Dismissed. Every man may have his day in court but Clarence Dicks, 809 Shepard street, had an exceptionally busy one today in the municipal court of Judge Paul C. Wetter. Dicks was fined on four charges and one charge was dismissed against him. He was fined SIOO and costs and given thirty days in jail on a blind tiger count; $5 and costs on a reckless driving charge; $1 and costs on two counts of no driving license and no license for his motorcar. A speeding charge was dismissed by Judge Wetter. He was arrested on the blind tiger charge on March 10, and on the other charges on March 15. GIRL SPEAKER VICTOR .Sixth District Title Wort by Esther Conway, Morristown. Ft;/ Times Special NEWCASTLE, Ind„ March 18.— Esther Conway, student in Morristown high school, Shelby county, is the winner of the Sixth district constitutional oratorical contest held here. Donald Turner, Connersville, was second and Marian Naden, Rushville, third. Participation prizes were given Esther Kelso, Laurel, Franklin county; Melville Watson, Greenfield, Hancock county; Wilbur Conway, Newcastle, Henry county; Roland W. Snyder, Brownsville, Union county, and Eloise Collins, Fountain City, Wayne county. Judge Roscoe C. O'Byrne. Brookville, district chairman was in charge of the contest. Harold Rogers, Knightstown, Henry county, was the winner of an essay contest held in connection with the oratorical contest. FIGHT FOLLOWED CRASH Motorists Parties to Two Suits Filed at Anderson. Hi/ Times Special ANDERSON. Ind.. March 18 Charles R. Quinn got the worst of it when his automobile collided with one driven by William Gaynes on the Moonsville road, he complains in two suit filed against Jaynes and his father John. One of the actions demands S2OO for damage to the plaintiff’s automobile. In the other, Quinn seeks to recover SSOO for injuries alleged to have been suffered when he was severely beaten by the driver of the other car. The attack which followed the collision was without provocation, Quinn asserts. John Jaynes is made defendant because he owns the automobile which was being driven by his son. Churches to Use Theater Fp Times Special KOKOMO. Ind., March 18.—The Kokomo Ministerial Association has agreed to plans to hold a special Holy week service at a downtown theater. The service will be held at noon and will appeal particularly to employed persons. Veteran Teacher Dies B<j Times Special NOBLESVILLE. Ind.. March 18.— L. M. Brandon. 70, a central Indiana school teacher in the pioneer days, died suddenly at his home near her* while pumping water. vi y

Doctor Finds Instrument Will Help Others, but Not Own Deafness. To invent a machine which will assist in correcting other people’s ear troubles, yet to find that it will not help cure his own partial deafness is the predicament in which Dr. Richard Millar, director of the photography division of the Methodist hospital, finds himself. Many years ago the ingenious Scotchman took up exercise in the same strenuous way in which he goes into anything that he is interested. A hemorrhage injured the part of the brain controlling the functions of the ear. Apparatus has not yet been devised which can locate the region affected. “That will come,” said Millar. “The ear camera is a step forward.” The camera pictured above will take photographs which are 120 times as large as the inner ear. With the use of the concave mirror a powerful beam of heatless light is focused into the ear. The exposure is made through a hole in the center of the mirror, which is turned to deflect the light from the lens of the camera. It is possible, for the first time in medical history, to take photographs of the interior of the ear. Dr. Millar is now at work on a camera which will take pictures of the back of the eye. In his workrooms he has equipment with wlr 'h he can photograph the interior of the stomach, bladder, nostrils and other parts of the body. The stomach camera is his own development. The patient swallows the little camera in which there are sixteen pin-point lenses. A tiny bulb of 12,000-candle power makes pictures possible. The negatives, though very small, are so clear that prints and enlargements can be made to show the progress of healing measures. PRISONER IDENTIFIED Two Women Employes of Bank Brand Roscoe Ray at Muncie. By Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., March 18—Roscoe Ray, alleged bank bandit, has been branded here by two women as one of two men who robbed the Daleville Commercial bank, Dec. 19. Ray was identified by Mrs. J. N. Barnard and Miss Margaret Good, clerks in the bank, who were bound and gagged by the bandits. More than SBOO was taken. Ray also has been identified as one of the four men who robbed the Albany State bank on Jan. 3. He denies both charges. Liquor Term Suspended By Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind., March 18.— When Sheriff J. W. Foust attempted to handcuff Herschel Helms of Helmsburg, whom he arrested at a dance hall west of here, Helms brake from his custody and ran. The officer, however, soon re-arrested him and also arrested Clarence Barnes, Helmsburg. Both were charged with intoxication and Helms with possession of liquor. Each was fined $lO and costs amounting to S4O on the drunk charge, and Helms was fined SIOO and costs making $l3O, and ■ given a thirty-day sentence.

BIG ZERO IS DRAWN BY STATE IN ARMORY QUIZ

BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Governor Harry G. Leslie spent $4,118.75 for a board of accounts examination of state armories built under the holding company plan, permitted two years to elapse in making the examination, and then neglected to submit the report to the 1931 general assembly. These facts were brought to light by an audit of expenditures from the Governor's emergency contingent fund today. The heavy expenditure. without result, is listed as a simple item: “Armories investigation, $4,118.75.” It is but one o many items which served to exhaust the fund of $200,000 a year. The only emergency expenditure, however, where life and limb was involved was SI,OOO given to aid the stricken miners’ families in the Linton disaster. No Drought Relief The major emergency of drought relief brought forth not a nickel from the Governor's emergency fund. Leslie took charge of the armories investigation when it was provided for by statute in the 1929 general assembly. The statute carried an emergency clause, , which did not mean that the should

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3 OVERCOME IN PHARMACY FIRE Battalion Chief, Men Are Smoke Victims. A battalion chief and two firemen were overcome with smoke while fighting a blaze that damaged a pharmacy and grocery more than $9,000 in the 3300 block Clifton street early today. Firemen from Engine House 23 dragged Battalion Chief Robert Hansell to safety when he succumbed to smoke in the Crosley pharmacy, 3342 Clifton street. He was treated at city hospital and dismissed. Later Jesse Hoops and Clarence Ottinger, both from 23 company, became unconscious .from smoke, and they, too, were given medical aid. The fire started near the furnace in the basement of the pharmacy, and spread to an adjoining grocery operated by Phillip Polock. Ralph Crosley, owner of the building, said his loss would be near SB,OOO, and Polock said damage to his stock would be more than SI,OOO.

BURGLAR IS ROUTED Flees, Leaving All His Loot Behind Him. A burglar’s hard work went for naught today when he was forced to leap from the roof of a two-story building and flee, leaving his loot of groceries and fruit behind. Reports of a man on the roof of the Swiss Cleaners, 1112 North Illinois street, sent Ed Barnes, cleaning firm employe, a,nd Andy McOuat, merchant policeman, to the roof. They arrived in time to see the burglar leap into an alley in the rear. Investigation revealed the thief had smashed a window to enter Cravens’ restaurant, 1106 North Illinois, and that he had bored thorugh the wall into the Chester Williams grocery. 1104 North Illinois street, appropriating merchandise in each place. LAWNMOWER Ts STOLEN It’s One of the First Signs of Spring; Loss Is $5. The first sign of spring found its way to the blotter at police headquarters today. Lawrence Cox, 3651 North Capitol avenue, reported to police that a thief who entered his garage stole a lawnmower valued at $5. Farm Term for Parties By United Press GARY, Ind., March 18.—Kenneth Hauk, 28. former teacher and coach of Merrillville high schoo.. was fined $25 and sentenced to ninety days imprisonment in the state penal farm, and Gerald Quillen, 19. member of the school basketball team was given a suspended sentence on charges of contributing to delinquency of several girls. Both were tried here. Hauk and Quillen took high school girls on drinking parties.

;be paid for out of the emergency fund, but that the work was to be done immediately. But that was back in 1929. First interest the Governor showed was to get the authors of the bill to strike out a SIO,OOO appropriation which would have permitted the work to be completed as the emergency clause provided. “I'll finance this,” he declared. Then months elapsed and absolutely nothing was done. By constant prodding from the press, the work finally got under way. Alibi Left for Orr Just before the 1931 legislature convened, Lawrence F. Orr, chief examiner of the state board of accounts, said that the final report would be ready to submit to the lawmakers who ordered the investigation made. But it wasn't submitted. Governor Leslie paid the probe bill from his emergency fund and went yachting. Orr was left alone to figure out the alibi, when the expenditure without result was disclosed. “The report isn’t quite ready yet and it belongs by right to the Governor,” Orr explained. “The reason we didn't submit it to the legislature was because the legislators never asked lor it,”

CHIEF PROBES POLICE LIQUOR CASE EVIDENCE Judge Suggests Quiz on Inexcusable Failure’ to Produce Alcohol. Alleged discrepancies in testimony of police officers in a recent criminal court liquor case were the subject of a probe opened today by Police Chief Jerry Kinney. Kinney announced he had opened an investigation after receiving “further facts.” Safety board members indicated they would not institute a probe. The quiz was started on suggestion of Judge Frank P. Baker, who charged the police officers with ’inexcusable failure” for inability to produce evidence against William Harrington, 227 South Grace street, charged with transporting liquor. Harrington was acquitted by a jury and the officers, who said the liquor was destroyed by court order, were unable to say whether they had confiscated “grain, sugar or wood alcohol, used in radiators.” Officers in the case are Jacob Hudgins, Alex Dunwoodie and Dalin Judd. Kinney indicated that he would call them before him in the next few days. Kinney probably will report the findings of his investigation to the safety board. In the court trial, officer" testified they learned the liquor had been destroyed on order of Judge Clifton R. Cameron. Cameron said the “liquor might have been destroyed by accident.” “I don’t see how the officers can be held responsible when the evidence was destroyed on order of a judge,” Charles Myers, safety board president, stated today. Kinney, however, said he had been presented “additional information” revealing discrepancies in the officers’ testimony that would be the basis for his investigation.

CAB ORDINANCE FATEJOOBIFUL Council, Operators Can Not Agree on Provisions. Future taxicab regulation by the city was in a chaotic condition today as the city council prepared to meet to reconsider the proposed ordinance for more rigid regulation. The council, after hearing arguments from cab operators Monday night, is expected to strike out several proposals in the ordinance tonight, meeting in committee of the whole. Since neither cab operators nor council members have agreed on what is needed in way of regulation, what will be done is dobutful. One section in the proposed ordinance, aiming at curbing lawlessness in the cab business, requiring drivers to reveal their character records for five years prior to applying for licenses, looms as one possible outcome of tonight’s session. Nearly 100 small cab owners are opposing stringent supervision of taxicab stands. Opponents attacking the “convenience and necessity” provision in the ordinance that would give city officials power to decide, after a public hearing, whether anew cab company should be organized. PHYSICIANS HOPE FOR BOY IN RESPIRATOR Death Near After Two Weeks’ Fight Against Lung Paralysis. By United Press EVANSTON, 111., March 18. — Seven-year-old Charles Caughey, who has been making a courageous fight for life in a respirator at St. Francis hospital, was near death today, but his physicians and nurses still were hopeful. Charles had been in the respirator for thirteen days, since his throat and lung muscles became paralyzed as a result of diphtheria. He was improving rapidly until a few days ago, when pneumonia developed. With his fever running as high as 107 and a terrific strain upon his weakened heart, hope then almost was abandoned. Tuesday night, however, Charles’ condition began to improve. Pay Day Missed Again By Times Special MARION, Ind.. March 18.—City employes have had their second payless pay day within the last few weeks. Checks were not paid due to a shortage In the general fund and the inability to obtain a tax advance from the county treasurer. The employes probably will receive pay checks following the sale of $25,000 in time warrants Friday.

Later he modified this statement and admitted that both Senators Thurman A. Gottschalk (Dem., Adams, Blackford and Wells) and Alonzo H. Lindley (Rep., Fountain, Vermillion and Warren) had inquired for the report several times during the legislative session. “Anyway, the report doesn’t show anything,” Orr asserted, “that is, anything pf a criminal nature.” In 1929 the legislature launched the move when it was learned that armories were being built throughout the state under a holding company plan whereby The Peoples State bank provided the funds and Ostrom Realty and Construction Company, a bank subsidiary, did the building. This scheme had been promoted under the regime of former Governor Ed Jackson, through the office of the adjutant-general. All the state had to do was to take care of the financing for twenty years or so and then it owned the property. Besides ordering the probe of past performances of this kind, the 1929 legislature called a halt to this building program and decided that the state could build and pay for its own armories much more .cheaply.

Lingle Suspect on Trial

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Either “the hardest man in the country” or merely a cheap slugger, Leo V. Brothers, cold and supercilious, watched selection of a jury in Chicago to try him for the murder of Alfred Lingle, Chicago Tribune reporter. Inset at top is Betty Cook, said to be a sweetheart of Brothers, and a witness for him. Below are the chief counsel for the prosecution and the defense, Assistant State’s Attorney C. Wayland Brooks (left) and Louis Piquett, snapped in court.

JUDGES FILE SUIT • TO KILL PAY CUT

Council Salary Slash From SIO,OOO to $7,000 Yearly Fought. Eight Marion county judges filed mandate suits in circuit court today to nullify the $3,000 salary cut attempted by the county council last August. Asking that County Auditor

RECEIVER IS ASKEO Chevolair Motors, Inc., Is Defendant in Action. Appointment of a receiver for the Chevolair Motors, Inc., Tenth street and the canal, manufacturers of airplane motors, was asked in a suit filed Tuesday in probate court by the Bohm Aluminum and Brass Corporation of Detroit, Mich. The suit alleges that there is no market for airplane motors and that the concern is in imminent danger of insolvency. Assets of the company were estimated at $4,000. The Detroit Company is owed $3,072, the petition avers. Otto A. Keuhrmann, secretarytreasurer of the company, expressed surprise when told that the petition had been filed. “Stocks and tools that we have on hand are worth many times the amount of the claim. I can’t understand the action unless it has been taken by Mr. Chevrolet, who is in Detroit now,” he said. Arthur Chevrolet is president and general manager of the company. DOG IS MIND READER “Canniest Canine” Adds, Does Card Tricks for Senator. WASHINGTON, March 18.—Bozo is quite the canniest canine seen

in this city for many a day. He is the only dog . said to be able to read his master's mind. A person asks him a question and it is “thought transferred” and immediately answered. In a recent demonstration for Senator Fletcher at the C apitol, Bozo added, sub-

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tracted and did card tricks. Fire Damages Church By Times Special MARION, Ind., March 18.—Fire starting from an overheated furnace in the basement caused damage estimated at more than $2,000 to the St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran church here. A large hole was burned in the floor and the interior damaged by heat and smoke.

For the Convenience of the Buying Public Who Find it Inconvenient to Shop During the Day NORMAN’S will Remain Open MONDAY, WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY NIGHTS. 237-241 E. Washington

Harry Dunn be mandated to pay monthly salaries on the SIO,OOO-a---year basis, the suits charge that the council illegally cut tlie salaries to $7,000, and that the action was “without effect.” Defendants are Dunn and County Treasurer Clyde E. Robinson. Tlie suits ask that Robinson be mandated to honor salary checks on the SIO,OOO basis. Judges are Joseph R. Williams, superior court two; John W. Kern, room one; William R. Pickens, room 3; Clarence E. Weir, room 4; Russell Ryan, room five; Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker; Probate Judge Smiley N. Chambers, and Juvenile Judge John F. Geckler. Under an act of the legislature, the state pays $4,200 of each judge’s salary, and the county the $5,800 balance. • The latter figure was established by the county council in May, 1927, according to the suits. Attorneys for the judges were Fred C. Cause, Ralph Kane and Howard Young.

How to Lose Fat a Pound a Day on a Full Stomach

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DELEGATES ASK HIGHWAY ALONG LAKE MICHIGAN ‘World's Fair’ Road Urged Before Commission by Calumet Boosters. Large delegations from northern Indiana towns and cities are scheduled to appear before the state highway commission this afternoon to urge the commission construct a 200-foot Chicago world’s fair highway along Lake Michigan. Tlie plan is to have the road ready for the Chicago fair in 1933 and to loop the lake completely, running through the states of Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin. Mayors, aldermen, county commissioners and other leading political and civic lights are expected to appear. A. P. Melton (Deni., Garyi member of the commission, has already declared lie favored the project. South Bend, Mishawaka, Hammond, Gary, East Chicago and all the Calumet district would be covered by the route. This morning a delegation headed by S. O. Mosier, Georgetown, appeared to urge re-routing of State road 64. Dearborn county was headed by Charles A. Lowe. Director John J. Brown of the state highway department announced that the commissioners will not consider the $1,750,000 contract for the 1931 cement supply today. Bids are still being tabulated, lie said.

YOUNG WIFE SUICIDE: HUSBAND GRIEF CRAZED Tries to Take Gun From Deputy Sheriff to Encf His Life. As vainly as when the. deed first was discovered, relatives of Mrs. Clara Bush, 19, and police today sought, a motive that led her to carry her 3-months-old baby to bed and then knot a towel around her throat and hang herself in her home in Drexel Gardens, southwest of the city, late Tuesday. Body was found by her husband, Clay Bush, when he returned from work. He notified deputy sheriffs and then, crazed with grief, tried desperately twice to take a gun from Deputy Sheriff Pearl Craig to end his own life. Both times lie was overpowered, and later lodged in county jail on a vagrancy charge to insure, against further attempts at suicide. FARM RELIEF IS TOPIC i Loan Association Officials Will Have Annual Meeting. Farm relief problems will be discussed at the twelfth annual meeting of directors, officers and secre-tary-treasurers of National Farm Loan Associations in Indiana Thursday at the Claypool. Truck Driver Killed KENDALLVILLE, Ind.. March 18. —The body of Mack Manning. 55, Kendallville, was found beneath his light truck where it left the road and overturned. William Vanett, Cromwell, found the body, with the skull crushed.

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