Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 291, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 April 1931 — Page 11

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WORKING WIFE CONTEST STIRS HOT ARGUMENT Deadline on Letters Is at Midnight: Majority Are in Negative. MAN BOOSTS ‘YES’ SIDE Women Also Debate For and Against Jobs for Their Sex. Should wives work? Or shouldn’t they? Hundreds of Times readers have expressed their views (mostly in the negative! on this question in the last week, during the “Should Wives Work?’’ contest, which ends at mid- j night. Any letters postmarked be- j fore that hour will be given con- j slderation by the Judges in award- j ing the two $lO prizes, one for the best negative letter and one for the best affirmative argument. Here are four letters submitted today. The first is by J. Stanley Jones, Flora, Ind.: “Set Them to Work” The arguments used to prove that a wife should not work, hearken back to the dark ages. Back to the time when religion and superstition had woman classed as the property of her husband. It seems to me that that day has passed and anew day is here. I .think the first thing that should be done now is to declare another emancipation proclamation, freeing women from this slavery. What right does mere man have to decide what kind of career his wife should choose? In most cases it is enough that she condescend to marry him. She surely is entitled to as much privilege as is the man whom she decided to marry. If a wife would rather be a housewife and raise a family than to enter a business career, all well and good. But if she wants to try her hand at the art of making money, then I say, “Luck to her.” So far as her taking money from some father of a large family—that is one of the breaks of the game of life. Nature has been and always will be unjust, in that one of her fundamental laws is, “the survival of the fittest.” There always will be someone taking money from someone else more deserving. Therefore, I think there is only One reason why a wife should be entitled to work if she wants to and no reason why she should be prohibited from doing so. That reason is expressed in one word—freedom. One in the Affirmative Here are the views of Mrs. J. M. I Harrington, 2963 North Talbott | street: Certainly wife should work, if she is really a wife, rather than a husbands social ornament. A real marriage is not built upon romantic illusions carried over from the days of courtship, but upon the chared trials that test the metle of which two people are made. It follows that necessary trials of life may require of a wife that unexpected duty to her husband or family of employing herself in the commercial field in any honorable capacity for which she may be fitted. It would seem to be implied that the vow of “love, honor and obey” imputes to the wife a duty to all reasonable things necessary to happy and successful fulfillment of that vow. When, without fault of a husband, the welfare and home of his family is threatened by financial or business reverses, who but a wife should be his partner in the field of business to save their happiness? Things which really bind husbands and wives together are the anxieties, the struggles and the cares that they share: the work that they do to make a home; the sacrifices they make for each other; the sick ones they watch over together; the little coffins they weep over; the disappointments and heartbreaks they endure together; the salary checks they deposit together. It is the hammering of life on two hearts that beats them into one. Wives should work if it is necessary to maintain family or home as it should be maintained. But the present day privilege of employment in the business world which is extended to wives should not be abused by women who, to the neglect of their family and home, desert their proper place for “just a thrill.” She Thinks So, Too This is the way Helen Santisteban. 1919 East. Tenth street, Columbus, Ind., sees the matter: Why should a woman not work If she is capable? You say (1) She is keeping a man who has a family to support out of a job. (2) Woman's place is in the home. (3) Women are too delicate to work. I shall endeavor to prove that you are wrong. 1 1 i The position is given to the most capable person, regardless of sex or need of money. If a woman .is the most capable, she should have the position. i2> if a woman is suited to domestic work her place is in the home. A woman who loves to cook, sew, and keep house will not work in a factory unless she is forced to! If a woman is strong and loves the outdoors, she never should stay in the home. (3) Why dq people harp about the Weaker sex? In most cases women kre as healthy as men. If a woman Is delicate she should get a position with a healthy, cheerful atmosphere. Keeping Men Jobless And the last letter is from Mrs. P’aul Whipple, 2445 Park avenue, which follows; I do not think that wives, whose husbands can support them, should Work. They are keeping men and girls who really need the work from employment and obtaining a living wage, especially when they support their parents or families. If every large corporation made

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AIR CRASH FATAL TO R. C. WINSLOW

City Manufacturer Dead of Injuries Incurred in Fall Wednesday. His wife at his bedside, Robert C. Winslow, 27, of 3224 North Pennsylvania street, died in Highland hospital, Beacon, N. Y., early today from injuries suffered when his plane crashed there Wednesday morning. Body of Albert B. Stine. 27, of 3511 North Sherman drive, killed in the crash, was to arrive here at 11:50 this morning. George Benton, Minneapolis business man, third man in the plane, was in the hospital at Beacon with a fractured hip. Mr. Winslow was president and Mr. Stine vice-president of the Automatic Utility Company, formerly the Time-O-Stat Company. With Benton, with whom they were negotiating sale of the firm, they were en route from New York to Buffalo, N. Y., when a broken water line forced them down on grounds of the Matteawan hospital for criminal insane, near Beacon. Plane Nose Buried Deep The line repaired, they took off from the small field, but failed to gain altitude. Undercarriage of the plane brushed a tree top and the ship nosed over, falling only a short distance, but burying its nose deep in a plowed field. Mr. Stine was dead when taken from, the wreckage. Mr. Winslow was taken to the hospital with a skull fracture and both legs broken. Mrs. Winslow left in an airplane with Walker Winslow, brother of the dead pilot, and landed at Curtiss' field, New York, Wednesday night. From there they continued to Beacon by train, arriving more than an hour before Mr. Winslow died. Besides presidency of the Automatic Utility firm, Mr. Winslow held the treasurership of the Sherman Oil-Gas Burner Company. He was a native of Indianapolis, the son of the late W. W. Winslow. Served in World War He attended Mercersburg academy and graduatedd from the University of Pennsylvania in 1919, after having served as a naval pilot during the World war. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. Surviving him are the widow, Mrs. Margaret Winslow; his mother and two children, Margaret and Barbara. Mr. Stine was born in Burnettsville, Ind., and had lived here only three years. He formerly was employed by the Citizens Gas Company. Survivors are: The widow, Mrs. Maybelle Stine: his mother, Mrs. Clive Stine, and an uncle and three aunts. Mr. Winslow r and Mr. Stine left Saturday to attend a convention in Philadelphia and to discuss sale of their firm here. Automatic Untility manufactures electric signs. GIVEN $4,000 DAMAGES Workman Compensated for Injury Received at Butler Stadium. Jury in superior court three today awarded $4,000 damages to Leander F. Kimberlin. against the Marion County Construction Company for injury sustained while he worked on construction of the Butler stadium. A rock hurled by a dynamite blast struck him. Kimberlin asked $45,000 damages. it a rule not to employ married women, unless they are widows, sickness in their families or their husbands are out of work, the country would be a great deal better off. A wife who works when her husband can support her is selfish and does not give any consideration to her other women co-workers, who are trying to earn an honest living. Many girls, I believe, are driven to do things they would not consider if it were not for this condition. Wives who work just for luxuries would be a great deal better off if they would put some of their time in doing charity work. Wives that find time heavy on their hands are not real home workers and I doubt if their work In the business world would be of great experience to them, only in the money it compensates them to purchase fine clothes. They necessarily can work for smaller salary than other women are able to, for the fact they have other means of support and the woman worker, by necessity, has no other choice.

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Monkey Case By Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., April 16.—W. H. Walker, city park superintendent, is directed in a court judgment to pay S3O to Robert L. Earle, owner of two monkeys killed by the superintendent. Earle sued for $125. The monkeys escaped to a park, and the defense contended that as they had returned to a wild state, Earle no longer had any property rights in them. It was also asserted the animals were destroying park property and endangering children.

Supreme Court Evades Hearing Stephenson Case Three Indiana supreme court judges succeeded in talking the at-torney-general’s office out of an attempt to bring the D. C. Stephenson coram nobis proceedings, pending in Hamilton circuit court, at Noblesville, into the high court for a writ of prohibition. So Attorney General James M. Ogden today prepared to fight the case in the lower court by filing a motion to dismiss Friday. V. Ed Funk, deputy attorneygeneral, took a long petition for a writ of prohibition into the supreme court clerk’s office late Wednesday. He marked it “Filed” and took it up to the court. Customary procedure is for a single judge of the high court to Issue a temporary restraining order and the case is set for hearing on a permanent writ of prohibition, the defendent to appear and show cause, if any, why it should not be issued. But Funk found three judges on duty Wednesday afternoon. They were Chief Justice David A. Myers and Judges Julius C. Travis and William P. Treanor. Petition Withdrawn Funk conferred with them for two hours. He then returned to Ogden's office and the petition for writ of prohibition was withdrawn. Acting on high court advice, Ogden then decided to proceed in the Hamilton circuit court. It was pointed out that if the high court objected to handling the matter at the start it was rather useless to proceed there. The request for writ of prohibition was based on the grounds that Judge Fred E. Hines of the Hamilton court lacks jurisdiction and jurisdiction would lie only with Will M. Sparks, former judge at Rushville, but now on the federal appeals bench in Chicago. New Evidence Cited Judge Sparks presided at the Stephenson murder trial, when the one-time Ku-Klux Klan chief was sentenced to the Indiana state prison for life for the death of Miss Madge Oberholtzer of Indianapolis. The coram nobis is sought by Stephenson attorneys to introduce new evidence, said to have been discovered since the conviction. Similar proceeding was refused by the supreme court, where the murder appeal has been pending since 1926. Park Board Member Quits By Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind.. April 16. J. M. Worthington, local business man. has resigned as a member of the Noblesville park board and assigned as a reason that he found it necessary to give more time to his business. The city council will appoint his successor at its next meeting.

TIMES BEAUTY SCHOOL WILL OPEN NEXT THURSDAY

T>EAUTY again is tapping at your door. It's yours, if you’ll spare just a few hours of your time. The Times Beauty School, magnet for hundreds of city women last year, ■will open next Thursday, April 23. in the Travertine room of the Lincoln hotel, to continue through Saturday, April 25.

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U. S. TIRED OF KEEPING GUARD IN NICARAGUA About Ready to Liquidate Its Responsibilities and Get Out. LIVES PROTECTION ONLY Stimson Tells Marines to Aid American Citizens and Do No More. BY JOSEPH H. BAIRD United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 16.—Recent fighting, in Nicaragua has brought forth strong indications that the administration is weary of its fiveyear vigil there, and wants to liquidate its responsibilities at the earliest possible time. If conditions thwart that purpose, then, at least the administration hopes to avoid any move which might involve the United States more deeply. These views, observers believe, motivated the .‘-tate department’s refusal to use marines at Puerto Cabezas to protect property of the Standard Fruit and Steamship Company. State Secretary Henry L. Stimson instructed the marines to safeguard life in Puerto Cabezas while the native guardia nacionale was absent—and nothing more. No General Campaign The administration, it can be ! stated on the highest authority, ; does not propose to enter a general i campaign to protect American property throughout Nicaragua. The secretary believes that an American company, entering a foreign nation, does so with the foreknowledge that it is amenable to that nation's laws, and subject to the risk of internal disorders. Barring highly sensational and , unforseen developments, it may be ! stated the administration will not, in the future, use marine forces to protect United States property in ; Nicaragua. j This new attitude of the administration, in the opinion of observers here, marks a clear-cut change from the Coolidge policy. Coolidge for Protection Mr. Hoover’s predecessor, in exi plaining why marines were being I sent to Nicaragua, said American : property there must be protected. So eager is the Hoover administration to clear up the Nicaraguan imbroglio, which it inherited from the Coolidge regime, that considerable pressure was brought to bear on President Moncada of Nicaragua recently to have him increase the guardia nacionale so marines could be withdrawn. Subsequently, Stimson announced all but 500 marines would be taken out this June. Whether the recent earthquake—necessitating the spending of money for reconstruction which would have been applied to the guardia ; nacionale—and the revival of insurgent warfare will permit this step is a matter of doubt.

NEW DRIVE ON COFFIN STARTS Duvall Faction Organizes to Oust ‘The Boss.’ Another revolt against George V. Coffin’s domination of the Republican county organization was under way today. This time the purpose Is to hold weekly meetings of precinct committeemen until a sufficient number have been pledged to 'call a county convention, oust Clyde R. Robinson, county treasurer and Coffin county chairman, and set up anew county organization. First meeting of the insurgents was held Wednesday night at the home of Earl Garrett, former city marketmaster under former Mayor John L. Duvall. Garrett called the meeting and presided. Among the seventy-five present who are attempting to reform the Republican organization were: Mayor Duvall, who recently completed a thirty-day sentence In the Marlon county Jail; W. Todd Young former Coffin ward chairman; Harry D. Tutewiler and Mrs. Julia Belle Tutewiler. who formerly served as Seventh district vice-chairman, and Jesse Hutsell, who was Duvall's fire department chief. Speakers included Ira M. Holmes, former Coffin election commissioner and a contender for the G. O. P. nomination for congress In 1930 on a “wet” platform; Harry Kratnes, former deputy sheriff; Ed Kuhns, Duvall park board member; William Yule, former First ward leader, and Fred Emmelman. uncle of Wayne G. Emmelman. Coffin county secretary. A meeting has been called by Garrett for next Wednesday night. WIDEN POSTAL DRIVE Twenty-Five Feet Addition to Give Mail Trucks Ample Room. The driveway on the north side of the postoffice for mail truck* m being widened twenty-five feet to give ample parking space for loading and unloading mail. The drive will be covered by the new wing of the postoffice upon its completion.

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INSURANCE MAN DIES Isaac N. Harlan Will Be Buried Saturday. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Saturday for Isaac N. Harlan, 74, of 774 East drive, Woodruff Place, widely known insurance man who died at his home Wednesday night after a short illness. Mr. Harlan wak a native of Indianapolis, and in his early life was a school teacher here. For fortyfive years, until his death, he main-

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tained insurance offices on East Market street. Survivors are the widow, Mrs. Elizabeth G. Harlan; a daughter, Miss Della Harlan; a son, Myron Smith Harlan, all of Indianapolis, and a granddaughter, Miss Martha Elizabeth McCool of Gary. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. KILLS SELF IN BLAST Kentucky Miner Strings Expjpsive to Body in Tragedy. WHITESBURG, Ky., April 16—W. M. Bailey, 26, a miner, killed himself by attaching explosives to battery wires fastened about his body, an investigation showed today. The coroner’s verdict was suicide.

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TRIAL FOR PANTAGES Judge Orders Four Held in Girl Mart Case. By United Press SAN DIEGO, April 16.—Alexander Pantages, multimillionaire showman, and feur co-defendants must defend themselves in superior court next week on charges of contributing to the delinquency of two minor girls. Evidence at a three-day preliminary hearing convinced Judge Arthur L. Mundo that Pantages, Jesse: H. Shreve, broker; John P. Mills, real estate man; Mrs. Olive Clark Day and William Jcbelmann should' be held to the higher court. The charges grew outof a party Oct. 30, when Mrs. Day and Jobelman were said to have brought the girls here. Gregg Funeral Friday By United Press VINCENNES. Ind., April 16.—Funeral services for Claude E. Gregg, former mayor of Vincennes, will be held Friday afternoon at the residence here. w

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COUNTY PROBE TO BE FACED BY CORONER Inquiry Into Expenditures Will Include Search of Autopsy Costs. SIFT CONSTABLE’S ACTS Charges Made for Serving Subpenas Are Being Investigated. BY DICK MILLER Investigation of expenditures and activities of Coroner Fred H. Vehling is to be launched soon by county commissioners, It was learned today. Commissioners are expected to take their first step in the proba on recommendation of Harvey Grabill, county attorney, that officials determine whether the SI,BOO county autopsy fund of Vehling’s has been expended legally. Grabill said today he will call commissioners’ attention to the fact that Vehling’s autopsy found now is exhausted, after Willing has held office less than four months. Commissioners will be advised by Grabill to give Vehling an opportunity to prove that each of the autopsies, for which a $25 fee is paid, were conducted legally. Under the law the coroner is not authorized to conduct an autopsy unless the death is caused by violence or casualty. Employes’ Acts Probed Grabill pointed out that, under some conditions, it might be necessary for the coroner to spend more than the SI,BOO annual appropriation. However, Grabill said, it also could be possible that this amount would be sufficient or more than enough to be expended legally within a year. While commissioners are probing the situation, Grabill said he also will ask them to sift activities of Vehling’s employes. Voucher claims of Hugo Sommers, constable, for costs of subpenaing witnesses are expected to come before commissioners. Due to similarity of the amounts on many of the mileage cost claims, it appears that Sommers traveled the same distance each time to serve inquest witnesses. Prosecution Is Possible According to Indiana statutes, the fee must be charged only for miles actually traversed in serving the writs. If it is revealed that mileage has been claimed on writs served by mail, or when witnesses were called by phone, Grabill indicated prosecution could be started by commissioners. Vehling said that Dr. Charles H. Keever, former coroner, had set out the need for SI,BOO in the budget, although, Vehling said, records re • vealed that Keever had spent $3,500 for the purpose in one year. Body Still Unclaimed Vehling late Wednesday informed The Times that the body of Paul Kiefer, slain bandit, still is at Vehling’s undertaking establishment, 702 Virginia avenue. The body has been there since the bandit died when shot by a grocer he and a companion attempted to rob Feb. 2. Tuesday night Vehling refused to tell Times reporters if he still was in possession of the body, declaring ■‘lt’s none of your business.” However, Wednesday, he admitted possession of the body. Vehling said he still hoped relatives of the slain man would claim the corpse.

WOMAN NEAR DEATH IN SUICIDE ATTEMPT Mrs. Nell Fletcher, 32, Found in Gas-filled Kitchen at Home. Unconscious, Mrs. Nell Fletcher, 2053 Central avenue, was found in her gas-filled kitchen this morning, suffering from a suicide attempt. Police were unable to revive Mrs. Fletcher, who was found slumped in a chair in front of the stove, the gas burners of which were open. She was clad only in pajamas. According to neighbors, Mrs. Fletcher had been worried over difficulties her son was having at school. Police were informed that she was to attempt suicide by a roomer at the residence. At city hospital it was said Mrs. Fletcher will recover. CUT PHONE VALUATION Southern Indiana. Firm Sliced to $703,921 by Tax Board. Southern Indiana Telephone and Telegraph Company valuations were reduced from $756,719 in 1930 to $703,924 in 1931, following hearing before the state tax board Wednesday. The company is involved in receivership litigation and was involved in a recent public service commission rate scandai. FORM NEW LOAN UNIONS Farmers to Be Saved 42 Per Cent Interest by Credit Groups. Credit unions to save the farmers from the 42 per cent interest payments on small loans are being formed by Leo Kaminsky, attorney for the Indiana Credit Union League. Plans for five credit unions to be formed have been filed by Kaminsky with Luther F. Symons, state banking commissioner. TRACTION SET Petition for abandonment of T. H., J. & E. traction lines between Terre Haute and Clinton and Terre Haute and Sullivan will be heard by the public service commission at the Statehouse May 4. Abandonment already has been approved by Marion superior court.