Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 295, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 April 1931 — Page 2
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SIAMESE KING AND QUEEN ENTER U. S. IN SNOWSTORM
HOOVER ENVOY AT BORDER TO GREETRULERS Canadian Mounted Police, Officials Leave Train at Portal, N. D. QUEEN CONTRACTS COLD Royal Visitors to Be Guests at White House Soon After Arrival. BY EARL J. JOHNSON United Pres Staff Correspondent ABOARD SIAMESE ROYAL TRAIN EN ROUTE TO SCARBOROUGH, N. Y., April 20.—King Prajadhipok, ninety-eight-pound Monarch of Siam, came to the United States today, crossing the Canadian border at Portal, N. D., in a strange midnight ceremony that combined the dignities of a state reception with the frank curiosity of a northwest farm town. In s. corner of the observation car of a Canadian Pacific special train sat the frail potentate. About the car stood his majesty’s brownskinned aids and red-coated, sombreroed . Canadian mounted police, the later taking their leave of the royal entourage at the border, after guarding the party eastward from British Columbia. Watches Driving Snow Prom his solarum window, the king looked out wide-eyed upon the midnight assemblage. A northwest wind which had been kicking up squalls' of ’ dust all days was now driving flakes of snow against the glass of the observation car. Youthful King Prajadhipok, ruler of 11,500,000 souls in tropical Siam, seemed to shrink farther and farther back into his corner. Finally the Canadian representatives bowed their way out, the king remaining seated, smiled at the departing guests and then looked seriously again At the crowd and the storm. Now the signal came for the United States to extend its official welcome to the first Asiastic monarch ever to visit this country. Up the rear steps of the car climbed Richard Southgate, personal representative of President and Mrs. Hoover. The king rose from his chair and acknowledged Southgate’s bow. Bring’s Hoover’s Greetings “I have been directed,” Southgate said, “by the President to extend to your majesty and to her majesty the queen, a most cordial welcome to the United States and to assure your majesties of the pleasure with which the people of this country will receive their royal visitors. “The President and Mrs. Hoover trust that your majesties’ stay in this country will in every way be enjoyable, and they ask me to say that they are looking forward with the keenest anticipation to your majesties’ visit to Washington.” King Prajadhipok and his attractive Queen Rambi will be received at the .White House in Washington within a week after they reach Scarborough, N. Y., their present destination. Later, his majesty will undergo an operation for the removal of a cataract which has blinded his left eye, that being the; main purpose of his visit to the United States. Queen Rambi remained in ner compartment during the ceremonies at Portal. Her father, his royal highness. Prince Svasti, said she had contracted a cold while riding | through Canada in temperatures far below those of the Malay peninsula. TWO ARRESTED AFTER POLICE RAID GROCERY Pool Tickets, Liquor Confiscated in Week-End Search. Raiding a grocery, operated by John Van Stant at 334 North Blake street, late Saturday, police said . they confiscated thirteen books of baseball tickets and a small quantity of liquor. Van Stant was charged with keeping a gaming device and blind tiger. Gaither Highball, Negro, 28, of 315 Agnes street, found in the store, was charged with gaming. Nate Seinor, manager, and Mas Ross were arrested in a poolroom at 122 H South Illinois street, Sunday night. Seinor and Ross were charged with keeping a gaming house. Fourteen others were charged with gaming and visiting a gaming house. MSGR. GAVISK BETTER Indianapolis Priest in Hospital at Capital, Improves. Steady improvement in the condition of Msgr. Francis Gavisk of Indianapolis, who has been ill at the Providence hospital in Washington, was reported today, according to news dispatches. Father Gavisk was taken ill while in Washington to attend the national American Red Cross conference. He has been in the hospital five days. Physicians said he probably will be permitted to leave his room in a wheel chair Tuesday or Wednesday. STATE POST IS FILLED Sam S. Campbell Named Assistant in Free Employment Bureau. Appointment of Sam So Campbell as assistant inspector in the state free employment bureau, was announced today by officials of the industrial board. He succeeds Clarence Baker, who resigned to take a post with the federal employment board. UTILITY VALUATION SET Citizens Gas Company Taxable* for \ . 1931 Fixed by Tax Board. \ax valuations of- the Citizens Company for 1931 were to be today-, at a conference between £*** j/ ax. commissioners and C. L. /general manager of the util-
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FORAY CATTLE SALEJHURSDAY ‘Comeback’ Is Badge of Try of Ex-Governor. Warren T. McCray, former Governor of Indiana, will, pass another milestone in his “comeback.” effort Thursday, when he will hold a sale of pure ored cattle on his farm, Orchard Lake, near Kentland. McCray is president and treasurer of the McCray Land and Cattle Company, Inc., which operates several Indiana farms. This is the first sale to be held since McCray regained control of the company,' following his release from the Atlanta penitentiary. The sale will be held at 12:30 Thursday, when sixty head of Hereford cattle, fifteen bulls and fortyfive cows, will go on the block. Plans have been made to entertain friends of McCray’s from all parts of Indiana and cattle buyers from nearly every state in the Union. Fred Reppert and Earl Clinton, who formerly conducted sales for McCray, will have charge of Thursday’s sale. ELECTED COUNCIL HEAD City Student at Carnegie Tech Isl I Named to High Campus Post. Highest office on the campus of Carnegie Tech, in Pittsburgh, the
presidency of the student council, was given Harold J. Brennan, 1907 Hoyt avenue, in recent elections. Brennan has been outstanding in campus activities at Carnegie Tech. He was general chairman of the Arts ball, president of the junior class in the college of fine arts, and was on the honor roll the first semester of this
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year for work in the painting and decoration department. 5 ARRESTED IN RAID Quintet Found With Guns Near Bridgeport House. Five men from Clermont and Bridgeport today were charged with drawing deadly weapons and vagrancy, following a raid Sunday by nine deputy sheriffs. When the deputies drew up in front of the home of Pertie Harmon, R. R. 1, box 153, Bridgeport, they were confronted by three men with shotguns, they said. Drawing their own guns they ordered the men to put down the weapons. When they discovered that Millard Winsford, Clermont town marshal, had leaned one of the guns to the men, they called on him and took away a deputy sheriff’s courtesy badge given him under the last county administration by Clermont officials. Under arrest are: Harmon, Henry Wilson, James Hudk>n, Tom Harmon, and John Feltner, of Clermont. They were seeking liquor at Harmon’s home, but found none. They said one of the men admitted they had been tipped off. * OLDEST GRAD ‘ON HAND’ Judge Vinson Carter, 91, to Attend I. U. Class Ceremony. The oldest living alumnus of Indiana university expects to be on hand when the 1931 class is graduated in Bloomington in June, he said today. He is Judge Vinson Carter, vicepresident and counsel for the Fletcher Trust Company, who-was notified by the university that he now is its oldest alumnus. On July 16, Judges Carter will celebrate his ninety-fift birthday,
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Pirates Attempted piracy on the “high seas” was recorded today on the Indianapolis police blotter. Herbert Snyder and Hubert Lee, of Broad Ripple, Sunday night were paddling a canoe a mile north of Ravenswood, they told police, when a man standing on the White river bank commanded them to come in shore and “stick ’em -up.” .. They said the man fired three times at them as they paddled toward the opposite bank. The bullets struck the water near the canoe, they said.
SALE IS AUTHORIZED Defunct Washington Bank’s Properties in Ruling. Properties of two subsidiary realty companies of the defunct Washing- j ton Bank and Trust Company today j were authorized to be sold by the; receiver in an order from Probate Jurge Smiley N. Chambers. Brandt C. Downey, receiver for the bank, may now sell the properties at a price not less than the appraised values, the order stated. Specific orders were issued to the Realty Mortgage and Security Company and the No. 2 Realty Mortgage and Security Company, two of the subsidiary companies which had petitioned for the right to dispose of the properties. “Two other subsidiary companies, the Hanover Realty Company and the Capitol City Realty Company, will receive similar orders in the next few days,” Judge Chambers said. Appraisers have reported that in most cases the appraised value of the properties is approximately 25 per cent less than the original sale price. Equity assets of the four companies are approximately $500,000.
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• Automobiles reported to police as stolen belor.s to: John T Elrod. 141 Gross street. Buick coach. 201-742 Ohio, from Cruse and Washington streets. Patrick Shea. 19 North Jefferson avenue, Ford coupe. M 395. from Capitol avenue and Market street. Robinson and Thompson Company. 1026 North Meridian street. Oakland ooach. M 2, from Olive and Prospect streets. William Aliev. 2385 Indianapolis avenue, Oldsmobile sedan. 46-9-14. from in front of 353 West Twenty-ninth street. H. C. Wheaton. 608 Walnut street, Lefayete. Ind.. Buick roadster, from Senate avenue and Ohio street. William Hamilton. Bargersville. Ind., Ford sedan, from Franklin. Ind.
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Stolen automobiles recovered by police belong to: Robert Mock. Mt. Comfort. Ind.. Chev. rolet coach, found in front of 46 South Oriental street. August W. Braumn. 84 North Fifth avenue. Seech Grove. Ind.. Chevrolet coach, found in front of 927. North Tibbs avenue. Herman Niesman. 3841 Boulevard place. Chevrolet coupe, found at White River and Tenth street bridge. Chevrolet coach, motor number 348532. no license, no certificates of title, found in field at 2100 North Sherman drive, automobiles partly stripped. Chevrolet sedan, card board license MIO4O. found narked on Sheldon street near Seventeenth street. No certificate of title. Two tires missing from car. BUILDING PERMITS GAIN March Total 6300,000 Over February Figure, Survey Shows. Building permits in this city picked up almost $300,000 in March over February, according to figures of the National Monthly Building Surveys. The city is twenty-fifth, in amount of planned construction, in the United States. Permits for $806,508 were issued here last month. Awarded $25,151 Bridge Contract F. E. Muzzal & Son, Crown Point, were awarded a $25,151.47 contract for two bridges on State Road 41, in Lake county, near Schneider by thefltate highway department, %
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Ninth District Commander Points to Obtaining Legislation. Increased political activity on part of American Legion members was defended Sunday by Cleon W. Mount, Tipton, Ninth district commander, who asserted the organization must stay in politics to gain legislation suitable to veterans and their families. Mount urged legionaires to participate -in activities of political parties of their own choice in an address before 500 persons at a conference of legion poet offiers in the Antlers hotel. “Take the legion out of politics and its greatest power to aid the ex-service man and humanity will bo lost,” Commander Mount declared. Redistricting Discussed The question of whether the Indiana legion should be redistricted to conform with the twelve new congressional districts arranged by the 1931 state legislature, was discussed. “Legion districts should coincide with the political districts of the state if the Legion is to exert its political power effectively,” Mount told the post officers. Floyd L. Young, Vincennes, state commander, appointed a committee to decide upon the redistricting question and report July 11. Final action on the matter probably will be taken at the annual state Legion convention at Anderson Aug. 22 to 25, it is said. Membership Increases Encouraging advances in Legion membership were reported at the meeting Sunday. Gains in all parts of the state have brought the Indiana membership to 33,001, anew high mark, Ollie A. Davis, Tipton, state adjutant, reported. A total national membership 93,000 higher than ever before was reported by Bowman Elder, Indianapolis, national treasurer. Other speakers at- the meeting included Jack Chevingy, asistant Notre Dame university football coach, and Mrs. Lenore Russell, Greenfield, state Legion auxiliary president, who presented plans for sale of 500,000 poppies on Poppy day, May 23. NAMED ADMINISTRATOR Henry Hombrook Court Choice to Handle Winslow Estate. Probate Judge Smiley N. Chambers today appointed Henry Hornbrook administrator of the estate of Robert C. Winslow, killed in a plane crash in New York last week. Personal property of $2,000 will go to the widow, Mrs. Margaret Winslow, and two daughters, Barbara and Margaret. There was no will. Hornbrook is Mrs. Winslow’s father. Another estate of Winslow’s father will go to the children. Mrs. Winslow was named administratrix of it. $25,000 SUIT STA RTS Taxi Passenger, Hit by Truck, Suing Laundry for Damages. Trial was begun in superior court five today of a suit by Charles F. Moore to collect $25,000 damages from the Progress Laundry Company. He alleges he was a passenger in a taxi struck by a truck owned by the company last December, and sustained a skull fracture and permanent injuries. State Policeman Hurt By Times Special RICHMOND, Ind., April 20—The conditcn of Ralph Garrard, Newcastle, a state policeman, injured Saturday night, was not improved today. Garrard’s motorcycle collided with a horse about one mile west of Straughn on the National road. He suffered a fractured skull.
REPUBLICANS IN DRIVE TO SNARE VOTESINSOUTH Industrial Argument Made Over Radio by Naval Secretary’s Aid. By Bcripps-Howard "Setcspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, April 20.—New tactics are being used by Republican party spokesman to entice southern votes which may be needed to reelect Herbert Hoover as President in 1932. The whisper campaign of three years ago capitalized on prohibition and religious feelings and this, which has not died, is being supplemented by arguments that the growing south needs the Republican party to flower to full industrial and commercial vigor. Such an argument was advanced Friday night by Ernest Lee Jahncke, assistant navy secretary, who made a speech in the political series being radioed especially for Dixie listeners. Democrats, too, are taking advantage of free time on the air to strengthen the backbone of their party. Already Jouett Shouse and Robert Lucas, executive directors, respectively, of the national Democratic and Republican committees have spoken and Charles Michaelson, Democratic publicity ace, is to speak this week. Lucas told the south how he believed it had benefited through the Hawley-Smoot tariff act. He ex- j horted southern Democrats to quit j their “political graveyard” and join i the Republican party. In New Orleans Friday night, Jahncke, leading southern member of the subcabinet, told the south it should have a two-party system. SIXTEENTH STREET WIDENING IS ASSURED Works Board Approves Project to Be Started During Summer. Assurance that widening of Sixteenth street, from Delaware to Illinois streets, will be started this summer, was given today when the works board confirmed a resolution for the improvement. The roadway will be widened to fifty-four feet at a cost of $37,154. The city has purchased $453,000 Worth of property to make way for the improvement. The widening proposal has been before city officials nearly five years.
NICARAGUAN STAND IS HIT U. S. Policy ‘Humiliating,’ Says Hiram Johnson. By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, April 20.—The United States has taken “the humiliating position of saying we can not protect the lives of our citizens,” Senator Hiram Johnson (Rep., Cal.), charged today in a statement issued on the new Nicaraguan policy of State Secretary Stimson. Comparing Stimson’s stand with that of President Roosevelt, the senator said “we now invite the assassination of innocent Americans and others by Nicaraguan bandits.” . “I can not help recalling,” Senator Johnson said, “the ultimatum of Theodore Roosevelt when Perdicaris, an American citizen, was captured by the bandit Raisul— Give me Perdicaris alive or Raisul. dead—and the American citizen was forthwith released and delivered alive. “But this was in the now unfashionable time when our first thought was of America and Americans.” The senator also pointed out that he had requested last January that either all marines be withdrawn from Nicaragua or enough be sent there “to do the job.” Secretary Stimson said Americans in the interior of Nicaragua could not expect marine protection. PASTORS TO MEET Pension Plan Discussion Scheduled Tuesday. Representatives of 714 Disciples of Christ church will gather at the Central Christian church at 10 Tuesday morning to discuss plans for completion of the denomination’s $8,000,000 pension fund campaign. * The conference, expected to attract nearly 3,000 ministers and laymen from all parts of the state, is one of a number of regional meetings being held in interest of the pension fund, Merle Sidener, Indiana pension chairman, announced. Dr. George Knepper, pastor of High Street Church of Christ, Akron, 0., will speak Tuesday morning. Other speakers will include Dr. A. E. Cory, fund directors; F. E. Smith, fund secretary, and Dr. S. J. Corey, United Christian Missionary Society president.
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FOX BURIAL TO BE ONTUESDAY Oil Promoter, Race Driver Succumbs at Home. Funeral services for Frank P. Fox, 53, of 4311 North Meridian street, oil promoter, former builder' and driver of race cars and breeder of race horses and fine cattle, who died Sunday at his home, will be held at 2 Tuesday at the home. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Center lodge, No. 23, F. &A. M., will have charge of services. Mr. Fox. had been in poor health two years. Mr. Fox, after gaining fame as a dirt track racer, entered a car in the first 500-mile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 1911, but failed to place. During the last fifteen years he raised race horses on his 600-acre farm near Oaklandon. He sold most of his stable in 1929 and since had devoted his time to cattle breeding. Surviving, besides the widow, Mrs. Bess Southcott Fox, are his mother, Mrs. Theresa L. Fox; two sisters, Mrs.,.Clark B. Golden and Mrs. Mayme L. Morris, all of Pittsburgh; a brother, George E. Fox, Springfield, Mass., and three children, Harold, Robert and Frances Fox, Pittsburgh.
JAMES SHIMER DIES Rites Tuesday for Lumber Company President. Funeral rites for James Tilden Shimer, 54, Southern Lumber Company president, who died Sunday at his home, 565 West drive, Woodruff Place, will be held at 2:30 Tuesday afternoon at the home. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Mr. Shimer had been sick one year. He formerly was auditor for the Bobbs-Merrill Company following graduation from Butler university and founded the company of which he was president. He was born in Indianapolis. Survivors are the parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Shimer; the widow, Mrs. Catherine C. Shimer; a son, Allan V. Shimer, and a brother, Donald B. Shimer, all of Indianapolis. Bay Suffocates ELKHART, Ind., April 20.—Lewis John, 6, lost his life by suffocation when covered with earth by a cave in on a vacant lot where he was playing. SI.OO Ends Rheumatism New Medicine Guaranteed td Free Your Muscles and Joints in Less Than a Week or Money-Back Think of the joy of waking up in the morning without any rheumaticaches or pains—without stiff, swollen joints or sore, lame muscles. And that joy should be yours— a $1 bottle of Ru-Ma is absolutely guaranteed to end all misery in your bones, muscles and Joints, caused by rheumatic poisons, in less than a week or your money back. No long, discouraging wait while the pain goes on: Ru-Ma eases pain the first day. Magically your muscles and joints limber up, swelling vanishes, aches and twinges disappear, away go limping and hobbling, crutches and canes. That is why Walgreen’s and other local druggists invite every rheumatic sufferer to try Ru-Ma under an ironclad guarantee of money back, if it does not completely end rheumatism. —Advertisement.
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Beer Jam Gem Man, His Wife, Go to Jail After Melee With Deputy Sheriff.
Eleven charges faced a man and wife today following a beer bombardment and battle that blocked traffic on State road 67, at Mars Hill, Sunday night. Under arrest are: Mr. and Mrs. E. Heeg, R. R. 3, Box 887. Heeg is charged with drunkenness, . drunken driving, transportation, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest,, and driving without a license. Mrs. Heeg is accused of vagrancy, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, and drunkenness. A family argument started it. Heeg stopped the car to engage in the quarrel, and, seeing traffic blocked, Deputy Sheriff Frankie Lindsey sought to clear it. Heeg rushed at Lindsey, and the brawl was on. Shattering his mace, Lindsey tapped Heeg with his revolver butt, and then beat off attacks by Mrs. Heeg. Meanwhile, fifteen bottles of beer had been smashed on the pavement, Lindsey said. He obtained one for evidence.’ DRUNK GETS FARM TERM Louisville Man Found Guilty After Accident in Rented Car. Earl Wilson, alias Weber, Louisville, was fined $lO and costs for drunkenness, and fined $25 and costs and sentenced to thirty days on' the state farm in municipal court today on a charge of conversion of a hired auto. After an accident Feb. 25 police found the car he was driving had been rented from an auto rental agency here a week before, and the man who rented it was missing.
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HOLD HUSBAND AS KIDNAPER DF WEALTHY WIFE Young Heiress Brings Cops by Dropping Note in Indiana City. By United Preee MADISON, Wis.. April 20.—A young husband who took drastic measures to bring about a reconciliation with his heiress wife, and two friends who traveled to New York to aid him, were under arrest today while the wife, who cleverly outwitted all of them, was in technical custody. Kidnaped Thursday night in front of her apartment in New York City, Mrs. Helen Fisher Drill, heiress to $50,000, was rescued here Sunday after police of Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin joined in a search prompted by her trickery. Her husband, Harry E. Drill, 30. nephew of Lewis L. Drill. United States district attorney at St. Paul, was one of three men arrested when they drove to the Park hotel here to get Mrs. Drill’s clothes, which had been forwarded from New York. The other men arrested were Howard Caldwell, 30, and Elmer Peterson, bpth of St. Paul. Hold ’Em for New York Police said they would hold them and Mrs. Drill, pending action of New York authorities. Drill, meanwhile, protested that his wife willingly had accompanied him from the east. He said he would fight extradition. Mrs. Drill, student at City college. New York, was abducted Dy men who overpowered her as she was entering the home where she lived under the name of Mary Laterre. Several times while being taken across country toward St. Paul she tried, she told police, to communicate secretly with authorities but failed. Stops at La Porte The three men and the girl stopped early Sunday at a filling station near La Porte, Ind. Mrs, Drill hastily scribbled a note upon a paper towel, pinned it upon the wall in a restroom, and left a water faucet running to attract attention of the station attendant after she had left. Her ruse worked. In the note she said she had been kidnaped and that the “next stop” would be the Park hotel here. Authorities of other Indiana towns and of Illinois missed the car, but the arrests were made here. The Drills were married two years ago while both were students at the University of Minnesota. Mrs. Drill’s parents objected and the marriage was annulled. Later they were married again in lowa, but quarreled and separated. Drill told officers here he had been looking for his wife “for nine months.” They said he admitted force had been used in getting her to accompany them, but that she later had agreed to return to StPaul with him WARN ON BOGUS CHECKS Lindeman Company Head Reports Circulating of Forgeries. Officials of the Lindeman Wood Finish Company and police today issued a warning against bogus checks, supposed to be payable by the company, that are being issued in the city. Harry Gompf, secretary, said the checks carried the printed firm name and were supposed to be negotiable at the Eelmont State bank, at which the firm has no account.