Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 299, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 April 1931 — Page 1

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FINGERTIPS REACH GOD

Deaf-Mutes Sing Hymns to Creator

Father Higgins and the deaf singing “Come” as the first word in the hymn of “Come Holy Ghost, Creator Blest.”

JAIL WILL NOT BE QUARANTINED Prisoner Who Died Is Found Free of Infection. Possibility of a quarantine against meningitis at the county jail was erased today when city hospital physicians announced a Negro prisoner who died at the hospital was a victim of tuberculous meningitis and not cerebro-spinal meningitis, as first believed. Dr. Herman G. Morgan, health board secretary, said the tuberculous disease is not dangerous to other prisoners. The prisoner, James C. Gefß#ay, 19, of 810 Drake street, died after being rushed from the jail late Thursday night. Investigation was begun today to determine if James’ Higgins, 41, Os 523 West Michigan street, who died Thursday night in the city prison, showed symptoms of being a meningitis victim. Galloway was sentenced one to ten years on conviction of having broken into a clothing store at 334 Indiana avenue and stolen several suits. He would have been taken to the reformatory within a few days. STATE JOBLESS PLAN MARCH UPON CITY Caravans to Start Frdm Four Points on May 3. Leaders of the Trade Unity League and unemployment councils today were completing plans for a state-wide march of workers from four points in Indiana to Indianapolis May 3. One caravan will originate in Hammond, visit East Chicago, Whiting, Gary, South Bend, Elkhart, Ft. Wayne, Marion, Muncie, and Anderson. Another will start from Evansville, touch Vincennes, Bicknell, Bloomfield and Martinsville. Third point is Terre Haute, through Brazil and Greencastle, and the fourth is Clinton, through Rockville and Danville. A mass meeting Sunday and organization of a delegation to present demands to Governor Harry G. Leslie will be the object of the march. APPEALS CONVICTION: SENTENCE IS RAISED 4 Months, SIOO Fine Is Negro’s Second Trial Finding. Failing to “let well enough alone,” William Harrison, Negro, 778 Indiana avenue, learned a lesson in criminal court severity today. On March 30, Harrison was convicted on a blin dtiger charge in Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter’s court, was fined SIOO and costs and sentenced to jail for forty-five days. Attacking validity of the search warrant which led to his arrest, he annealed to criminal court, where Judge Frank P. Baker today assessed a fine of SIOO and costs, while boosting the sentence to four months on the Indiana state farm. Judge Baker held that since Harrison was not the owner or occupant of the property raided, allegation of an imperfect warrant could not be raised in his defense, but only in that of the owner or proprietor. TRAMP, 61, DAZED IN LONG BOX CAR SIEGE Davenport (la.) Man Found Wandering on Cleveland Streets. By United Press CLEVELAND. 0.. April 24. Harry Arnold, 61, of Davenport, la., was being cared for by police today after he had been found wandering in the street, suffering from the effects of a two-day imprisonment in a box car. The aged man told officers he had boarded an east bound freight train in & middle western city and that the doors in the car were kept barred until the train's arrival in Cleveland. He was dazed and suffering from hunger when police found him.

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BY ARCH STEINEL THE chancel of St. John’s Catholic church, 109 block on South Capitol avenue, was afire with light. Pews in the rear of the church were streaked with shadows from the chancel. A priest leads his congregation in a hymn. The hymn has no sound. It can not be heard in the shadowy pews in the rear.- It can not be heard within a foot of the singers. But music, soul surcease, a paean of praise to the Creator, envelops the church and sings a song without spoken w’ords. The singers were twenty-five deaf-mutes making hymns, beauty hymns, and running the major and minor clefs of “Come Holy 6host” in sign language. They were led by the Rev. Dan D. Higgins, redemptorist priest of St. Louis, Mo., Thursday night in a retreat for the deaf. With supple fingers, gnarled fingers, fingers that cobble shoes at day or make brooms or such, and feminine fingers, they sang*

“Come Holy Ghost, Creator Blest, And In ottr hearts take up Thy rest; Come with Thy grace and heavenly aid To fill the hearts which Thoa hast made.” The fingers sang like the lips of visitors. Father Higgins, with graceful signs, talked to the deaf. He told of the value of the soul. They listened. Hearing ones in the congregation watched and somehow it seemed that the priest’s unheard sermon became vital, alive, just as the hymns. „ They Feel Songs You ask one of the deaf, through Father Higgins, if the wordless songs they sing are felt in the heart. The man who replies glows as his fingers move swiftly in, “We feel as you feel when you sing a hymn.” The retreat for the deaf will be conducted again tonight and Saturday at 8 p. m. and at 4 p. m. on Sunday. The city’s deaf-mutes are* - invited to attend, regardless of creed. Father Higgins tours the nation, giving the sermons of the signs. “You know I learned sign languafe just as a joke at first; I wanted to surprise some deaf-mutes who were friends of mine,” he said. Writer of a book on “How to Talk to the Deaf” the priest is known for the beauty of his speechless sermons. “He’s fluent and an actor in his making of signs,” explained the Rev. Ambrose J. Sullivan of St John’s church, who aids Father Higgins in the retreats. Learned It in Week Father Sullivan learned sign language in one week, three years ago, from Father Higgins. His education in the unspoken lauguage began the sermons he gives on the second Sunday of each month at 4 p. m. for the city’s mutes. “And we have parties for them sometimes,” said Father Sullivan. “They play bunco. Their children will shout and play while the party’s on, and they’ll continue playing bunco, oblivious of the noise. Come down some time; you’ll not bother them, for if they could be bothered, their children would have done it long ago!” NEW TRAFFIC DEVICE WILL BE INSTALLED Pedestrian-Operated Sign Controlled by Street-Bed “Traps.” Installation of the pedestrianoperated traffic sign at Fourteenth and Meridian streets, wiH be started Monday, safety board officials announced today. The sign will flash “go” to Meridian street traffic at all times until autos, approaching on Fourteenth street, strike signal traps imbedded in the street. The warning signal then is given Meridian street traffic and by the time the east or west bound auto reaches the crossing a stop light halts north and south traffic. Children attending Catholic schools, near the intersection, and pedestrians can halt traffic both ways by operating electric push buttons on each of the comers of the intersection.

HEIRESS TAKES LOVER ‘FOR RIDE;’ SLAYS HIM IN PARKED CAR

By United Press FLINT, Mich., April 24.—Miss Helen Morgan, 27, heiress, sat .in a celhtoday and recounted to police how she took her 200pound sweetheart for a ride Thursday night and shot him to death at the edge of Glenwood cemetery. -He threatened me with a gun,” she sobbed to detectives. “I took it away from him and pulled the trigger. I had to da it It was self defense.” Police doubt her story of the Hhry>tir\g i. , '

TWELVE kL FINED Traffic Law Violators Found Guilty by Municipal Judge. Traffic day in the court of Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron resulted in fines, ranging from $5 to $25, being assessed against twelve convicted traffic law violators. Facing five charges James Waldron who gave three addresses to police, was given fines totaling S4O on three of the charges with a thirty-day jail sentence suspended. .He was fined on speeding, operating, a car while drunk and disobeying a traffic signal. Motor Patrolman Fred Stevens said he pursued Waldron several blocks. Records showed Waldron had given adresses at two hotels and 230 East Pratt street. Charles Rader, Washington, Ind., was fined sls for conviction of speeding sixty-two miles an hour. Fund Oversubscribed By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., April 24.—The Anderson Community* Chest fund campaign, with a goal of $52,530, which continued three days, resulted in an oversubscription of nearly $3,000, the total being $55,336.58.

POPE BLESSES COLLEGE IN TRIP FROM VATICAN

By United Press ROME, April 24.—Pope Pius XI, wearing a white cassock, red hat and red mantle, .emerged from the Vatican today and personally dedicated the new College of the Propaganda Fide, which was built with funds raised among American Catholics. It was the second time the Pope had left the Vatican since signing of the lateran treaty which ended the sixty-year “imprisonment” of the head of the Catholic church. The papal automobile, with curtains drawn, hardly was noticed by persons on the streets of Rome as it left Vatican City for the short trip to the new college on the slopes of Janlculum hill. Two other automobiles containing prelates and officials followed. The pope, in his speech, thanked the contributors who made it possible to build the new college, saying that he was particularly glad to GETS RAILROAD POST Vincennes Man Made Assistant Inspector by Commission. Louis Phillips, Vincennes, has been appointed an assistant railroad inspector by the public service commission, it was announced today by Fred King, secretary. William P. Holmes is chief of the railroad inspection department and J. EL Smith first assistant

The body of the victim, Les Casteel, 35-year-old garage mechanic, was found near the cemetery. It bore two bullet wounds. Police said the tragedy was the result of an arson charge filed against Casteel several weeks ago. Miss Morgan was to have been the chief witness against him, Detective Ray Martin said, but she suddenly refused to testify and Casteel was released. a o a THURSDAY afternoon, Martin said, she re-appeared at the prosecutor’s office and said she

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PARDON FREES FUGITIVE WHO ‘MADEGOOD’ Caught After 13 Years, Record in Building Up Career Wins Liberty. ESCAPED WHEN ONLY 17 Prominent Friends Asked Ohio Governor to Give Clemency, By United Press COLUMBUS, 0., April 24.—Frank M. Preston, 30, of St. Louis, recaptured in St. Louis two weeks ago, thirteen years after his escape from the Ohio reformatory at Mansfield, was pardoned today by Governor George White. The Governor based his action on recommendations of William J. Kennedy, assistant state welfare director, and ordered that Preston be brought to his office at 4 p. m. to receive the pardon. Preston, when 17, was sentenced to the reformatory for robbing a South Zanesville, 0., taxicab chauffeur of sll. He subsequently was made a trusty for saving the life of a teached and a short time later he escaped. Preston was received at the refomatory in 1918 to serve one to years. He had served only j seven months when he escaped. ‘Given Away* by Letter He was unheard from until two weeks ago ' when ’ an anonymous letter, written from Paintsville, Ky., where he formerly lived, informed authorities he was in St. Louis. His capture' followed. His return to Mansfield was followed by a host of appeals for clemency, among them one from a St. Louis manufacturer and financier, who told the Governor he personally would guarantee Preston’s future if he were released. At the time of his arrest, Preston and his wife, the mother of two children by a former marriage, were preparing to open a restaurant. Preston was known as an ideal citizen and he was highly* respected in the community in which he lived. Investigator Is Impressed Kennedy visited him in the reformatory Thursday. Upon his return today he immediately laid before the Governor recommendations that Preston be granted a full pardon. “Preston made good during his thirteen years of freedom,” Kennedy said. “He wants to return to St. Louis and open his restaurant. I was much impressed with him. “The object in sending men to the reformatory or to any other penal institution is to reform them and return them to society as good ! citizens. I believe Preston will continue to be a good citizen as investigation reveals he was during his freedom.” Governor White said he believed he was warranted in granting a full pardon because Preston “made good” while at liberty. “I believe he is entitled to freedom and a chance,” the executive declared.

thank "Him who came such a great distance to share in this day of rejoicing.” He referred to Cardinal Mundelein, who sat or stood at the left of the pope throughout the ceremony. The new college, in which Cardinal Mundelein had a great part, was solemnly inaugurated in the heart of Catholic Christendom. It is the most modem structure among the pontifical buildings in Rome. CERMAK ENDS VACATION Returns to Chicago Rested for Inauguration Monday. By United Press CHICAGO, April 24.—Mayor Anton J. Cermak returned taur.ed and rested today from a ten-day vacation in Florida, and to face an inauguration Monday night which the entire nation will hear by radio, the appointment of a cabinet and the task of straightening out the city’s snarled finances. ABANDON SHIP SEARCH Missing Vessel With Crew of 18 Lost in North Sea. By United Press GOOLE, Yorkshire, Eng., April 24. —The search for the British steamship Calder, with a crew of eighteen, was abandoned today. The ship had been missing in the North Sea for several days. It was en route from Hamburg to Goole.

was willing to go through with the case. Shortly after 5 p. m., she met Casteel in her car, police learned, and together they drove out to a lonely side road which runs past the cemetery. a s a \ N account of what happened then was given police by Nelson Roome, who was at work in a city pumping station nearby. “I saw the automobile go into the side road, but I paid no attention. to- it as .young couples

Reunited Bobbed-Hair Bandit Sees Robber Mate After Seven Years.

By United Press Syracuse, n. y., April 24. Brooklyn’s bobbed-hair bandit, Cecilia Cooney, embraced her husband, Edward, for the first time in almost seven years Thursday, and cried. The two, who several years ago perpetrated daring robberies of Brooklyn storekeepers, met in the district court of the state court of claims. The once-attractive woman threw her arms around the man, who now lacks his left arm, kissed him, and clung for a moment, sobbing. Cooney, who has spent seven years of his sentence confined to a hospital because of tuberculosis, is suing the state of New York for the loss of his left arm, suffered while working in a prison shop. Both are eligible for release in October, 1931.

MISSING DOCTOR ACAINJSJSEEN’ Kidnapers’ Victim Reported Back in Home Town. By United Press ST. LOUIS, April 24.—Dr. Isaac D. Kelley, missing wealthy physician for whose ransom a demand of SIOO,OOO was rumored, served on Thursday night, was observed alone in a restaurant here early today, two acquaintances told police. James Markedes, owner of the restaurant, and. Paul Johnson, garage attendant, declared that “Dr. Kelley,” wearing thin-rimmed glassses, appeared dazed and had a large bruise on his face. The two said they hesitated to question “Kelley” and while Markedes telephoned police, the man walked out. Johnson said he tried to follow, “but lost him within a couple of blocks.”

GRAND JURORS PROBING BUS BILL FRAUD CHARGE

'The Melody GirT BERYL BORDEN won Stardom as a radio entertainer—arid would gladly have exchanged this triumph for the love of a certain young man. He cared as deeply for another. How Eeryl faces this situation, bravely struggles against hardships and at last arrives at happiness are told in Ruth Dewey Groves’ fascinating new serial, ’“The Melody Girl.” It starts Wednesday, April 29, in The Times

HOLD TAG DAY FOR HUMANE GROUP FUND Society’s Buttons Sold Downtown; Drive Ends Saturday. A two-day drive to sell tags for the Indianapolis Humane Society opened today in the downtown district Twenty workers sold the society’s buttons at street corners today. Saturday, last day of “Be Kind to Animal Week,” the sellers wiH be , augmented by eighty persons. Money derived from the sale is to be used to benefit unfortunate animals and persons aided by the society. HEARING MONDAY ON JUDGE PAY DEMURRER Action Seeks to Set Aside Suits to Mandate County. Hearing on a demurrer filed by Harvey A. Grabill, county attorney, to set aside petitions of eight Democratic judge, to force the county to pay them SIO,OOO a year instead of $7,000, will be heard in circuit court Monday, Grabill announced today. The demurrer contends that commissioners acted lawfully when they fixed the judges’ salaries at $7,000. The county formerly had been paying $5,800 of the SIO,OOO salaries, but cut the amount $3,000 for this year as an economy wave. EPIDEMIC CLAIMS YOUTH North Manchester High School Pupil Victim of Spinal Meningitis. By United Press NORTH MANCHESTER, Ind, April 24.—John Edwin Mower, North Manchester high school youth, died in a Ft. Wayne hospital today of spinal meningitis, the fifth fatality since the epidemic started here early in April

often park on that road,” Roome said. “About a minute-after the car drove in, I heard a woman scream. I looked toward the automobile, and heard the shots. There were fiive of them. “Then I saw the woman scramble out of the car. She ran around, to the driver’s seat, reached in and grabbed her companion. It took her half a minute to pull him out of the car. "Then she stood over the body looking down at it. A minute

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NEW BASEBALL PARK, TO COST $350,000, WILL BE BUILT HERE FOR INDIANS

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Norman A. Perry, president of the Indianapolis Baseball Club, Inc., is pictured checking plans for the Indians’ new ball park. Its location, at Harding and Sixteenth streets, is shown in the accompanying sketch.

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2 BOYS DIE IN FIRE Parents, Baby May Die of Burns in Cabin Blaze, By United Press PORTSMOUTH, 0., April 24. Charles Crabtree, 8, and his brother Harold, 6, were burned to death, their parents and another brother, Homer, an infant, were burned probably fatally when fire swept their cabin on the banks of Duck run, fourteen miles west of here today. INDIANA IS ‘MODEL’ FOR RELIEF STUDY Unemployment Council Secretary Is Informed of Choice. Indiana was selected as a "model midwestem state” to study in the mattre of handling unemployment relief. Dr. John W. Hewitt, secretary of the state unemployment council, was informed today by Holland Haynes, Washington, D. C. Haynes, who has taken the place of Fred C. Croxton as director of federal unemployment relief in the middle western and southern states, came to Indianapolis Wednesday to confer with Hewitt on the state's program. Croxton is in Washington as assistant director to Colonel Arthur Woods, Hoover relief expert. Croxton will have national charge whi.(T Woods is visiting Europe. LACERATIONS ARE FATAL Salem Man Dies at Long Hospital as Result of Injuries. Frank Van Sickle, 44, of Salem, Ind., died today at Robert W. Long hospital from complications following injury a week ago, when he sustained lacerations while working on a barbed wire fence.

later she tossed the gun down at his side, jumped into the automobile and drove away.” Roome telephoned police. a a a r T , HE girl’s mother, Mrs. Carrie -*• P. Morgan, 65, was questioned about her daughter’s relations with Casteel. Mrs. Morgan reputedly is very wealthy, having made a fortune in Chicago lake front real estate, She owns valuable real estate tkere. The girl’s father is dead.

Two Testify in Charges of Conspiracy and Fraud in Passage, Grand jury investigation into charges that conspiracy and fraud brought about passage in the 1931 legislature of House Bill 6, regulating busses'and trucks, was launched today, with William B. Conner of Indianapolis, Marion county representative, and Edward H. Knight, corporation counsel, testifying. Subpenas have been isued for several witnesses who are to testify before the probe body Saturday and Monday. Some ox these witnesses are expected to be Indianapolis newspapermen who were asigned to the general assembly session. Conner, author of the bill and a member of the conference committee on the bill, was before the jury for some time. He is named in complaints filed by Muncie and Indianapolis in which it was charged that persons interested in placing authority with the public service commission” conspired to have the contents of the bill changed, passed and signed. The suits seek an injunction to prevent Frank Mayr Jr* secretary of state, from publishing the bill as a law. According to the allegations, the bill, originally assured municipalities authority over bus and truck regulations. However, the bill, after its passage, did not contain this provision and vested power entirely with the public service commission. Probe was ordered by Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker. The state, represented by Attor-ney-General James M. Ogden, was to file a demurrer in answer to the conspiracy allegations in circuit court today. SHOWERS FORECAST Rising Temperatures End Frost Damage. With temperatures to rise slight- ; ly, the weather bureau today fore- ' cast occasional rains and continued ! cool weather for the next twenty- ' four hours. No frost was reported in Indiana ; Thursday night and early today and ! the frost of Wednesday night did no : damage to fruit and vegetables, ac- { cording to final state-wide reports ! to the bureau. Lowest temperature Thursday ' night was 42. ‘ALL BETS \yEBE OFF’ Wife Didn’t Bother to Get Divorce From First Mate;’ He Didn’t. By United Press WASHINGTON, April 24. Thomas L. Avaunt sued his wife, Dorothea, for divorce on the ground she had not bothered to get a divorce from her first husband. She told the court that was no great* matter, since her first husband had married her without getting legally detached from his first wife. Thus all bets were off. Hourly Temperatures 6a. D 42 10 a. m 50 7a. m..... 42 11 a. m 59 Ba, m..... 47 12 (noon).. 50 9 a m..... lp. m....* 51

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Option on 12.4 Acres Taken in South Riverside Area by Norman Perry, 200 MEN TO GET JOBS Modern Steel and Concrete Grand Stand Will Seat 15,000 Fans. BY EDDIE ASH Times Sport* Editor Indianapolis will have a | new baseball park if Presi- : dent Norman A. Perry of the Indians is successful with plans announced today. He has obtained an option on 12 4 acres in the south Riverside section of the city and will file a petij tion with the city zoning board ! Saturday, asking permission to ■ build a modern plant at an esti- ■ mated cost of $350,000, proriding employment for about two hundred : men. Perry wants to start grading the land at cnce and believes that, if no obstacles are met, the new park will be ready by late summer. The site, a triangular one, is bounded on the east by Harding street, on the north by Sixteenth street and cj> the south by Speedway avenue Charlel S. Rauh owns the property. Only two houses are on the Jhnd. 15,003 Seating Capacity The modern grandstand called for by Perry’s arrangements will be steel and concrete, with total seating capacity of 15,000, including a section of bleachers. The stand will be similar to the Louisville plant, with improvements. Stadium and playing field wilt cover 562 acres, leaving 6.78 acrep for parking and walks. The Riverside street car line is within 1r.6 blocks on the north and the South Grove golf clubhouse is directly north of the site. The realty firm of Moore & Fox secured the option. Entrance at Southwest The park entrance will be southwest and the teams .will bat northeast, with the right field the sun field, giving shade to all seats. The sun field at Washington park is left field and the team's bat southeast. The Riverside Civic Association, once' petitioned the Indianapolis baseball club to build in its neighborhood and'it:is believed the residents of that district will be pleased with today’s announcement. The baseball offices at the new: park will be in a tower over the entrance and President Perry has other ideas about building to make the plant a credit to that part of the city and to Indianapolis in general. Ample Parking Space Parking space will be ample and all highways leading from the city to the land are paved. Speedway avenue, which bounds the property on the south and also swerves to bound it on the west, will be resurfaced in the near future, it is said. The land is just east by south of the Emrichsville bridge. The Tribe owner desires to begin the work of construction within thirty days, if possible. Local labor will be employed and Perry's willingness to put big money in anew plant at this time indicates- he believes baseball is destined to make a real comeback in Indianapolis. The new park will take the fans away from the soot and smoke of West Washington street and give them a grandstand where there will be no posts to obstruct the view. Harding street is 1500 west and the park site is within easy distance from the center of the city. Stand in East Half The Indianapolis Water Company owns a strip of the section facing Sixteenth street that will be between the left field fence and the highway, east to west. This area is about 150 feet deep. The grand stand will be located in the east half of the 12.4 acres and the distance from rear of stadium to outfield fences will be 495 feet. Distance from home plate to fences at foul lines will be 330 feet, which means a home run will require a hard drive and the fly chasers will have a wide territory to cover. Distance from first and third base lines to stand will be sixty feet. There will be an area for parking space between stand and Speedway avenue and stand and west property line, approximately half of the entire tract. Film Pair on Belated Honeymoon HOLLYWOOD, Aprii 24.—Norma Shearer, motion picture actress, and Irving'Thalberg, studio executive, w’ere en route to New. York and Europe today on their first honeymoon since their marriage in 1927.

World Oblivion By United Press NEW YORK, Apnl 24.—Disintegration of the universe was forecast today by Sir James Jeans, British astronomer, who arrived aboard the Mauretania en route to ML Wilson observatory at Pasadena, CaL Sir James tempered his prediction that mice, men and the universe are headed toward oblivion by adding that at least one million years will pass before the breakdown of matter bring* an end to everything,

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