Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 301, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 April 1931 — Page 3

APRIL 27, 1931.

11. S. SMASHES AT MARRIAGE, BIRTH RACKET Fraud Orders Ban Thirteen Concerns From Using the Mails. By Scripps-Hovord Xetcspaptr AlUanet WASHINGTON, April 27. —The government today took steps to break up a brand new mail order scheme, whose backers had sought to capitalize marriage and birth, by holding out alluring promises of financial returns to prospective brides and grooms and expectant mothers. Postmaster General Walter F. Brown, at the request of Solicitor Horace J. Donnelly, issued fraud orders barring thirteen such concerns from using the mails following complaints from men and women in all sections of the country that they had been victimized. Concerns against which the fraud orders were issued include the Babyland Co-Operative Society, San Antonio; the Successful Marriage and Eirth Endowment Association of Houston; American Birth Benefit Association, San Antonio, and Milam Marriage Endowment Association, Oklahoma City. Put Out Alluring Ads In each case the plan of operation is substantially the same," Donnelly said. “Agents are employed to obtain members in so-called mutual benefit associations, and advertisements issued, indicating that single persons by making small monthly payments may receive amounts ranging from $250 to $4,000 when they marry, or married persons may receive similar amounts when a baby is born.” All of the concerns put out alluring advertising. A typical headline follows: “Your opportunity. Could you use SI,OOO upon marriage.” Another, after telling of the glory of motherhood and the “unselfish, unwavering, loyalty of' mother love,” advises all expectant mothers to end their worries by joining the association. Always the ‘Catch’ “If you have been a member three months your association will pay you $250; if six months you get $500; if nine months $750. The amount may vary slightly from this sum, due to Its being determined by the membership, but this is the scale,” read a portion of one advertisement. The ad indicated that each member is assessed 31 V* cents for each birth if the parent has been a member three months and proportionate amounts for longer terms. Failure to pay assessments voided each policy. “Os course the catch in the scheme is that no member had any idea how many assessments might be levied, and thousands of persons, lured by the belief that by paying a small amount monthly, hundreds of dollars would be paid on marriage or births, joined the associations,” Solicitor Donnelly said. JIMMY’ BLAMES REDS New York Mayor Claims Attacks Are Part of National Campaign. By United Press NEW YORK, April 27.—Mayor James J. Walker believes the attacks on his office are part of a national campaign by Communists to undermine municipal, state ana federal governments in the United States. Communists are making him the “goat” and the “target to shoot at” in their attacks at the foundations of good government, Walker told 2,500 firemen of the Holy Name Society Sunday. H? attacked the religion of those who have brought charges of misfeasance against him and termed them “parlor Communists.” LIFT TOOTH FROM LUNG Woman Swallows Molar; Rushed by Plane to Ohio Doctor. By United Press CHICAGO, April 27.—Mrs. Ellen Williams, 28, was believed recovering today after an emergency airplane trip to a Columbus (O.) hospital. where a tooth she had swallowed was removed from her lung. Mrs. Williams missed the tooth about ten days ago. A few days later she became ill. Pneumonia developed. X-rays showed the trouble was caused by the tooth. She was taken to Columbus Saturday by plane. Dr. Charles S. Bowen removed the tooth • and she was brought back by plane Sunday. BANDITS SLAY HOOSIER Two Shoot Down Peru Confectionery Owner and Escape. By United Press PERU, Ind., April 27. —Clarence E. Beachamp, 40, was slain at his home here today as he resisted two holdup men. They fired three shots, one striking Beachamp in the head. Beachamp, who operated a confectionery and lunchroom, was putting his automobile in a garage when the men approached. Henry Hebbe, a neighbor, heard the shots and saw’ the men flee in an auto. Beachamp leaves his widow’.

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Marriage Is Postponed; Film Star Goes Fishing

By United Press TTONOLULU, T. H., April 27. —Dorothy Mackaill, film star, who last week postponed her marriage to Neil Albert Miller because of “urgent business in Hollywood,” was discovered on a fishing party today, her scheduled departure on the liner Malolo also having been deferred. When she announced that her wedding to the son of a prominent Los Angeles family had been

POLICE HOLD BOYS Two Are Caught Ransacking Allison Home. Found ransacking the mansion on the estate of the late James A. Allison, on Cold Spring road, late Sunday, two youths were held by police today on burglary charges. Caretakers found them on the premises and the youths admitted to poliec they had stolen a radio at the house earlier in the day. Police said they found the radio at tHe home of one of the boys. Attempted robbery of the Caplin delicatessen, 949 North Illinois street, was frustrated Sunday night when Mrs. Sam Caplin screamed for police. The bandit had forced Mrs. Caplin to the family living quarters in the rear of the store. KILLS WIFE AND SELF Connecticut Man, However, Makes No Effort to Harm Visitor. By United Press SOUTHBURRY, Conn., April 27. —Edgar Oxford, pheasant breeder, walked into a bedroom in which his wife, Bertha, and Miss Winifred Gilford, a visitor from New York, were sleeping early today, shot his wife dead, then killed himself. Miss Gilford, hysterical, told police she was awakened by the report of the gun. Oxford made no effort to harm Miss Gilford. POLAND IN FLOOD GRIP 1,000 Are Homeless, Several Dead as Rivers Overrun Borderlands. By Uniti and Press WARSAW. Poland, April 27.—A serious flood situation prevailed today in the eastern borderlands of Poland, particularly in the vicinity of the city of Vilna. The rivers Vilya, Vilejka and Vilenka were rising rapidly tc flood vast areas of low-lying territuy. About 1,000 families were homeless and several deaths were reported. 3 HELD AS FUGITIVES Indianapolis Police Take Men for Anderson Authorities. Three men were held here today as fugitivs for Anderson authorities, who say they will question them concerning theft of several musical instruments from a store there Saturday night. They are; Harvey LeFever, 24, and Herman Hutchins, 40, of 232 North Oriental street, and Vern Wells, 26, of 540 Massachusetts avenue.

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put off, Miss Mackaill said she would sail for the mainland last Saturday. She spent the weekend on a fishing cruise, caught 179 pounds of fish, and the Malolo sailed without her. Friends of the film player said she might sail on the Malolo’s next voyage, and Miss Mackaill confirmed this, “unless there is more good fishing.” Her catch Sunday included two ono fish, four tuna, and two kawakawa fish.

Lucky Loser By United Press LOS ANGELES, April 27. James Soister was satisfied today that “perhaps it was best” that a traffic policeman prevented him from catching his eloping wife. Arragined before Judge Louis Kaufman on a charge of driving his automobile fiftyeight miles an hour, Soister explained that he was after his wife and a man she was eloping with: “Did you catch them?” Kaufman asked. “No,” answered Soister. “The officer forced me to the curb and kept me from catching them. But maybe it was best after all.” Judge Kaufman suspended a sls fine.

Furniture Thief Sentenced By United Press FRANKLIN, Ind., April 27.—Robert Thurman, 18, Indianapolis Negro, was sentenced to five years imprisonment here on a charge of stealing furniture from the home of J. R. Futz, Edinburg.

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HERE’S A JOB! MANY GARDENS STILL UNTAKEN I Warm Weather Is Returning: Needy Families Can Earn Food. After a brief cold wave warmer j weather is returning to Indianapo- : lis, and with it will come again the 1 opportunity for unemployed, needy ; familfes in Indianapolis to earn their food for the summer. They may become almost selfsupporting by gardening one or more of the lots that generous landowners have offered, free, to be made from weedy vacant lots into prim, neat gardens, producing food for hungry persons. Many lots have been offered, but most of them are in locations not j near persons who have asked for garden space. The Times today again prints several addresses of these vacant lots. If you want to make a garden write to the Garden Editor of The Times. NORTH—Thirty-ninth and Byram; 4055 Boulevard place. EAST—Christian, between Newton and Meredith, and Irvington Terrace and Kitley aventie. WEST—744 West New York street; 536 Concord street; Rockville road, in Tremont Gardens. NORTHEAST Parker avenue, near Thirty-eighth street- Oxford and Thirtyeighth streets; 1202 East Forty-sixth street, Sixty-secoifd and Crittenden streets; Parker avenue at Pendleton pike; Columbia avenue at Seventeenth street; lots about five blocks southeast of the state fairgrounds; and Gladstone and Sixteenth streets. NORTHWEST —Speedway road at Holmes avenue; 2000 block North Berwick street; Koehne street, betwen Twentieth and Twentieth-first streets; 1040 North Warman avenue. SOUTHEAST—Sherman drive and South- ! eastern avenue; Grand avenue, near South--1 eastern avenue. ! Several of these are large enough : for two or three, or even more families. Will you work them? Write The Times Garden Editor ; today. KILLED UNDER TRAIN City Telegraph Operator to Be Buried Tuesday. Last rites will be held at 2:30 p. m. Tuesday for Louis Eldo Dixon, 65, of 799 East drive, Woodruff Place, veteran telegraph operator, who died under the wheels of a Big Four train at Twenty-first street and Sherman drive Sunday afternoon. Handing a message, Dixon slipped ! on a banana peel and fell across ' the track under the train. The body i was cut in two at the hips. Inbound from Springfield, 0., the train was in charge of William L. Lov, 49. North Pershing avenue, i conductor; George W. Hause, 456 j North Arsenal avenue, engineer, and Garnett Coovert, 2155 Station street, fireman. Surviving him are the widow, a daughter, Miss Esther Dixon of In- : dianapclis; a son, Paul M. Dixon of Columbus, C ; a sister, Mrs. Het- ; tie M. Armstrong of Letts, and a brother, J. P Dixon of Greensburg. GANGSTER LOCKS LIPS South Side Gun Victim Freed as Police Fail to Substantiate Charges. Adhering to gangdom’s code—- | “don’t squeal”—Tony La Rosa, south ; side gangster, was free again today after police failed 'to substantiate i any charges after he was wounded i in a gun battle. The gun fight occurred at Six- ■ tesnth street and Hall place April 12 when La Rosa jumped from a car, driven by another man, that j crashed into a utility pole. As La Rosa fled, the driver fired a shot ; that struck the gangster in the side of the head.

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BY BEN STERN It is a peculiar thing that the 1931 session of the general assembly brought to the fore no man who can be termed really outstanding. As far as political timber for future campaigns is concerned, not one senator or representative indicated any real leadership. It is true that Senator Walter Chambers of Newcastle kept the Democratic senators in line during the last two days of the session, on the question of diverting part of the highway commission’s receipts to the general fund, but until that time, he •in no way showed any marked ability as a leader. The less said about the Republican senate leader, Lee J. Hartzell, Ft. Wayne, the better. He was named as president pro tern, through the patronage controlled by Lieu-tenant-Governor Edgar D. Bush of Salem, who intended him only as a figurehead. The end of the session found Hartzell not only disobeyed, but disregarded. tt tt tt Wearing a perpetual scowl and shrouded in an air of disgust with everything and every one, heavy, stolid Delph L. McKesson of Plymouth tried to drive the Democrats in the house, instead of leading them. Toward the end of the session, he learned to his consternation that he was sitting on a volcano of dislike and revolt and only fortunately escaped an outbreak which would have resulted in his dethronement by the session coming to a close. The Republican house leader, suave, gentlemanly and ever courteous James M. Knapp of Hagerstown, let his whip, Miles J. Furnas of Winchester, do all of the talking and thus escaped criticism. “Smart fellow there,” was the comment heard concerning Knapp. tt tt tt As for Speaker Walter Myers, he wants to be the next United States senator, and he proved again that thte man with political ambitions has no business with the Speaker’s gavel. In a vain and futile attempt to please everybody, Myers pleased nobody. In fact, as it was pointed out, he carried “so much water on both shoulders that his ears were awash.”

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SENATOR GLASS RENEWS FEUD WITH GANNON Ridicules Bishop's Sickness Plea as Objection to Committee Probe. By United Press WASHINGTON, April 7.—Senator 1 Carter Glass (Dem., Vau has re- ; newed his feud with Bishop James | Cannon Jr., in the South Methodist | church and out, in a statement ridiculing the bishop's plea of sickj ness and proposing that his con- ; stitutional objections be ignored. The Virginia senator's statement was in response to Cannon’s chalI lenge of the Nye senate campaign committee inquiry, authorized by a resolution proposed by Glass. It precedes another crisis in the bishop’s stormy career. The meeting next month of the college of bishops of the Methodist church, south, when Cannon will be named chairman if the usual seniority rule is followed. Other churchmen last week were reported circulating a petition to block Cannon’s selection. Glass spoke sarcastically of the bishop's physician, who, he said, warned Cannon his life would be endangered if he appeared before the Nye committee, “at the same time telling him it would Improve his health to travel across the continent making political and religious speeches.” The 'Nye committee, Glass said, is not charged with probing the paternity of the investigation under which it operated. “It is empowered to investigate any charge made by responsible persons to the effect that Bishop Cannon or anybody else’ deliberately violated the federal corrupt practices act or embezzled campaign funds intrusted to him by diverting them to private uses. That is all there is to it; and nobody who has not been guilty of either one or both of these criminal offenses could possibly think himself in jeopardy.” The Bishop’s statement which emphasized Glass’ authorship of j the inquiry was commented on; acidly by the senator: “It will appeal to those simple and emotional souls who appear to derive satisfaction from extenuating this prelate’s alleged irregulari- ; ties.” Advancing years are the glory of, the Chinese, and it is said to be : polite to suppose your Chinese guest: to be much older than his cr her! stated age. !

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MISSION WILL HOLD MEETING Dr. Rice to Talk at 38th Annual Session. • The thirty-eighth annual meeting of the Wheeler City Rescue Mission will be held tonight at 7:30 in the mission’s auditorium with Dr. Merton Rice, Detroit, pastor, as the speaker. The meeting is interdenominational with several churches cooperating. Dr. Rice is one of the outstanding pastors of the nation. The mission’s annual report will be read by the Rev. H. E. Eberhardt, superintendent. The speaker will be introduced by Dr. Ernest N. Evans, executive secretary of the Church Federation of Indianapolis. Bishop H. H. Fout of the United Brethren church will offer the prayer. Music will be furnished by the mission’s trio and radio ensemble. The mission broadcept a special radio program over WFBM Sunday. An open house for visitors to the mission will be held Tuesday.

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BANDITS’ LOOT SI3OO IN RAID ON DRUG STORE Seven Customers, Three Employes Lined Up by Gunmen. Herding three employes and seven customers into the rear of the store, two bandits late Sunday obtained $1,300 in a holdup of the Hook Drug Company, 3802 College avenue. C. G. Willis, 5447 College avenue, store manager, was forced, at the point of revolvers, to open a safe and the bandits rifled three cash registers. One of the customers told police he recognized one of the bandit pair. Bandits who held up Monroe McHenry, 28, of 3604 Prospect street, attendant at a filling station at Twenty-fourth and Meridian streets, Sunday night, obtained SIOO, he told police. Three men were held by police today as suspects in the S4OO robbery of the warehouse of Schnull & Cos., 2203 West Michigan street, after police staged raids Sunday ni£ht on two houses on DeLoss street. Names of the trio, who police accuse of robbing Emery Mygrant, manager of the warehouse Friday, were withheld by police. The men are held under SIO,OOO bonds each. Forcing him to lie on the floor, a bandit today robbed John Welsh, 40, of 850 Edison street, attendant of a filling station, at 1225 East Washington street, of $23. Other robberies reported: Edwin Heather, 2357 Southeastern avenue, filling station attendant. sls; T. L. Connor, 103 West St. Clair street, Apt. 3, clothing and jewelry. SSO; Dr. R. C Beeler. 4551 Park avenue, jewelry, $55; Frank Freige, 1131 Lexington avenue, restaurant at 540 East Georgia street, merchandise, SSO. SLAPPED: TAKES POISON Punished by Mother, 17-Year-Old Girl Tries to End Life. By United Press DETROIT, April 27.—Helen Togios, 17, took poison because her mother slapped her. The girl was recovering in Receiving hospital today. The mother, Mrs. Anna Togios, 46, watched at her bedside. “What possessed you to do such a thing?” she sobbed, “I didn’t mean to hurt you.”

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