Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 306, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 May 1931 — Page 3

MAY 2, 1931

COMMITTEE MOVES TO OBTAIN NATURAL GAS FOR CITY

PROPOSALS FOR SUPPLY ASKED OF COMPANIES Ruling Is Expected Soon on Stockholders’ Suit by High Court. —— • lay aside one plan Mayor’s Group Decides It Has No Authority to Act on Lease Offer. .Vritten proposals for supplying iiatural gas to the Citizens Gas Company will be sought immediately from all owners and operators of natural gas properties by Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan’s special gas committee. The committee, headed by Henry L. Dithmer as chairman, decided on this action late Friday at its organization meeting. In a statement Issued at the close of the meeting, the committee mentioned specifically the Kentucky Natural Gas Company and the Marion County Gas Corporation, both of which have tentative proposals before the committee. The Kentucky company is seeking permission to lay mains in the city to supply natural gas in wholesale lots to twenty-three industrial firms under contract. The company has suggested furnishing natural gas wholesale to the Citizens company later. Would Lease Plant The committee decided it was not authorized to consider proposals similar to that submitted by the Marion county company Thursday. The company proposed to finance acquisition of the Citizens company by the city, and to operate the company under lease, paying the city a flat annual rental fee and also a percentage of net income. The plan also included piping natural gas here and mixing it with artificial gas to increase heat units and also reduce gas prices, making gas available and economical for all purposes, including heating of homes. The mayor’s committee was named to consider proposals for natural gas only. Results of its study are contingent on upholding of the city’s right to acquire the Citizens company under the 1905 charter provisions, by the United States supreme court. Court Ruling Soon The high court is expected to rule within a few weeks on petition of Citizens company stock certificate holders for review of the federal court decision sustaining the city’s claim. The committee requested that any natural gas company desiring to communicate with the committee address the newly-elected secretary, City Attorney James E. Deery. During the committee meeting, the Kentucky company, through its attorneys, filed a suplemental -offer to sell natural gas to the city. The company stated that at any time within five years after beginning delivery of natural gas here, if the city should take over the Citizens company, the company would sell its mains here to the city at cost plus 10 per cent, less depreciation of 2 per cent a year. Also, it offered to sell natural gas wholesale to the city following such purchase, at a price to be agreed on as soon as right to lay its mains is gi'anted.

INMATE CROWDING IS BLAMED FOR KILLING Lima State Hospital Guard Death Starts Inquiry. By Unit id Press LIMA, 0., May 2.—Overcrowding at the. Lima State hospital for the criminal insane was charged here today as authorities maintained a heavy guard over two inmates who murdered Louis Kiehl, 50, hospital guard, yesterday in an escape plot. Dr. W. H. Verbau, superintendent of the hospital, said today that while the institution was built to quarter thirty-five inmates, over forty are now being cared for. Overcrowding made this killing possible, he said. The two men guarded are Sam Nelson, 20, of Cleveland, and James Powell, 24, of Columbus. Nelson, a Negro, was captured last night by a posse which found him cowering ina eld eight miles from the hospital. Hospital guards captured Powell a few minutes after Kiehl was found strangled to death in a lavatory.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to: Charles Tuck. 802 West Twelfth street, Ford truck, from West street and Indiana avenue. George Brvden Yeazcl. 2930 North Talbot evenue. Ford roadster, 743-528, from Michigan and Meridian streets. Virgil L. Martin. 1125 North Beville avenue. Ford roach. 55-427, from in front of K;nean &■ Cos. office Marshall Cooper. 11 < North Grant street, Ford coach. 48-777. ':om In front of 117 North Grant street. Ben Flnklestein. 1101 Union street. M 1-429. From Alabama and Massachusetts avenue.

BACK HOME AGAIN

Stolen automobiles recovered bv police belong to: Marv Whitney. 62C3 West Vermont street. Nash sedan, found at New Jersey and Market streets. Watch Theft Reported Theft of a platinum watch valued at $125 was reported to police today by Robert Redding. 1624 Korth Pennsylvania street, today. Foot Crushed by Train Trying to board a freight train at Pennsylvania railroad and Brookville road Friday, Alexander Mitchell, 27, Negro, of Alexandria, La., slipped beneath the wheels. One foot was crushed. State Policeman Hurt KOKOMO, Ind., May 3.—A cut leg was suffered by Roy King, state policeman when the motorcycle he was riding struck an automobile driven by John S. Harvey *of Rochester on state Road 31 north of here. Severe bruises were suffered by Mrs. Agnes Baney, 50} and her son Edgar, 14, who were riding trith Harvey.

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MINIATURE LAKE LATEST CRAZE Street Corner Fishrng Puts Peewee Golf Behind. . By Bcripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance LOS ANGELES, May 2.—Last year it was miniature golf. This year Los Angeles offers something new. Vacant Jots in this city are being converted into trout streams and lakes for the amusement of its masculine population young and old. For twenty-five cents you may rent a rod and all other necessary equipment and fish to your heart’s content. If you catch a trout it is yours. Some of the trout streams are most decorative, with miniature waterfalls included in their course. They take up no more room than miniature golf and seem just as popular. The only trouble is that the trout soon become wise to urban ways and urban menaces and are extremely difficult to catch. That is probably what makes the trout streams solvent business propositions.

PARENT-TEACHERS TO HOLD CHORUS HOUR Sacred Musical Numbers to Mark Community Program. Sacred musical numbers for a “community sunset hour” from 5 to 6 p. m. Sunday at the North Baptist church,. Sangster and Fjfty-sec-ond streets, will be given by Parent Teachers chorus of school 91 under the direction of Mrs. Fred Hawk. Members of the chorus are: Mrs. William B. Reed, Mrs. Frank C. Kircher, Mrs. M. A. Blake, Mrs. W. O. Cuddy, Mrs. J. K. Wood, Mrs. | H. D. Gorham, Mrs F. M. Shackel- | ford. Mrs. William Hazelmeir, Mrs. | C. M. Wilder, Mrs. Charles Smith, ; Mrs. Clarence Lowe, Mrs. R. E. Far- | ley, Mrs. H. D. Kurtz and Mrs. Sim i Hartzell. Mrs. Don Wilson is | pianist. An address will be delivered by j the Rev. T. J. Parsons, editor of ; the Baptist Observer. FIREMEN ‘RUN RAGGED' . “Alarm Bug” leads Smoke Eaters on Four Wild Goose Chases. Checker boards were untouched i Friday night in five fire stations and : firemen were exhausted today after an “alarm bug” led them on four wild goose chases. The false alarms came in rapidfire order, calilng equipment from engine houses 3, 11. 15, 20 and 2. The boxes were pulled at English avenue and Laurel street, Noble and Market streets, Newton and Rural streets and Trowbridge street and Southeastern avenue. KILLS THREE SONS. SELF Desponde-x-y Over Business Blamed for Tragedy in Garfield, N. J. GARFIELD, N. J., May 2. —John Lubig, 46, shot and killed his three j young sons and committed suicide ' early today. Business worries are blamed. Police said Lubic came home ; while his wife and children were I sleeping. Mrs. Lubic ran to the | toys' room when she was awakened . bv the shots, and found them and I her husband dead. Lubic came from Yugo-Slavia and when he lost his factory job recenti ly. invested his savings in a con- | fectionery business. He became j despondent fearing the investment | was a failure. BERT THURMAN BETfER G. O. P. Chief Report Improving After Operation. Continued improvement in the condition of M. Bert Thurman, Republican national committeman, was reported today at St. Vincent’s hospital. He underwent an operation Thursday for mastoid infection. SIOO,OOO Loss in Mine Fire By Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind„ May 2. Fire which destroyed a tipple at mine owned by the Miami Coal Company caused a loss of SIOO,OOO. Men working in the mine climbed to safety through a manway, after the burning structure fell into the main shaft.

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BUSINESSMEN DODGE ISSUES ; OF IMPORTANCE C. of C. Ends Its Session With Nothing Done on ‘Crucial’ Matters. BY THOMAS L. STOKES United Press Staff Corresiwndent ATLANTIC CITY, May 2.—The United States Chamber of Commerce left here today with a mass of good intentions, vocally expressed, to do something about the unemployment problem, but with no concrete and definite proposal as a basis for action. All that stood on the record after the three-day sessions, in which unemployment was one of the chief considerations, was a resolution indorsing a study already begun two months ago by a special committee into “the possibilities of business and employment stabilization.” The members went away with a warning of Julius Barnes, chairman of the orgaization’s board of directors, against any “deceptive legislative panaceas,” which was taken to refer to some of the proposals for state unemployment insurance and other advanced measures which crept into the various sessions. Ignore Wage Cut Fight The vociferous applause that .hundered through the great ballroom of one of Atlantic City’s big boardwalk hotels at, the conclusion !of his speech indicated general agreement with his philippic against i government interference with industry in any way, in meeting its i unemployment problem as in handling others. The most effective warning seemed to be that of several advocates of unemployment benefit plans who told the business men that unless they do something themselves they are bound to have state unemployment insurance law's, framed by others, forced upon them. The chamber completely ignored the wage cut controversy that roiled up to its very doers and was the subject of talk in the corridors of the auditorium where the meeting was held and in the hotel lobbies between sessions. The chamber seemed to be timid about taking a positive stand on many of the issues discussed in the twenty-five resolutions adopted, except for a strong declaration against a tax increase, against government interefercnce with business and on some relatively important matters. Shy on Tariff Discussion Revision of the anti-trust laws was urged by several speakers w r ho are intimately familiar with the subject, but the chamber merely recommended that, if the board of directors approved, a study be made of the various proposals submitted. As regards the threat of Soviet Russia “dumping,” which some business men here seemed to take very seriously, the chamber recommended that if present provisions of the tariff law's were not effective congress enact others. The chamber .shied completely away from the tariff, though an occasional speaker w r as bold enough to hint that the Hawley-Smoot rates might be too high. It did urge a study of the depressed silver market by a special committee, but took no position on the proposal for an international conference. Silas H. Strawn, Chicago attorney, was elected president by the board of directors, succeeding William Butterworth of Washington. The term is for one year. Julius H. Barnes was re-elected chairman of the board, and Oscar 1 Wells of Birmingham, treasurer.

‘TIM’ M’MAHON NAMED Traffic Officer Made Assistant in Park Safety Office. Appointment of Timothy McMahon of the police traffic department as assitant to Lieutenant Frank Owen in directing safety and discipline at city playgrounds and parks this summer, was announced today. McMahon, who is Owen’s asisstant in the accident prevention department, was named so rthe recreation department work at a meeting of Owen, Police Chief Jerry Kinney, A. C. Sallee, park superintendent, and H. Walden Middlesworth, recreation director. CELLAR FALL IS FATAL Jasper Campbell, 57, Dies of Injuries; Toppled Stairs. Jasper Campbell, 57, of 118 North Noble street, died early today at city hospital from skull fracture sustained Friday night when he fell down the cellar stairs at his home. He lived at the Noble street address wfith his son-in-law, Emil Schaedel. TAX RIGHTS STRESSED Must Receive Value for Every Dollar, South Side Club Is Told. Right of taxpayers to receive value for every dollar paid in taxes should be demanded by citizens, the South Meridian Street Civic Club was told Friday night by Howard M. Meyer, Indianapolis president of the Izaak Walton League. Meyer declared public officials who would benefit, financially by new legislation should be removed from office. He also outlined purposes of the league.

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Before you decide to “out-run” these fellows, reflect on their claims that their brand new mounts can make 100 miles an hour! Pictured on their new machines are, left to right, motorcycles officers Ray Moistner,

$115,000 IS GIVEN TO I. U. BY REALTOR

Foundation Established by William Patten, Alumni, City Man. Children of posterity will hear the world's eminent educators and scientists when they attend Indiana university because of a gift of $115,000 to the university by William Patten, Indianapolis real estate operator and graduate of the school’s class of ’93. The gift, announced tdday, is in the form of an endowment and will be known at the university as the William T. Patten Foundation. The income from Liberty bonds and municipal and county bonds forming the endowmnt will be used to bring prominent men to the university for residence and lectures. During the life-time of th® donor the income from the benefaction will be paid Patten. Patten has been an active leader in the Democratic party in the state. He was auditor of Marion county from 1912 to 1916. During the World war he promoted war chests and Liberty loan drives. He was the leader in the fight against abandonment of railroad track elevation in the city during the war. The donor ofy the endowment is a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity and the Knights of Pythias.

RULE KILLER INSANE Wife Slayer Near Death, Sent to Prison Hospital. Near death, suffering from a bullet which surgeons have been unable to remove from his brain, Herbert R. Kaster, 30, confessed wife slayer, today was to be taken to the state prison hospital for the insane at Michigan City to serve a two to twenty-one-year sentence. The sentence was imposed by Judge Pro Tem Clyde D. Karrer in Criminal court Friday when Prosecutor Herbert E. Wilson allowed Kaster to plead guilty to a volentary manslaughter charge. Kaster shot and killed his wife, Helen Kaster, 28, in a downtown store, Nov. 27, 1930. A bullet which Kaster afterward fired into his own brain is said to have caused him to become imbalanced mentally. ACTRESS EUROPE-BOUND Betty Compton, Unnerved by Divorce Publicity, Seeks Rest. By United Press NEW YORK, May 2. —Betty Compton, musical comedy actress, who married and divorced Eddie Dowling, stage director, in little more than a month, was aboard the Europa today, bound for Southampton, England, and a long rest. Miss Compton suffered a nervous strain the publicity occasioned by her hasty marriage and divorce and was ordered to go to Europe. She will visit London, Berlin and Paris. 43 QUAKES THIS YEAR April Maintains Example of March in Number of Shocks. By Science Service WASHINGTON, May 2.—With a series of eight earthquakes, culminating in the destructive Caucasus shocks at the end of the month, April has maintained the high earthquake record of the first quarter of 1931, and has followed the example of the preceding month, which ended with the wrecking of Managua on March 31. The total of major earthquakes for the year, up to April 30, now stands at forty-three.

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William Rowe and A. B. Thompson. Five other motorcycle officers who breaking in new mounts like those pictured are Sergeant Patsy McMahan, Ernest Haught, William Tremp, Clarence Griffin and Jake Hudgins.

Mr. Fixit Write your troubles to Mr. Flxlt. Re is The Times representative at the city hall and will be clad to present your ease to the proper city officials. Write him in care of The Tidies, airninr your full name and address. Name will not be published.

Mr. Fixit—There are a number of chuck holes on McLean place betwen Boulevard place and Capitol avenue. Two loads of gravel or cinders would put it in good shape. A TAXPAYER. Street Commissioner W. H. Win ship has promised to act on this complaint as soon as possible. Dear Mr. Fixit—A lot in the 500 block Bell street is piled with broken tile and rubbish of all kinds. It is an eyesore and also a menace to health, because of rats and mosquitos. A good garden would look much better than this pile of rubbish. The old sheds are a fire menace as boys go in there and' smoke cigarets. R. E. The board of health has obtained promise from the sanitary board the lot will be cleaned at once. A health board officer also notified tenants near this lot to stop putting trash on the lot. The old sheds were reported to the fire prevention department. Mr. Fixit—Could you induce the city to collect ashes and garbage from Hillside avenue below Twentyfifth street? The city never has collected ashes in this street south of Twenty-fifth, to my knowledge. The street is improved. L. B. This has been referred to Truly Notai, in charge of garbage and ash collections, for investigation and action, Mr. Fixit—Just below the elevation on South Senate avenue are a lot of old boilers on the sidewalk, making it hard to pass. Hope you can remedy this condition. This has been referred to City Kngineer A. H. Moore for investigation. Mr. Fixit—ln the 400 block North Adelaide street are holes in the street and water stands there when it rains,, about fifty feet north of Vermont street and on to Michigan street. j. m. C. City Engineer A. H. Moore has ordered investigation of conditions referred to. Mr. Fixit—Please try to hava a bad hole, in front of a hardware store at 2758 Roosevelt avenue, repaired. o. F. The complaint has been referred to City Engineer A. H. Moore, who said street repair crews will fix the hole within a few weeks. Because of the number of breaks in streets in the city, it is necessary to take one section of the ctiy at a time, rather than to move the necessary repair equipment from spot to spot in the city, which would be expensive and unsatisfactory. Moore said. For this reason, the break can not be fixed at once, but wilt be cared for as soon as possible. Mr. Fixit—Please see what can be done about the trash and garbage cans that are left continuously m East Eleventh street in the vicinity of Butler street. TAXPAYER AND TIMES READER. . This has been investigated by the health board and orders issued to keep trash off the street except on collection da >'.s. The sanitary board also has been notified. 350 Minqrs on Strike PRINCETON, Ind., May 2.—An old controversy over a double working shift has resulted in 350 men employed at the King Station mine of the Deep Vein Coal Company going on strike.

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CARNEGIE HERO MEDALS GIVEN 23JN NATION Boy, 10, Girl, 12, in List of Persons Honored for Bravery. i By United Press PITTSBURGH, May 2.—Twentythree persons were the possessors today of bronze medals awarded by the Carnegie hero fund commission, and dependents of three others who lost their lives in acts of bravery were recipients of pensions aggregating S6OO annually. Cash awards totaling $20,000, of which SB,OOO was awarded five persons for educational purposes, also were made. Pennsylvania led the list according to states, with six awards. Ohio was next with five, Heroes recognized were: Pennsylvania—Trafton T. Buchanan, Renovo; Anetta L. Brenneman, Factoryville; Albert B. Taylor, Carnegie; Herman D. Sigal, Pittsburgh; Florence McCartan, Du Bois; Clarence C. Sponsler (deceased), Everett. Ohio John Alfred Sanders, Charles H. Mears and Harry Neff, Salam; Marcus C. Easterling, Cleveland, and Sheldon J. Harris (deceased ), Painesville. New York —Jeanette S. Rogers, 12, Utica; Lawrence J. Menig, Buffalo; Roger L. Slattery, Lockport, and Roderick M. Cunningham, 10, Rochester. West Virginia—Charles M. Perry, Crum, and Garfield B. Muse, Okeefee. * Texas—Clarence J. Farris and C. Ray Drake, Dallas. Oklahoma—Mrs. Kleyme S. Foster, Oklahoma City. Maryland—James T. Anthony, Chestertown. Virginia—Charles S. Frost, Richmond. North Carolina William H. Bowen (deceased), Wilmington. Jeannette Rogers, 12, won her medal by breaking the fall of a 20-months-old baby she saw clinging to a window ledge and thereby saving its life. Ten-year-old Roderick Cunningham won his medal by saving Joseph W. Scwarze, 34, a sexton, from drowning.

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A beautiful day brought out a big delegation of Kiwanis Club golfers Thursday to take part in the first monthly handicap tournament at Speedway course. Alvin C. Ostermeyer, golf committee chairman, was about ready to sock one down the first fairway for his first drive, but it took 103 more before he got the gutta percha in the eighteenth cup. Harrison Bennett and Walter Campbell tied for low gross honors with 83 each. Hal C. Meyer had a 71 net score, CHINESE PATRIOTS RISE ‘Humiliation Day* Meetings Protest Impositions by Foreigners. PEIPING, May 2.—Chinese patriotic organizations begin Sunday observance of a series of “humiliation days,” designed to call people's attention to impositions upon Chinese by foreign groups and nations during recent years. Mass meetings will be held in several cities.

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GEM MERCHANT IS SHOT DOWN; GANG HUNTED Finding of Body and Two More Jewel Robberies Stir New York. By United Press NEW YORK, May 2.—The killing of a well-known diamond merchant and two more daring jewel robberies which totaled nearly $50,000, sent city and state police on a wide search today for the band of jewel thieves who have been operating in New York recently. The body of Abraham Levy, who disappeared mysteriously on Feb. 14. with $20,000 in gems, was recovered from Long Island sound, near the estate of the late Marcus Loew, theater magnate. The body had been pierced by five bullets, and loops of wire were knotted around the neck, hands and legs. Identification was made several hours after the body had been recovered by Jack Block, a boatman. Detectives expressed the opinion robbers had forced Levy into their automobile, robbed him and then threw his body into the water after strangling and shooting,, him to death. Block will receive’ SI,OOO reward offered for recovery of Levy's body. While police were seeking the identity of Levy Friday, two welldressed thieves walked into the apartment of Robert R. Livingston in the Riverside drive section and robbed Mrs. Livingston and a woman caller of jewels valued at $9,500. The thieves gained entrance to the building on the pretext of having brokerage business with Livingston. When Mrs. Livingston informed them her husband was too ill to see any one, they drew revolvers and ordered her to hand over her jewelry. Another huge gem robbery in the exclusive Central park section was revealed when Mrs. Florence E. Canfield informed police that burglars had forced an entrance to her home last Thursday night and stolen jewels worth $25,000.