Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 309, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 May 1931 — Page 2

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MARION COUNTY DIVORCE MILL RIVAL TO RENO Predict Avalanche of Suits Will Set Record in 1931. BY SHELDON KEY Reno may have Its six-week divorce law and easy way to marital tranquility, but, from the rapid increase in suits filed, it appears that Marion county's courthhouse, itself, Is not such an unpopular place for husbands and wives to settle disputes. In fact, attaches at the clerk’s office here are predicting that 1931 will be a record year as far as divorce actions are concerned. One clerk, Cecil Eschmeyer, has ventured that April and May, together, will see the heaviest avalanche of divorce applicants in history of the county. Superior Court 3 Leads Three of the five Marlon superior courts are grinding out divorces by the dozens, figures compiled by the courts reveal. During the first three months of the year, superior court one granted forty divorces to wives and gave twelve husbands their marital freedom. For the first three days of May, the same court disposed of twenty-two cases, granting papers In nine of these. Superior court three led the field for April by granting twenty-eight wives their freedom. Fifty wives and thirteen husbands gained divorces in this ■ court during the three months, January, February and March. Marital winds also blew strong In court two during March, where approximately thirty-nine persons won decrees of separation, while during January, February and March, the same court granted forty-one divorces to women and nineteen to husbands. Attributed to Money One superior judge attributes the present infelicity in marriage to the depression period and- its accompanying financial difficulties. This judge said, “Court testimony and observation reveals that money and other difficulties have caused husbands and wives to become irritable and later apply for divorce.” Figures from the clerk’s office reveal that 20.5 per cent more divorces were filed during April, 1931, than for April, 1930. They also reveal that Marion county courts granted 303 of the 592 divorces filed during the first three months of this year. DR. J. G. BENSON IS GIVEN HOSPITAL POST Columbus (O.) Man to Be Associated Head of Institution. Dr. John G. Benson of Columbus, 0., will become associate general superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal hospital here. May 15. Dr. Benson, superintendent of the White Cross hospital of the Ohio, was named by Bishop Edgar Blake of the Indianapolis area of the Methodist Episcopal church. He will aid Dr. George M. Smith, superintendent of the local institution, in supervising the hospital. Rapid growth of the hospital in the past few years necessitated Dr. Smith’s employment, it was explained. PUBLISHER TO SPEAK Advertising Club to Hear Business Talk by Earl Whitehorne. Earl Whitehorne, McGraw-Hill Publishing Company vice-president, will speak at a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce marketing commission and the Advertising Club at 12:45 Thursday at the chamber Whitehorne, an authority on planning for the definite improvement of business, will have for his subject “American Business Management Speaks Out.” Luncheon will be served In the fchamber case at 11:30, but not in connection with the meeting. DIS CUSS IDISPLAY BILL Ordinance Barring Sidewalk Exhibits May Be Enforced. Enforcement of an ordinance banning merchandise displays on sidewalks in front of stores was discussed by city planning commission members at a meeting with chain store operators Tuesday afternoon. Officials of the three principal chain store groups declared they were in favor of following the ordinance providing it were enforced against all stores, rhe matter was taken under advisement by the I commisison. CONCERN TO BE HELD Haydn's "The Creation” to Be Given at Caleb -Mills Hall. The Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music will present Haydn’s oratorio. “The Creation.” at 8:15 | tonight in Caleb Mills hall, Short- j ridge high school, in collection with j rational music week. soloists will be Mrs. James H. { Lowrv, Miss Maude Delbridge, Mrs. : Glenn Friermood, George Kadel, j Richard H. Trojan, and Raymond D. Jackson, with Miss Mary Zimmerly as accompanist. Arthur •W. Mason will direct the program.

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BLASTING IS FUTILE IN OIL WELL FIRE

The blazing gusher in action.

By United Press GLADEWATER, Tex., May 6. Two hundred pounds of nitroglycerin was exploded today at the blazing Sinclair No. 1 Cole oil well, In an effort to extinguish the flames that killed nine men, but the explosion only made the fire leap higher.

FATHER IS ACCUSED IN FAMILY KILLING

Dying Statements of Wife, Child, Evidence in Torch Tragedy. By United Press GREELEY, Col., May 6. A mother and three children, victims of an incendiary fire, were buried today as the father wept and denied the dying accusation of his wife that he threw gasoline on the family and set it afire. The father, James V. Foster, a chemical salesman, was arrested after the fire that killed his wife, Mrs. Myrtle Foster, and two of his children, Mildred, 11, and Geraldine, 4. The fourth victim was Darline, 19 months old. Three other Foster children have died in the last two years and authorities believed the chemical salesman broke under the strain of the repeated tragedies. First degree murder charges will be filed against him after the inquest today, authorities said as they marshalled the following evidence against him: The dying statement of his wife that he had hurled a bucket of gasoline upon her bed and tossed a lighted match after it. The accusions that “daddy did it” from his daughters, Mildred and Geraldine, before they died of the burns. Evidence that he had purchased two gallons of gasoline the night before the fire. Foster wept frequently and now and then shrieked, “I don’t know,” in answer to questions about who committed the crime.

NEW POST INSTALLS Sappington Is Commander of Legion Unit. Joseph H. Sappington, commander of the newly organized Garfield post No. 88, American Legion, was installed at a meeting in Garfield park shelter house Tuesday night. Other officers are Henan McClain, first vice-commander; Forrest Bixler, second vice-commander; Walter C. Rothermel, adjutant; Erwin E. Rothermel, finance officer; the Rov. William T. Jones, chaplain, and Patrick Shea, sergeant-at-arms. Prominent officials of the legion present were Floyd L. Young of Vincennes, state commander; Ollie E. Davis, state adjutant, and Dr. Frank E. Long. Captain Jesse Ray and Homer Elliott largely were responsible for creation of the new post, according to J. E. Mendenhall, membership chairman of District 7. ADOPT FIVE-DAY WEEK City Coal Dealers to Act Toward Stabilizing Employment. Coal dealers in Indianapolis will adopt the ‘five-day week during May, June, July and August, according to Charles A. Howe, manager of the Retail Coal Club. Deliveries of coal and coke on Saturday will be- ; made only in cases of extreme emergencies, Howe*said. “The coal dealers believe that adoption of the five-day week by other -employers will do much toward stabilization of omployment,” Howe said

The blast made by the seventy quarts of explosive, enough to blow up a city, tore away the equipment that had been impending the fire fighters, but also widened the mouth of the wild well and the fire burned even more fiercely than it has since it blew in last week, trapping workers.

Dog Tale By Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., May 6. Polk township residents were excited by a report that the freshly filled grave of a child had been found on a lonely spot on the Peterson farm. Sheriff R. H. Stephens was notified and with Deputy Harold Flynn went to the spot. There were tracks of an automobile around the grave. Under direction of the sheriff! digging was started. A burlap sack Containing a body—that of a bulldog—was disclosed.

MISSION SCHOOL IS NEAR CLOSE Inter-Ssct Institute Hears Baptist Director. Three-day session of the interdenominational coaching institute for leaders in missionary education drew to a close in Irvington M. E. church this afternoon. Willard R. Jewell, director of Christian education for the Indiana Baptist convention, presided at a conference which sought to work out plans for putting the institute here, serving six states, in the same class with great missionary conferences now held in Lake Geneva, Wis.; Silver Bay, N. Y., and other centers. Addressing the meeting Tuesday night, Dr. John Milton Moore, New York, executive secretary of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in North America, declared: “Christians who really mean to promote the Christian way of life must rebuke by voice and vote any leader, any political party, any commercial system, any industrial group, laboristic or capitalistic, that sacrifices fellowship for gain.” FUND GROUP TO MEET Jewish Welfare Drive Members to Gather at Kirshbaum. Pre-campaign meeting of 300 workers and captains in the 1931 Jewish Welfare Fund drive, which will open Friday, will be held at Kirshbaum Community Center, Thursday. Speakers at the meeting will include Rabbis H. Milton Steinberg, Morris M. Feuerlicht, Samuel Cohen, and Samuel I. Katz. Funds derived from the welfare campaign will be used for maintenance of more than seventy institutions.

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30-MINUTE WILUI WEST THRILLER STAGED IN CITY Youths Pull Holdup, Are Caught, Confess, and Booked in Half Hour. In less than thirty minutes Tuesday night three youths went i through experiences that sound like a dime detective story. According to their confessions, robbed a youth and a girl, fled to ' the river bottoms north of Indianapolis, were arrested, had confessed the crime and were charged with auto banditry and robbery in that time. Deputy sheriffs sought the trio after report that Luther McCoy, 17, j Fifty-ninth street and Michigan ; road, and his companion, Miss Pauli ine Teegarden, 16, R. R. 17, Eox 133, | were robbed -of about $4 and jewelry j while walking near McCoy’s house. Caught by Deputies Two squads of deputies sought the bandits and Deputies Charles McCallister and Gilbert Thomas, found them on Riverside road. The officers had a description of the bandit car. The deputies arrested Clarence Brown, 21, of R. R. 18, Box 304-B; Irvin Wissen, 19, of 960 Eugene street, and George Butler, 19, of 1442 Herschel 1 street. Search of the youths revealed the money, but deputies could find no revolvers in their possession. Weapons Are Found Reaching under the dashboard, McCallister found the weapons, a .25-caliber automatic pistol and a .32-caliber revolver, concealed in a wire cage. Police today will question the youths in connection with a series of minor robberies north of Broad Ripple last week. Five bullet holes, filled with putty, were found in the rear of the auto. . It is said the youths admitted theV had been fired on by police recently, after they had been driving without lights on north side streets. The police car was wrecked in the chase.

BUS PERMIT IS FOUGHT IN SUIT Injunction Order Sought by Noblesville Operator. Petition for 'court orders to declare unlawful the Indiana public service commission order prohibiting Robert E. Tishner, Noblesville, from operating a bus line between that city and Indianapolis was filed Tuesday in superior court two. Asking the court to vacate the commission’s orders and enjoin their enforcement, the suit alleges the commission is acting contrary to law. It is the first action of its kind brought against the commission. Tishner, according to the suit, filed a petition for a certificate of public convenience and necessity to operate a bus line. This petition was denied March 5 in a commission order signed by Jere West, a commission member. It is alleged also that Tishner’s plea for a rehearing before the commission was refused

RARE, VALUED FISH GONE; HUNT CULPRIT

‘Chinese Moors With Veil Tails, Telescope Eyes,’ Are Missing. , If the little womap brings forth a fish on your plate tonight and says it was a beautiful thing with protruding eyes—beware! The police are looking for the culprit who Tuesday night dropped a net into a fishpond in the rear of the residence of Arthur Gemmer, 4932 College avenue, and plucked forth two—now get this—“ Chinese Moors, with veil tails and telescopic eyes.” Gemmer has had the fish which, he says, are rare, more than four years, affd they had reached the tender age of 1 before he obtained them from hatcheries at Martinsville. They have a velvety, blue-black color, and were stolen from the pond while just plain goldfish cavorted about undisturbed. Gemmer has some definite ideas about the thief. “After I talked to police and they told me bird baths and other yard

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M'XINNEY GETS TRIP TORRANCE Works Board Head to Take Place of Mayor. Unable to leave his office, Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan today named E. Kirk McKinney, president of the work? board, to take his place with mayors of thirty-six other American cities on a five-week trip to Paris, May 15, as guests of the French government. They will attend the International Colonial and Overseas Possessions’ exhibit. Representatives of the steamship company this afternoon will present McKenney with tickets and the invitation from France to visit that country. Mrs. McKinney will accompany her husband. The mayors will cross the Atlantic on the French line flagship, lie de France, sailing May 15. Tire trip is an expression of gratitude of the French government for reception accorded the Transatlantic fliers, Costes and Bellonte, who stopped at Indianapolis.

BUTLER ALUMNI TO OBSERVE FOUNDING

Senior Procession Will Be Feature of Festivities at Campus. Attention of Butler university alumni today reverted to the Fairview campus, where plans were being completed for celebration of Honor and Founder’s days Thursday. Dr. William Lowe Bryan, president of Indiana university, and Dr. Robert J. Aley, president of Butler, will be principal figures in the ceremonies observing the two occasions jointly. It Is the first time both affairs have been celebrated together. Wearing' their caps and gowns for the first time, seniors will be in a procession of faculty members and students to the gymnasium at 9 a. m. Dr. Bryan will deliver the chief address, and Dr. Aley will announce winners of scholarships and awards. Invitations were received by sev-

equipment has been stolen in the neighborhood recently, I’ve- decided the fellows that stole my fish probably are outfitting a yard at less than wholesale costs,” he said. Search for the fish presented a difficult job for police, who sought aid from fish lovers who might show them a drawing or picture of Moors. By the way, the fish are worth $lO.

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GREAT FRENCH FAIR IS READY FOR OPENING Impressive Exhibits Are Placed and Approved by President. BY STEWART BROWX United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, May 6.—An emergency force of 10,000 laborers worked all Tuesday night in an effort to complete exhibits at the International Colonial Exposition, which was to be inaugurated today by President Gaston Doumergue. The exhibits of Holland, Italy and Belgium were most impressive among the displays, except for that of France. The United States, Denmark, Spain and Portugal have more modest representation among the other nations participating. The great exhibition at the Bois de Vincennes, on the outskirts of Paris, will be opened to the public Thursday. Prior to the ceremonies, the president walked through all exhibits, climbed the hundreds of steps leading into the great replica of the Buddhist temple at Angkor, which dominates the other pavilions in the forest; approved the colonial simplicity in the perfect reproduction of Mount Vernon, which houses the American exhibit, and praised the architectural gem which Italy created in reproduction of the basilica of Septimus Severe and the seven towers of Rhodes. Later there was a cavalcade of colonial troops, probably unique in military history. Great stalwart Senegalese, taller and more muscled than Frenchmen, in their red and brown uniforms; Anamites and others from the east, with ricecone helmets; Tunsians, Algerians, and Moroccans in flowing white bernouses. The ceremony will be continued in Paris tonight, when there will be a gala performance at the opera, color to be added by the soldiers in their vari-hued uniforms.

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CO-E 0 HEADS COUNCIL Elma Rose Sailors Elected President of Butler Board. For the first time In the history of the institution a co-ed holds the

let Quill, Chimes, highest position in Butler university’s student governmental affairs. She is Miss Elma Ross Sailors of Kokomo, elected president of the student council Tuesday. Miss Sailors is to take office in June and hold it one year. Besides her political v activities.

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STATE BANKERS TO MEET HERE Smoker, Banquet Features of Two-Day Session. Banquet, smoker and dance will be entertainment features of the two-day meeting of the Indiana Bankers’ Association at the Claypool June 10 and 11. Plans for entertaining state financiers were made Tuesday by the entertainment committee, of which H. Foster Clippinger, vice-president of the Fletcher Trust Company, is chairman. The smoker and dance will be held the night of June 10 at the Indianapolis Athletic Club, with the annual banquet scheduled for the following night in the Riley room of the Claypocl. Held l'p With Pipe; It’s Iron WASHINGTON, May 6.—A man armed only with a pipe held up and robbed Michael J. Carberry of his watch and $1.50. But it was an iron pipe.