Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 309, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 May 1931 — Page 9

Second Section

DATES CHOSEN FOR MARBLE TOURNEY PLAY City Champion Will Be Sent by Times to National Meet in East. MATCHES BEGIN MAY 16 Twelve Play Centers Named for Preliminaries to Final Fracas. (Entry blank on rage 2) Dates and locations for play in The Indianapolis Times annual marble tournament were decided on today with matches opening at four city playgrounds, Saturday, May 16. Winner of The Times tournament, to be staged for boys and girls between 6 and 15 years of age, will be cent to Ocean City, N. J„ the week of June 21, to compete in the national marble tournament, where he will compete with players from sixty or more other cities. He will make tho trip with all expenses paid, with a chaperon, who will look after his welfare during a week of entertainment at the Jersey ocean resort and at other historic places in the east. Centers Are Selected Twelve sectional centers were selected by Hugh <Wally> Middlesworth, city recreation dirccto, today for the championship scries. Centers, In every section of the city, are Willard park, Ellenbcrger park, Brookside park, Spades park, Fall Creek playgrounds, Sixty-first street playground, Riverside park, Municipal Gardens, Hawthorne school playground, Rhodius park, Riley playground and Garfield park. Rings for the marble games will fee drawn in the vacant spaces between the baseline and wire screen of tennis courts on each playground or park. • Start May 16 Judges for the sectional games will be such men as Paul (Tony) Hinkle, basketball coach at Butler university; Johnny Hennessey, Davis cup tennis star; Henry Goatt, city clerk, and others, Middlesworth said. On May 16 tournaments will be held at Spades park, Rhodius park, Willard park, and Garfield park. On May 23 play will be at Municipal Gardens, Ellenberger park, Riley playground, and Sixty-first street playground. Finals on June 15 On June 6 tournaments will be held at Brookside park, Riverside park, Hawthorne school playground, and Fall Creek playground. Winners and runners-up at each playground will compete in the finals at Willard park, Monday, June 15. At each playgrounds entrants will be divided into groups for first round games. Winners of first round games will meet In second round games, and so on until the field is narrowed to a winner and runner-up at each center. Boundaries Are Given Willard District —Bounded on the south hv Prosccct end Vimnia avenue, west oy Meridian east by Sherman Drive, north by Michigan street. Pllenbcrser Park District —Bounded on nnrHh hv Tenth street, west by Sherman Drive, cast by city limits, south by cl tv limits. Brookside District-Bounded on the north Thirtv-eichtli street, west u\ tviirai IfeWWHH city limits. FaU Creek District- Bounded on the Meridian street, east, bv Rural street south bv Nineteenth street, north by Thirty-eighth street. Sixtv-Flrst District-Bounded on the south bv Thirty-elchth street, west, north and east bv city limits. Rl-orsirie Park District—Bounded on tne east bv Meridian, north bv Thirty-elßhth street, south Fall Creek and Burdsal boulevard. west, by city limits. Munielnal Gardens District—Bounded on *!, bv Meridian street, south bv Bis L- I'* 1 '* chlcaro Division Railroad and New York st h ree a t 5 °north bv Burdsal boulevard extended. tov ettv limits. Hawthorne—Bounded on the east hy White river, south bv the v elins ';' ,a 2i„ p-iiroad St Louis Division, north Bis Four Railroad. Chicago Division, and New York street, west by city limns. Rhodius Park District—Bounded on the north bv the Pennsylvania Railroad. St. Pouts Division, east Hardine street, and by city limits on south and jtest. Rilev District—Bounded on the east by Meridian street, west Harding street, north b" New York street, south by Havmond street. Garfield Park District—Bounded on the north bv Prospect and Virginia, west by Meridian street, from the Circ.o to Raymond street, thence west on Raymond to Harding. south by city limits, east by Sherman drive. Spades Park District-Bounded on the west bv Meridian street, south bv Michigan street. north bv Nineteenth street, east by Rural street. JEWELERS NAME HEADS Reginald W. Garstang Is Elected President of Guild. Officers of the Indianapolis Jewelers' Guild were elected Tuesday night at a meeting in the Chamber of Commerce. Reginald W. Garstang was named president. Other officers are: Silas B. Reagan, first vice-presi-dent; Sigmund Asher, second vicepresident; Charles C. Peek, treasurer, and A. S. Rowe, secretary; Louis Strashun, Adolph Blickman, Jacob Goodman, Arthur A. Reis and Don T. Hoover, members of the board of governors. SEEK STREET LIGHTS Northeast Civic League to Make Plea to City Officials. The Northeast Civic League will ask city officials to extend Caroline, Hillside and Temple avenues across traction tracks bordering Thirtyeighth street, it was decided Tuesday night at the home of L. H. McKowr., 3921 Caroline avenue. Also it was decided to ask the works board to erect street lights at Caroline avenue and Thirty-ninth street, Caroline and Sutherland avenues, and Orchard avenue and Millersville road. Swamp Land Is Sold State Auditor Floyd E. Williamson today auctioned seventeen acres of swamp land in Porter county to Steve Johnson. Valparaiso, for $175 The land was appraised at SIOO.

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‘GREATEST' RUM SMASH OPENED ‘Legs’ Diamond’s Records Are Clews in Offensive. By United Press CATSKILL, N. Y , May 6.— The United States government is opening “one of the greatest offensives” ever made on bootleggers, M. O. Hanson, first assistant to Prohibition Administrator Andrew McCampbeil of New York, announced today. The drive, Hanson said, is based on information gleaned from Jack (Legs) Diamond’s records, confis-; catecl Monday by state investigators : and turned over to federal author-; itics. “We have information which will enable us to begin today one of the greatest offensives on organized bootlegging ever made,” Hanson j said. “The Diamond connections! sprout in New York, but reach to j Chicago and further,” Twenty-five dry agents, who came to Catskill Tuesday night with Hanson, will remain here. They conducted a preliminary survey of Greene county and reported all speakeasies were closed. ROB3ERY CONFESSED Prisoner at Tipton Held Up Sharpsville Bank. By United Press TIPTON, Ind., May 6.— A confession has been obtained from Walter Small, 19, held here on charges of robbing the Sharpsville State bank Saturday, Sheriff Jeffrey DeVault, Tipton county, announces. Small’s statement implicated Charles Crawford, Tipton, De Vault said. Crawford, believed to be in Anderson, was injured in a hand and leg when the bank's cashier opened fire on the fleeing men, De Vault said Small told him. The sheriff also asserted that Small had offered to show officers where S3OO, his share of the SI,OOO loot obtained in the robbery, is hidden. DEMOCRAT IS MAYOR Howard Jackson Elected by Baltimore in Crushing Victory. By United Press BALTIMORE. Md., May 6.—Former Mayor Howard W. Jackson, Democrat, was elected mayor of Baltimore Tuesday by a majority of over 63,000. The vote from all but two of the city’s precincts gave the following totals: Jackson. 119.781; William G. Albrecht (Rep.), 56.807. R. Walter Graham, city controller in three administrations, was reelected by more than 60,000 votes. E. Lesser Muller, advertising man, was elected president of the city council by over 63.000. Only one Republican was elected to the council.

FAIL TO ACT IN PEN BRIBE PROBE

Bribery charges against officers at the Indiana state reformatory were discussed by members of the state charities board today, but no action was taken, it was announced at noon by Secretary John A. Brown. The board meeting today is expected to be the last with the present, personnel. Governor Harry G. Leslie has let it be known he expects to change tie board membership and only one of the present board members has been reappointed. All others terms have expired. The one .reappointee is William J. Sayers, formerly of Muncie, but now of Richmond. Leslie talked over proposed board changes with Sayers last week. It

James S. Cruse

Succumbs at Home After Illness of More Than Six Months. Illness of more than six months ended fatally today for James S. Cruse, 72, who died at his home at 1611 North Meridian street at 10 a. m. Mr. Cruse was dean of the city's realtors, and a pioneer in the .. a estate business in Indianapolis. ~ T e was president of the J. S. c Realty Company. " He was In Methodist hospital ior seme time, until two weeks ago, when he returned home, apparently greatly improved. Surviving him are the widow*, Mrs. Fannie Jones Cruse, and a sister, Mrs. Henry J. Wiethie, of 105 North De Quincey street. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. Born at New Albany Mr. Cruse was born July 16, 1858, at New Albany, the son of Mr. and Mrs. John P. Cruse. With his parents he came to Indianapolis when he was 5, was educated in public schools here, and lived in the city since that time. Leaving school Mr. Cruse became a clerk in the abstract office of John H. Batty, and after Mr. Batty’s death he remained with the successor in the business and there gained his first knowledge of the real estate business. Later he was connected with the real estate rental agency of Giles S. Bradley, and then joined with the firm of Dain & McCullough. After Mr. McCullough’s death he continued with Dain, and purchased the business when his senior partner died. Incorporated in 1908 In December, 1908, the firm was incoporated as the J. S. Cruse Realty Company, with Mr. Cruse as president from the firm’s inception until his death. Mr. Cruse also formerly was president of the Marion Title Guarantee Company, now the Union Title Company. He w r as a member of the Columbia club, the Indianapolis Board of Trade, the Indianapolis and Indiana Real Estate boards, the Chamber of Commerce, Indianapolis Athletic club and Masonic orders, including the thirty-second degree of Scottish flits. BORAH ASSAILS GREED Civilization Gone Mad in Race for Wealth, Says Senator. By United Press NEW YORK, May 6.— Civilization has gone mad in its endeavor to secure vast wealth, Senator William E. Borah (Rep., Idaho) believes, but has not yet mastered the proposition of distributing its wealth to prevent economic depressions such as that now* being felt throughout the world. America can not escape “from this deep trough of depression,” he told the American Jewish joint distribution committee, “and at the same time leave the balance of the human race behind.” He believes human sacrifice and charity of the individual are necessary to overcome economic crises.

is expected the new membership will be announced soon, but the Governor said his plans were not completed today. Reformatory bribery charges were made by Walter Arnold, former Ft. Wayne policeman, who served a sentence at the Pendleton institution. Brown and two board members composed a committee which visited the institution and wrote a report exonerating officers of the charges. In the meantime Arnold has volunteered to appear and substantiate them he says, but Brown asserted the board has no money to hear such witnesses. “However,” Brown declared, “if Arnold has the facts we will make arrangements to hear them. We just are not sure that he has the Tacts.”

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RAZOR-HAMMER MURDER LAID TO ORGANIST Mild-Mannered, Respected Candy Dealer Held in Brutal Slaying. FRIEND IS PLOT VICTIM Police Charge Killing Was Done to Get Insurance Money for Pair. By United Press WESTFIELD, Mass., May 6.— A mild-mannered, cultured, and respected church organist stood charged today with what police described as a cold-blooded murder in Which a razor, a hammer, and an automobile were u=ed in dealing death to a friend. Behind the crime, police alleged, was a plot between the organist and an insurance agent to collect and divide about $1,500, which would have been realized through a double indemnity insurance policy on the victim. Lucien Ochocki, 25, candy dealer and organist at an Easthampton Polish church, has pleaded not guilty to a murder charge, and Roman Fulta, 35, Easthampton insur'ance agent, has made a like plea to a charge of being an accessory before the fact to the debth of Michael Krol, Ochocki's roommate. Lives for Twenty-four Hours Though suffering from mortal injuries said by police to have been inflicted with three different weapons, Krol lived nearly twenty-four hours after being found unconscious by a lonely roadster in a wooded district. Police claim that under questioning Ochocki recounted a story of how Krol met death at his hands. According to police, the crime was carried out with amazing deliberation, two separate attacks being made upon the victim twelve hours apart. They said Ochocki took his friend for an automobile ride last Friday night. While *thev were in an isolated section, the organist suddenly I turned upon his companion and | struck him eight times on the head with a hammer, police said. Returns to Make Certain Krol, unconscious, then was hurled from the car. Authorities said Ochocki, fearful that he might not have killed his friend, then backed his automobile away and ran over the prostrate form. He then hid the victim in some underbrush, police said. Ochocki then went home, according to police, but finally decided that Krol might recover, and next morning returned to the scene and slashed Krol’s throat and wrists with a razor. The victim was found a few hours later. Investigators said Fulta had sold Ochicko a $728 insurance policy on Krol’s life and that the value of it, with double indemnity re- ! alized from it was to have been | divided between the organist and | The insurance agent. SI,OOO IS YEGGS’ LOOT Thieves Batter Open Safe of Meat Market; Take Currency. Entering a meat market operated by Philip Greenwald at 26 North Delaware street, early today, yeggs battered open the safe and took almost SI,OOO in currency and checks. Greenwald told police that in one package in the safe was $450 in money and a like amount in checks. From two purses the thieves obtained a coin collection worth more than SSO, and from another compartment they took a watch chain and a S2O gold piece. Pioneer Dies By Times Special GOODLAND, Ind.. May 6— Chris Fehrle, 63, first white child born here, is dead.

By United Press TOWNER. Colo., May 6.— Bryan Untiedt, hero and White House guest, assumed the role today of head of the Untiedt ranch, doing the chores and taking his father’s place. The elder Untiedt was taken back to Lamar, Colo., for further treatment of an infected cheek, frozen while he was aiding in the rescue of the Towner school bus survivors weeks ago. Bryan, who returned from Washington Tuesday, succeeded him as

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1931

BOY HERO PLAYS ' ‘HEAD OF FAMILY’

Four Pupils Play ‘Leads,

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These four Broad Ripple high school pupils will have leading roles in three senior class plays to be presented in the high school auditorium Friday night at 8. Left to right they are: William Stroup, male lead in “In the Spring a Young Man’s Fancy’’;

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ETerett Maddox

John Lewis

Gertrude E. Tansel

Helen Bugher

Charles Shedd

Jacqueline Tyler

Rosaline Petrovich

Naomi Adams

Dorothy Puntenney

Paul Krelliertis

DEADLOCK ON PAY UNBROKEN One Contractor Calls Back Workers at Old Pay. With but one slight change, the embattled condition between the building craftsmen and contractors was practically the same today as last Friday, when the employers demanded that workers take a 20 per cent ■wage cut. Union officials reported that the William P. Jungclaus Company, a member of the Associated Construction Employers, which demanded the cut had called back the craftsmen employed in erecting the new Coca-Cola building at the old wage scale. So far, no overture has been made to the Marion County Building Trades council by the employers Oldest Resident Dies By United Press NOBLESVILLE, Ind., May 6. Mrs. Nancy Brown, 93, oldest Hamilton county resident, died at her home near here. Among the survivors are fifty-one great-grandchil-dren.

head of the family, tending stock, and directing the energies of his brothers Virgil, 11, and Rome, 8. The boy shouldered the responsibility in much the same manner that he took over the responsibility of leading his school chums in a fight against death when they were trapped in the bus and the driver went to his death trying to bring them aid through the storm. “It proves the trip did not spoil him, when he goes out there and feeds those hogs,” declared his mother.

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Mary Margaret Cox, in “A Wedding”; Marita De Vault, who will be seen in the first named production, and Frank Gleaves, who will have the lead in “Sham. * Miss Lillyon Snyder directed coaching of the plays.

Harry McMann

Vera Sutphin

Wilbur Cole

John Surtier,

Rosemary Smith

Genera Tharp

Arthur L. Miller

Edith Cedar*

Catherine Neal

Puppy Love By United Press * CHICAGO, May 6. His wife tried to take his life, but his dog saved it, Jay D. Weaver, 30, charged today in a divorce suit on file against Bertha A. Weaver, 29. Weaver and his wife quarreled in 1929, the suit charged, and she threatened to kill him. They separated, were reconciled in March, 1930, and a month later she attempted to kill him and herself with gas, he charged. His bulldog saved them, he stated, arousing him by barking and tugging at his bed clothes.

HUNT 4 IN ARCTIC Rescue Party of Three Also Is Lost. By United Press ANGMAGSALIK, Greenland, May 6.— Search for Augustine Courtauld, marooned and believed in great danger on the Greenland ice cap, was intensified today when the first aerial rescue expedition returned to report failure. Simultaneously, the flight raised considerable anxiety for three other members of the H. G. Watkins Arctic air route expedition. The three, led by Watkins, have been cut two w’eeks on a fifth sledge party effort to locate Courtauld. The fliers reported, however, that they had not only failed to find a trace of the little meteorological station in which Courtauld, son of a British millionaire, is supposed to be facing starvation, but, that they had been unable to locate the Watkins searching party.

TELEPHONE CHIEFS OPEN PARLEY HERE

“Busy !” That commonplace answer to subscribers of manual telephones and as commonplace as a signal on automatic phones describes 500 members of the Indiana Telephone Association as they opened their two-day annual convention this noon at the Claypool. Head sets of chief operators of exchanges in every section of the state were discarded to hear the “how-come” of the telephone and discuss its problems with the managers of telephone companies. Supervisors of telephone traffic opened a divisional conference in the Palm room of the hotel this afternoon with the main meeting held in the assembly room. Dr. W. P. Dearing, president of Oakland City college, was the speaker at a luncheon. Dr. Thomas A. Watson of Boston, maker of the first telephone under the direction of Alexander Graham Bell, arrived at noon to attend the convention session. Dr. Watson speaks Thursday afternoon.

Melvin Suddith

Fannie Kinkey

Ray Arthur

Margaret Kress

George A. Thayer

Amos Arthur

Alice Butara

Lucille Haus

Sarah Wallace

Second Section

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Billy Hopkins

Donald Woolery

Frances Veal

Mary C. Kikendall

Fete Krctheotis

Alexande*lovanovich

Albertha Downing

Blanch Cayton

Floyd Maddox

Juanita Erwin South

Theresa Rice

Mildred Harding

BONDS TO RAISE FOND FOR POOR $200,000 Issue Is Forecast by County Auditor. Township poor relief debts for the period Feb. 20 to April 20, probably will be met with a $200,000 bond issue when the Marion county council meets May 20, County Auditor Harry. Dunn announced today. Estimates on total expenditures for county poof .relief this year, revealed today, indicate the county must borrow between SBOO,OOO and $1,000,000 to finance the relief. “This will mean a tax boost of approximately 25 cents on the dollar in Center township next year,” Dunn stated. County commissioners recently sold a poor relief bond issue totaling $380,000 to pay relief bills for December, January, and the major part of February. PROTEST AIR DISPLAY Evanston Ministers Object to Maneuvers for May 20. By United Press EVANSTON, 111., May 6.— The Ministers’ Alliance of Evanston protested today to President Hoover and War Secretary Hurley that a natibn u-hich signed the Kellogg peace pact should not allow a military demonstration such as that planned for May 20, when 600 army and navy planes will fly over Chicago in formation. The Rev. J. J. Steffens, alliance president, declared the ministers would consider the demonstration as propaganda for increased armament. Their protest, he said, had been wired to Hurley and Mr. Hoover.

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Following Dr. Watson’s talk an address will be given by W. J. O'Connor, assistant to the president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Directors of the association will be elected Thursday morning with the annual banquet scheduled for the Claypool, Thursday night.

RENO BRANDED ‘ROTTEN ROME’ BYMINISTER Divorce Mill Spread Will Ruin Nation, Declares Noted Pastor. OTHERS DEFEND LAW Humanist Society Head Puts Unqualified Approval on System. BY H. ALLEN SMITH United Fress Staff Correspondent (ComYight. 1931. bv United Presal NEW YORK, May 6. —Dr. Christian F. Reisner, noted Methodist pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle, today characterized Reno's high-gearcd-divcrce mill, where marriage ties are being broken at the rate of one every five minutes, as “alone consistent with the godless Soviets.” Dr. Reisner and Michael Williams, editor of the Commonweal, leading lay Catholic publication, in branding the Reno spectacle, used terms like "vulgar,” “a disgrace to the nation” and “drearily comic.” Tlie Methodist minister expressed the belief that, if the Reno system is permitted to take further root in the United States, it will result in the ultimate destruction of the nation. He saw in Reno a rebirth of Rome, in the voluptuous days before her fall. Views in Conflict These opinions of the Reno situation were given the United Press in the course of a survey which, though showing sentiment against the Nevada divorce system, nevertheless registered a sharp difference of views. One clergyman, Dr. Charles Francis Potter, founder and head of the first Humanist Society, expressed unequivocal approval of the Reno courts, while Dr. Eliot White, Episcopal clergyman, announced himself as definitely In favor of more flexible divorce laws than obtain in most states. “Reno is disgracing all America,” Dr. Reisner said. “Reno is cheapening marriage by short order divorces and undermining the home, which is the heart of the nation. Reno alone is consistent with the Godless Soviets; it is wholly fore! 7*l to a Christian nation. It enthrones the flesh and denies the power of the spiritual, without which real love never exists. Points to Rome “It exalts convenience over and against duty. It approximates making marriage legalized prostitution. If it becomes general, it will spell national destruction as H did in Rome. “Religion should not degrade itself by co-operating in the marriage of such hastily divorced people. Such a divorce mill may be condoned in Mexico, but it should arouse the angered indignation of every decent American.” Dr. Potter, Jjowever, viewed the matter differently. “I find it difficult,” he said, “to conjure up any righteous excitement about the fact that it is possible to get a divorce in Reno in ten minutes. The average marriage ceremony takes less time than that. Cling to Old Morality “A justice of the peace (a rather inappropirate name, by the way!) can perform four marriages in ten minutes. You have to reside in Reno six weeks before you can get a divorce, but you can get married in almost any city within a half hour after arrival. “This Reno situation shows that women still are so moral that when then can not stand one man any longer and wish to try another, they still conform to the morality which says that they should be legally divorced from No. 1 before they marry No. 2, and No. 1 is usually so happy to let her go that he does not contest the case.”

ARRANGE LAST RITES FOR FRED NOLTING Trinity Lutheran Church Leader Was Native of Indianapolis. Funeral arrangements foi Fred Nolting, 46, of 424 North Oakland street, Rub-Tex Company purchasing agent and Trinity Lutheran church leader, who died early Tuesday at the Methodist hospital of heart disease, were being completed today. Burial probably will be at Concordia cemeteryMr. Nolting was bom in Indianapolis .and formerly was employed by the Holcomb & Holke Manufacturing Company. Survivors are the widow, Mrs. Minnie Robke Nolting; the mother Mrs. Ida Nolting, a brother, Paui Nolting and a sister, Mrs. Martha Callender, all of Indianapolis. OPERA SINGER DIVORCED Maggie Teyte Is Granted Decree on Charge Against Second Mate. By United I‘rcst LONDON, May 6.—Maggie Twyt*. opera singer, was granted a decree nisi today from Walter S. Cottingham, her second husband, on the ground of misconduct. Miss Teyte is 42 and was bom in England. She is well known as a singer in the United States. She was bora Margaret Tate. GARBAGE SCHEDULE SET Collection of garbage twice weekly instead of once and collection of ashes every other week instead of weekly, under the summer schedule, has been started, it has been announced by Truly Nolen, sanitary board collection superintendent. Garbage collections will be on Monday and Thursday, Tuesday and Friday and on Wednesday and Saturday in sections which previously have been served on one of those days.