Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 310, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 May 1931 — Page 9

Second Section

Its Gray Day But a Gay Day , for the Circus Is in Town!

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Threatening Weather No Bar to Joyous Throng, Big Top Bound. BY ARCH STEINEL . Desks were vacant in some schoolrooms today. The itching foot—a champing beneath office chairs—pervaded early morning hours. Everything seemed to go smash this gray day and wander outside. Thoughts wandered out, too, and people with them. Nothing went straight because of the year’s biggest nata day echoing from lip to lip with: “Circus in town!” For early this morning as the Sells-Floto circus pulled into the railroad yards and unpacked for its one day’s engagement at the Keystone avenue circus grounds, the occupants of those vacant school desks and those of the “itching feet” flocked down on Keystone to see the “big top” uloaded and hoisted. Earn Their Seats Men who fed elephants for Annie Oakleys in the past tanbark days watched 1931 youth earn their bleacher seats for “the afternoon’s pr-ee-formance, ladies and gentlemen,” by carrying stakes and sections of canvas. “Here there, son, do you want to go to the cricus? You do? Well, grab a hand on those poles,” shouted a circus roustabout. The trek of the wagons, the Shetland ponies, the “bulls” felephants), the camels, evoked “ohs and ahs” and “looky there” from the crowd lining the curbs on Keystone. It was their parade, the only circus parade nowadays, and they made the most of it. Up went the circus’s first “top” and always the first canvas stretched—the cook’s lean-to and the dining hall. The Music Starts The sing-song “wham-bam-bam-wham” of stake drivers mingled with the shouts of wagon-drivers and the steam from boiling “spuds.” “You can’t park here, Mister. Nope, not today. See that sign,” pointed a traffic officer to a. “noparking placard,” as he added, “Circus in town.” Like bees flocking to a patch of honeysuckles, soft-drink stands raised their heads on Keystone and proffered the same good old “pink” lemonade, hot dogs, and “puff” candy. The ballon man hawked his wares. Performers stirred in sleeping cars several blocks away. The “big top” rose like a gray wave from its flat bed on the ground. It seemed the final signal announcing that the day, after all, wasn’t so gray for: “Circus-in-town.” DEATH TAKES WIDOW OF 1812 WAR VETERAN Four Women in United States, One Living in City, Remember Event. To any American schoolboy the war of 1812 is remote in history, but to four wemen in the United States it was an adventure of which they heard first-hand stories from their husbands. Until today there were five widows of soldiers who fought in this country’s second war against Great Britain, but Mrs. Emma Mann, 92, died in her New England home this morning. One of the remaining four lives in Indianapolis. She is Mrs. Elizabeth Huron. 78, of 1715 College avenue, the widow of Sylvester T. Sively, to whom she was married in Terre Haute in 1878, more than half a century following the conflict. *Y* INSTRUCTORS NAMED Swimming Campaign Program Is Announced by Director.! Instructors for the city swimming campaign to begin at the Y. M. C. A. Monday were announced today by R. L. Konecke, physical education director. They are: W. G. Hanson, Ko- 1 necke’s assistant, in charge of all lessons: Orvin Moore, Thomas Mil- ; ler, John Stafford, Russell Mclntyre, Richard Middleton and Jiminie Ward. Robert Goodwin and Neil Arnold will aid Hanson in the instructions | and in Red Cross life saving courses. +** * •

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Upper left, here are Big Shot and Little Shot as they detrained today from cars of the Sells-Floto circus to accept the peanuts you fed them this afternoon and at tonight’s performance; upper right, Charles Davis, 3, of 1459 Fletcher place, didn’t have to walk a mile for these; center left oval, the song of the stake-driv-ing; center right oval, just as the Shetland ponies went by; lower left, “taters” going out of the pan into the boiler for the troupers’ mess; lower right, they’re too busy earning “corns” to the circus for you to see what school they played “hookey” from.

PREFERS DEATH TO POORHOUSE Blind Old Man Kills Self in Vanderburg County. By Times Special EVANSVILLE, Ind., May 7.—01d, blind and penniless, R. C. Nall, credited with leadership in making Evansville a furniture manufacturing center, chose death rather than to live in the Vanderburg county poorhouse. Nall, 73, slashed his throat with a penknife shortly after being assigned a room in the poorhouse. As he left an automobile which carried him on the journey "over the hill,” Nall told persons with him, “I just can’t go through with it.” He was called for dinner. He arose to his feet, then toppled over. The blade of the knife had reached the jugular vein and death came quickly. Until January this year Nall had been employed as a trunk salesman, but was forced to retire, due to ill health. Since then he had been living in various small hotels. Auto Kills Aged Man By United Press WARSAW, Ind., May 7.—Orin Crist, 60, Warsaw, died here a few minutes after he was str-.’ck by an automobile.

BUS BILL RECORD

ORDERED PRODUCED

Dick Heller, clerk of the 1931 Indiana house of representatives, today was directed by Circuit Judge Harry C. Chamberlin to produce the journal of the house in court Saturday. This document contains entries relating to passage of House Bill 6, bus and truck regulatory measure, w'hich, it is charged, was passed by a group of conspirators in the waning hours of the legislature to give the public service commission control. Chamberlin directed the order to Heller on a petition filed by James E. Deery, city attorney, in the cases

TWO WEEKS TO LIVE, UNIVERSITY HEAD IS RESOLVED TO SIGN 369 DIPLOMAS

By United Press WACO, Tex., May 7.—The same spirit that lifted Dr. Samuel Palmer Brooks from a railroad section hand to president of Baylor university drove him today toward completion of his task of Signing 429 diplomas before death stills his hand, in two weeks at the most, physicians say. . Doomed by cancer. Dr. Brooks as attached his name to sixty fiplomas. Three hundred sixty-

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BRIDGES WILL GOST $300,000 Bids on Fourteen to Be Opened May 26, Bids for construction of fourteen highway bridges, several of them large structures, will be opened May 26 by the state highway commission, John J. Brown, commission director, announced today. The letting involving expenditure i of $300,000 will be the seventh of ; the fiscal year. Brown said. The bridges will be erected in six counties. The structures were described i by William J. Titus, chief engineer i for the highway department, as i follows: Four bridges on Road 29 between ; Logansport and Winamac in Cass j and Pulaski counties. One to cross the Tippecanoe river, will consist of two steel spans, a total length of 300 feet. Six bridges on United States Road 36 between Rockville and the intersection with State Road 43, in Parke and Putnam counties. One of these structures wil be over Big Raccoon Creek, near Hollandsburg. It will be 265 feet long, of three steel spans. Another in the group will span little Raccoon creek, to be 150 feet long. Three bridges on State Road 43, in Putnam and La Porte counties, are a grade separation at Wanatah to carry the highway over the multiple tracks of the Pennsylvania railroad. This structure is to be of one steel girder span 106 feet long, and four forty-foot concrete spans. Total length, 206 feet. Concrete bridge on State Road 67, near Bicknell, in Knox county, to replace an old steel bridge. GRAND JURORS GIVEN .POULTRY THEFT CASE Gang Operations Believed Halted by Arrest of Suspect. What authorities' say was a poultry theft gang had one tentacle shorn in municipal court today i when Judge William H. Sheaffer bound Curtis Taylor, 44, of 3501 , South Meridian street, to Marion ! county grand jury under SI,OOO : bond on a charge of receiving stolen | goods. On his place, police declare, were found chickens and turkeys worth more than S4OO. They are said to have been stolen from farms in Johnson and Putnam counties by Taylor’s son Jesse and two others who escaped capture. Jesse Taylor Wednesday began a year’s term on the state farm, having been sentenced from Johnson ! county on a larceny charge.

of Indianapolis and Muncie against Frank Mayr Jr., secretary of state, to prohibit publication of the acts, charging irregularities in passage of the bus bill. It is charged in the petition Heller has not turned the journal over to Mayr for formal publication, as required by law. The senate journal was submitted to Mayr today for printing by Leland K. Fishback, secretary of the senate. This contains records of the senate's moves on the house bill. Eoth journals will be used in evidence in the injunction cases which are slated to come to trial soon.

nine remain. At the outside, his physicians said, Dr. Brooks has two weeks to complete the task he has steeled himself to, so his "students won't be disappointed.” He was warned that any extra exertion might shorten even the two weeks, but he called for his pen and started the Job. The 67-year-old educator vowed to sign SXty a day—unless death comes first.”

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1931

HONORS GIVEN 124 AT BORER CELEBRATION Presentations Are Made at Exercises Observing Founder’s Day. DR. BRYAN IS SPEAKER Students and Graduates Get Awards in University Gymnasium. Honors were awarded 124 students and graduates of Butler university today at the combined Honor day and Founder’s day celebration in the university gymnasium. Dr. William Lowe Bryan, president of Indiana university, gave the principal address and Dr. Robert J. Aley, president of Butler, presided. Those receiveing awards: Phi Kappa Phi Mrs. Helen Arnold. Theodosia Arnold, Margaret Barker. Frederick Baumgartner, Rosemary Bretzman. Frieda Blnnir.ger. Lois Cowcill. Elizabeth L. Davis. Barbara A. Dickey. Mareuerite Doriot. John W. Eastes. Clvde Fisher. Honor Gregory. Gladys Hawickhorst. Warren Isom. Alice Jay. Helma Kahn. Gretchen Kemp. Maynard Lemen. Norma Minkner. Morris PuJlin. Dorothy Quick, Florence Rathert. Hilda Reeder, Joan Sink. Oran Stanley, Dorothy Stoelting. Cora Stoops. Rosalind Taylor, Harold Vehline and Lucille P. Wright. Advanced Degrees John E. Potzger and Dean E. Walker. Graduates of 1930 Initiated Pearl Bartley. Hope Bedford, Alonzo E. Goldsberry. O. Earl Hin9haw Mrs. Georgia H. Lacey. Charles M. Sharp. A. M. Skinner. C. Emmett Trueblood, and Elia Tucker. Under Graduates Elected Mrs. Bulah C. McColgln. Mary McGee and Oswand Parsons. Phi Eta Sigma Herbert L. Egbert, William L. Gearhart, Elbert R. Gilliom Hunter F. Kennedy, William P. McClelland. William C. Peacock. William T. Rasmussen. Carl W. Seet. Joseph K. Taylor. Richard E. Thompson and Julius Thorman. Honor Rod Bertha Frances Bretzman. Mrs. Freda L. Bridenstine, Kathryn Bromley. Dorothy Cohen. Man’ Frances Cray. Josephine Davidson. John Wesley Eastes. Herbert Lowell Egbert. Clvde Reber Fisher. Thelma Flack. Milton Green. Russell Franklin Handy. Julia Mary Henderson. Maynard Franklin Lemen. Rudolf John 'Pfister. Martha Katherine Pittenger. Detniar William Rav. Evelyn Richey. Evelyn Rodibaugh. Oran Bert Stanley. Margaret Mabelle Stavton. Dorothy Elizabeth Stoelting, Rosalind Mardell Taylor. Emma Lou Thornbrough, Elaine Wilson and Gilbert Ulmer. Debating and Oratory Russell Townsend. Paul Duncan, William Weiss, Edward Flllenwarth Charles Drake. Clara Schell, Helen Johnston and Gretchen Kemp. Prizes Helen Johnston, Woman’s League Scholarship cup: Journalism. Martha Adams. Devera Cohen and Mox Schneider $lO each; Betty Jane Barrett, dramatic criticism; Sigma. Delta Chi keys. Marguerite Doriot. Dorothy Quick and Honor Gregory. Butler literary contest: Rodney Perkins. John Paul Duncan, Elizabeth Davis and Thurman Ridge. Appointments Rexford Daubenmeier. botany. University of Colorado, J. E. research, Indiana university; Oran Stanley, botany, Yale university; Don Youel, ‘ chemistry, University of Cincinnati; Edmund Huxley, chemistry, New York university; John Eastes. chemistry, Cincinnati; Paul Munier, chemistry, Oberlin; John Payne, chemistry, University of Munich; Dr. Florence Hooper, research, Yale; Robert Pitts, chemistry and zoology, John Hopkins; Gilbert Ulmer, mathematics. University of Kansas; Robert A. Finney, philosophy, Alleghany college; Forrest O. Wiggins philosophy. University of Wisconsin: Rodney Perkins, English, Michigan; Josephine Davidson, Butler junior scholarship; Lee M. Newland, economics, Duke university, and Grace McVey. University of New York. Kappa Taa Alpha Edwin Hobson. Adelaide Gould. Margaret Marker. Betty Wilson. Dvera Cohen and Lilyan Brafford. Alfred Marshall Society Seward A. Baker. Frank Fairchild. Jack Kingsoiver. Mavburn LandgraS. Hollis Leedv. Donald Meid. Lee Newland. Harold Vehling. Cecil Alexander. Osborne Dickson. Victor Hertz. Max Miller, Richard Swift and Donald Weddle. Senior Frizes William Delmar Ray. $200; Evelyn Rodibaugh and Lois Ann Hodgin, SIOO. ARCTIC RESCUE NEAR Swedish Flier Preparing to Reach Cabin on Foot. By United Press COPENHAGEN, May 7.—Hope for the rescue of Augustine Courtland, British youth marooned in a hut on the Greenland ice cap, was strengthened today by encouraging news of the progress of Captain Albin Ahrenberg in relief efforts. The noted Swedish flier was reported preparing for an attempt to reach Courtland’s lonely meteorological station on root. Courtland has been at the little meteorological station since last summer and is believed in danger of starvation because sledge parties scheduled to relieve him failed five times to locate the hut. CITY SEARCHED - ™ MURDERING SNIPER Body of Girl, 17, Returned to Home She Left for First Time. By United Press CLEVELAND, 0., May 7.—The grief-stricken parents of 17-year-old Louise Gaudig, victim of a phantom gun fiend, today were returning their daughter’s body to the home in Johnstown, Pa,, she left for the first time Monday. The girl was shot by an auto sniper six hours after she arrived in Cleveland to visit relatives. She died Wednesday without regaining consciousness. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Gaudig, were at the bedside. Meanwhile, police here are on special detail in an effort to capture the sniper slayer, who they believe is responsible for two other shootings which have terrorized the city during the last week. One suspect, a demented youth, is held.

FROM throughout the world persons who have been graduated from this institution, founded while Texas still was a republic, have sent expressions of condolence. His room in the Central Texas Baptist hospital was banked with flowers. Florist stocks here were exhausted. Telegrams and long distance telephone calls flood the hospital office. Across the picturesque campus, three miles from Oe hospital, students pass quietly from class to

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Boo! Boo! Boa! Huge Reptiles Terrorize New Orleans Hotel Guests.

NEW ORLEANC, May 7.—Two large boa constrictors, one eleven feet long, terrorized guests at a small hotel in the old French quarter today. The large reptile coiled itself around a ventilator shaft in the case, after sending patrons, proprietor and waiters scrambling to the exits. Manuel Esquical, Belize, British Honduras, owner of the snakes, appeared and lassoed the reptile. Then the smaller snake, more than five feet long, crawled through the hotel corridors and on to the roof. It was induced back into its box when Esquical "charmed” it. Esquical explained he had brought the reptiles to this country for presentation to the New Orleans zoo. They escaped from their box in a hotel room during his absence.

SUNDAY PROCLAIMED AS MOTHER’S DAY Governor Leslie Asks Observance by Organizations. Proclamation urging observance of Mother’s day Sunday was issued today by Governor Harry G. Leslie who called upon organizations to "encourage every enterprise that will give us better mothers.” Saturday, members of the American War Mothers will sell carnations to be worn Mother’s day. Proceeds of the sale will be used to aid disabled soldiers. Those who will assist in the sale include Ella Alexanders, John Kutchback, Ida Harvey, Albert Githens, C. C. Jones, Mae Berry, Augustus Siersdale and Getta Sowell. OIL AGREEMENT SOUGHT Interior Department to Negotiate for California Domes. By United Press WASHINGTON, May 7.—The Interior department will attempt to negotiate unit development agreements for the middle and south domes of the Kettleman Hills oil field in California, it was learned today. G. W. Holland, a representative of the department, has been sent to the field to begin negotiations.

class. Always there is the query: "What’s the latest from Prexy?” The latest was always the same: "Condition unchanged.’’ There was no surrender in the message Dr. Brooks gave his wife —‘‘l’m sorry to leave you, but I’m going.” mam ONLY faculty members and a few of Dr. Brooks’ most intimate friends—former Governor Pat M. Neff. Carr B. Collins of

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CITY’S AUTO DEATH TOLL RISES TO 60

The second victim of a street car and auto collision at Pine and Washington streets April 30, Jerome Bartholomew of Kouts died in Methodist hospital early today. His w T as the sixtieth death resultant from traffic accidents in Marion county since Jan. 1. Albert

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only remaining occupant of the car dangerously injured. According to police, witnesses told them John A. Bruck, 53, of Kentland, driver of the auto, failed to stop at Washington street, and drove into the path of the street car.

SENATOR MAY NOT GET ‘ROAD REWARD’

State Senator John C. Sherwood (Rep., Lawrence, Martin and Orange) may not get the paved road past or through his farm as part of the 1931 state highway program, it appeared today. Plans for the road are in prog-

MIDDAUGHJS FREED Lax Memory of State’s Witness Blocks Trial. Charles (Big Shiner) Middaugh went free from municipal court today when a state’s witness found his memory inadequate to substantiate the state's charges of blind tiger. According to police, they were called the night of April 26, by William Desper, 30, of 2128 Clay street, who said he had bought drinks in a house at 152 North Blackford street. In the house there Shiner and Anna Roche, alias Orm, w T ere arrested, but the raiders found no liquor. In court today Desper could not, remember whether he had bought liquor from Shiner, and Judge William H. Sheaffer discharged the defendant.

Dallas, Baptist layman leader; Earl B. Smith, president of the alumni association were admitted to his room. His daughter, Aurelia Brooks, who has taught in the English department of Baylor and came to his bedside from Columbia university, was in constant attendance. She read to him, mostly news dispatches, which he always has liked. The Texas legislature at Austin

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Second Section

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Richard Irgang, 43, of 4139 Rockville road, and his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Irgang, also 43, suffered minor injuries in a three-car crash in the 4300 block on Rockville road Wednesday night. Vanden Russell, 13, of 430 Massachusetts avenue, escaped with slight injuries when struck by an auto while roller skating across Capitol avenue at Ohio street Wednesday night. Lawrence Woodward, 23, Seventyfirst street and Keystone avenue, was cut and bruised when his auto struck a tree in the 4200 block on Fall Creek boulevard, and C. J. Price, Shelbyville, was hurt when hurled from his auto in a crash at New York street and Temple avenue Wednesday.

ress, but following a meeting of the state highway commission today, it was stated that it now appears that the work can not be done this year. Lack of funds was given as the reason. This announcement was made by Commissioner Jess Murden (Rep., Peru), Leslie administration power, who is looked upon as the real official spokesman for the state highway department. It was pointed out in The Times that Sherwood was to receive the paved road as part of State Road 50, which originally was to have been located several miles away and across a river, under plans of engineers for the so-called "dotted line system.” Sherwood’s farm is near Mitchell. The senator was one of the most ardent defenders of the state highway commission and Director John J. Brown at the last legislative session. Governor Harry G. Leslie attended the commission meeting this morning for the first time. He left early to go to the annual beefsteak dinner at Ulen Country Club, Lebanon. It was announced, also, that the Governor and commission discussed cutting down the railroad crossing construction program, as the railroad companies can not afford to finance it.

adopted an official resolution of sympathy for the Baptist educator. Waco, central Texas town of some 50,000 population, paid every tribute to its leading citizen in his last battle. Dr. Brooks has been president of Baylor since he was graduated from Yale university in 1902. In young manhood he quit work as a section hand to get an education. A few years later he headed the state’s oldest coL^ge.

NYE’S PROBERS ARE DEFIED BY CANNON’S AID Woman Refuses to Answer Questions, Challenging Board's Power. CONTEMPT IS CHARGED Committee Yet May Call Bishop to Appear for Quizzing. By United Press WASHINGTON, May 7.—Efforts of Senator Gerald E. Nye's campaign expenditures committee, attempting to investigate activities of Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal church South in the 1928 presidential campaign, failed, at least temporarily, today when Miss Ada Burroughs, an aid to the bishop, refused to testify. After a half hour of parrying, the hearing closed without overcoming Miss Burroughs’ refusal to answer questions on the ground that the committee was without authority. Futile efforts were made to question Miss Burroughs as to the circumstances surrounding the report made by the Cannon committee accounting for $17,000 of the $64,000 contribution of E. C. Jameson, New York financier to Cannon. Punishment Is Hinted Chairman Nye, irritated, at one point reminded her that "one fact stands out, that there has been a violation of the corrup practices act. Do you accept that responsibility?” "I said in my statement,” Miss Burroughs answered, "that I did not willingly violate the corrupt practices act.” The committee indicated by several of its questions that it might take other procedure to punish Miss Burroughs, and reminded her frequently that she was under oath Declines Flatly to Answer Nye read to Miss Burroughs a letter written by Cannon in September, 1928, soliciting funds from Jameson, and asked her if she could recognize the bishop's signature. "I decline to answer,” she replied.. “I will hand the letter to you and ask the question again.” Nye said. Miss Burroughs looked at the letter and said she had nothing to add to her previous statement. Cannon Can Be Called The committee did not meet immediately to decide what action to take in regard to Miss Burroughs, but Senator Dill (Dem., Wash.) and Wagner. (Dem., N. Y.), told questioners the refusal to testify would be reported to the secretary of the senate after which the federal authorities would proceed with contempt action. A question was raised whether contempt proceedings could be started unless at the request of the senate. Wagner said he did not. know, but believed they could be. By permitting Miss Burroughs to testify today instead of Cannon, the committee apparently chose to make Its test case against her instead of the bishop. Cannon, however, cculd be summoned later and still be made liable to contempt proceedings. JEWELMS RE-ELECTED MISSIONARY LEADER A. H. Backus Is Named ViceChairman of Division. Re-election of William R. Jewell, director of religious education, Indiana Baptist convention, as interdenominational coaching institute chairman for leaders in missionary education, was announced today following a meeting at the Irvington M. E. church Wednesday. A. H. Backus, secretary of religious education for the Methodist Episcopal area, was elected to the newly created post of vicechairman. Other officers, all of Indianapolis, are Miss Joy F. Taylor, secretary, and Miss Florence E. Lanham, treasurer. The conference was attended by ninety-seven delegates from churches in Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky and Michigan. MANIAC STORY I^HOAX Hunt for "Bearded Madman” Ends as Boys Confess Prank. By United Press MT. CLEMENS, Mich., May 7. The mystery of the “bearded maniac,” for whom every police agency in southeastern Michigan had hunted for three days, was solved today. The "maniac” was a hoax, conceived in the mind cf two small boyj who disliked the daily chore of searching for stray lumps of coal along the Grand Trunk railway tracks near here. KILLER’S PAL ON TRIAL James Trout Branded by State as Robber Friend of Hill. Testimony of neighbors that they heard the shots that killed Charles Zeller, lottery operator, near his home, 320 East Southern avenue, in March, 1930, was presented to a criminal court jury today in the robbery trial of James Trout. Trout is alleged to have been th* accomplice of William Hill, expoliceman, at the robbery and slaying of Zeller. Trout is alleged to have rifled Zeller’s pockets before Hill, serving a life sentence for the crime, fired the shots into Zeller's body. Paving to Cost $167,000 W. C. Meneeley Company of Frankfort has been awarded a $167,812.05 contract for paving 11.1 miles on State Road 29, in Pulaski county, from Winamac to two tales south of Thomhope.

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