Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 311, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 May 1931 — Page 2

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‘JUST FOR FUN' DEFENSE FREES 7 OF GAMBLING Court Release Deals Cops Blow in Drive to Close Joints. After seven men had testified they were pLaying a domino poker game "just for fun" when raided, Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron Thursday dismissed charges of visiting a gaming house against them and also a charge of operating a gaming house against Rubert Stokes, 2806 East Washington street. The men were arrested April 11 by Captain Otto Ray and patrolman Eramanual Gebauer, who, at a previous hearing, testified they watched the progress of the game throueh a transom for half an hour and saw money exchange hands. Cameron then scored Ray for ‘‘snooping" and told the captain that, as city license inspector, such activities ‘‘are none of your business." Cameron also indicated he would cite Ray for contempt of court when the latter attempted to explain his authority as a police officer. Saw Profits Counted I don’t know where gambling cases will stand now," Ray said following dismissal of the cases. “I thought I had an iron clad case this time, for we watched the game for thirty minutes and were able to state the amounts won or lost by each player. We saw Stokes take his ‘cut’ out of the profits of the game.” Several weeks ago Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan ordered police to sweep up gambling Joints. The drive resulted in more than 100 arrests on the charges, but the courts either have continued the cases or dismissed all but a few of the charges. Before deciding the case since first hearing testimony April 13, Cameron continued the issue from that date to April 24, to May 1 and then finally gave his ruling Thursday. Paul Rochford was attorney for the defendants. Alibi Halses “Doubt” Police officers who have cooperated in the mayor’s order said they were “up against it” and indicated they would seek advice from city officials on what steps to take. “The judge’s decision is final and there is no need for argument, but It looks as though it will be difficult for us to get convictions of gambling cases in the future,” Chief Jerry Kinney said. Police recently have exerted efforts to gather sufficient data to bring to justice alleged gamblers. Formerly, dismissals were ruled when the police were unable to show money either was won or lost in the alleged games. Since then, police have been instructed to get this information before arresting alleged violators. Cameron said that the sworn word of the seven men that they were playing “for fun” raised a doubt as to strength of the charges.

FEES MAY BE LIFTED ON COMMUNITY HOUSES Orgaiiizations Likely to Win Fight to Abolish Charges. Possibility that all municipal community houses may be thrown open to all organizations without charge was seen today, following meeting of the park board Thursday afternoon. Confronted with requests from numerous organizations for free use of community houses, President Jackiel W. Joseph commented that he almost was convinced easiest solution of the problem of who should be admitted free was to remove all charges. Suggestion was made by other board members that the usual small charge be continued only when advance reservation is asked. The board delayed decision on the matter. CATCH RUNAWAY GIRLS Cincinnati Trio Is Picked t T p by Deputies Near City Limits. Three young girls, one 12, one 14, and the other 16, who ran away from the Oak Cress school in Cincinnati Thursday, were back there today due to deputy sheriffs here. The girls hitch-hiked from Cincinnati to Indianapolis, and were walking west on national road, near the western city limits when picked up by deputies. Cincinnati officials returned them early today. New’ Trial Plea Deferred Tiy United Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind., May 8 Hearing on a motion for anew trial for Lawrence Johnson, 22, confessed slajser of his 16-year-old bride Mildred here in January, was postponed until next week at the request of Norval K. Harris, defense attorney, who is at the bedside of his father at Gary.

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NORTH M. E. TO END DEDICATION Service Sunday Will Close Church Ceremony. The last of dedicatory services to be held in North Methodist Episcopal church, Thirty-eighth and Meridian streets, prior to the formal dedication ceremony Sunday morning, were on today’s program. Service of dedication in behalf of women’s work in the church was to be held this afternoon, Mrs. Edgar Blake, wife of the bishop of the Indiana area, presiding. Mrs. O. W. Fifer was to lead scripture and prayer; greetings were to be expressed by Mrs. Frederick D. Leete, and addresses were to be made by Bishops Wallace E. Brown, Helena, Ark,, and James C. Baker, Seoul, Korea. The Rev. Orien W. Fifer, superintendent of the Indianapolis district, will preside at tonight’s service of dedication in behalf of Christian advance throughout the world. Principal address will be made by Bishop Francis J. McConnell of New York. At services Thursday night dedicating the new church edifice to the community, Charles F. Coffin declared: “This church is not dedicated to Methodism. It Is dedicated to the community and its people.

WASHINGTON SCHOOL MOTHERS TO BE FETED Senior Girls’ Club to Entertain with Reception and Program. Members of the Washingtonians, senior girls club of Washington high school, will entertain their mothers with a reception and program in the school gymnasium this afternoon. Program includes a xylophone solo by Helen Bingman; dance by Anita Franklin accompanied by Thelma Boldman; and a reading by Alice Hite. A playlet, “Our Mothers,” will be given under direction of Elizabeth E. Smith. Cast includes: Pauline Clark, Margaret Henderson, Virginia Roth, Muriel Melvin, Daisy Munday, Corinne Gingery, Eleanor Davis, Bessie Butcher, Velda Rakes, Lillian Coughlin and Phyllis Robertson. During a rose ceremonial, each girl will present her mother with a pink rose. Program will be closed with a “Mothers’ Prayer,” by Katherine McMullen. AUTO CRASH IS FATAL Kcntland Man Faces Manslaughter Charge for Accident. John A. Bruck, 53, of Kentland, today faced involuntary manslaughter charges after death Thursday of Jerome Bartholomew, the second of five persons in Bruck’s car to die after it collided with a street car at Pine and Washington streets April 20.

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5,385 JOBLESS CHILDREN ARE NOT IN SCHOOL City Shows Increase of 125 Minors Over Last Year. Although the total number of children employed in Marion county decreased from 10,400 in 1930 to 8,252 this year, the number of children unemployed and not attending school, increased 984 to a new total of 5,385, according to the enumeration returns announced by W. A. Hacker, assistant superintendent of schools in charge of social service, Indianapolis shows an increase of 125 persons between the ages of 6 and 21 over last year; while the county shows a gain of 485. Total enumeration of persons between the ages of 6 and 21 in the city was 83,686 as compared with 83,651 last year. The total outside of the city is 14,243. An increase of 1,289 was reported in the number of Indianapolis residents between 6 and 21, who attend school either here or outside the city. The new total is 70,049. Negroes are included in the enumeration. The returns show there are 37,042 white and 5,321 Negro males and 36,013 white and 5,310 Negro females in the city. The school city receives $3.47 from the state for each person in the school enumeration.

HELENE TO PARIS Left Rumania to ‘Avoid Trouble’ for Carol. By United Press BERLIN, May B.—Departure of Princess Helene, divorced wife of King Carol, from Bucharest was due to the king’s desire “to avoid difficulties during forthcoming family and state occasions in connection with the betrothal of Princess Ileana, the Berliner Zeitung’s correspondent at Belgrade reported today. The difficulties referred to were in connection with the “unsettled status” of the former wife of the king. Helene has refused persistently to be reconciled to the king, who was divorced during his exile in Paris with Madame Magda Lupescu. The princess is scheduled to proceed from Belgrade to Paris. HEARING WEEK WILL BE OBSERVED IN CITY Indianapolis Federation Group to Hold Open House at Club. National Hearing week, May 1 to 7, will be observed by the local branch of the American Federation of Organizations for the Hard of Hearing with open house in the clubrooms, third floor of the Stokes building, from 3 to 5 this afternoon and 7 to 9 tonight. Any one interested in the work of the league is invited to attend. Records in the national headquarters at Washington show that more than 4,000,000 persons in the United States have impaired hearing, and that 3,000,000 of them are children. Dr. Ralph Chappell is president of the local league. TWO WOMENJFLEE JAIL Muncie Pair Break From State Prison Here in Night. Escaping from the Indiana state woman’s prison Thursday night, Gene Stamper, 23, and Helen Bennett, 27, of Muncie, were the objects of a state-wide police search today. Descriptions of the escaped prisoners were turned over to the police officers in cities and towns j and state police. Authorities said; they expected the women to apptr in Muncie soon. They had served three years of j five to twenty-one-year robbery sentences.

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For five years Veterans’ administration officials sought Robert L. Downing, above, an ex-soldier. They've just found him in St. Louis and have told him he doesn’t need to be hungry any more. There’s $4,000 in back compensation waiting for him at Houston, Tex., and he’s entitled to S6O a month as long as he lives.

WOMAN WINS IN DIIELTODEATH Man Armed With Cleaver Is Slain With Knife. By United Press CHICAGO, May B.—A battle to the death between a woman armed with a butcher knife and a man armed with a meat cleaver was disclosed today, as the victor and another woman quarreled over possession of the body of the man loser. Both Mrs. Edith Loewe and Phylis Loewe, victor in the duel, claimed to be the wife of Arthur Loewe, whom Phylis was charged with stabbing to death with the knife. Phylis Loewe said the man, a police character, attacked her with the cleaver and that she won through luck in the tragic duel. Edith Loewe declared she had been married to Loewe for fifteen years and never knew that he maintained an apartment in which he lived with Phylis Loewe, who claimed she was married to him in 1925. The slaying occurred in the apartment.

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‘HUNGER HOST' WELCOMED BY OUSTEDjISHOP Marchers Are Fed, Spurred on by Fiery Speech of Ex-Church Leader. By United Press GALIGN, 0., May B.—Cheered by the inspiring words of William M. Brown, 76-year-old excommunicated bishop of the Episcopal church, Ohio's “army of hunger marchers” today moved on toward the state capital to demand unemployment relief. The former bishop, ousted from the house of bishops in Cleveland six years ago, defied the Galion chapter of the D. A. R. to receive the “army” of marching men and women. The aged teacher, author of “Communism and Christianity,” entertained the hikers at Brownella, his estate near here. In a fiery address delivered to his guests, Brown attacked the clergy and upheld Communism as a religion “more Christian” than Christianity. He said that he was declared a heretic when he doubted the existence of a better world, promised by a clergy which did nothing to better this world. “Bishops,” he said, “fix the price of admission to that other world, and reserve the seats for those who pay. They are spiritual fakers,” he cried. Attacking the capitalistic world, the aged man said that war was the only cure for its economic ills. He asserted that the birth of Soviet Russia was the only good which resulted from the last year, and suggested the adoption of the five-year plan in the United States. In his address, which he read, Brown revealed plans to fight for reinstatement to the church. He said that the clergy would apologize to him when he appealed to the general convention at Denver next fall. After giving the marchers a liberal check, the former bishop made arrangements for their lodging in public buildings here. The hikers plan to reach Marion tonight. Students Hear Bishop By Times Special GREENCASTLE, Ind., May B. Francis McConnell of the New York area, Methodist Episcopal church, was the speaker at a special De Pauw university chapel here this morning. He was De Pauw’s president twelve years and for seventeen years a trustee.

COPS CHASE CAR AND GRAB TWO AS DRUNKS Third Man Hurls Pistol From Auto and Takes to Heels. Two men were under arrest and a third sought today after motor police had pursued their car and one of them hurled an automatic pistol from the auto Thursday night. Those under arrest are Ray Hamilton, 4350 Baltimore avenue,

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charged with drunkenness, operating an auto while drunk and vagrancy, and Robert Mobley, 4227 Schofield avenue, drunkenness and vagrancy. Police stopped to investigate* when they found the car parked in the 220 block East Forty-second street, but Hamilton drove away as they started to question the occupants of his car. The automatic was thrown from the car by the third man, who fled before police halted the car.

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ATTACKED AND KNIFED City Man Is Found With Face Cut and Tongue Slashed. Found at Capitol avenue and McCarty street early today with a large cut on the face and his tongue cut almost in two, Lewis Rolaske, 27, of 439 South Xleridian street, would not tell police what, happened. At city hospital later he said he was attacked by a man who leaped on him from the rear in the 800 block on Church street.