Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 2, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 May 1931 — Page 3

MAY 13, 1931

TRACTION LINE'S PROPERTIES TO GO ON BLOCK Receiver's Sale Will Be Held in Court Here on Thursday. Valuable properties of the Terre Haute Traction and Light Company, operating under a 999-year lease, will be the prize "plum” in the receiver’s -sale of Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Company holdings at 10 Thursday morning in superior court five. Petition for the sale, filed recently with Judge Russell J. Ryan, states the sale is necessary to satisfy $6,842,020 of general creditors’ claims and $6,500,000 of first mortgage obligations. Upon request of Elmer W. Stout, Fletcher American bank president, and receiver for the traction lines, several lines operated by the comp3 y are about to be closed. Orders for abandoning lines from Terre Haute to Sullivan and Clinton will become effective at midnight May 24. A petition for closing the Richmond division is pending with the Inoiana public service commission. A total of 173 miles of lines have been abandoned upon authority ot the public service commission. It was shown at the receiver's hearing that net revenues of the company had a $140,789 deficit for 1920. Greater portion of the traction company's mortgage bonds have been secured by Insull holding companies, already financially interested in the properties, and expected to be a high bidder at the forced sale. MAYR MOVES TO END STATES’ TRUCKS WAR Interstate Conference Called to Settle License Muddle. Secretary of State Frank Mayr Jr. has taken the initiative in a new reciprocity program in the truck license war which still wages despite the recent conference at Lansing, Mich. • Mayr sent messages offering complete reciprocity to license officials In Illinois, Ohio and Michigan. He rlso sent a similar message to Georgia, where on Indiana truck has been impounded for license, according to Thomas Snyder, secretary of the National Truck Operators’ Association. A conference is to be arranged by Mayr for West Baden. RAILROAD'S VALUE CUT B. & O. Tax Assets Are Lowered by State Tax Board. Valuation of Baltimore & Ohio railroad properties in Indiana have been cut by the state tax board from the 1930 valuation of $45,121 - 113 to $44,693,838 for 1931. Southern Railway Company was cut from $6 827.890 to $6,386,400. STREAM SURVEY ASKED Indiana Waters to Be Examined for Trout Stocking. Dr Will Scott of Indiana university and two students will survey Indiana streams to determine to what extent they may be stocked with trout, it was announced today by Walter Shirts, chief of the fish and game division of the state conservation department, under whose auspices the survey is to be made. Bank Receiver Sues By Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., May 13. A petition has been filed in Hamilton circuit court here by Harry Talbert. receiver of the State Bank of Westfield, closed in January, for an order to assess stockholders 100 per rent. Talbert sets out that losses, due to bad notes and mortgages, will total $47,000.

'Bird 'on Stork By United Press CHICAGO, May 13.—An argument between a couple of Storks over a canary resulted in a SSO fine for one of them when Tom Stork was found guilty of carrying away things, including the bird, from the home of his estranged wife, Louise Stork.

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QUIZ SUSPECTS IN GIRL MURDER Pair Is Linked to San Diego Child Kidnap-Slaying. By United Press SAN DIEGO, Cal., May 13.—Two suspects in the kidnaping-murder of 10-year-old Virginia Brooks were in police custody today as investigators sought to solve the 3-months-old crime. Ashur Williams, 45, who escaped from an Ohio insane asylum nine years ago, and who was to face a charge of mistreating a small girl in Los Angeles, was returned here from the northern city today by State Inspector Harry Hickok and Deputy Sheriff Blake Mason. Williams has lived at Bostonia, eighteen miles east of here, for some time, he admitted, and he also said he was here at the time of the Brooks murder. Investigators definitely had established that he was living in a shack within a mile of the Brooks home within ten days of the crime. Captain Hickok called him “the most likely suspect yet arrested,” althought at the same time Richard Ward, 56, an escaped convict, also was held for investigation into the same case. riant Manager Killed By United Press MARION, Ind., May 13.—H. A. Chaplain, 70, manager of the Kraft Cheese Company at Summittville, was killed instantly here when the automobile in which he was riding crashed head-on with one driven by J. Cummins, Ft. Wayne, Allen county deputy sheriff. Cummins was hurt slightly. Held After Crash By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., May 13. L. Powell, 943 Bell street, Indianapolis, and Clyde Harmon, Zionsville, were arrested by state police after an automobile in which they were riding crashed into one driven by Cyrus Walker, Marion. The prisoners are charged with intoxication and drunken driving. Aged Man Dies By Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., May 13. Samuel H. McVey, 80, is dead of an injury which he sustained by a fall. He was a resident of this locality sixty years. He leaves his widow and three children: Mrs. Laura Dawson, Springfield, 111.; Joseph McVey, this city, and Roy McVey, Sparta, Mich.

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about in the garage of one of his Negro parishioners, Briant Smartt, at 513 Indiana avenue. After two years of patient effort, he has evolved a system of lubrication to be used on both trains and automobiles which mechanics of the city believe will save many a bearing and rod from being scorched. "There just won’t be any more ‘hot boxes’ to endanger lives of passengers on the trains,” the jovial father declared when questioned on the use to which his invention, pictured above, is to be put. "My pump, that is, mine and Briant’s, throws two streams of oil directly on the part to be kept cool. Trainmen won’t have to worry about waste catching fire if the railroads use the pump in the journals. It can be used in automobiles just as well.” "It has taken a long time to finish,” mused the priest. His face lit with a happy smile. "Sure, but it's been a lot of fun.” INDIAN TRIBE TO TEST GOVERNMENT PLEDGE Game Law to Be Violated in Presence of Warden to Make Case. By United Press PERU, Ind., May 13.—Miami Indians are planning new infractions of state fish and game laws in an effort to carry a test case of whether a state may disregard a United States guarantee to a federal court. One of their tribe, Pete Mongosa, was released in city court here Tuesday on a charge of shooting fish. Encouraged by the decision, the Indians met on a sidewalk outside police headquarters and announced they would press the case to see whether immunity from fish and game laws, granted them by government treaty, will be recognized in civil and federal courts. This time, however, it was decided, Joe Mongosa, Pete’s brother, would defy the law while a game warden looked on. Joe asked to take the risk because Pete has a wife and baby.

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MILK MAN IS $25,000 ESSAY PRIZEJIINNER Wii'e of Marine Captain Awarded SIO,OOO by Camel Cigarets. By Unite# Press WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., May 13.—James T. Sharkey, a milk route foreman, of Dorchester, Mass., today was announced as the winner of the first prize of $25,000 in the essay contest on advantages of a new wrapper for Camel cigaret packages. Mrs. Walter Sweet, wife of a marine corps captain stationed at Brooklyn navy yard, won second prize of SIO,OOO. Third prize of $5,000 was awarded Julius M. Nolte of Duluth, Minn. Awards of SI,OOO each were given to: Albert B. Franklin 111, Cambridge, Mass.; John R. McCarthy, Willimantic, Conn.; Frederick E. Robinson, Coronado Beach, Cal.; William A. Schrader, New Albany, Ind., and Dr. D. H. Soper, lowa City, la. 952,228 Answers Received A total of 952,228 answers were received in the contest. Sharkey is married. He wears overalls at his work and is slender of medium height and has deep-set blue eyes. Born in County Tipperary, Ireland, he came to the United States alone at the age of 16. He went at once to Boston, where he did odd jobs. Eight years ago he got a job delivering milk and rose to the rank of foreman. Mother of 3 Boys Mrs. Sweet is the mother of three boys, the oldest of whom is 10. A graduate of Radcliffe college in 1920, she has traveled with her husband to marine posts in many out of the way places. She experienced the hurricane in Porto Rico, and was in Dover, N. J., at the time of the big explosion there. Nolte is a real estate dealer, and instructor in the English extension division of the University of Minnesota. He is married. He is a Yale graduate and a member of Phi Beta Kappa, honorary scholastic fraternity. During the war he was an American aviator. He has four children.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to: M. F. Klotz, 28 West Nineteenth street. Chevrolet conch. 737-662, from Ft. Wayne avenue and Delaware street. I. Wolf Auto Company, 722 North Capitol avenue, Ford coupe, from rear of 722 North Capitol avenue. Patrick Breslin, 2056 North Alabama street. Albin Schreiber. 246 North Oxford street. Chevrolet sedan, 83,038, from Meridian and Twentieth streets. Thomas Morgen, 919 Orange street, Auburn sedan, 45-769, from 2058 North New Jersey street.

BACK HOME AGAIN

Stolen automobiles recovered by police belong to: John Moore, 830 North California street. Buick touring, found at West and Eleventh streets. Roy Herd, 1001 Albany street, Chevrolet coach, found a Randolph and Prospect streets. Jackson Brown, 5308 State street, Chevrclet coupe, fo.und at Randolph and Prospect streets. James Carter. 1135 Bates street, Nash touring, found at Delaware and Maryland streets.

High Flier By United Press NEW YORK, May 13.—When Edna Lesher, 24, physical instructor at Tyrone, Pa., went in for flying three years ago, she did it in a big way. She will be married to her flying instructor, William C. Patterson, chief pilot of the Wextbrook Aeronautical Corporation, on June 1, and the couple will then leave on an aerial honeymoon of the United States.

OODS 20 TOl FOR FREEING OF BEAUTYQUEEN Mrs. Nixon-Nirdlinger to Go on Trial Next Week for Murder. By United Press NICE, France, May 13. —The odds were 20 to 1 for acquittal when it was announced today that Mrs. Charlotte Nixon-Nirdlinger, St. Louis beauty queen, probably would face a jury next Wednesday on charges of slaying her husband. Mrs. Nixon-Nirdlinger shot and killed Fred Nixon-Nirdlinger, wealthy Philadelphia theater owner, in their fashionable Riviera home two months ago. She said her husband, elderly and jealous, had threatened her life and that she shot him in self-defense during a quarrel. Nice buzzed with excitement in certain quarters after the announcement. The odds on her acquittal were freely quoted at 20 to 1, much in the manner in which the Riviera playboys and girls place bets on the horses or roulette. It generally was contended that there was only one chance for conviction, and that admittedly was ■weak. It lay in the possibility that the jury would disregard the testimony of experts, which the defense intends to introduce in an effort to show that the fatal shots were fired while Mrs. Nixon-Nirdlinger was struggling with her infuriated husband. Public sympathy appeared definitely in favor of the young and comely widow. The fact that she has remained in jail for more tha£ two months instead of seeking bail has made her a martyr.

NATURAL GAS BID TO BE GIVEN TO MAYOR Formal Proposal Is Prepared by Marion County Corporation. A formal bid for supplying natural gas to the city or to the Citizens Gas Company will be submitted to Mayor Reginal dH. Sullivan’s special committee May 29 by the Marion County Gas Corporation, the committee has been notified. The company first proposed to lease the Citizens company, in event the city’s right to acquire the company should be sustained by the United States supreme court, but this proposition was declined by the mayor’s committee.

CHINA RECEIVES LIVING BUDDHA IN LONG EXILE! Millions Hail Pauchen Lama as Spiritual Head of Ancient Sect. BY D. C. BESS United Press Staff Correspondent PEIPING, China, May 13.—The living Buddha of Tibet, the Panchen Lama, has returned to China after several years as guest of Buddhists in Mongolia. He will spend several montns, according to present plans, visiting Mukden, Peiping and Nanking. Despite the anti-religious tone of many political leaders in China, the living Buddha was given a hearty reception. For more than six years the Panchen Lama has been an exile | frem his native country, T.bet. He was compelled to leave Tibet by his secular rival, the Dalai Lama, who is the temporal head in Tibet’ The Panchen Lama is still recognized, howevei, as the spiritual head of the Buddhist church in Tibet, and is respected greatly by Chinese Buddhists, who number millions. The living Buddha has spent his entire life, from the age of 6, in j monasteries, and knows little of the : outside world. When he visited Shanghai in 1924, he told this correspondent that the wonders of western civilization, j which he was viewing for the firs J time, had "dumbfounded” him, ana that he believed it was the most wonderful civilization the world has ; ever seen. Although he is not a politician, Chinese political leaders believe the \ Fanchen Lama may become politic- | ally important. Many Chinese feel that the British government in India exercises a j dominating influence over the | Dalai Lama in Tibet, and declare | that the British persuaded him to )

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'■ FUND TEAMS TO MEET Progress of Jewish Campaign Will Be Reported by Captains. Reports of progress In the Jewish ! Welfare fund campaign will be ; made by twenty-one team captains ; this afternoon at campaign headquarters in the Occidental building. Workers reported a total of $52,j 723.50 contributed at a luncheon | Tuesday. Joseph M. Bloch is cami paign chairman and J. A. Goodman 1 is Jewish Welfare Fund president.