Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 5, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 May 1931 — Page 2

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WORLD SLUMP MUST PASS TO AID U. S. TRADE Busings Research Director Discusses Way Back to Prosperity. By Timet Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., May 16. "It does not appear that there can be any substantial improvement in business in the United States until there is more political and economical stability throughout the world,” Professor George W. Starr, director of the Indiana university bureau of business research, explained to the newspapermen of the state attending the second annual jouralism Ihort-course at the university. '‘Undoubtedly the very low rates now existing on money and capital will do much to stimulate a recovery in business, but we have to remember that low money rates are more generally a reflection of a very low state of business activity rather than an indication of its recovery. Starr pointed out that no single factor, but a combination of many has been responsible for the business depression. First of these and one of the most important due to the ramification of its effects in a business world, has been America’s ; status since the war as a credit nation and the consequent plethora of gold which has come with it.

Discusses Booms "Easy money conditions have been largely responsible for the three speculative booms which we have had since the war,” Starr said,. "The first of these was the speculation in agricultural lands during and immediately following the war; the next in point of time was the urban real estate boom characterized by the situation in Florida a few years ago, and lastly the speculative orgy of the last bull stock market which capitulated latd in 1929. Each of these booms left an unbelievable amount of debris in its wake which has been or is being cleaned up. Embarrassing as the speculative waves have been they, nevertheless, have been only a part of the expansion in business and finance since the recovery of business in 1922. "Although the precipitous decline in stock prices late in 1929 and in 1930 affected the purchasing power of a good portion of our public, the chief danger was perhaps not so much the curtailment of this purchasing power as was the psychological effect upon business generally. As an indication of the state of fear which has been existing in the minds of the average business man, wc need only to cite the large increase in the amount of money in circulation at a time when business has been declining.” Editorials Form Friday’s short-course program was opened with a brief talk by Professor J. A. Wright of the journalism department of the university on ‘‘The Editorial News Column,” a type of first-page editorial comment which is appearing in a number of small city dailies and a few weeklies. “Columns of this sort which relate to the general news of the day are more or less imitations of Arthur Brisbane’s ‘Today,’ but some editors are making their columns largely local in character,” Wright said. Professor Wright gave examples and raised the question as to whether or not such columns would in time take the place of regular editorials in the smaller papers. Mark HameV, Russell Seeds Advertising Company, Indianapolis, reviewed the details of handling advertising which affect success in solicitation and which increase or decrease the market influence of advertising. He gave an outline of management factors and policies especially from the viewpoint of the smaller daily newspaper. Winslow Publisher Speaks The importance of using names in small weekly newspapers was emphasized in a talk on “Country Correspondence,” by A. J. Heuring, publisher, Winslow Dispatch. He explained that the best way to obtain these names is through the country correspondent. “When a country weekly is filled with names of people, it beats all the syndicated articles which can be written in New York or Chicago.” he said. “Get the names and then print the sheet well and the success of the countryweekly is assured.” Other speakers were Arthur S. Overbay. president. Typographic Service Company, Indianapolis, who discussed typography and its relation to printing salesmanship; o. H. Worley, Indianapolis Engraving Company, who discussed the hows and wh.vs of engraving, and John Ben Stotts, publisher, Odon Journal, on the importance of agricultural nows. * Late in the afternoon the visiting newspapermen were guests of President and Mrs. William Lowe Bryan at a reception at their home, following which they attended a banquet in . the Student building. George Purcell, editor of the Bloomington World, acted tas toastmaster and the principal speaker was Representative Louis Dudlow on "Reminiscences of Public Men.” Coal Men to Meet By Timet Special LAFAYETTE. Ind.. May 16. Producers, distributors and users of bituminous coal produced in Indiana and Illinois will meet at the University of Illinois May 21 and 22 for the second annual lyitiwest Bituminous coal conference The conference is held here and at Champalgn-Urbana. 111., alternately. Addresses concerning use il bituminous coal, research work, heating plant tests and stokers and on coal as compared with other fuels for Industrial purposes, will be given. Iloosier Honored By Timet Special • SPRINGFIELD. 0., May 16.—Four juniors at Wittenberg college here have been tapped for Skull and Chain, senior men’s honorary society. They are Phil Schneider, Springfield, football player; Charles Payne, Evansville, Ind., journalist; Don Elder, Ft. Wayne, Ind., religious leader, and Jack Beard, Springfield, president-elect of Boost “W” Association. Retiring members include A1 Kock, South Bend, Ind. Painter Kills Self By Timet Special LEBANON, Ind.. May 16.—Fred Cobb, 50, painter living five miles north of here, is dead, a suicide by poisoning.

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SLAYER GIVEN LIFE SENTENCE Killed Night Club Woman to Get Insurance. By Timet Special CROWN POINT, Ind., May 16. On a confession to slaying Lucille Jones, Negro night club entertainer, to obtain insurance, Francis Valencia, 26, East Chicago, was sentenced in Lake criminal court here to a life term in the state prison. Mrs. Anna Estes, Negro, at whose home the slaying was committed, is awaiting trial on a murder charge. A third defendant, Alice Sandoval, was committed to the insane ward of the Indiana Woman’s prison. Valencia asserts Mrs. Estes proposed the murder plan and that he struck the Jones woman with a piece of pipe. He charged that Mrs. Estes, in order to make death certain, inflicted other bounds.

10-Cent Key By United Brets BOONVILLE, Ind., May 16. After Gurley A. Hopper, Lynnville school teacher, had bought a house from Elvin Humphries, the latter refused to give up the key to it, contending it was not part of the house and hadn’t been paid for. Hopper sued here. Judge A. L. Webb ruled that Hiunphries was right, so Hopper paid 10 cents extra and got the key.

WIDOWS GET SIO,OOO Railroad Pays Record Sum on Death Claims. By Times Special AUBURN, Ind., May 16.—As a result of a compromise reached in Dekalb circuit court, the New York Central railroad has paid SIO,OOO, the largest amount the company has ever paid in Indiana to settle claims arising from deaths of persons struck by trains. Under the settlement two Butler widows receive the money, $5,000 to Mrs. Jessie L. Smith and $4,500 to Mrs. Nettie Rohrbaugh. Their husbands were killed Nov. 12, 1930, when an automobile was struck by a New York Central passenger train which was traveling seventy miles an hour. Mrs. Rohrbaugh is childless, but Mrs. Smith has four sons and a daughter.

THREE STEERS LEAVE FAST TRUCK ON ROAD Two Found, But One Lost on Way to Market Still Free. By Times Special KOKOMO, Ind., May 16.—While a truck ivas traveling about forty miles an hour on United States road 31 south of this city en route to Indianapolis, three steers managed to dismount and disappear. T. W. Underwood, residing northeast of Kokomo who reported the loss to the police, said that the cattle evidently had negotiated a successful landing in spite of the truck's speed and that two of the missing animals had been found apparently none the worse for the experience. The third is still missing. ' Underwood said that eight steers were in the truck. In some manner the end gate of the truck became unfastened and before the driver was aware of it, three of the steers disappeared. Church Delegates Elect By United Press WINONA LAKE, Ind., May 16. Delegates to the Congregational Christian conference here elected the Rev. H. H. Short, Hagerstown, moderator for the coming year. Other officers are the Rev. Gwylym Isaac. Terre Haute, associate moderator; the Rev. Frederick Cooper, Warren, scribe; Judge O. W. Whitelock, Huntington, trustee, and the Revs. Arthur Folsom. Ft. Wayne; J. W. Young, Muncie, and T. C. House, Evansville, directors; Elmer Danner, Kokomo, auditor Electrical Burns Fatal By Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., May 16. George Syra, 21, is dead of burns suffered when he came in contact with a wire carrying 66,000 volts of electricity.

He’s Smart By T imes Special CONNERSVTLLE. Ind., May 16. —Just after bandits had commanded Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hedges of Muncie to hold up their hands, Hedges slipped a SSOO diamond ring from a finger allowing it to fall in the crease of his hat. The robbers missed the ring, but obtained S7O and a watch. The couple was accosted by the robbers as they returned to enter their automobile parked near a farm house in Columbia township.

MORE ROADS TAKEN INTO STATE SYSTEM

Maintenance of Nearly 374 Miles Added to Work of Department. Nearly 374 miles of Indiana roads, at present included in the “dotted line ’ or proposed state highway system, have been taken over for maintenance since Jan. 1 by the highway department, A. H. Hinkle, maintenance superintendent, has reported to the highway commission. The mileage is included in eighteen roads, most of which are of gravel and stone construction. The mileage now maintained by the state is 6,450 miles, Hinkle reported. Os the 500 miles of roads it is hoped to pave this year, John J. Brown, department director, announced 370 miles are under contract. Roads taken over for maintenance since January are: Road 5, from junction of Road 18 in Blackford county, through Wells and Wabash counties via North Manchester to the county line. 27 (piles. Road 13. from Marlon county line to Noblesville. In Hamilton county, 8.4 miles. Road 14. from Ft. Wayne to Ohio state line. 23 miles. Road 15. from Goshen. In Elkhart county, to Michigan state line. 12.7 miles. Road 15. from intersection with Road 41 near Ade. in Newton county, to New-ton-Jasper county line. 8.80 miles. Road 21. from junction with Road 38 near Richmond, to Henrv-Delaware county line. 27.60 miles, and from Marion south to Grant-Delaware county line, 15.85 miles. Road 35. from Brownstown. in Jackson county, to Nashville. Browm county, 24 miles. Road 38. from Pendleton. Madison county, to Newcastle. Henry county, 21.50 miles. Road 56. from Petersburg. Pike county, to Road 41 at Hazelton. in Gibson county. 18.68 miles, and from junction with Road 50 north of Lawrenceburg in Dearborn county, to junction with Road 52, at Cedar Grove. Franklin county. 22 miles. Road 57. from junction with Road 41 at Erskine in Vanderburg county to Oakland City. Gibson county. 26.93 miles. Road 58. from junction of Road 57 south of Elnora. Daviess county, to Burns City. Martin county, 14.02 miles. Road 60. from Mitchell. Lawrence county, to Salem. Washington county, 26.94 miles. Road 65, from junction with Road 66 near Kasson. Vanderburg county, to junction with Road 68, near Cythiana. Posey county. 14.4 miles. Road 66. from junction with Road 45 near Rockport, Spencer county, junction with Road 70. near Maxville. Spencer county. 13.08 miles. Road 68. from Cythiana, Posey county to junction with Road 41. Gibson county, 8.57 miles: and from Dale, Spencer county, to Spencer-Warrick county line. 2.69 miles. Road 164. from Jasper. Dubois county, to junction with Road 74 near DuboisCrawoi'd county line. 17.70 miles. Road 227. from Richmond to the WayneRandolph county line. 12.60 miles. Road 234. from Junction of Road 43 in Montgomery county to Jamestown In Hendricks county, 16 miles. Road 252. from Brookville in Franklin county to Ohio state line. 11.60 miles.

LEGAL DEATH SOUGHT Father Files Petition in Case of Daughter Missing Since 1926. By Times Special SOUTH BEND. Ind., May 16. The mystery of the disappearance of Miss Inez De Frees, South Bend’s most famous case of that nature, is recalled with the filing of a petition by her father, Calvert, asking that she be declared legally dead. The girl walked out of her home the night of March 26, 1926, and has not been heard from since. Police all over the country were enlisted in a search for her. Discovery of the torso of a woman in the St. Joseph river shortly after her disappearance was believed for a time to have solved the mystery, but relatives said the body was not that of Miss De Frees and no further clews were found as to the body or the missing girl. D. A. R. Awards Medal By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., May 16.—John Richard Nooney, 13, is the winner this year of a bronze medal awarded annually by Kik-tha-we-nund chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, to the outstanding history student in junior high school. Presentation of the medal will be made at Memorial day services to be held at the senior high school.

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Goodrich Sells Phone Interests at Six Millions Withdrawal of former Governor James P. Goodrich from the telephone and telegraph field in Indiana was hailed today as the result of the $6,000,000 sale of his holdings to the United Companies, of Abilene, Kan. The deal was completed in the law offices of Pierre F. Goodrich and John Rabb Emison here. Pierre Goodrich was president of the Interstate Telephone and Telegraph Company in which his father was heavily interested. The purchasing concern, the United Companies, operate telephone. gas, electric light companies, oil wells and mercantile establishments in Kansas, Missouri. Pennsylvania and Indiana. Fifty Companies Affected Controlling interest in more than fiity Indiana telephone companies is already owned by this company. Details of the transaction were arranged by A. Z. Patterson of Kansas City, general counsel for the United Companies; A. J. Roberts, of that city, general superintendent of the United’s utility holdings; F. M. Lantz, of Monticello, the Indiana superintendent; the Goodrichs and R. W. Frost, one of their operating officials. _ #

Properties Listed The majority of the Goodrich exchanges are in small towns, with the largest at Warsaw, Plymouth, Columbia City, La Grange, Portland. Franklin and Kentland. The smaller exchanges are located in Lake, Porter, La Porte. Elkhart, La Grange, Steuben, Starke, Marshall Nobler Dekalb, Pulaski Newton, Benton, Kosciusko, Allen, Fulton Whitley, Cass, Wabash, Huntington, ’Wells, Adams, Jay, Randolph. Blackford, Grant, Johnson and Shelby counties in Indiana, and five counties in Ohio. United Companies holdings in Indiana include exchanges at Advance. Amboy, Andrews, Attica, Bakers Corners, Browns Valiev Buck Creek, Burlington. Carmel! Center, Chalmers, Converse, Covington. Daleville, Elkin, Flora, Fortviile, Greenfield, Greentown, JamesKirklin, Lagro, Matthews, Mellott, Middletown. Monticello Mooresville. Morgantown. Morocco.’ Mt. Etna, Nashville, New Richmond Newtown, Noblesville, North Salem! Rossville, Russellville. Sheridan, Stone Bluff, Summitville, Upland Veedersburg. Waveland, Waynetown and Zionsville. Considered for School Post By Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., May 16.-Frank E. Allen, superintendent of Muncie citv schools, is under consideration for appointment as superintendent of *\S°uth Bend schools, to succeed W. W Borden. The salary at South Bend is $9,000 a year, but ft is understood Borden’s successor will be asked to start at a small salary. Allen isjraid $5,500 a year here. Few Diamonds Listed By Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., May 16.—Diamond salesmen should do a good business in Delaware county, if the tax duplicates are true. Records show only 264 diamonds in the entire county. A Muncie' jeweler estimates there are at least 7,500. There are 4,199 horses in the county as compared to 10,181 automobiles. Shot Pierces Window By Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., May 16.—A shot, fired through a window, narrowly missed striking the bed on which ! Mr. and Mrs. John Griffith werei sleeping. Police were unable to ex- I Plain the shot. Griffith could give 1 no reason for anyone wishing to I harm him.

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MOTHER SAVES SON FROM JAIL TERM DISGRACE Evansville Woman Refuses to Say Offspring Beat Her. Bp Timet Special , EVANSVILLE, Ind., May 16—The unfathomable forgiveness that is a part of mother love was demonstrated in Vanderburg circuit court here when Mrs. Mary Van Daly saved her son, Bert Allen. 24, from a jail term by denying he beat her. Mrs. Daly, a scrub woman, in whose home, the son. his wife and their child live, appeared at the office of Prosecutor Lindsey and filed an affidavit charging assault and battery. “Only Shook Me” In court she denied the son had struck her. “But he only shook me,” the mother declared, although she admitted her arms were black and blue with bruises at the time she w r as in Lindsey's office. Phelps Darby, sitting as special judge, declared a five-minute recess when the mother, on taking the witness stand, broke into tears. Mrs. Daly explained that her principal object in filing the charge was to force the son to help support the home he and his family occupied. She did not want to send him to jail. She said his wife worked, and that the couple owns an automobile. Trouble started when she demanded the son contribute to the upkeep of the home. Priest Offers Aid In court Mrs, Daly was accompanied by Mrs. Amy Morgan Viele, a society woman, the Rev. Francis P. Ryves, who was called as a witness to testify to her good character. In disposing of the case, Judge Darby said: “It is inconceivable and unnatural that a 24-year-old man would mistreat and abuse his mother. In Christ’s last agony on the cross, His thoughts were of His mother—isn’t that right, Rev. Ryves?” The judge then turned the case over to a probation officer.

BLOW OF CLUB MISSES PRIEST Prisoner at Columbia City Makes Confession. By Times Special COLUMBIA CITY, Ind., May 16. —Paulus Rasmussen, 36, who says he entered the United States illegally from Norway, is in jail here identified as the man who attempted to attack Father Jesse Lothamer, pastor of st. Paul’s Catholic church here. It is said he made a full confession. Rasmussen, who told the priest he was trying to get to South Bend and needed money, had been befriended by him only a day before the attack attempt. He lay in wait at the head of a stairs and when the priest returned at night tried to strike him with a club. Coming in contact with the wall the course of the blow was deflected and the priest was unhurt. Rasmussen was captured shortly afterward.

JAILED WOMAN WILL LOSE HER FOSTER SON Greenfield Authorities Advised Baby Should Return to Orphanage. By Times Special GREENFIELD, Ind., May 16. A 9-months-old baby in custody of Mrs. Lillian Mason, who is serving a term in jail for practicing medicine without a license, was adopted by her from an orphanage, authorities here have been advised by state officials of New York. It is said, however, the baby will be returned to the institution, owing to the fact that Mrs. Mason is wanted in both Ohio and New York on fraud charges. The baby, a" boy, is being cared for by a group of Greenfield young women, while the foster mother remains in jail. Contestants Chosen By Times Special CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind, May 16.—John M. Kitchen of Indianapolis, Wabash college sophomore, is one of the six men chosen from fifteen, to compete in the annual Hay’s oratorial contest, May 28. His subject will be “An Acute Angle.” The contest is open only to sophomores and freshmen. Fifteen men submitted manuscripts, and using these as a basis of elimination, six were chosen to compete in the contest. Prizes of S4O, $25 and $lO will be awarded.

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Sheriffs Auto Fired During Liquor Search

By Times Special Bloomington, ind.. May 16.—Six officers who visited the farm of Emmett Patton in search of liquor and stolen automobiles, arrested Patton and Peter Baxter, said to have been found operating a twenty-gallon still, took into custody' Alfred Fry, for whom a search of three months had been made and seized the body and engine of anew model automobile, the remainder of which had been destroyed by fire.

FIGHT FOR LIBERTY LOST BY AGED MAN

Negro Slayer, 77, Taken to State Prison After Court Defeat. By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., May 16.—Harrison Payne, 77-year-old Alexandria Negro, is not being denied his freedom unlawfully, Judge Carl F. Morrow ruled in Madison circuit court here, on the prisoner's habeas corpus petition. Payne has been sentenced to the Indiana state prison for a two to twenty-one-year term for the slaying of his landlord, William Nowlin, 72. Attorney Samuel E. Johnson brought the action in habeas corpus, contending an act of the 1929 legislature provides that no person indicted for first degree murder shall be found guilty of a lesser crime. Payne was indicted for homicide in the first degree and was found guilty by a jury of voluntary manslaughter. Prosecuting Attorney Charles E. Smith, in contesting the move of the defense, took the view that the charge of murder embraces both first and second degree murder as well as two degrees of manslaughter. It was not the intention of the legislature to make a drastic change in the law, the prosecutor said. Frustrated here when sheriff’s deputies departed with the pilsoner at 5 a. m., for the state prison, Attorney Johnson said further steps would be taken in an effort to free the aged Negro.

UNLUCKY DAY SHUNNED BY BANK ROBBER PAIR Delay Granted for Trip to Reformatory to Begin Ten-Year Terms. By Times Special TIPTON, Ind., May 16.—Bank bandits are not immune from superstition. Walter Small and Charles Crawford, each under a ten-year sentence in the state reformatory, imposed in Tipton circuit court for robbery of the Sharpsville bank, pleaded with Sheriff Jesse not to take them to the institution on May 13. The sheriff granted the request, delaying the trip a day. The convicted men said it was their aim to be model prisoners and feared that entering the institution on the thirteenth would be unlucky.

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During the search an effort was made to burn the automobile of Sheriff Ray Stephens. Damage of about $25 resulted. Lester Bender and Harold Flynn, deputy sheriffs, and three state policemen, assisted the sheriff in the raid. Fry is charged with selling liquor to Hansford Eads and Oliver Shields, Sanders youths, who have been hunted three months for arrest on charges of criminal attack on Goldie Cazee, 17, at a dance hall.

Marion Mother Wins Fight for Custody of Son By Times Special MARION, ind.. May 16.—After two weeks’ enforced residence in Miami county, Ohio, with his father. ear-old J. Eldcn Flory is back m Marion, having been returned by his mother, Mrs. Freda Flory, and his aunt. Mrs. L. H. Eshelman. According to the mother, the boy was kidnaped here by his father, Koy Flory, who lured him into an automobile April 27. From Celina, 0., the father telephoned the mother of what he had done. Mrs. Flory and Mrs. Eshelman went to Ohio immediately, but it was several days before they caught up with Flory, the boy and another man. In a court hearing at Troy, 0., “re. Flory was granted custody of J. Elden and another son, Fred, 4, with S4O a month as support money! to be paid pending outcome of a divorce suit. The parents separated four months ago.

MAN AND WIFE SEER $75,000 Damage Suits Follow Crash of- Automobiles. By United Press PRINCETON, Ind.. May 16.—Bert Knotts and his wife, Mrs. Laura Knotts, are plaintiffs in damage suits against Silas B. Eichorn, in which a total of $75,000 is a.sked. They were injured when an automobile driven by Eichorn collided with one in which they were passengers. For loss of services of his wife, Knotts is asking $25,000 and a like amount for injuries he suffered. Mrs. Knotts, * alleging she was permanently injured, seeks $25,000. Knotts alleges he suffered permanent injuries, including impairment of sight. Mrs. Knotts avers she is a nervous wreck and is crippled.

MAY 16, 1931

STATE SCHOOL PLACE MAY GO TO FT. WAYNE South Bend Enumeration Falls to Point Likely to Cause Change. By Times Special SOUTH BEND. Ind., May 16. Possibility of a shakeup in the representation of cities on the state board of education was seen here following publication of the South Bend school census report. South Bend lost 500 in the enumeration which includes all persons between the ages of 6 and 21. The new figure is 27,880. State law provides that the school superintendents of the three largest cities of the state be members of the state board. At present Indianapolis, Gary and South Bend are represented. While figures from Gary are not available, there is little doubt but. that city will retain its second position. At the last enumeration Gary had 28,454 persons within the prescribed age limits. The race lies between Ft. Wayne and Gary. Last year Ft. Wayne registered 25,595. Thus it would have to gain more than 2,000 to win a place. Accusation Followed Event The competition for third place has been spirited between South Bend and Ft. Wayne ever since Gary took second place. This competition reached a climax last year when L. C. Ward, superintendent, of Ft. Wayne, charged that the South Bend census figures had been generously padded. Asa result of the charges, the state board inspected the records and gave them a clean bill. The enumeration is essentially to determine the proportion of state funds to be distributed among the various cities of the state. Despite the smaller proportion South Bend would receive, and despite the loss of prestige and representation on the state board, school officials say they would be well satified to lose to Ft. Wayne.

Time Taken From Duties For while the presence of a superintendent on the state board has insured South Bend a direct voice in the educational affairs of the state, members of the city school board have not been slow in expressing their opposition to the lessened efficiency of a superintendent, who must devote much of his time to state matters. Not until South Bend drops from the ranking position will the superintendent be able to devote his time entirely to the local system. W. W. Borden who has been a member of the state board for years, will retire Aug. 1. On that date his resignation, forced by the South Bend school board, will go into effect. His successor has not yet been chosen. Mishawaka also lost in the enumeration, dropping 233, to 7,385. St. Joseph county township outside the cities, however, gained 401, to 8,142. Lions Clubs to Meet By Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., May 16.-A three-day session of Indiana Lions Clubs will open here Sunday.