Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 5, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 May 1931 — Page 3

MAY 16, 1931

YOUTH ADMITS | LOOTIN6 BABY'S BANK, 25 HOMES Confesses Theft of $1,500 Worth of Goods in City and Louisville. A burglar, whose activities ranged from prying open a baby's bank and stealing pennies to the theft of a valuable pearl necklace and gemstudded watch, was held in jail today after he had confessed looting ten northslde homes and fifteen in Louisville in the' last few weeks. He is Larry C. Dixon, 22, of 3122 Northwestern avenue, who opened his burglary campaign in Indianapolis in April. His confession was written by him on a typewriter he stole in Louisville and turned over to Effectives George Hubbard and Fay Davis, the officers related. In an auto with the detectives Friday afternoon, he took them to the places he had looted. They said loot, valued at $1,500, much of which was found in his room and the remainder in pawn shops, had been recovered. Pearls, Antiques Stolen At the home of Herman A. Zeyen, 36-12 North Capitol avenue, Dixon admitted a robbery there April 17. He told how he spent more than an hour in the place, ransacking it from top to bottom and finally stealing $6 from a baby’s bank, that he pried open, and a Gladstone bag. “You're the fellow who came home with the baby in your arms,” Dixon told Zeyen. “I remember that. It was a pretty close call.” At the home of S. P. Vanderveer, 3424 Central avenue, Dixon stole a S4OO pearl necklace and a gemstudded watch valued at $250 and other jewelry, totaling about $1,500. A S2OO antique bracelet he obtained there was found in the coils of a fire hose in a downtown theater. Dixon led detectives to the hiding place. Captured After Chase Dixon was captured Thursday night by William Archer, 6230 College avenue, after a chase of several blocks. Archer found Dixon placing a purse in his pocket as Archer entered his home about 8:30. Dixon told detectives that majority of the time he worked early in the night after he had seen persons leave their homes. Included In the residences robbed to which Dixon led officers: W. T. Stoops, 3258 North Pennsylvania street, April 11, nothing stolen; the Rev. W. W. Wyant, 3048 North Pennsylvania street, April 20, nothing stolen; Frank L. Thomas, 202 Berkley road, April 22, money and a revolver stolen; Roy McNair, 4250 North Capitol avenue, April 27, $lO stolen; Dr. R. R. Bealer, 4551 Park avenue, April 27, revolver and binoculars stolen; William Zumpfe, 1211 North Alabama street, May 3, $7 and silverware.

HOOVER AND INTERIOR CHIEFS TALK EXPENSE Problem Is How to Shave as Much as Possible From Annual Outlay. By United Press WASHINGTON, May 16.—Trout frolicked in the mountain streams untouched as President Hoover gathered interior department officials today at his mountain camp for another open air conference about expenditures. Tlie problem to be attacked is how to shave something from the $85,000,000 annual outlay of the interior department without interfering with the general governmental program. The President is determined that not a single man shall be lost to the service and that not a single cent shall be cut in wages of employes, it is said. At the same time he wants to eliminate all possible waste expense, however small. He fears the prospects of a billion-dollar deficit and wants to pare down without retrenching. EVERY COP WILL TAKE A DRINK. JUDGE RULES IToubts “Total Abstainer” Claim. Grants Divorce to Wife, CHICAGO. May 16. Judge Michael Feinberg was on official record today as believing there is no such person as a policeman who "won’t take a drink now and then.” The opinion was given in granting a divorce on grounds of drunkenness to Mary M. Grant from Michael Grant, suspended from the police force last fall. Grant contested the suit, claiming he was a "total abstainer” and that the charges were false. "I have yet to find a policeman who won't drink upon occasion. The decree is granted,” said the judge. JEWISH FUND DRIVE CLOSES WITH $59,162 f ampaign Leaders Urge Workers to Continue Solicitations. Although the Jewish welfare fund drive reached its official close Friday with $59,162 having been subscribed by 852 persons, leaders of the campaign urged the workers to continue their efforts until all persons listed had been solicited. Final meeting of the campaign was held Friday noon and was attended by the 250 captains and workers. Complimenting the teams on their work were J. A. Goodman, president of the Jewish welfare fund; Joseph M. Bloch, chairman of the campaign: Albert S. Goldstein, chairman of the budget committee, and G. A. Efroymson, president of the Jewish Federation. LOCATE CHICKEN FARM United Broiler Company Pirks Site on MartindaJe Avenue. Location of a “chicken factory," i where approximately 1,250.000 broiler chickens can be produced annually,! in Indianapolis has been announced by the United Broiler Company, operators of eleven similar plants in other cities. Long term lease on 25,000. square feet of space in the Indianapolis industrial center, Martindale avenue and Nineteenth street, is being negotiated by the concern.

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NOMINEES ARE CHOSEN Board of Trade Forms Ticket for Years’ Election of Officers. Regular ticket nominees for annual election of officers of the Indianapolis Board of Trade June 8, announced Friday by William H. Howard, secretary, are: For president, W. Hathaway Simmons; vice-president John P. Frenzel Jr.; treasurer, Tom Oddy; governing committee, E .M. Elliot, E. E. Allison. Harry J. Berry, Linton A. Cox, George I. Denny, Joseph C. Gardner, William L. O’Connor, N. H. Richardson, Frank D. Stalnaker and Carl F. Walk. LENIENCY INDICATED IN BEAUTY QUEEN’S TRIAL Mrs. Nixon-Nirdlingcr Will Face Only Manslaughter Charge. B j/ United J’ress * NICE, France, May 16.—Mrs. Charlotte Nixon-Nirdlinger, former St. Louis beauty queen, will face a charge of "murder with provocation” when she goes to trial for shooting her husband, wealthy Philadelphia theater owner, next Wednesday, it reliably was learned today. The charge is equivalent to manslaughter in the United States. It carries a maximum penalty of only two to five years’ imprisonment. The announcement of this lenient move met with approval among the public. $15,000,000 More for Taxes By Timet Special CROWN POINT. Ind., Mav 16. Asa result of efforts of George Kochis, Lake county assessor, nearly $15,000,000 will be added to personal property tax assessment list of the county, and in addition he has collected personal taxes for 1930 from many persons who were not assessed that year. The addition to the assessment list is the greatest in the county’s history.

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PROFESSOR IS DROWNED WHEN CANOE TIPS OVER Struggle Hours to Save Life, Grip on Overturned Craft Fails. By United Press MADISON, Wis., May 16.—E. A. Richards, 38, Harvard university professor, related today how he clung to an overturned canoe in Lake Mendota for more than two hours and struggled unsuccessfully to save Sterling A. Leonard, 43, University of Wisconsin professor and author, who slipped into the deep lake and drowned. "In spite of my efforts to help him, he slipped back into the water,” said Richards. "I swam after him. He sank immediately, and I was unable to reach him. I returned to the canoe and hung on until rescued.” Richards was rescued a mile from shore. PULLEN RECOVERING AFTER SUICIDE TRY Ex-Official in Two Banks Reported on Road to Recovery. John W. Pullen,. 50, of 418 Buckingham drive, former official of two banks which were closed several months ago. is recovering today at the Methodist hospital after a suicide attempt Friday. In his locked garage, Pullen lay down behind his car, the motor of which was running and breathed carbon monoxide gas for more than an hour. He was rescued by his brother-in-law, William Guynr., residing at the same address. Oxygen treatments at the city hospital resulted in his recovery’ to consciousness and removal later to the Methodist hospital.

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HELD IN BANK HOLDUP City Detectives to Quiz Suspect in Oaklandon Bank Robbery’. When Muncie police return Ray Bronson, held in Detroit for authorities from Indiana, he will be questioned in connection with the recent Oaklandon State bank holdup, after which two bandits were captured by a posse. A third man was believed to have been waiting to pick up his confederates in an auto, but fled when they were caught.

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STATE RECEIVES NO GASH FROM ARMORY_RENTS Holding Company Gets Its Share, but Taxpayers ‘Hold the Bag.’ Despite boxing shows and other entertainments staged at the Indianapolis Armory since i twas opened Nov. 1, 1926, not a cent of the $49,868.66 collected in rentals up to Sept. 30, 1930, ever has accrued to the state. In addition, the state has paid the rental to the Armory holding comany by appropraition. This plan of making the overhead macth the income prevails in twenty other armories built under the holding company plan, a report from the state board of accounts presented to the Governor disclosed today. The report covers armory management. It was presented with the report on construction, ordered by an emergency statute in 1929 and for which Governor Harry G. Leslie spent $6,000 and then ever presented to the 1931 session. State Doesn't Get Balance Both the construction and management reports are complete in detail and fill volumes. They were compiled by Ure Frazer and Ira Holland, field examiners for the state board of accounts. They were turned over to the Governor by Lawrence F. Orr, chief examiner. The management report discloses that in armories at Anderson, Bloomington, Delphi, Ft. Wayne, Frankfort, Franklin, Greensburg, Indianapolis. Lafayette, Madison, Muncie, Noblesville, Princeton, Rensselaer, Salem, Shelbyville, South Bend, Tipton, Warsaw and Whiting, $133,447,20 w r as the total receipts from time of construction to Sept. 30, 1930, and disbursements $124,896.10. Even the $8,551.10 balance was not returned to the state, which paid the *e:itals by tax levy. At the Indianapolis armory, $49,868.66 was collected an'’ $49,181.59 disbursed, leaving a $687.07 balance.

Bill Is Disapproved A bill to put all armory receipts into the general fund failed of passage at the last legislative session. The $6,000 report was not available with statistics to muster it support. But the legislators did appropriate sufficient funds to pay the holding company rentals, as usual. Frazer declared that the adju-tant-general has the power to return the receipts to the general fund under the present, law. are the fifteen leading hitters in the Construction report shows that nineteen armories will cost the state $2,547,627. These w’ere all built under the Felix McWhirter plan, w’hereby the Peoples State bank did the financing and the Ostrom Realty and Construction Company, a subsidiary of the bank, the building. This was under the regime of former Governor Ed Jackson and then Adjutant-General Kililam G. Kershner. Building Is Halted A halt t othe building program was made by the 1929 legislature, which ordered no more holding company buildings be erected and the entire matter investigated. Report shows that the construction company received a total net profit of $107,146.53 and the bank $95,350 in brokerage fees, of which $1,125.99 was placed to the credit of the bond redemption fund. Total armory bond issues were $1,782,000, for -which the state will pay $,547,627.86, the difference of $765,627.86 being for interest payments, retiring bonds, and similar expenses, to be met before the state actually own the buildings. In most instances, the -sites were donated by . the cities or citizens. Ostrom Realty and Construction Company made a 10 per cent profit on the Indianapolis armory and 8 per cent on most others, the report Shows. All were built on the cost-plus basis, without competition. Contractor Loses Eye GREENCASTLE, Ind., May 16. Oliver Stringer, road contractor residing south of here, lost his right eye while cutting a piece from a roll of wire fencing. The wire When cut rebounded striking him in the eye.

NINE ARE INJURED IN AUTO ACCIDENTS

Woman Is Knocked Down by Hit-Run Driver South of City. Nine persons were injured, according to police reports today, in a series of accidents in and near the city Friday night. Miss Ida Reinhart, 4258 Bowman avenue, was struck by a hit-and-run motorist as she stepped from a bus at Stop 5, on U. S. Road 31 south of the city, but suffered only cuts and bruises. Robert Rains, 25, of 4947 West Eleventh street, is in city hospital, with cuts and bruises sustained when he walked in front of a bus from which he alighted at Winton avenue and West Tenth street, into the path of an auto driven by Mrs. Charles Stevens. 1616 Fisk street. Deputy sheriffs held Roscoe White, 25, of 1133 South Randolph street, on a drunkenness charge after his car went into a ditch at Bluff road and Hannah avenue. He was bruised slightly. Four were injured when Pete Thomas, 33, of 1524 West Washington street, steered his sedan between a power pole and a pharmacy at College avenue and Fortysecond street to avoid collision with another car that passed in front of him. They were Mrs. Edna Murphy, 32, of 811 East Forty-sixth street, cut on thf head; Bobbie, 2. her son, cut and several teeth knocked out, and Mrs. i. B. Smith of the same address. cut ands bruised. W. M. Montgomery, 36, of 1710 Blaine avenue, was charged with drunkenness, drunken driving and failure to stop after an accident, following a collision with an auto driven by Joseph Groebel, R. R. 1, Box 60-D, at Beecher and Shelby streets. Mrs. Groebel was injured slightly. Antonio Gice, 48. of 930 Greer street, was knocked down and

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WAGE CUTTING INDICATED BY U. S REPORT Slight Employment Gain in April, but Total Pay Rolls Drop. B\ THOMAS L. STOKES. United Fress Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. May 16.—A slight increase in employment in April as compared with March was reported today by the department of labor .together with a decrease in pay roll totals in the same industries. The emplojment increase was two-tenths of 1 per cent. The pay roll decrease was 1.5 per cent from the March total. Increase in jobs continued a slight advance noted in February and March, although it was less than the normal seasonal gain. The pay roll cuts, in view of the slight gain in the number of jobs, indicate wage reductions. These come in the face of renewed warnings by the American Federation of Labor, accompanied by a threat of strikes, against violation of capital's pledge to the President, and in the face of a White House statement Friday that “no man alive" was more interested than President Hoover in maintaining wage levels. The reports on which the anaylsis is based cover 45,225 establishments in fifteen major industrial groups, which in April employed 4.705,470 persons whose combined earnings in one week totaled $115,715,549. Terre Haute Boy Drowns Hu United I’retts TERRE HAUTE, Ind., May 16. The body of Cornelius D. Conover, 7, was taken from the Wabash river by sheriff's deputies. The boy fell into the river while watching construction work on the bank.