Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 8, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 May 1931 — Page 2

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WORLD DISARMAMENT PARLEY TO BE HELD AT GENEVA

LEAGUE COUNCIL CHOOSES SITE OF CONFERENCE Powers’ Envoys Combine to Defeat Motions Made by German Delegates. WORLD CRISIS STUDIED Economic Schemes Are Sifted in Order to Haft Costly Trade Conflicts. By L n iled Pvrsg LONDON, May 20.—Soviet Russia promised today to co-operate ■with other nations in solving the wheat crisis, provided no efforts are made to prevent her from returning to her pre-war status as an exporting power, It was disclosed as the long-awaited Soviet statement of position was made before the international wheat conference.

By l nitnl Pirn* GENEVA, May 20.—The league of Nations council today decided that the proposed world disarmament, conference early next year will be held at Geneva. The effort by Germany to force the conference to consider limitation of trained reserves and to reduce conscript armies and military material stocks failed before the combined opposition of Aristide Briand, French foreign minister; August Zalcski, Polish foreign minister; Dino Grandi, Italian foreign minister, and the tepresentatives of Japan and Yugoslavia. Germany vainly insisted once more that the tables which the various governments will furnish the conference should include full Information on armaments. Briand declared, on the contrary, that the tables furnished the preparatory commission reprcsent?d Line maximum concession upon which agreement was now' possible. Study Economy Schemes The European federation commission sought toddy to sort out thirtven separate artd distinct schemes to combat the world economic crisis. A sub-committee headed by Joseph Motta of Switzerland studied the various projects and was expected to submit a report Thursday recommending procedure and practical proposals on the plans. The proposals, all designsd to eliminate the growing stress of economic warfare among the nations of the world, formed a maze of ideas through which the commission hoped eventually to formulate a Scheme suitable to all countries represented. 1 Appointment of the sub-commit-tee was a result of adoption of a resolution submitted by Arthur Henderson, British foreign secretary. ••Madness,” Says Briton Henderson appealed to all nations to cease their ‘‘economic madness and the folly of economic nationalism which • are checking forces which could improve our lot.” Henderson, who has taken a leading role during the deliberations of the commission this week, described what he called Europe’s general paralysis ‘‘with poverty and starvation While corn bins in Europe and abroad are bursting with food that can not be sold.” The British secretary demanded that Europe break ‘‘this vicious circle of disaster.” The thirteen plans to end the economic crisis will be sorted out in an effort to find one on which the commission can agree. Sought to Give Views The French, led by Briand. favor a general European economic federation, while Germany and Austria favor regional tariff agreements such as the proposed Austro-Gcr-man "anschulss,” or union, looking t 6 the same eventful end. An important statement by Soviet Russia was expected at today’s session of the world wheat conference. looking to the solution of the problems presented by the vast wheat surpluses on hand in many countries. Clash Is Expected A clash between the delegates from Canada and Soviet Russia was anticipated if the Soviets maintain the attitude held at the W'heat conference in Rome, namely that wheat is one of Russia’s chief sources of revenue essential to the success of the fivfe-year plan—hence the Soviet privilege to export huge quantities at the best prices available must not be curtailed. The delegates generally have agreed on restriction of production and acreage, G. Howard Ferguson, chief Canadian delegate, said, but no indication as to Soviet Russia’s attitude so far officially had been forthcoming. seekTfunds for tests $1,875 Necessary for Bovine Examinations, County Is Told. County commissioners today sought $1,875 from the county council to conduct tuberculosis tests of cattle, principally cows. in co-operation with the state and federal governments. Clarence Henry, county agricultural agent, and Dr. F. H. Brown, state veterinarian, said that unless money was obtained for test by July' 2, the county will lose its credited rating with the government. Due to the presence of more than 4 per cent of germs in the last test, the county now has a modified rating. Sixty per cent of the county’s milk supply is sold outside the county and failure to obtain the rating would block these sales, they told the council. SEND YOUTH TO PRISON Pleads Guilty to Robbing Drunken Man; Gets 1 to 5 Years. A plea of guilty to petit larceny to avert trial on a robbery charge drew a one to five-year sentence In the Indiana state reformatory Tuesday for Virgil King, 21, in criminal court. King admitted taking $8 from a drunken companion several weeks ago. at which time he became involved in a revolver fight with ponce.

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YEGGS BATTER SAFE S6O Is Loot in Robbery at Broad Ripple School. Yeggs with crude weapons almost demolished the safe in Broad Ripple high school early today before they finally wrenched off one door and escaped with S6O. The robbery was discovered when H. W. Stuffleben. 6175 Marion road, janitor, opened the building this morning. Theft of jewelry valued at more than S2OO was reported to police today by William Simon of the Spencer hotel. ' E. L. Yantis, 3220 North Pennsylvania street, returned home about 1 this morning and found that thieves who entered the house wiVh a pass key had 'stolen SSB in currency, CHURCH TO HOLD RITE Roberts Park M. E. Will Observe Pentecostal Sunday. Prelim, nary to the 1901st Pentecostal observation Sunday, a Pentecost prayer day will be observed starting at 2:30 Thursday afternoon at the Roberts Park M. E. church. The afternoon's activities will consist of woman's meeting at which Mrs. Edgar Blake, Mrs. O. W. Fifer, Mrs. Charles Smith and Mrs. Ewing Shields will speak. At 7 p. m. a general service will be held with Dr. A. H. Kenna, pallor of the church, officiating. KEEP PAVING BLOCKS Creosote to Be Saved for' Future Repair Work in City. Majority of the creosote paving blocks that are beinfc torn up to make way for the improvement of Pennsylvania street, south of Thir-ty-fourth street, will be turned over to the public, city street department officials announced today. Blocks that in condition to be used for repairs of similar street* are being salvaged by the department. .\ ' •_ ‘Xiui® .**2’.J*

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DANCES WILL FEATURE Betty Jean Ross to Entertain at Coal Dealers’ Convention. Dances by Betty Jean Ross. 7. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl

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tertainment program for visiting delegates. ROCKNE GROUP FORMED South Bend Memorial Association Is Incorporated; Study Plans. South Bend incorporators of the Rockne Memorial Association have filed papers with the secretary of state and expect to announce plans soon for a memorial to the late Knute Rockne. Notre Dame university athletic director. Incorporators are: Frank A. Hering, editor of Eagles magazine; P. G. Hoffman, vice-president of the Studebaker Corporation; B. J. Voll, J. A. Haley, business manager of the university; J. E. Armstrong, secretary of the Notre Dame Alumni Association;; V. G. Jones, South Bend attorney, and G. A. Farrabaugh, attorney for the Indiana boxing commission. SLAYS GIRL AND SELF Young Easterner Kills Former Sweetheart, Ends His Own Life. By United Prtst SPRINGFIELD Mass., May 20. Earl L. Ritchie, 22, stepped from his automobile here last night, shot to de|U,h his forger girl friend. Miss Myrtle Crocked 4s, and committed suicide with the same gun.

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AUTOPSY CLINIC State Association Is Shown Embalming Methods. 'technical demonstrations of the art of embalming and the performance of an autopsy today at the city hospital featured the second day’s session of the Indiana Funeral Directors’ Association. Convention exhibits are being shown at the state fairground, where the annual banquet and dance will be held tonight. J. Adam Bede, former congressman of Minnesota and know during the presidential administration of President Roosevelt as the “humorist of the house,” will be the banquet speaker. Approximately one hundred firms are showing undertakers’ equipment at the fairground. A discussion of anew embalming law in Indiana will feature Thursday’s sessions in the clinic building at the fairground. C. G. Askin of Indianapoli! will give the main address. Election of officers will close "The convention. CALLS RAILROADS ‘SURE’ Never Will Bow to Highways or Airways, Traffic Leader Says. Railways never Will be supplanted by highways or airways any more than the telegraph was supplanted by the telephone, Lawrence N. Helm, past president of the Indianapolis Traffic Club, told the Hillsboro (O.) Kiwanis Club Tuesday night. “The railroads never will become mere streaks of rust,” declared Helm, commercial agent of the Norfolk A; Western railway, Indianapolis. He deplored the multitude of regulatory bodies governing railroads while competing carriers, he said, suffer little interference.

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MAN. 70. KILLS HIMSELF AFTER KNIFING WOMAN Jealousy Is Blamed for Act of Aged City Insurance Agent. Madly jealous, a 70-year-old insurance agent attacked the woman of his heart with a pen knife and then killed himself in her apartment Tuesday night. Failing to inflict severe wounds on Mrs. Lulu Dudley, SO. a widow' and head housekeeper at the Denison hotel. Charles F. Yearke of the Denison, fired three bullets into his brain and heart, while Mrs. Dudley ran through a corridor, shrieking for help. Like the cat with the mouse, Yearke toyed with Mrs. Dudley and the idea of death before his suicidal mahia destroyed him. Most of the year and a half he has lived attthe hotel lie had been going with Mrs. Du&ley. Recently she rejected his attentions. Yearke was enraged when she attended the Kentucky Derby with another man. Had Made Threats In his room Yearke made out a postoffice slip for change of address, asking his mail be forwarded to his sister, Mrs. Minnie R. Emrick, in Buffalo, N. Y. He dressed himself carefully, slipped the revolver, the knife and a honing stone into his pockets. % Mrs. Dudley told police Y’earke once told her if she broke up with him he would ‘‘fix her so no other man would want her.” Preparing dinner in her kitchen Tuesday night, Mrs. Dudley heard the door behind her open and close. She turned around and was surprised by Yearke. "Well, I’ve come to do it,” he announced calmly, taking out the knife and whet stone and beginning to sharpen the knife. \ Body to City Morgue Terrified, she pressed against a wall, and flung up an arm as he slashed at her with the knife. She struggled w'ith him and again and again he cut at her face, inflicting lonly a few scratches. At last she broke away, and ran into the hall. An instant later there were three shots. Tw r o bullets penetrated the brain, one pierced the heart. When police arri\*ed Yearke lay dead on the kitchen floor. Seeking relatives of the dead man, authorities here communicated W’ith the sister in Buffalo. Who said she had not seen' Yearke in six years. His body was sent to city morgue.

VETERANS WILE GATHER IN CITY Rainbow Division Will Hold 13th Annual Convention. More than 200 veterans of the Rainbow division will come to Indianapolis Saturday for their thirteenth annual two-day convention' A trip to the Speedway to watch elimination trials will be the high point on Saturday’s program. Special busses will take the veterans from the Spink-Arms at 1:30 p. m. to the speedway. They will return in time for the banquet and business session at 6:30 p. m. at which guests of honor will be Billy Arnold, last year’s race winner; Harry Hartz, racing car builder, and William F. Sturm, newspaper and magazine writer on automobile racing events. Major Guy A. Wainwright of Indianapolis will be toastmaster. "Flashes of Action,” a war film taken in France by the United States signal corps will be shown, and Reginald Du Valle’s orchestra and several singers will furnish the entertainment. A special program is being arranged to welcome Major-General Robert H. Tyndall, who was colonel of the Indiana regiment during the war, and who has not been able to attend several of the reunions. Aged Widow Dies Bft Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind.. May 20. Mrs. Hannah Reed. 84, widow of John Reed, is dead at her home porth of here.

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Portable Dog Kennels Will Modernize Pound

Added Facilities to Aid in Housing of Pets Gone Astray. Branch banks; branch stores—now branch dog pounds! They are thb suggestion of Dr. Elizabeth S. Conger, superintendent of the city dog pound, realized todav as they were put to first use. With but two trucks serving the central pound at 4400 Massachusetts avenue, many a stray goes uncared for because he has "migrated” before trucks arrive, or kindly persons can not take the time to carry the animal to the distant pound. But through Dr. Conger's intercesion and the generosity of Captain Otto Ray, city license inspector, and James L. Keach, commission merchant, movable kennels have been built and will be placed at four locations. Two such rites already have been selected—the municipal garage, New York and Alabama streets, and at No. 1 engine house, Indiana avenue and Michigan street. Homeless dogs may be taken to these branches where the dog pound trucks Will make regular collections —transferring them to the central pound. Contradicting the popular idea that stray dogs are to blamed for the prevalence of rabies in Marion county, Dr. Conger said today: “Ninety-nine times out of a hundred it is an owner’s dog—not a stray—that becomes a menace through rabies. Dogs brought to the pbund are quarantined and observed. Then before they are released to persons who ask for them, they are given thorough vaccine treatment. The stray dog still is entitled to your pity.” MINSTREL TO BE HELD Forty Members of Traffic Club Will Appear in Show. About forty piembers will participate in the minstrel show' of the

Indianapolis Traffic Club at Caleb Mills hall at 8:15 Thursday night. C. E. Alwes will be one of the soloists featured on the program, and R. C. Stoelting, assistant tr ffic manager, Eli Lilly & Cos., will be interlocutor. End men will be M. D. Collins, M. C. Crofts, S. C. Farrington, Frank North and H. W. Truitt.

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Jimmy Trimble will entertain with a skit, “The One Man Circus.” FjOjBSIERS ON PROGRAM sTate Parks Parley Will Hear of / Methods in Indiana. Indianans will have an important part in the eleventh annual meeting of the national conference on state parks to be held May 27 to 31 in St. Louis, Mo. Richard Lieber, director of the Indiana conservation commission, will speak on “How Indiana Picks and Develops Her State Parks;” Dean Stanley Coulter, chairman of the Indiana commission on “State Parks and the Proper Use of Leisure Time,” and E. Y. Guernsey, research historian of the Indiana commission, on "Indiana Is Making History Live.” NO MAIL ON MAY 30 Regular Holiday Schedule to Be Observed by Postmen. Indianapolis postoffice will observe the regular holiday schedule Decoration day, May 30, Robert H. Bryson, postmaster, announced today. No deliveries will be made, i either in downtown or residential ! sections, by carriers. The general delivery window will be open at the federal building from 8 a. m. until noon, and special delivery service | will be given. Collection hours will be the same as those on Sundays.

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Dr. Conger supervises first use of the new dog pound ‘‘branch kennels.”

CHAIN TAX ACT CONTEST LOOMS Rehearing by U. S. Court to Be Asked by Grocer. ’"Petition for a rehearing by the United States supreme court on the Indiana ‘‘chain store” tax act, will be filed within tlie next two weeks by counsel for Lafayette Jackson, Indianapolis, president of Standard Grocery Company. Under the law. the court will not certify its decree holding the tax act valid, until twenty days after the rulilig. This period will expire Sunday. June 7. Samuel Ashby, attorney for Jackson, said that filing the rehearing petition automatically will block enforcement of the law until the litigation is disposed of finally. Passage on the rehearing petition probably will delay this more than the twenty-day limit. The state tax board, which will have control of the collection of tax fees, how ever, is preparing plans for the license collections. To complaints from New York chain store executives that the law w'ould compel them to "pass on” the added cost to the consumer, V. Ed Funk, deputy attorney-general, today said.: “There shouldn’t be much to ‘pass on’ to the consumer. The highest annual fee under the law is $25 a store. Allowing 300 business days to the year, that’s a tax of only 8 1-3 cents a day on the store paying the maximum fee.” CONFESSES MURDERS Illinois Man Surrenders in Killing of Widow, 2 Sons. By United lives* CHARLESTON. 111.. May 20. Merle Johnson, 25, filling station attendant, surrendered to Mattoon, 111.. *police today and reported, they said, that he had killed Mrs. Carrie Bowers, 40-year-old w’idow, and her two sons, 6 and 8, because “they asked to be killed” and I had to get rid of them.” Indorse Hano for Legion Post Memorial post No. 3 of the American Legion in a resolution Tuesday indorsed its commander, John W. Hano, for the office of Seventh district commander of the Legion in Indiana. Hano has served as ser-geant-at-arms and vice-commander of the post, district adjutant afid on the district executive committee.

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VEHLINC FUNDS PLEA FROWNED ON BYCOUNCIL County Board Aroused by Request for $1,725 for Autopsies. Requests of Coroner Fred W. Vehling for additional appropriations of more than $2,000 to operate his office for the remainder of the year, appeared to be falling on barren ground at the county council meeting todas\ Fied Barrett, attorney for Vehling, presented the proposals, and the council immediately became aroused over the request for additional $1,725 for autopsies. Vehling already has exhausted the SI,BOO fund set aside Jan. 1. Walter Boetcher. councilman, told Barrett he believed Vehling “could have saved on it if he had tried” after Barrett pointed out $3,500 annually has been used for several years in the office. “If there had been an investigation of the office earlier, $3,000 a year could have been saved.” declared Barrett. “Vehling has cut the office expenses $2,000 a year since the investigation. Probe into activities of the office was launched by The Times recently and revealed improper exercise of authority by the coronor and the existence of a constable post not authorized by law. Barrett pointed out that Vehling now is conducting autopsies only in violence or casualty cases, as prescribed by law. "Autopsies seem to be the source of great graft in that office," Cortez Bluo, councilman, stated. The council will pass on the appropriation requests Thursday. “Pope Joan” was a favorite card game eighteenth century.

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