Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 48, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 July 1931 — Page 3

JULY 6, 1931.

BOSTON MAN IS NAMED TO TAKE BUTLEITS REINS Dr. Walter S. Athearn Will Succeed President Aley Aug. 15. Dr. Walter Scott Athearn of Washington, D. C, named as successor of Dr, Robert J. Aley as head of Butler university, is expected to arrive in Indianapolis Aug. 15 to take up his new duties. Dr. Athearn is in Oxford, England, studying the life of Alexander Campbell, founder of the Disciples of Christ church. According to word received here he is expected to return to this country Aug. 1. The appointment of Dr. Athearn was made before he left for his visit abroad.. Ts Prolific Writer The new Butler head, 58, is former dean of the Boston university’s school of religious education and holds degrees from Drake university, University of lowa, and Fargo college. Besides his work as an educator and lecturer. Dr. Athearn is the author of twenty-six books on educational and cultural topics. In the last two years he has spent much time in Washington doing research work in the congressional library. Native of lowa Born in Marengo, la., July 25, 1872, he was married in 1894 to Florence Royalty of North English, la. She died in 1927. He remarried In 1929 to Frances Emily Smith of Washington, D. C. Mrs. Athearn taught for several years in private drools. Dr. Athearn is a member of Phi Delta Kappa fraternity, the City clubs of both Boston and New York, and the Twentieth Century Club of Boston. The Athearns will make their home here in the university president's residence, 520 Hampton road. The residence was given to the school by Dr. Aley when he resigned. AIRPORT TRADE GAINS Municipal Field Shows Increase of 542 Passengers in June. Increase of 542 in passengers through the new municipal airport in June is shown in the monthly report compiled by Charles E. Cox Jr., superintendent. A total of 1,742 passengers were carried, of which 1,342 were transport passengers on T. & W. A. and Embry-Riddle lines. Mail carried by T. & W. A. and Embry-Riddle lines in and out of the port totaled 1,648 pounds, increase of 87 pounds. 5 HELD IN DRY RAIDS Police Confiscate Beer, Alky in Alleged Beer Fiat. Five men were held on liquor charges today following week-end arrests. They are; John Schulmeyer, 56, and Thomas Burns, 60, proprietors of an alleged beer flat at R. R. 2, Box 421; Raymond Humes, 416 East Vermont street, Apt. 1, where beer and alcohol were confiscated, police say, and William Davey, 2901 South Pennsylvania street, and Allen Ward, Martinsville, in whose auto police say they found five gallons of alcohol. VETERINARIAN IS DEAD Funeral Services Tuesday for Dr. James Watt War man. Funeral services will be held at 2 Tuesday afternoon in Arcadia Christian church for Dr. James Watt Warman, 79, retired pharmacist and veterinarian, who died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Howard Kaltenbach, 643 North Eastern avenue, Sunday. Burial will be in Arcadia. Besides the daughter here, another daughter, Mrs. Paul Barnes, Oakland, Cal.; three sisters and a brother survive him. GIRL SUFFERS BURNS Lighted Match Ignites Gas Vapors, Setting Fire to Dress. A match she lighted to determine the effect of gasoline sprayed to Kill insects ignited the gase vapors and burned Miss Irene Linder, 14, seriously in her home at 1541 West Michigan street. Sunday. She ran from the. house, her clothing flaming. Her father, Andrew Linder, suffered burns on the hands when he grasped her and beat out the flames. ENDS LIFE BY POISON Mrs. Laura Ferguson Believed Despondent Over Illness. Despondent over an illness of three weeks. Mrs. Laura Ferguson, 31, of 1220 Park avenue, today committed suicide by taking a quantity of poison. She died in the admitting room at the city hospital, a few hours after she swallowed the poison. James Ferguson, 40, told police he could assign no other motive for his wife’s suicide than the short illness. SUICIDE IS THWARTED Lowered on Rope, Rescuer Holds Girl in Creek Until Police Arrive. Attempting to commit suicide, Mrs. Alma Murphy, 16, of 1842 Boulevard place, leaped into Fall creek at Boulevard place Sunday night. She was rescued when police tied a rope around Leonard Suddith, 308 West Vermont street, and lowered him to the creek surface. He held the girl until a police boat arrived. Todd Portrait Is Finished John W. Hardrick, artist, just has finished a portrait from a photograph of Robert I. Todd, late president of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company. It will be exhibited for a time at the H. Lieber Company galleries. Heat Causes Death Bv United Press MARION, Ind., July 6.—Mrs. Martin Richter, 3, overcome by heat last week, died at her home here.

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2 HONOR PUPILS IN VISUAL TEST Represent State at Capital This Week. Two Indiana grade school pupils, who were graduated from their respective schools with high honors this year, are in Washington today to represent the state in the visual education tests w r hich continue through Friday. They are Allen White Jr., who finished the Valparaiso grade school and Ella Lee Kendall of the Clarksville grade school near Jeffersonville. The tests are under auspices of the education commisison of the department of the interior. Two representatives from each state are taking part. Selection was made by the state department of education and J. W. Boose, director of education reference in the department, accompanied the children to Washington. Miss Kendall is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Kendall and White is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Allen White.

SWEETHEART DIES; GUNMAN SURRENDERS Police Bullets Fatal to Girl, 15, in Flight After Robbery. By Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., July 6. Disconsolate over the death of his 15-year-old sweetheart, Gerda Strobel, a victim of police bullets, George Daoust, 19, surrendered to Elkhart police Sunday morning rather than continue the flight that has brought him into three pistol battles with his pursuers in a week. The young gunman, wanted for a long series of holdups and automobile thefts, was brought back to South Bend for prosecution. After his third gun fight with police a week ago, he went to Lagrange, Ind., and then to Dayton, he told detectives. His sweetheart had been with him in a holdup June 27. Police sped after them in a commandeered taxicab. A bullet pierced her head. Daoust left her mortally wounded by a roadside. When he learned Thursday that she died he hopped a freight train and returned to Elkhart. He went to the home of James Anderson, his former employer, and called police. COUPLE WED 60 YEARS Elwood Residents Will Celebrate Anniversary July 13. By Times Special ELWOOD, Ind., July 6. Open house will be maintained July 13 by Mr. and Mrs. William A. Mills at their home here in celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of their marriage. He is 82 years old, and Mrs. Mills is 81. One of the two children born to them is still living, Mrs. Amanda High, Streator, 111., who will be in charge of the anniversary reception. The couple was married on a farm eight miles southwest of here. Until two years ago, when Mills was sticken with influenza, he was actively engaged in the transfer business. RELIEF WORK ASSAILED Township Trustee Accused of Illegal Practices. By Times Special HAMMOND, Ind., July 6. Mrs. Anne Marie Ahlborn charges Mrs. Myrtle G. Meara, North township trustee, is administering poor relief in a discriminatory and illegal manner, and asserts her charges are based on figures from the records of County Auditor William Whitaker. It is charged by Mrs. Ahlborn that the trustee has violated the law by extending to one family more than sls a month aid and providing relief to persons owning property. Former Resident Dies By Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., July 6.—Peter J! Riekeberg, former Muncie tailor, i# dead at his home in Pomona, Cal. Man Dies in River By United Press BEDFORD, Ind., July 6,-Alfred Carter, 40, drowned in White river near here. He fell into the river while bailing water from a boat.

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Error Comedy By United Preea DETROIT, July 6.—Detective Thomas Leavy today muttered about the heat, nursed a wounded arm, and moralized on haste. Leavy saw John Payne, postal clerk, running for a street car, thought the running suspicious, yanked hiS gun and cried “halt.” Payne saw Leavy running, thought him a bandit and yelled “help.” Patrolman William Meeker saw them both and shot Leavy in. the arm. The three then got together and explained themselves amicably. Payne got his street car; Meeker went back to his beat, and Leavy went to the hospital.

4 CLAIMED BY DEATHIN CITY Member of Pioneer Family Is Among Deceased. Several residents of Indianapolis for many years died or were buried in the city over the week-end. Funeral servicees were held at 10 this morning for Mrs. Margaret E. Currens, 89, who died Friday at her home, 630 South East street. Funeral was to be held at 2:30 this afternoon for Mrs. Charlotte Geyer Boyd, 85, member of an old Indiana family, who died Friday night. Jasper J. Stephens, 75, a native of Englarid, who died at his home here 2434 North Capitol avenue, Sunday, will be buried in Crown Hill cemetery after funeral services at 2:30 Wednesday afternoon. Funeral rites were to be held at 2 this afternoon for Mrs. O’Dessa Snodgrass, 49, wife of Earl Snodgrass of the Snodgrass-Summe Realty Company, who died early Sunday after fifteen weeks’ illness.

MAN OF STRANGE PRACTICES FREED

Police Release Prisoner Who Claims to Be an Abyssinian Priest. By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., July 8. Charles Chedzzli, who claims to be an Abyssinian priest, is free after spending three days in the Madison county jev.il. He was set at liberty after the filing of a habeas corpus suit in superior court. Police arrested Chedzzli on complaint of a group of Negro women. While lecturing here Chedzzli has roomed in two private homes. At both places he demanded that no one wait on him or enter his room except girls between the ages of 7 and 14 years, and he insisted that they sleep in the same room with him. The Abyssinian claimed this custom was conformity with his religious beliefs. He is 74 years old and claims to be the second seventh son of a family of fourteen children. His father is living and is 133 years old, he told police. Police were suspicious of Chedzzli’s actions, but they were unable to get an accusation when they questioned the girls. Aged Man Kills Self By United Press SEVASTOPOL, Ind., July 6.—The body of Charles Bidelman, 70, was found hanging from a tree near here by a grandson, Dennis Bidelman. The aged man left his home near Mentone Sunday, after hemarking he would not return. "

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51 More in Jail Than Last L Year at Same Time; Find 21 Cars. June, the month for newlyweds, got a bit more fame for 1931 when the report of Sheriff Charles (Buck) Sumner for the “marrying month” shows 209 prisoners in jail to 158 in same old “hoosegow” during the year 1930. The sheriff’s report details 62 automobile accidents investigated in 1931 to 34 under the regime of Sheriff George L. Winkler. Two more violent deaths were probed in 1930’s month, but the patrol office at the county jail made twenty-five more arrests than were made in 1930. Tw r enty-one stolen cars were recovered in 1930, against seven this year. One of the highlights in the report was the fact that Sumner's patrol force nominated themselves for “round-the-world trotters,” with 13,304 miles traveled during the month, against 9,375 miles patrolled in 1930.

Safety First Killers Taken to Prison by Plane to Avoid Possible ‘Rescue.'

By United Press DETROIT, July 6.—Ted Pizzino and Angelo Livecchi, Detroit police characters, today were taken by airplane to Marquette prison to serve life sentences for the killing here of William Cannon, Chicago dope racketeer. The transfer, first aerial commitment ever made in Michigan, was made by plane to frustrate possibility of gangster rescue of the two men. The time of departure was kept secret, but when the tri-motor plane left Detroit it was announced the landing would be at Marquette field, where a heavy guard v;as awaiting to receive the prisoners.

TWO IN PLANE KILLED Veteran Pilot and Young Passenger Die Near Peru. By United Press PERU, Ind., July 6.—A veteran airplane pilot and his youthful companion crashed to their deaths near here when their Waco biplane failed to fcome out of a loop. The dead are Milo Poss, 33, proprietor of the American Flying Corporation at Peru, and Ray Cunningham, 19, Peru, a passenger. Poss, at the controls, had put the plane through several loops, but failed to right it and it plunged to the ground from high. Both men were killed instantly. The plane fell beside State Road 31, three miles south of Peru. BUSSESJHJST TRAIN Monon Ends French Lick-to-lndianapolis Service. By Times Special FRENCH LICK, Ind., July 6. Bus competition is the reason given by the Monon railroad for discontinuance of its train, the Atterbury, operated between here and Indianapolis for six years. The last run ■was made today. Ray Deremiah, French Lick, district passenger agent for the Monon, says that when the service was started the train earned $2 a mile, but now operates at a loss of SI,OOO a month.

SOVIET BOSSES MUST WORK, IS STALimiRDER New Era Is Proclaimed in Basic Social Idea of Russia. By United Press MOSCOW, July 6.—A new era in the Soviet government’s basic social attitude, recognizing the value of utilizing the intelligentsia in a proletarian state has been proclaimed by Josef V. Stalin, the nation’s leader. Stalin, in a speech to a conference of economic leaders, told his colleagues that they had to get down to work and cease endless “writings of papers and discussion.” “We can not govern this way any longer, comrades,” Stalin said in one of the most important pronouncements he had made in his remarkable career. “Better for Them” “Let the chairman and some few of his assistants remain in the administrative posts. They are sufficient to manage any business. The remainder of the members of the collegium (directorate) should be sent to work in the factories. It would be better for them and better for business.” However, the most vital section of Stalin’s speetch was seen as his reference to the development of a new “working class intelligentsia.” Stalin insisted on the cessation of persecution of that section of the old intelligentsia who he said, were working loyally. Ridicules “Utopian Idea” Another major point made during Stalin’s address—an address which may mark his own “en economic policy”—was a proposal that higher pay should be offered as an Incentive for better and more skilled work. Stalin ridiculed the idea of equality of incomes as "utopian.” He quoted Karl Marx and Lenin to the effect that “even in Socialism, wages should be paid in according with the work performed, not in accordance with needs.” Stalin also came out in favor of disbanding the unwieldly Soviet state trusts into smaller units, enabling closer supervision and giving greater personal responsibility to managers.

SILK MILLS ABE BOMBTARGETS Violence Flares Almost on Eve of Parley. By United Press ALLENTOWN, Pa., July 6. Three silk mills, where the workers have been on strike for the past two months, were bombed simultaneously here early today. Windows were shattered and considerable property damage done. The bombings occurred at one of the Phoenix Manufacturing Company mills, the Majestic mill and the Mcßride mill, the latter located at Fullerton, near here. The series of bombings broke first at the Phoenix mill and while police were on their ' way to that mill the bombings of the other properties were reported. A watchman, Howard Lehman, was injured by flying glass. / Conferences have been arrranged for Wednesday between mill operators and the textile union officials as a result of a meeting between Governor Pinchot and the interested parties Friday. Approximately 7,000 workers are on strike.

TITLE BALL GAMES TO START AT CAMP C. M. T. C. Signal Platoon Wins First Place in Parade. Series of contests for baseball championship of the Citizens Military Training Camp at Ft. Benjamin Harrison was to be started this afternoon as the camp reached the third week of instruction. First place in the July Fourth parade competition was won by the signal platoon, commanded by First Lieutenant F. H. Curtis, with B company, commanded by Captain Joseph H. Comstock, taking second place. The signal platoon won the First battalion baseball championship and H company, commanded by Captain C. H. Wilson, won in the second battalion. Cadets who can play trombone or clarinet are eligible to compete for a $1,250 scholarship offered by Culver military academy. American Girl Is Married By United Press LONDON, July 6.—Miss Elizabeth Bryson, daughter of the late Hugh Wyatt Bryson of Los Angeles and ward of Commander Hugh Koehler of New York, formerly American naval attache at Warsaw, was married today to Anthony Barclay, son of the managing director of Barclay's bank.

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CALAMITY DUE TO LOW PAY; CHARGE

Money-Hoarders Forgot Worker in Golden Era, Is Declaration. By Scripps-Hoicard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, July 4.—America’s seven years of plenty between 1922 and 1929 proved to be a national calamity for bankers and manufacturers because of the low wages paid during this golden era, according to John P. Frey, metal trades secretary for the A. F. of L., in the American Federationist. Frey warned against wage cuts and urged higher wages. While the total value of manu-

HISTORIC OAK TREE CUT FOR FIREWOOD Sacrificed to Auto by Being Removed as Traffic Bar, By United Press IRONDEQUOIT, N. Y., July 6. The famous Red Jacket Oak has been sacrificed to the automobile. Under its branches Chief Red Jacket of the Senecas addressed conciliatory speeches to his tribesmen, saving them from extermination by the English, according to credible tradition. # The tree was twenty feet in circumference. Village officials had it cut into firewood “because it constitutes a menace to traffic and impedes progress.” MAKEUP ARTIST HERE Hollywood Expert to Tell City Women Beauty Secrets. That artful makeup will accomplish anything plastic surgery will do to regulate facial features is the contention of Kiva Hoffman, Hollywood makeup expert, who will be at the William H. Block & Cos. department store this week. “It is not difficult to learn the art of makeup,” Hoffman said. “Simply a matter of seeing the work done and having it explained.” Women are invited to his exhibitions. BUSINESS TOO RUSHING Attorney Tries to Handle Two Cases, Gets Contempt Fine. By United Press MEMPHIS, July 6.—Business was so rushing for Floyd Creasy, Memphis attorney, that he found himself with two cases to try in two different courts at the same time. He began one case in Judge Wallace’s court and after it had progressed a short way, asked permission to step across the street to address a jury in the second case. The request was granted on the promise that the recess would not be long. It lasted forty-five minutes, and when Creasy returned he was fined $25 for contempt of court. Ft. Wayne Man Wins Medal By Times Special FT. WAYNE, Ind., July 6.—The Lehn & Fink medal has been awarded to Fred Tustuson, Ft. Wayr.e, a graduate of the Indianapolis College cf Pharmacy this year.

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JUSTICE MARTIN IS EXPECTED TO RAP HIGH COURT Likely to Recite Dilatory Tactics on Appeals at Bar Convention. More than one hundred Indianapolis attorneys are expected to attend the annual summer meeting of the Indiana State Bar Association at Lafayette June 9 and 10. High point of the meeting is expected to be the address of Chief Justice Clarence R. Martin of the state supreme court, who, in all probability, will recite the records of the various members of the court in regard to the number of appeals assigned and decided. Judge Martin presented such statistics at the 1930 meeting in Bloomington, when he pointed out that clogged dockets of the high court were the result of the dilatory tactics pursued by three members of the court. Work of the appellate court will be discussed by Judge Noel C. Neal, chief judge of that body. “Legal Gospel” Subject “A Legal Gos Del for an Industrial Age” will be the subject of Anan Raymond, Chicago bank vicepresident and former president of the Nebraska State Bar Association. “Bootleggers in Law” will be discussed by Glenn D. Peters of Hammond, and Eli F. Seebirt of South Bend will outline “A Movement for a More Efficient Bar Association.” Professor Walter Wheeler Cook of the institute of law’, Johns Hopkins university, will read a paper on “State-wide Studies in the Administration of Justice.” New officers will be elected, reports on legislation with recommendations will be read and the committee on criminal jurisprudence is expected to discuss this phase of legal activity. Richman to Preside Frank N. Richman, Columbus, vice-president of the association, will preside because of the death in March of the president, William W. Miller of Gary. Memorial services will be held honoring Mr. Miller and the late Dan W. Sims, former president of the association. Curtis Plopper of Shortridge high school and Miss Ruth Bridges of Danville will be presented with medals Friday for winning respectively the state oratorical and state essay contests sponsored by the association. Annual convention banquet Friday night bringing the convention to a close will have as its principal feature an address by Frederic R. De Young, judge of the Illinois supreme court, on “Responsibility of the American Judiciary.”/