Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 67, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 July 1931 — Page 2

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‘PAYOFF’ DENIED BY EX-COUNSEL FOR PHONE CO. Seymour Postmaster Says He Gave No Money to Politicians. Two witnesses, a “public relations counsel’’ and a former public service commissioner, were called today before Samuel O. Dowden, federal court master in chancery, In the attempt by attorneys for the commission to show stained hands in the rate-raising efforts of the Southern Indiana Telephone and Telegraph Company. The company sought telephone rate Increases in thirty towns of southern Indiana, and now Is seeking to enjoin the public service commission from interfering. Dr. Haskell Lett, veterinarian, and postmaster of Seymour, Ind., who served as the public relations counsel for the company since June, 1928, first was called. He was to get S3OO a month salary, he said, but only received in that time, till October, 1930, $6,000. His general duties were to “promote good will between the firm and the public.” Called Personal Loan He denied emphatically that any money paid him by L. C. Griffitts, then president of the company, reached the hands of any of his principals in the case, Bert Puller, Bert Morgan, Calvin Macintosh, or any member of the commission. He claimed that SI,OOO which he paid to Fuller and Morgan jointly was in payment for a personal loan. However, the loan was paid from funds he received from Griffitts. Lett also denied telling Griffitts to “meet somebody” at the Lincoln hotel, as Griffitts testified Monday. Macintosh took the stand to deny that he called Griffitts at the Columbia Club during a rate case when E. S. Welch, his general manager, was present. Both Griffitts and Welch testified that he called to make an appointment. He declared that Griffitts called for the same reason and he refused, as he was too busy. He also said he never had known Lett and never had seen him until the hearing. Fund Diversion Charged ' John F. Kent of Chicago, vicepresident of the concern, claimed from the witness stand that he did not know Lett was on the pay roll till November, 1930, when Griffitts was asked to resign. When the resignation was asked, Kent told Griffitts that the special account which he had opened was merely a subterfuge to avoid the requirement of having two signatures from the Chicago office on checks, and that he had diverted funds to his owm use. TWO BOUND TO GRAND JURY ON DRY CHARGE Man and Woman Held Under Bonds of $1,500 and SI,OOO. A man and a woman were bound over to the grand jury today on charge of transporting liquor, in the municipal court of Judge William H. Sheaffer. They were Wt rs. Myrtle Long, 22, of 1112 Maple street and Elton Scott, 25, of 525 South Senate avenue. Mrs. Long was charged with transporting, ’operating a car while under the influence of liquor, blind tiger and drunkenness. Scott was was charged with transporting, blind tiger and drunkenness. Mrs. Long’s bond was fixed at SI,OOO and Scott’s at $1,500. Charges other than transporting were dropped in holding the couple for the grand jury. Pool Project May Halt By Times Special COLUMBUS. Ind., July 28.—Protests of ministers and others against holding of a bathing beauty contest at Donncr park as part of a community program, may result in delay of a campaign for establishment of a municipal swimming pool. Business men had hoped the contest would draw a large crowd to the park as an audience for presentation of a swimming pool proposal. Gypsy Girl Accused HAMMOND, Ind., July 28.—Princess Rosie. 15, and Joseph Ristick are accused by Joseph Nichols, leader of a gypsy band in camp here, and father of the girl, who told police the couple is missing, along with $1,700 and an expensive automobile.

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IHKoney fifteen Byears in cell Calls Sentence Reproach for California. SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Cal. July 23 —Tom Mooney began toda' the sixteenth year of his life tern in San Quentin still determined U fight for a pardon on his convictiot of murder m the San Franclsc<

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"Ting-a-ling-a-ling! This monotonous repetition traverses city streets, but it’s monotony only to the crabbed, the pessimist, for to youth it’s life itself and "goodies”—it’s the Ice Cream Man. And so here’s Patricia Ann Todd, 1424 East Market street, in the above photo paying her daily call and daily nickel to David Winkles, 701 North Pine street. It’s easy to see in the inset that Patricia is satisfied with Winkles and Winkles’ chilly "suckers.” FORMER BLACKSMITH CLAIMED BY DEATH V Rites Wednesday for John Alch, 72, Who Dies at .Brother’s Home. John Aich, 72, former Indianapolis blacksmith, died Monday at the home of his brother, William Aich, 4800 Bluff road, after a short illness. Mr, Aich, who moved to Spencer, la., twelve years ago, formerly had a blacksmith shop at Orange and Shelby streets. Besides the brother at whose home he died, he is survived by two other brothers Stephen in Kansas, and Nicholas of Helmsburg; two daughters, Mrs. John Eckstein, Indianapolis, and Mrs. Lena Shue, Brookville, Ga., and two sons, Stephen, Jefferson county, and John, Spencer, la. Funeral rites will be held in St. Roch’s Catholic church at 9 Wednesday with burial in Holy Cross cemetery. CHILD’S BURNS FATAL Barbara Brenlish, 19 Months, Is Victim of Flames. Barbara Jeanne Brenlish, 19-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Brenlish, 619 North Pine street, died Monday in city hospital from burns incurred while playing in her back yard. Members of the family heard her screams and found her with her clothing aflame, but do not know how the fire originated. The body will be taken to Bedford today where funeral services and burial will be Wednesday. Two Robbers Sentenced By Time* Special TERRE, HAUTE, Ind., July 28. Pleading guilty to robbing the Elks club of between S6OO and S7OO the night of July 5, Jesse Waller and James A. Lewis were each given three to ten-year prison terms by Circuit Judge John P. Jeffries.

MOONEY FIFTEEN YEARSIN CELL Calls Sentence Reproach for California. By United Press SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Cal., July 23.—Tom Mooney began today the sixteenth year of his life term In San Quentin still determined to fight for a pardon on his conviction of murder in the San Francisco bomb outrage. Working as usual over a hot kitchen stove, Mooney found time to issue a statement on the fifteenth anniversary of his incarceration. “I wonder how many more such anniversaries the world will charge against the state of California,” the former labor leader’s statement said, “Let it be remembered that my fifteen years of unjust imprisonment signify fifteen years of reproach for California. “Great impetus has been added to my efforts to secure a pardon by the report of the Wickersham commission to the President of the United States. The straight-forward assertion that the law which compels my prolonged imprisonment is ‘shocking to one’s sense of justice’ has brought forth thousands of similar pronouncements from leaders of public thought and opinion in this country.”

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PRESS OFFICIAL IS SPEAKER AT ROTARYSESSION J. H. Furray Credits News With Extending Horizon of Man. Wide differences in news tastes are found throughout the world, but events frequently change them radically, and these changes may affect the reading appetites of entire continents, J. H. Furay, general manager of the United Press foreign service, told the Rotary Club today at the Claypool. Furay is a former Indianapolis newspaper man. “The flight of Colonel Lindbergh, for example, made a marked difference in interest in aviation news in general, not only in this country but in all countries of the world,” he said. “The sudden meteoric appearance of Luis Angel Firpo in the American prize ring seven or eight years ago not only affected the interest in this country in boxing, but completely revolutionized news tastes In South America, creating an intense interest in boxing affairs, where literally none existed before.” World Getting Bigger Although admitting the truth of the often-heard statement that “the world is getting smaller,” Furay asserted that, paradoxically, the world also is getting bigger. News, described as the most perishable commodity, is given the credit for raising the horizon and the viewpoint of the ordinary, untraveled man in the street so that the world for him has grown tremendously, Furay said. “News is so perishable,” he said, “that while it may be almost priceless to its possessor at a given instant, it is stale and flat and worthless five minutes later.” Describes Foreign Service Describing the obstacles that confront foreign correspondents of American newspapers in obtaining the truth in foreign news, Furay scouted the fiction-fostered idea that the job of foreign correspondent is one romantic episode after another. "The foreign correspondents I have met,” he declared, generally are serious-minded young men who have to work just as hard as their colleagues in this country.” The job of the press association in obtaining the truth in foreign news and presenting it to the newspapers of the world is complicated, Furay contended. He pointed out that the correspondent must guard against bias, inaccuracy, bad judgment and cen-

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sorship in getting his stories to the newspapers he is serving. “Often his dispatch may be stopped at the cable or radio office, or it may be deleted in part with or without his knowledge. Later he may be invited to leave the country on the grounds that he has sent untruthful and damaging dispatches.” How American press services are being expanded to collect world news not only for newspapers of this country, but for papers in other nations was explained by the speaker. The United Press serves more than 1,000 papers in this country and publications in more than forty other nations. The fact that foreign news agencies often are subsidized by governments and are regarded as the semi-official spokesmen of the governments was cited as the chief reason for the growth of American services in furnishing the truth to papers abroad.

DAWES IS OPTIMISTIC British Ambassador Says Conditions in U. S. Are Better. By United Press LONDON, July 28—Conditions in the United States have improved, Ambassador Charles G. Dawes told reporters when he arrived at Paddington station this afternoon on a return to his post from a visit home. “A great change has occurred in the mass American attitude, from pessimism to optimism,” he said. Winona Attractions Listed By Times Special WINONA LAKE, Ind., July 28. Attractions here during August will include reappearances of Professor A. M. Harding, University of Arkansas astronomer, and Katherine Tift Jones, “the calliope of the air.”

STIMSON SEES RECOVERY NEAR FOR JERMANY Urges Change In Outlook of Nation’s Officials and People. LONDON, July 28.—Necessity for a complete change of national psychology in Germany if the Reich Is to recover from its economic ills was emphasized today by Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson, upon his return from Berlin. Expressing the belief that recovery will be certain if there is a change of front by the government and a change of heart by the peo-' pie, Stimson pointed out that any nation which has fallen into the habit of excessive complaining naturally finds it difficult to reverse its methods and processes of thinking. Stimson feels, however, that the Germans themselves are beginning to understand that there must be some bright spot in the present situation, and that although the crisis is not over, conditions are considerably bettered already. Referring to the question of “pocket battleships,” the building of which has been a thorn in the side of Prance, Stimson argued that Germany has good case, since she is the oly dijrjmed nation in Europe. Stimson anticipates no immediate resumption of the seven-power conference. He revealed that whenever he discussed disarmament in Europe it was to discover that the

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ARRESTED IN HOLDUP Negroes Alleged Bandits in Walker Theater Robbery. Four Negroes have been identified, police charge, as bandits who participated in the holdup of the Walker theater on July 13 when $146 in currency was obtained from the thec- 'er’s safe. The four held by police and indicted by the grand jury on conspiracy and robbery charges are John C. Carter. 20, of 1112 North Senate avenue; Lee Wingfield, 619 West North street; Louis Smith. 28, 607 East Indiana avenue, and William Rice, 21, of 815 North Call street. Smith was an employe of the theater and is alleged to have aided in the holdup in which nine persons were tied up.