Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 70, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 July 1931 — Page 2

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SINGLE WOMEN ' PREFERRED FOR > TEACHING JOBS Few County Schools Give Wives New Contracts; Some Rebel. Unmarried women teachers are favored for Jobs in Marion county's schools, outside Indianapolis, reports received today from townwhip trustees indicate. However, no women teachers already under contract, are in danger of discharge because they happen to be married, it was revealed. On the other hand, no new cont tracts with married women teach- ’ ers are being made for the coming year, except in one or two townships. Conversations with most ot the nine trustees were coincident with the statement of County Superintendent Fred T. Gladden "that because of the economic situation mast trustees will not hire married women teachers.” Mrs. Maxwell Rebels Mrs. Maggie G. Maxwell. Washington township trustee, declared: "I don't discriminate between married and single teachers, i never have released a married woman teacher, and I have hired eleven for next year." ‘‘Under the economic situation. I hesitate to employ married women teachers,” Malcom J. Dunn of Wayne township stated. Fifteen of sixteen women teachers in the Ben Davis school, Wayne township, are married. Dunn declared he would not discharge any married women. Preference for Unmarried Tn Decatur township, John Routon, trustee, is not so adverse against married teachers, but "under conditions I feel they should give the single teacher preference,” Routon declared. "I don’t favor discharging a teacher who marries,” Harry Maze of Franklin township stated, "however, I discharged one woman whose husband was teaching in the same township.” Although he stated he had nothing to do with discharging or employing the county’s teachers. Superintendent Gladden expressed an opinion: “That personally I believe a woman has plenty to do to take care Os the home without going into school work.”

VERONAL KILLS ACTOR {Takes Overdose When ‘Girl Friend’ Fails to Keep Date. By United Prt ss NEW YORK, July 31.—Kevitt Manton, actor, who took an overdose of veronal when his meager funds gave out and a showgirl friend failed to keep a date with him, died in Roosevelt hospital Thursday night of the effects of the drug. Opal Essent, showgirl, said she and Manton had been unemployed for months and shared food money, declared Manton claimed not to be the William Kevitt Manton who was sued for divorce in 1925 in papers naming Marjorie Rambeau, actress, as co-respondent. Miss Essent said that when she gained admittance to his hotel room he was in a coma, with two empty drug bottles beside him. Old Residents Die fly Times Special ANDERSON, Ind.. July 31— Mrs. Sarah Jane Sears, 64, lifelong resident of Anderson, died in the Henry Ford hospital at Detroit. She Was taken ill while a passenger on a Lake Erie steamer. Mrs. Mary H. Fifcr, 80, is dead. She leaves three sons, C. E. Fifer, Indianapolis; H. W. Fifer, Lansing, Mich., and A. L. Filer, Anderson.

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NE6RO GUNMAN TO BE INDICTED Police Claim Confession in Detective’s Killing. Richard Perkins, Negro, today awaited indictment and trial for the murder of Detective Sergeant Carl Heckman, following an alleged confession to detectives Thursday night when, officers say, he took full responsibility tor the death. , Perkins was returned to Indianapolis Thursday night from Chattanooga, Tenn., where he was arrested earlier this week. For three hours he talked to detectives, affixing X, his mark, to two lengthy statements. Heckman was shot down the night of Jan. 3, in the 3500 block North Pennsylvania street, when he and detective William Miller stopped Perkins and Richard Board, Negro, who lay in wait to hold up a laundry driver. Perkins admitted he drew anew revolver and fired once, hitting the policeman, who died later. Perkins fled as Miller fired at him and collared Board, who has been held here since. Take Wheat for Legion Dues P.y United Press ENID. Okla., July 31,—The Enid American Legion post announced because of a shortage of money in the community and an overabundance of wheat. It will exchange memberships for four bushels of wheat. Court Sets Divorce Week By United Press PRINCETON, Ind., July 31. j Divorce week will be held here in Gibson circuit court beginning Monday. During the week thirty-five cases will be tried with women plaintiffs in twenty-four, and men plaintiffs in eleven.

Won’t Need 'Em By United Press CLEVELAND, July 31— Jchr Voytko, a paroled Ohio penitentiary convict, went from house to house, telling wives that their husbands had been injured, were in the hospital and needed clothes. He got the clothes. Police got him. He will go back to the rock pile, police said.

GET FINES, FARM TERMS Three Receive Sentences for Theft of Copper Wire. Three men received fines of $25 and costs and sentences of one year on the Indiana state penal farm today from L. Ert Slack, criminal judge pro tern., for stealing 350 pounds of copper wire from * the Pennsylvania Railroad Company’s cars. The men are Harry Middleton, 29; Paul Cooley, 24, and Richard Powers, 23. They declared that they found the wire, in defending themselves against the charge of petit larceny. ,

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COLORADO LAW PAVES WAY FOR PRISON EXODUS Release of 500 Convicts Under New Statute Worries State. By United Press CANON CITY. Colo., July 31 The tailor shop of the Colorado state penitentiary hummed today with activity as prisoners worked to turn out a rush order of "street clothes”—but above that hum was the drone of convicts’ voices speculating on when they would get out. Colorado was preparing to release between 400 and 500 convicts, almost half tlje prison population, in one grand exodus. The preparations were being made in conformance with a ruling of the state attorneygeneral which tossed into the discard the old method of figuring good time allowance and Instituted anew one whereby convicts, after their sixth year, can serve a year’s sentence in twenty-nivie days. Even on shorter sentences, the time allowed for good conduct was materially increased. Prison In Furor The ruling came after Governor William H. Adams and the state beard of corrections had asked an interpretation of an amendment passed by the last general assembly liberalizing the good time allowances. The attorney general also held the allowances would have to be made retroactive, with the result that almost half a thousand convicts will be turned loose long before they are expected. In the mess hall, the prison yard, and on the recreation grounds, convicts gathered in excited groups to figure what the scheme would mean to them. Bits of chalk, pencil stubs, and even twigs were used to write and scratch complicated mathamatical problems cn whatever was handy as each man sought to determine his release date. Predict Crime Wave Only the 157 life term prisoners in the old prison, scene of the bloodiest prison riot in history, were unaffected by the ruling. Penitentiary officials and police heads throughout the state pondered over the results that they feared would follow the sudden release of 500 felons into a state where unemployment already exists. Some authorities predicted an unprecedented crime wave. Others pointed out that the number of convicts released would approximate the number of policemen in Denver, and half the total number of law enforcement officers in the three largest cities in Colorado. Free Legal Service Offered Free legal services to unemployed and other needy persons has been offered by Frank L. Martino, attorney, 537 Illinois building. Martino said he will devote two hours, from 2 to 4 p. m. each Monday and Wednesday in August to the work.

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W. D. Henry (above), only living uncle of Mrs. Herbert Hoover, is aiding officers attempting to solve an unsuccessful extortion plot against him. Mr. Henry, a banker, said he drove into the country near Wahpeten, N. D., as the extortionists demanded, and threw $75 in bills fuom his automobile, but no one appeared to collect the money.

CLAIMS CANCER HALTED Experiments With Mice Described by St. Louis Doctor at Paris. By United Press PARIS, July 31.—Dr. Boris Sokoloff. of the St. Louis university medical school, announced today he had discovered a "successful treatment” for cancer tumors in mice. Dr. Soffoloff, addressing the concluding session of the International Radiology Congress, said the method was by an injection of lactic acid under the skin. The treatment absorbed 30 per cent of the most malignant form of cancer tumor, he said, and the remaining 70 per cent, stopped its growth and. remained stationary.

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WOMEN BANDITS LOOT CHICAGO FASHION SHOP ‘Dowager and Daughters’ Escape With $1,500 Mink Coat. By United Press CHICAGO. July 31—Three well dressed women swept regally into the St. Clair dress shop and began looking over the display of gorgeous finery. To Miss Dorothy Mack, saleswoman. they appeared to be a dowager and her polished daughters, one a voluptuous blond with a throaty, modulated voice, and the other a petite, vivacious brunette. "Really, my dears, there seem to be some things that might be satisfactory,” said the elderly woman, fingering critically the finery Miss Mack had hastened to bring out. Perhaps we should look a little farther before we decide.” said the blond in the tone of one accustomed blend. They were standing with Miss Mack near a door leading to the basement when suddenly the blond dropped ner haughty attitude, drew a revolver and pointed it at Miss Mack. "Get down them stairs and be damn quick about it,” she commanded. The “dowager” opened the door. Miss Mack was shoved down the stairs face first. She escaped through a rear door and returned with police. Her "customers” had disappeared along with $27 from Miss Mack’s purse and a $1,500 mink coat.

SHAW RETURNING HOME Irish Wit and Piirty Visit Widow of Lenin, Ending Soviet Tour. By United Press MOSCOW, July 31—-George Bernard Shaw and his party left for

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! England at 10:30 p. m. Thursday ‘ after a brief, crowded visit in So- | viet Russia. i The Irish wit and playwright, ac- | companied by Lord and Lady As tor, j visited the widow of Lenin prior to 1 their departure.