Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 79, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 August 1931 — Page 9

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1931 VACATION COSTING JUST ABOUT*' Take a Look at the MidWest; Depression Is No Fun. RESORT OWNERS ‘FLAT’ Don’t Whine About Bad Business; Some Have It Worse. BY CHARLES CARLL Miles and miles without battling traffic that once was the bane of the vacation motorist. Hotels begging for patronage, especially those in summer resort areas where unbelievably low prices are asked for room and board, and not room alone, as the story read. Farmers admit they don’t know what will happen and lean on fences and sit In filling stations along the countryside to tell you that the future is a blank. And, above all, operators of summer resorts and other havens of the vacationists, now at the pinnacle of the season, plead with the vacation public to “come in.” The operator of the chance racket in these places has changed his policy. Thp chances are shorter nad he’ll double, your winnings for you. It Cost® Little That’s the way the situation sizes up in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio. All those people—thousands of them—whose summer livelihood means their salvation this winter are the hardest hit by the depression. Any man, woman or child who knows his midwest, can start in the family auto with less than SIOO in the “First National” and enjoy, what in 1929, was a wealthy man’s vacation. Decrease of motoring vacationists Is evident any week-day on any road leading out of Indianapolis. Take the route to Cincinnati. Miles of the road are desolate. Garages and restaurants along the road are in the most serious stages of desertion. It’s a Dark Future Business men in the Ohio city will tell you the outlook for the winter is dark. The populace, those that can afford to move to avoid summers heat, are encamped along the White Water and Ohio rivers. Living i* cheap there and many of them will be there most of the winter. The others arc in the city. Thousands are out of work as in Indianapolis and seeking jobs that would bring food for the dirty faced children playing on streets near the Ohio. More and more of these people are spending vacations at home. The salaried man with a job says it's “cheaper.” One key to the construction business in Kentucky and Ohio is in the foundry business. And owners of foundries declare that one week it appears that business may pick up while the next two, three or four finds the company almost idle. Take the Race Track Latonia, Ky., only a few minutes from the Cincinnati suspension bridge, and the hand-in-hand neighbor of Covington, boasts of its race track. The final day of the meet this year found horses competing in seven races under a hot sun before a crowd that the newcomer thought was an example that Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard and was going to spend her last “bone” on a race. The frequenter of the track shakes his head in despair. “It's not what it used to be.” It’s Same Story In Dayton business men and residents tell the same story of hard times and no future. To them the summer is a season that reduces coal and clothing bills; the winter is something to dread. Again to the north through miles and miles of choice Ohio farmland in the central section of the neighboring state. The fields are burned by sun and thirsty for rain. Grasshoppers in flights that beat against the windshield are bordering on the stage of menace to the farmers. One hundred miles farther north, in a vicinity made famous by an inland lake, hotels, cottages and amusements, three things in the amusement section alone bring home the depression. A sign on a boat landing says you can take a boat ride around the lake for 50 cents, with music and entertainment as added features. Listen to the "Cap" But listen to the “captain” of this inland lake steamer as he “sings for his supper”; “Come on. folks; see the lake in a ‘beeootifuF one-hour boat ride. Don't pay any attention to that sign. The price is just a quarter now." And after the cut-rate boat ride, there is the man w T ho wouldn’t take your dime unless he guessed within three pounds of your weight. But his story is different, too. Now he charges 15 cents and if he doesn't guess you within those three pounds you get a box of “candy.” And he says: "I gotta eat. the same as you. To some of them, 15 cents isn't so much.” It’s Not a Song, Either The gray-haired woman who operates the fish pond in which most of us at some time or another fished our way to luck, told her story in the closing hours of a day at the Ohio lake resort. “If you spend more than a quarter I'll give you a dollar's worth of merchandise. It is the top of the season now and I've got to get rid of my stock. It's no good to me this winter but money, at any price, is." That’s not a sales song and dance either. For after she closes her stand she will tell you that this summer is the most barren in her fifteen years behind the smooth waters of the fish pond.

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BY DAN THOMAS NEA Service Writer HOLLYWOOD, Aug. ll.—This newcomer to the talkies finished school and started her screen career on the same day. . . . She was attending college at Tampa, Fla., a little more than a year ago when a movie director advertised for extras in a picture he was filming there. . . . She was the first to respond and won a place. . . . She went to Hollywood, continuing as an extra. . . . Then she was v-as given a long-term contract . . . She is one of the” few newcomers whom this writers predicts a bright future. She is Ruth Hall. NEXT: She quit school to play stock and was given a movie contract when a Hollywood executive saw her in Washington, D. C. Who is she?

DIPLOMACY DEBATED Political Institute Argues Over Secrecy. By United Press WILLI AMSTOWN, Mass., Aug. 11.—Diplomacy, secret and open, was debated today at the Institute of Politics. Dr. Luigi Villari, Italian economist, and member of the Italian diplomatic service, opposed the modern method of open diplomacy, while Dr. William E. Rappard, director of the School of Higher International Studies at Geneva, argued in favor of it. Dr. Villari agreed all treaties should be made public, but said that negotiations preceding agreement on the treaty should be kept secret. If they were made public, Dr. Villari contended, the participants would find themselves exposed to attacks, in the press and by their own people, for conceding too much. This agitation, he said, might make the settlement of a dispute impossible. He said that in actual practice diplomacy inevitably is secret. DELAY ARRAIGNMENT OF ‘PEEPING TOM’ KILLER Case Continued Because Coroner, Away on Vacation, Must Appear. Arraignment of Harley D. Cooke, 38, of 805 North Denny street, charged with vagrancy following his slaying of John G. Gnas, 28, a “peeping Tom,” was continued in municipal court today until Sept. 10. Delay was taken by the state after detectives told Judge Wililam H. Sheaffer it was necessary for Coroner Fred W. Vehling to appear. Vehling is out of the city on a vacation. Cooke, who is expected to be exonerated in the slaying, told police that Gnas had been prowling around the house for a month. Police records in Evansville showed that Gnas had been convicted on a similar charge there.

THEY TELL ME

BY BEN STERN THE old political adage that, when you lose you get closer together is exemplified again—this time in Lake county. The end of the world would not have startled Lake county Republicans so much as the possibility of a Democratic victory. “Why, it’s impossible for this county to go Democratic” was the oft-repeated declaration and a man with any political ambitions who espoused that party in Lake county was regarded as not being “exactly right bright.” But the impossible happened last fall and the Democrats were swept into power. Dissension immediately was blamed by the G. O. P. for the defeat and plans were effected for harmony. a a a Everything is hunky dory now. Republicans of Hammond, Whiting, and East Chicago met in the superior court house at Hammond Friday night to talk harmony. It was talked with such vim and to so good effect that all the 200 or more attending left simply exuding optimism. The gathering was unusual in that many of the old-time wheel horses were conspicuous by their absence, but every branch of civic, business,

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BURGLARS ARE FOILED Fail to Obtain Any Loot After Entering City Shoe Store. Boring their way through a door and a partition, burglars early today entered the Stout shoe store, 318 Massachusetts avenue, but failed to obtain loot, E. B. Stout, manager, told police. Safe crackers removed hinges from a safe in the office of the Plumbers’ Supply Company, 2015 Martindale avenue, but were unable to open it when the combination failed to break, police were informed. RECORDS IMPOUNDED Township Books Held for Embezzlement Trial. By Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., Aug. 11.—All documents and records of the office of George Hawkins, Center township trustee, for the years 1929 and 1930 have been impounded under an order issued in the Delaware circuit court. Seventeen criminal actions are pending in the circuit court against Hawkins. Fifteen indictments have been issued by the Delaware county grand jury alleging embezzlement of public funds and the other two charging conspiracy, one with his brother, M. L. Hawkins, and the other with August Wilhelm. It is charged the amount involved in the fifteen indictments totals $3,240.30. Hawkins is at liberty under $16,000 bonds. He and his brother have been released under bonds of $3,000 each. Town Has No Banks Left By United Press MECHANICSVILLE, N. Y., Aug. 11.—This small city is in a perplexing plight with no banks. Its two institutions were closed recently. City officials requested a Troy bank to open a branch here, but were told this procedure would be illegal.

} and professional activity was represented. Death knell of the Citizens party of Hammond was believed sounded with the presence of William Kirkleiner, that faction’s candidate for mayor in the last city election, and Joe Vivian and Walter Bielfeld, also active in the bolt of 1929. Homer Dell presided as temporary chairman; and then turned the gavel over to Postmaster George Clemens, of Hammond, who was elected chairman without a dissenting vote. a a a Pleas for party harmony were sounded by all speakers, while Kirkleiner ventured the opinion that Coolidge and not Hoover wrould be the standard bearer in 1932. One thing indelibly etched on the minds of those present was the necessity for selection of high type candidates for county offices, and not the usual rjfraff and political lobbygows which have characterized the tickets there in recent years. It is an undoubted fact that the only time real party harmony can be achieved is when its members are on the outside looking in. The 1930 defeat is doing more to clean up Lake county Republicanism than all the preachments by the purifiers during the last few years.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY. AUGUST 11. 1931

NATURAL GAS SALE FAVUREU IN COMMITTEE Plan to Supply Industries of City Is Approved by Civic Leaders. TWO VOICE OPPOSITION White and Quillin Against Recommendation to Commission. Plans for sale of natural gas to Indianapolis industries • were indorsed Monday night by action of the natural gas committee of the Indianapolis Federation of Community Clubs. A majority of the commttee having voted in favor of the proposal, recommendation will be made to the public service commission that the Manufacturers’ Natural Gas Association be granted permission to sell its product here for industrial purposes. Hearing before the public service commission on the Manufacturers’ association petition will begin at 9:30 Wednesday morning. Gives Reasons for Approval The natural gas committee of the civic clubs bases its recommendation on the following reasons; 1. The Manufacturers’ Natural Gas Association, Inc., can obtain a sufficient supply of gas and can place it with factory owners within 100 days. _2. To meet competition, it is necessary that the factory members obtain a sufficient supply of natural gas at the earliest possible moment. 3. Department* of public utilities for Indianapolis can not enter into contracts to procure and furnish natural gas to the industries in Indianapolis. 4. It is not known when the utility department will be able to take over and operate the Citizens j Gas Company. 5. If the utility department is ready and willing to supply nat- ! ural gas, no other company should i be permitted to do so. 6. New mains and property will i be turned over at cost, plus an ! interest charge and depreciation j allowance, to the utility depart- i ment, when it is ready to take over the property. 7. Private consumers will not be supplied with natural gas. The present mains could not be used. 8. About 15,000 operatives will be given employment if natural gas is available to factories of association members. Members of the civic committee voting in favor of the recommendation were William Bosson, chairman of the committee; Oscar F. Smith, president of the Indianapolis Federation of Community Civic Clubs, and G. G. Schmidt. Two Are Opposed John F. White and William T. Quillin voted against the recommendation. A sixth member of the committee, A. Leßoy Portteus, was out of the city. “There is no better plan to wreck the Citizens’ Gas Company,” White said. “A proposal like this can’t be anything but an injury.” There was considerable difference of opinion over instructions issued to the committee by the federation. White announced that he would protest against the action of the committee at the next meeting of the federation. Women Approve Purpose Resolution urging permission for the Manufacturers’ National Gas Company to supply natural gas to industries here was adopted by unanimous vote at a meeting of committees of the Indiana Women’s Auxiliary of the Thirty-eighth division Monday. They met at the home of Mrs. M. B. Spellman, 5355 Broadway, where they were addressed by Frank Lewis. department manager of Kingan & Company. Distribution of natural gas here would prevent additional factories from leaving the city, and would aid employment, the resolution contends.

COPS FACE BOARD IN SLUGGING CASE

knowledge that it was a police car: “Watch out where you're going.” He said he continued west on the street, following the cruising car and then passed it. Forced to Curb “Shortly after that, the police car forced me to the curb and one of the officers asked me what that wisecrack was I had made,” he told the safety beard. “Graham then told me there only was one headlight on my car and when I cot out to look he hit me. “He knocked me down and hit me two or three times more. I ran around the car and he hit me again and hit me while I was down.” Surber did not implicate Burk in the alleged slugging, but added that, in addition to his fist, Graham had used a blackjack. The police answer to the charges was that Surber, as he stepped from his car, told Graham he “was not going to let any with a badge tell me. I'll look myself.” Girl Tells Story Miss Katherine Powers, 447 Arnolda street, who w r as in the car with Surber, told practically the same story of the occurrence, but said Surber knew the auto was that of police and Surber told the officers he “wouldn't take anyone's word” th&- a light was out on his car. An eye witness of the affair, Charles Royster, 2522 West Washington street, testified;

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WORK HARD FOR cities; merging One-Third of Signatures Needed Are Gotten. By United Press HAMMOND, Aug. 11.—Nearly one-third of the number of signatures needed for a petition asking a referendum election on the question of consolidating Hammond, East Chicago and other nearby towns in the Calumet district into one city have been obtained, it was announced today. , . “I feel satisfied that we will have the necessary number of petitioners by the end of the week,” Frank J. O’Rourke, chairman of the citizens’ amalgamation committee, said. Law specifies that on a petition of 10 per cent of the qualified voters in each city seeking to merge, it shall be mandatory upon the common councils of the respective cities to set the date of the referendum election within sixty days of the filing of the petition. Proponents of the merger point out that the two cities alone would form the second largest city in Indiana. Opposition, is expected from present office holders and utilities. THEY REACHED FOR—? Yes, a Sweet, a Box Full of It, Cops Say, Pinching Two. Two much sweetness has brought a sad episode forward in the lives of Joe Hawkins, 31, of 132 Detroit street, and George Britt, 31, of 32 South Arsenal avenue. They were arrested on vagrancy charges by police Monday night after a case of honey was found in their auto. Police say the honey has been identified as that stolen from in front of a Standard grocery at Tenth and Rural streets, earlier in the day.

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“As Surber walked to the front of his car, Graham hit him three or' four times. Surber offered no resistance.” Mrs. Grace Royster told the board the “boy was surprised as he could be.” Did Not Resist, She Says “Surber did not resist,” she said. “Graham hit him several times and Surber fell, a crumpled mass on the sidewalk. Mrs. Walter Stout. 2508 West Washington street, who told of seeing the altercation, substantiated the testimony of Mr. and Mrs. Royster. Burk told the board that Graham administered the “backhand” blow when Surber “drew back his hand like he was g'oing to do battle.” Burk said he did not hear any conversation between Graham and Surber. Graham, testifying in his own behalf, admitted striking the youth three times. No Obscenity Charged He did not refer to any obscene language alleged to Lave been used by Surber, testifying his first blow “The other two times I hit him was in self-defense, was when he ran around the car and I thought he was trying to escape,” Graham testified. Robert Sheets, who witnessed the altercation,. said Surber cursed Graham and drew back his hand. He said it was then that Graham struck the motorilt. He said Graham used a blackjack.

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[ Following is the explanation of Ripley’s “Believe It or Not,” which appeared in Monday’s Times: The. Proud Duke—Charles Seymour, Duke of Somerset (16621748), who had a distinguished political career, was an extreme example of aristocratic arrogance and parental despotism. He disinherited his daughter for having dared to sit down in his presence. His domestics obeyed him by signs, and the country roads on which he traveled were scoured by outriders to protect him from what he termed the “vulgar” gaze. The “Proud Duke” never forgave the duchess, his wife, for having had the temerity to tap his shoulder lightly wih her fan. j. # ————— Wednesday: “How Many Moves Are There on Each Side in Chess?” KIND—BUT DRUNK So Hitch-Hiker Commandeers Youth’s Auto. . By United Press KOKOMO, Aug. 11. Razzie Funk, 19-year-old Connersville boy, was a good Samaritan whose kindness was overbalanced by liquor, acocrding to the story told local police by Jack Maunsos, Chicago hitch-hiker, who had accepted Funk’s proffer of a ride. After accepting the “lift” from Funk on the edge of Indianapolis, Maunsos commandeered the auto and drove to the Kokomo police station, where he surrendered his benefactor. Funk was charged with intoxication. - ASKS ZONE BARRIERS Morrissey Requests Safety Board to Take Steps to Protect Lives. As another step to prevent accidents in Indianapolis, Police Chief Mike Morrissey today requested the safety board erect barriers at every safety zone in the city. Morrissey said the Indianapolis Street Railway Company has offered the steel ties used as framework for the barriers and the police maintenance division could install the protecting devices. BANK MEETING CAILED Problem of German Credits to Be Studied at Basle Session. By United Press BASLE, Switzerland. Aug. 11. The financial committee of the bank of International Settlements decided today to summon a meeting Monday of representatives of foreign banks which have granted short-term credits to Germany, in an endeavor definitely to regulate the problem of such German credits.

RAVENSWOOD BEACH A ‘BOULEVARD’ NOW

So Say Plaintiffs in Suit to Keep Trustees From Fencing It In. That strip of autumnal-colored sand along Ravenswood’s section of White river is neither park nor beach. There's nothing about that strip of sand and soft drink bottles, dotted with weeds here and there, that even resembles a beach. No sir, it's a boulevard. That was the new one sprung today as the high point in this month's see-saw of town difficulties that have disturbed the river suburb and the courts of Marion county all summer. Contention that the section is a boulevard, was set out in a suit filed today in a superior court against

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DOOZE SUSPECT PROVIDES BOND Surrenders to Police; Called Beer Joint Operator. Sought since Friday as the alleged operator of a “big-time” beer joint at 1443 North Alabama street, next to the All Souls Unitarian church, J. H. Marshall, 47, today surrendered to police. He was accompanied by Wilbur Royse, attorney, and provided SSOO bond until trial. He-" indicated his name is not Marshall, but said “that’s the name on the warrant.” Police smashed their way into the innocent appearing flat Friday morning and confiscated 300 quarts of beer, three gallons of alcohol, two quarts of whisky and soft drinks and fruits used in highballs. Marshall said he had been at a northern Indiana lake on vacation and was on his final day of the trip when he heard that police had staged the raid. BOTTLE ‘SUSPICION’ IS THROWN OUT IN COURT Negro, Nabbed Carrying ‘Jug’, Given Freedom by Judge. A bottle in the hand is worth two in the bush. If you don’t believe it, ask Elmer Clark, Negro, 411 West North street, who walked out of Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffers court this morning, no longer burdened by a charge of liquor law violation. Clark, arrested by Patrolman Plez Oliver as the former dashed out of an alley near his home Monday afternoon ,was said to have been carrying a bottle in his hand. In court, Oliver admitted he didn’t know the contents of the bottle until he had arrested Clark and examined it. If the officer learned the ; bottle’s contents, he never had a j chance to say so in court. Clark’s attorney contended illegal | arrest and failure to have a search warrant, which brought the de- j fendant’s release. GIRL TRIO~RECAPTURED Escaped Minors Caught After Fleeing Plymouth (Ind.) School. By United Press DETROIT, Aug. 11—Three minor girls who escaped from the Brightside training school at Plymouth, Ind., Friday, were arrested here today and held for Indiana police. The trio told police they had hitchhiked here. The girls gave their names as Esther Kidd, 17; Nellie Carnes, 18, and Frances Czarna, 16.

the trustees and officials of Ravenswood and William Lowe, boathouse owner, by three business men of the resort. The ultimate purpose of the suit is to obtain an injunction preventing the trustees and other powers that be, from erecting a fence around the beach, park—or is it a. boulevard? To support the contention of the boulevardiers, the suit avers that since it is public the trustees have no right to prevent access to a right-of-way. And Lowe’s boathouse, that the fast-falling river stage has made a “dry-dock” on the boulevard-beach, Is in the middle of a public thoroughfare, the suit charges. The new Ravenswood complaint is filed by Roy Goodpasture, Frank Schnelz and William Arens, business men of the hostility-ridden river town.

‘ALFALFA BILL’ WINS RECRUITS IN OILBATTLE Kansas and Texas Threaten to Follow Oklahoma’s Closing Order, PRODUCTION INCREASES Price Still 48 Cents Short of $1 a Barrel Demanded by Murray. By United Press OKLAHOMA CITY. Aug. 11—Recruits from all over the southwestern oil lands flocked today under the banner of Governor William H. (Alfalfa Bill) Murray in his war to boost the price of crude oil. Although no other state actually had followed Murray’s example in closing down wells under martial law to stop production and send up prices, such action actually was threatened in Kansas and Texas, and in both those states and Wyoming many new supporters fell in behind the Murray drive. Governor Ross Sterling of Texas, who previously had wired Murray his congratulations, threatened to follow the fiery Oklahoman's example and call out troops to close the wells in his state, including those in the east Texas field which glutted the market and was largely responsible for bringing about the present situation. Kansas Voices Threat In Kansas, Thurman Hill, chairman of the public service commission, openly threatened to close all wells “unless the purchasers of crude oil this week extend to producers the same consideration they are granting to producers of Texas crude.” ShTit-down orders also were considered in Wyoming, but that, state faced an additional problem in that it has no control over government oil lands within its borders. The department of interior Monday denied the request of ActingGovernor A. M. Clark that a minimum price of $1 a barrel be set on government royalty crude oil from Wyoming fields. With this refusal, forced closing of Wyoming’s wells would result in the oil being drained by the government wells. In Oklahoma, Governor Murray gave no indication of allowing the flush fields to reopen and kept his soldiers in the fields. Stripper wells, which would be destroyed if shut in, were allowed to operate. Price Is 52 Cents Despite all this activity, prices stood at 52 cents, an advance of only 2 cents since Governor Murray issued his ultimatum that the price must go to $1 a barrel. Production throughout the country also increased, according to the Oil and Gas Journal. The daily average for the week ending August 8 was 2,551,807 barrels, an Increase of 61,384 barrels, the Journal said. Governor Sterling’s threat that troops might be called out met with favor and hundreds of telegrams from producers and civic organizations were on his desk urging him to act. Sterling's declaration that he might “resort to more drastic measures” came only two days before the Texas legislature is scheduled to end the special session called to enact an oil conservation law. Sterling says the legislature failed utterly to help. Confers With Guard Chiefs Sterling conferred Monday night with Adjutant-General W. W. Sterling and Lieutenant-Colonel H. H. Carmichael, head of the militia, about the situation. The officers told him the troops could be ready on a day’s notice. Thurman’s ultimatum to the sixteen largest refineries in Kansas charged that east Texas producers are dumping oil into Kansas markets and that a shutdown order would be issued if purchasers allowed this to continue. OLD VETERAN IS DEAD Chauncey Knowlton, 87, Was Last Civil War Soldier in Locality. By Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Aug. 10.— Chauncy B. Knowlton, 87, one of the few surviving veterans of the Civil war in north central Indiana, is dead. Surviving him are a daughter. Mrs. Sarah Johnson, and two sons. Ernest Knowlton of Indianapolis, and Mildred K. Knowlton of Hartford, Conn. Mr. Knowlton was a prisoner in the locality where he died. For several years he was the only Civil war survivor in his community and this fact imposed upon him a sense of loneliness upon which he frequently commented. OH, WHAT’S THE USE? Chicken Coop, Locked, With Thirty Residents, Taken by Thieves. By Timet Special PETERSBURG, Ind., Aug. 11.— Chicken thieves that operate here can’t be balked. Harry Gray, farmer, living one mile south of Petersburg, locked his chicken coop Sunday night, to be sure he would not be a victim of thieves. When he went to feed the chickens Monday morning he found the coop and its thirty residents had been loaded on a truck and stolen. Plans, Oil, Gas Wells By Times Special ZIONSVILLE. Ind., Aug. 11.—N. C. Day, of Texas, has arrived here and announces he will drill six or seven oil and gas wells in this locality. He claims to have reasons for believing that both of these products can be found in paying quantities In this territory.