Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 84, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 August 1931 — Page 3

AUG. 17, 1931

MICHIGAN WARS ON WHITE MULE IN GRIME DRIVE ‘Raid Without Warrants’ Is Edict to State Police and Deputies. By United Press LANSING, Mich., Aug. 17.—officers of Michigan waged a relentless war today on “white mule’’ liquor, the agency blamed as the indirect cause of last week’s torch murders near Ypsilanti. The demand of Governor William M. Brucker that rural traffic in moonshine liquor be stamped out, was meeting with a ready response from state troopers and deputy sheriffs. Oscar G. Olander, state commissioner of public safety, mobilized the uniform and plainclothes members of the state police, and ordered them to close up every farmhouse in the state where “white mule” was sold. To Raid Without Warrants Officers were told to act without search warrants, because evidence m small communities is too hard to get. “We can’t make arrests or get convictions in such cases,” Olander said, “but we can raid the places and destroy the liquor until the bootleggers find it unprofitable to continue operations.” The four murders near Ypsilanti where two boys and their girl % companions were murdered and' then burned, were preceded by two other killings in which “while lightning” played a part, Olander said. A man was murdered near Iron Mountain by three youths who didn’t have enough money to pay him for liquor. Another was murdered near Manistee, he said, under similar conditions. Slayers “Hooch-Crazed” "This ‘white mule’ sears their brain and makes killers of them,” Olander said. “Many of the patrons of these farmhouse speakeasies are mere youths, virtually slaves to the ‘hooch’ habit. There is no doubt this terrible liquor played a part in the torch mutters, and it may do so again unless the menace is stamped out.” Numerous raids already have been made in Washtenaw’ county, where the quadruple murders occurred, but the cleanup will not be restricted to that area, Olander said. Sheriffs of every county will b e asked to aid. At Ypsilanti Sunday, ministers, called for a cleanup, most of them devoting their sermons to a review of the murders. Girl s ßeady to Talk By United Press • ANN ARBOR, Mich., Aug. 17. Catherine Keller, sweetheart of Fred Smith, one of the three Ypsilanti torch murderers, was reported ready to “talk” today. She has been held in the county jail since Friday, refusing to explain her connections with Smith, and denying all knowledge of the killings. Albert J. Rapp, county prosecutor, was expected to see her today, but possibly not until after a trip to Jackson prison, for another interview with Smith, Frank Oliver and Nathan Blackstone. The three murderers, sentenced to life imprisonment, already are thought to have given Rapp valuable evidence to clear up a number of Washtenaw crimy. Whether they have Implicated Miss Keller is not known. Otis Oden, Negro, and Gerald Forw r alker, friends of the killers, also are still held. CONVICT LOOTS HOUSE Prison Garb Is Found Discarded; Purse, Jewelry Are Stolen. When Raymond Bolander, 3818 Hillside avenue, returned to his home Sunday night and found it ransaked, he investigated. In a vacant house next door, he found a convict’s garb that had been shed in haste and his wife’s purse. In addition to the purse, the burglar stole jewelry valued at S3O and several keepsakes, police were told. PROLONG BERLIN LOANS International Bankers Agree to Stretch Short-Term Credits. 'By United Press BASLE, Aug. 17.—The bankers’ committee of the Bank of International Settlements agreed today to prolong for six months 5,000.000.000 marks ($117,500,000) in short-term credits to Germany. This agreement was made known, although the German insistence upon inclusion of foreign holdings of marks in German banks had not been accepted as yet, it was said. ENGINEERS HONOR DAVIS Retiring Railway Man Is Paid Tribute by Fellow Workers, Forty engineers of the Indianapolis Union Railway, fellow workers with John R. Davis, 1818 Jones street, held a party at the Davis home Saturday night in honor of his retirement. After forty-one years of service, Davis was retired from the Indianapolis Union Railway July 1. He is 65 and plans to live quietly at his home.

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LINER FARES SLICED t Cheapest Ocean Travel in History in Effect. By United Press PARIS, Aug. 17—The cheapest liner travel to Europe in history became operative today. A loss of 2,000 first-class passengers a week, the suspension of immigration to the United States and Canada, and the drop in freight on smaller ships of the big lines led the eighteen principal North Atlantic Steamship companies to confer in Paris. They decided on cuts at both ends of the travel scale. The meeting decided that as from Aug. 17 cost of first-class transportation be reduced from 10 to 30 per cent. Cheaper class of travel, presumably including tour-ist-third, will be subject to reductions varying around 15 per cent. The steamship companies hope that the new cheap rate will increase their profits by encouraging anew boom in American travel to Europe. This year ships have been plying half-empty, even at normally busy periods, while other passenger vessels have been idle for months. BOY’S INJURIES FATAL Lad, Struck by Propeller, Is Dead; Suffered Skull Fracture. Skul fracture he suffered Tuesday when struck by a flying piece of a broken airplane propeller was fatal early today to William Hall, 12, Negro, 1409 North DeQuincy street. The boy died in city hospital. He was injured while watching Leonard Neuerberg, 4425 East Tenth street, tune up an airplane motor at Lindwood and Tenth streets. Without wings, the ship was balanced by sandbags on the tail. The bags slipped and the plane nosed over, breaking the propeller. Wishes to Be Carried Out By United Press PORT CLINTON, 0., Aug. 17. Harry Smith, 52, of Columbus, 0., drove past Lake View cemetery here. He remarked to his wife he wanted to be buried there. He was stricken with a heart attack a few hours later. He will be buried Tuesday in the cemetery he selected.

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Tabernacle Retains Fourth Place in Presbyterian Enrollment in U. S. For the second consecutive year, the Tabernacle Presbyterian church, Central avenue and Thirty-fourth street, officially is the fourth largest Presbyterian church in the United States. Since the Rev. J. Ambrose Dunkel became pastor in 1918, membership has risen from about 750 to 3,210. More than 2,000 are enrolled in Sunday school classes. The numbers in the congregation is increasing by approximately 200 members each year. Mr. Dunkel attributes the great increase in members to the work and co-operation of his congregation. “People are more responsive now than ever before to the' need for spiritual guidance,” he said. Originally established in Indianapolis in 1851 as the First Presbyterian church, the church in 1883 became the Tabernacle Presbyterian church with quarters at Meridian and Eleventh streets. In 1919, the congregation moved to its present location. There are three units—the chapel, auditorium, and a unit for work in religious education—at the present site. The first building was dedicated in January, 1923; the other two in 1925. Indiana is seventh in ranking order of Presbyterian synods. The state membership is 68,665. The Presbyterian church in the United States in its annual statistical review made public today by Dr. Lewis Seymour Mudge of Philadelphia, stated clerk of the general assembly, shows a gain of and the total membership stands at 1,999,131. For the first time since 1928 the number of ministers passed 10,000, there being now 10,014, an increase of twenty-seven over the preceding year. Most encouraging also, reports Dr. Mudge, is the condition of the Sunday schools of the denomination, which show a net increase of 24.466, the enrolled membership totaling 1,620,496.

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AIR CIRCUS TD HELP DEDICATE MUNICIPAL PORT Daring Stunts and Races on Program Here Sept. 25-27. The largest and w’hat promises to be the most daring air circus ever staged in the skies above Indianapolis will dedicate municipal airport Sept. 25-27, Charles E. Cox Jr., superintendent, said today, releasing the entire program. Races for all types of ships, acrobatics, parachute contests, and military formation, attack and defense flying will be on the three day’s festival schedule, Cox said. Regular army and navy pursuit flights, and the One hundred thirteenth observation squadron, Indiana national guard, will make up the military section of the circus, while virtually all commercial crafts in the city and many out-of-town planes will participate in the events, for which more than $2,100 in prizes will be given. The program will open Friday afternoon with dead stick landing contests, parachute spot landings, a race for planes powered with fifty or less horsepower motors, a climb contest, twenty mile dash for planes pow’ered up to 225-horse pow r er, ten parachute jumpers, and a free-for-all acrobatics contest. The army planes will arrive in the city early Saturday, and in the afternoon, following unveiling of the American Legion tablet, will fly in formations and the pursuiters will attack an observation flight, probably from the national guard squadron. The army planes will leave late Saturday after review. Sunday afternoon’s program again will be dedicated to dead stick, parachute spot, autgyro spot contests, a twenty-five mile race by national guard pilots in service ships, a free-for-all twenty-five mile race, and a repetition of the parachute jumping contests. GANGSTERS OVERPOWER GUARD, ESCAPE JAIL Trio of Crooks Makes Escape From Cells at Chicago. By United Press CHICAGO, Aug. 17. Robert Kearney, said by police to be a member of Detroit’s notorious Purple gang, and two other desperadoes were at large today after overpowering a jail guard and escaping with his keys Sunday night. Kearney and Michael Romana, another of the trio, have confessed forty-six robberies to Chicago police. The third prisoner was held for burglary. Fifteen other prisoners in the jail were not freed. A ruse of Kearney’s, his request for a drink of w’ater, enabled him to take the jailer off guard, seize his pistol and force him into the cell. Kearney then unlocked the cell doors of Romano and William Dardowiski. Gasoline at 6.9 Cents By United Press SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Aug. 17. Gasoline sold as low as 6.& cents a gallon here today as a result of competition price slashing. Higher grades were not affected by the latest cut.

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100 MOTHERS AND CHILDREN AT REST CAMP Salvation Army Farm Is Opened to Tenth Group During Summer. One hundred mothers and their children today began to enjoy their summer vacation at the Salvation Army camp located near Sunnyside sanatorium. It is the tenth group to receive the ! benefits of a complete rest and a | proper diet. Plenty of fresh vege--1 tables, eggs and milk from the Salj vation Army farm, which is near the camp, cause many to gain six to eight pounds in weight during the week. “Most of the children in camp are ; undernourished,” said Major James : Murphy, divisional commander for | Indiana. “You should see them eat.” Although the average cost per meal is only 19 or 20 cents, there is no stinting, he said. Anew feature of the camp is a nursery for the little children where mothers can leave their babies during meal hours or while they take a nap. The army has spent $2,400 more this year than it did during the same period in 1930. Mrs. Murphy, who is in charge of the camp, and Major Murphy hope to visit and vacation at a similar camp in Wisconsin during the latter part of the month. HAWKS’ FINE WAIVED Speed King Is Assured of Escaping Penalty. By United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 17.—Captain Frank Hawks, speed king of the air, announced today he had been assured that a SSOO fine assessed against him for failure to report at Swanton, Vt., while flying from Montreal to Burlington, Vt., would be waived. Hawks and Miss Maude Irving Tate of Springfield, Mass., flying separate planes, were assessed SSOO each for failure to report at the United States customs port of entry. The fliers went to Burlington to attend an American Legion air meet. Hawks said neither he nor Miss Tate had any intention of breaking the regulations. He said Legion representatives had informed them it would not be necessary to report at Swanton, It is understood the customs commissioner has authorized the fine suspended if it was a misunderstanding by the fliers. ONECENT A DAY PAYS UP TO SIOO A MONTH The Postal Life & Casualty Insurance Cos., 9450 Dierks Building, Kansas City, Mo., is offering anew accident policy that pays up to SIOO a month for 24 months for disability and $1,000.00 for deaths—costs less than lc a day—s3.so a year. Over 68,000 already have this protection. Men, women and children, ages 10 to 70, eligible. Send no money. Simply send name, address, age, beneficiary’s name and relationship and they will send this policy on 10 days’ FREE inspection. No examination is required: This offer is limited, so write them today.

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