Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 94, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 August 1931 — Page 8

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TAPS SOUNDED AT HOME FOB AGED VETERANS David Stephens, 81, Dies at Danville, III.; Davis Rites Are Set. Taps sounded Thursday for another of Marion county’s Civil war veterans, and several residents of the city who had passed the midcentury mark died here. Body of David Stephens, 81, was to be returned from the United States soldiers home at Danville, 111-, foi funeral and burial here. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. Mr. Stephens died in the home, where he went two weeks ago. Survivors are the three daughters and a son. Davis Rites Saturday Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p. m. Saturday at the home of Edgar Lee Davis, 58, of 2263 North Delaware street, resident of the city tlrirty years, who died Thursday. A graduate of De Pauw university, Mr. Davis was American Red Cross field director in eastern Kentucky many years. The widow, two sons, four brothers, two sisters, and two grandchildren survive him. Funeral services will be held at 2 Saturday afternoon for Eugene E. Bruce, 62, an Indianapolis policeman twenty-one years, who died at his home, 2850 East Washington street, Thursday morning. Burial at New Palestine Last rites will be held at 2 Satur- ! day afternoon in New Palestine for Marion Downing, 69, Cumberland ! furniture dealer, who died Thurs- j day at the home of a niece, Mrs ! Frank Meri, 312 North Temple avenue. Funeral for James A. Brown, 76, I who died at his home at 610 Con- j gress avenue, from acute indigestion Thursday, will be held at 2 Saturday afternoon. Stricken with heart disease, Nerious M. Rubottom, 80, retired stationary engineer, died Thursday at his home at 1902 Central avenue. : Funeral will be held at 2:30 Monday afternoon. The widow, Mrs. j Delilah Rubottom is his only surv or. EXHIBITORS DISCUSS AID Show Directors Study Methods to Aid Unemployment. For discussion of methods by j which the show may aid the unemployment situation, a special joint meeting of the board of directors and exhibitors of the annual AllIndiana Industrial Exposition will be held tonight in the Roosevelt building offices of the board. Exposition directors already have pledged aid by voting to give onehalf of the gate receipts to the general unemployment fund, the money to be distributed as relief officials see fit. The industrial show board is composed of Marshall T. Levey, chairman; W. F. Kruger, E. S. Harter and W. E. Williams. Earth Shocks Recorded Bit United Press DUBLIN, Aug. 28.—The seismo- j graph at Rathfarnham Castle re- j corded two very severe earth shocks j late Thursday. The epicenter was estimated to be 4,120 miles distant, either near Florida or northern India.

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The last portrait of Hisashi Fujimura, wealthy Japanese importer, was this sketch made on the night he mysteriously vanished from the liner Belgenland before the ship docked in New York. The drawing is the W'ork of a staff artist aboard the liner and was found in Fujimura’s cabin. Federal authorities are investigating the importer’s disappearance during a Halifax cruise. Taxes to Be Topic Bit. Times Bpcr.inl ANDERSON, Ind., Aug. 28. Speakers are being sought for a mass meeting of taxpayers which will be held here under the auspices of the newly organized Madison County Taxpayers' Association.

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LULL IN CITY’S CRIME WORRIES WAITIN6POLICE ‘Just Calm Before Storm,’ Old-Timers Say of Quiet. Apprehensions, bugaboos, hunches and “bad signs’’ held sway today at police headquarters. Day and night for the last week, police officers and detectives have watched the city’s crime decrease, until today an ominous stillness | prevails. Feet are on desks and an electric i current of expectancy makes the ' already oppressive atmosphere of the ! police station doubly oppressive. Old-timers is the police business admit they are worried. Take Captain Ed Helm, who for twenty-five years, has seen the ups and downs of crime and its puri suit. “Boys, there’s always a lull before the storm,” he says. “This peace and quiet means no good for anybody.” Fred Simon, detective chief, has had some business this week with alleged bandits captured and a murder suspect held for several hours. “But that’s not enough,” he mourned. “It’s too quiet to last. There’s something wrong some place. This is a bad time for all this quiet.” However, Police Chief Mike Morrissey has the idea that the depression has something to do with the depression in crime. “I think the crooks are ashamed

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'to take anybody's money nowadays,” he said. For th efirst time in months and months, police officers didn't receive a bulletin of crimes to stuff in their caps at roll call. “Nope, my paper didn’t go to press Thursday afternoon,” Sergeant Jack O’Neill, head of the “bulletin department,” said. “There wasn’t anything to put in it, so I just suspended publication for a while.” The officers, though, are not happy over the lack of .work. ‘Lulls like this are bad,” they

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say. “It’s always the same. It’s the quiet before the storm.” actlon crossingTperil Plainfield Residents Petition Board for Safety Device. Nineteen persons have been killed at the T. H. t I. & E. crossing on the National road, one mile west of Plainfield, a petition filed with the public service commission today sets out. The petition, signed by eleven residents of the vicinity, asks that the company be required to install an electric safety device.

CARRIER PIGEON USED FOR RANSOM DEMAND Plane to Trace Bird Carrying 525.000 Extortion Note. NEW YORK, Aug. 28.—A police plane was ready today to ride the airways in pursuit of a carrier pigeon believed to have been used by an ingenious band of kidnapers in an attempt to extort $25,000 for the return of the 16-year-old son of a prominent attorney, who told them to “go to hell.” An unknown man called Edgar

P. Hazleton, former municipal court justice, and informed him the ransom had been raised from ?2,500 because of the attorney's determination to take the case before tv >e Queens county grand jury. The ransom demands have been

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accompanied by carrier pigeons equipped to carry currency attached to their legs. Hazleton tied a note to three of the birds, asking that a message be written by his son to establish his identity. The supposed kidnapers refused.

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