Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 98, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 September 1931 — Page 8

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HIGH UP AND HELPLESS— Balanced precariously on a sixinch ledge 140 feet above the ground, James E. Kemp, 63, is shown here on a chimney where he clung with one hand to a short length of rope for two hours at Rochester, N. Y., after seeing a fellow steeplejack plunge to death when a scaffolding, upon which they were working, broke. He first pulled himself to the top of the chimney, but this was too hot for comfort.

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TRYING TO RESCUE HlM—Here you see firemen, coast guardsmen and bridge workers attempting to reach Kemp with extension ladders. They finally rescued him by shooting a line over the chimney with a life-saving gun. After a heavy rope had been drawn over the chimney top, a chair was sent up to him.

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SAFE AGAIN AT LAST—A closeup of the elderly steeplejack reclining in bed after cheating death. His only complaint was that his arm was tired. OIL order' is refused Commission's Verdict Is Turned Down by Gov. Sterling. KILGORE, Tex., Sept. 2.—East Texas oil operators today awaited impatiently an order of the Texas railroad commission reopening the vast field closed Aug. 17, under martial law. A conservation order from the commission, which conducted hearings to establish a reasonable production for the field, was drawn up Tuesday, but Governor Sterling today refused to accept the order. SCHOOL To_ REOPEN Freshmen to Register at Cathedral Friday Morning. Cathedral high school will reopen next Tuesday. Registration of freshmen is scheduled from 8:30 to 11 Friday morning. Those who have attended the high school before this year will receive their class cards Tuesday morning. Stray Pigeon Alights in Hotel A white pigeon with a blue celluloid band on a metal tag flew into an open window of the Plaza hotel Monday. The management of the -Plaza 1& keeping the pigeon until its owner appears. The only identification is the numeral 23 on the foot band.

CITY ABANDONS ALL NOPE OF BUDGET SLASH - Council, Vigorously Opposed to Pay Cuts, Backed Against Wall. BY LOWELL NUSSBAUM City councilmen today virtually I had abandoned hope of effecting any substantial reduction in the | 1932 city budget and levy. With the budget slashed more than $500,000 below this year’s budget before it was submitted to the ; council, members of the council are j experiencing difficulty in finding j items which can be sliced without impairing operation of city departments next year. As the net result of four budget committee meetings, the council has been able to decide on tentative reductions of only $11,230, the equivai lent of only 2 mills in the tax levy. Predictions that the 1932 city tax levy will remain at $1.03, as advertised, freely were made at the budget committee meeting Tuesday night. Battle Salary Cuts An almost overwhelming sentiment against salary cuts, as proI Posed by Board of Trade officials, ' was apparent at the meeting, which was attended by only four members. The committee will meet again tonight. At a previous session councilmen considered salary cuts on a sliding scale, with the larger cuts for the ; higher paid employes, which would have resulted in a budget cut of ! about $150,000, equal to 2Vi cents in the levy. City officials and Albert F. Walsman of the Indiana Taxpayers’ Association were to confer today with state tax board officials in regard to Walsman's charges of error in computing the levy, which, if corrected, he said, would permit a 5.45 cents levy cut without disturbing the budget. Prevented by Law Practically the only reduction effected Tuesday night was tentative decision to reduce salaries of nine police women to S6OO a year Five other police women assigned to juvenile court would receive $1,320 a year and four matrons would receive $1,500 a year. At present police women are receiving the same pay as second grade patrolmen, $2,026 a year, but the budget as submitted to the council carries a reduction next year to $1,320. Cutting wages of the nine would save $6,480 a year. Councilmen and safety board officials favor eliminating all but five of the fourteen police women, but are prevented by law from dismissing them arbitrarily. Letters presenting objections to dismissal or cutting pay of the five police women assigned to juvenile court have been sent to city officials by Juvenile Judge John F. Geckler. Seek to Cut Expenses James E. Deery, city attorney, was instructed by councilmen to prepare an ordinance requiring city departments to obtain approval of the city controller before .contracting any obligations above SIOO and below $2,000. At present there is no check on expenditures below $2,000, all above this figure requiring council approval. The ordinance was proposed as a means of holding down department expenditures. Views of a committee representing the Indianapolis Federation of Community Civic clubs were voiced at the meeting by John F. White. While opposing salary cuts for city employes, White urged that if the council should decide on salary cuts, that the cuts be made only in salaries above $2,200. These cuts would not include police and firemen.

NAVAL OFFICER’S BODY TO BE BROUGHT HOME Quartermaster Thomas Victim of Drowning Off Indian Head. Body of Chief Quartermaster Carroll H. Thomas, U. S. N., formerly of Indianapolis, who was drowned when he fell from a tug off Indian Head naval station, in Maryland Saturday, is expected to arrive here for burial Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Thomas, 2333 Langley avenue, parents of the naval officer, said they had no details of the mishap that cost their son’s life. Mrs. Gladys Thomas, the widow, is bringing the body here from the east. Quartermaster Thomas had been in naval service eighteen years, enlisting when he was 20. Survivors besides the widow and parents are: A brother, Gilbert, and three sisters, Miss Idabelle Thomas, Mrs. Helen Huff and Mrs. Ethel French, all of Indianapolis.

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BY BEN STERN WHETHER it was the watermelon, or just an excuse to get away from home one night, there was a real gathering of Republicans to attend the Irvington G. O. P. Club watermelon feast Monday night. Whatever the attraction, the best show in town was offered with a dual feature. The first was the Damon and Pythias act of Senators Jim Watson and Arthur Robinson, and the second was the old time spellbinding Republican speech made by the senior senator. Every trick of the political orators trade was utilized. Senator Jim complimented the ladies, waved the flag, made Republicanism sound like the “Old Time Religion.” gave the Democrats the devil, told stories, waved his arms and shot his cuffs; and if there had been any babies present he would have kissed them. 0 a a It has been years since there was such a gathering of mid-Indiana Republicans. Among those present were officeholders. would-be office-holders and past office-holders. Two former Governors, Jim Goodrich and Ed Jackson, were interested participants. A roll call of the guests would have sounded like a

HUSBAND SHOT TO SAVE INFANT SON

Wife Turns Rifle on Mate Who Attacks Family in Drunken Rage. After an all-night drunken quarrel, during which he beat his wife and four older children, a father came to grief early today, when his wife shot him with a rifle as he started to whip his 3-year-old baby son. An emergency squad under Sergeant Irvin Landers found Harold Haslet, 36, at his home at 1614 Ludlow avenue, with wounds from a .22-caliber rifle in both arms. Mrs. Haslet admitted the shooting. “Harold hasn't worked for a year,” she told Sergeant Landers. “We have lived off the county, except once in a while when the county gave him some odd job at which he could make a little money. “But somewhere he got money to drink. Last night he came home drunk and beat me and the children. When he went after little Tiler, I took the baby away from him and got the gun.” Haslet was treated at city hospital and then lodged in city prison on charges of vagrancy and assault and Dattery. Mrs. Haslet is charged with shooting with intent to kill.

Sting of Blasted Faith, Not Money, Harts Blind THE years Tom McGraw and his wife, blind news peddlers, have spent on the southwest corner of Ohio and Illinois streets selling daily papers have had their disappointments, yet as a rule human beings they meet have been kind. It Is from brotherly relations with humanity that the McGraws must draw much of the beauty nature has denied them the privilege of enjoying. Thus, they are more sensitive than most persons to an unkind deed. Tuesday Mrs. McGraw felt her way from near the traction terminal back to their stand. At her waist hung anew purse from which she made change. The purse had cost her 40 cents, and in it there was almost that much change. Her feeble hearing did not detect the rattle of the coins as the purse fell to the sidewalk, and her eyes did not tell her a woman scooped it up and hurried away. Eighty cents, subtracted from the earnings of Tom and his wife, will not mean starvation, but it will represent the lack of small luxuries they ordinarily are able to afford, until the deficit is made up. However, the pangs of loss are not for the money. A flint has chipped a corner from the McGraws’ faith in their fellows. And 80 cents nor SBO can smooth that defaced surface.

Pays City Visit

George Ritzel Wearing his crown as the nation’s oldest hitch-hiker, George Ritzel, 81, of Zanesville, 0., is in Indianapolis today to attend a local bricklayers’ union meeting Thursday night. He is the oldest charter member of the union. Ritzel’s visit is two-fold, as he is attempting to locate a niece, Mrs. Harry Angell, whom he has not seen for several years.

CITY WORKERS DONATE Give 1 Per Cent of Salaries to Aid of Needy. City employes today resumed paying a voluntary assessment of 1 per cent of their salaries to maintain the City Employes’ Relief Fund. This fund which operates a soup kitchen and is used for other poor relief was in operation all last winter. Payments will be made by city employes for the next four months. KROGER LEADER HERE On his tour of branches of the Kroger Grocery and Baking Company in all parts of the United States, A. H. Morrell, president of Kroger organization, visited the Indianapolis branch Tuesday. He will visit twenty-three other Kroger branches which maintain 5.000 stores throughout the country. A. W. Metzger heads the Indianapolis division.

Hoosier Republican Who’s Who. Only three of major importance were not there. These were Governor Harry G. Leslie, his advisor; Henry Marshall, and Fred Landis, Logansport editor. Coffiinites mingled with anti-Cof-finites! and in one comer of the room was Alf Hogston, state fire marshal, holding forth to one group, and in another stood John Shearer, county commissioner, slicing the watermelon. And monarch of all he surveyed was Bert Morgan, president of the club. 000 It was a real triumph for Bert, who a year ago was believed to be on the political skids as a result of Leslie’s repudiation of his campaign managers, Bert Morgan and Bert Fuller. The latter was also not present, because of illness. A point of interest was the manner in which Robinson came in accompanied by Watson. The junior senator was asked to introduce the latter and in his talk told how Watson bad been the dinner guest of the Robinsons and managed to co- - the impression that all was well between them. It was a good show. Watson's speech had no meat in it, but he did it well. At the end of the performance one Republican said to another: “That was a good speech.” ‘ Yes," was the rejoinder, “but what did he say?”

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The older children are: Harold Jr., 14; Emma, 12; Samuel, 10, and Alice, 6.

SCHOOLS IN MIXUP Confusion Reigns as Varied Orders Are Put Out. Confusion due to the early registration in public schools reached a new high Tuesday when six high schools issued three different statements as to when students will enroll. The statement of the principals of Technical, Manual Training, and Broad Ripple, says that students who attended high school last year should report at 8:15 Tuesday, Sept. 8. All freshman pupils will report at 1:30 Tuesday. Students, from out of town or other schools, new to any of these schools are requested to register Thursday and Friday, Sept. 3 and 4. Shortridge askk all students, new and old, to report Thursday, Sept. 3 at 8:15. At Washington and Crispus Attucks, all students may register on Thursday, Friday, or Tuesday, as they please. TEN NABBED IN GAME RAID ARE DISCHARGED Sh.caffer Frees Suspects Because Search Warrant Is Lacking. Ten of eleven men arrested Tuesday afternoon by Sergeant Edwin Kruse in the poolroom of James Delaney, 140 East Wabqjsh street, during alleged placing of horse race bets, were discharged today by Judge William H. Sheaffer. The eleventh man, R. M. Johnson, 40, of 4020 Central avenue, who failed to appear, will be rearrested on a charge of visiting a gaming house. Following tridl of the case this morning, Johnson’s name was carried as dismissed, but Sheaffer said this was an error. The dismissals were gained on motions of John Royse, defense counsel, that police possessed no search warrants for the place, and had not seen money won or lost. Kruse told Sheaffer he heard the bets “being made on the margin,” but did not see money exchange hands. FAIR FLOOD LIGHTS 0. K. Best Illuminated Field in U. S., Experts Declare. “It’s the best lighted field in the county.” That’s the unanimous opinion of experts who recently tested the new flood lighting system at the fair grounds. Nineteen lights of 1,000 watts each flood the field in front of the grand stand. Last year, eighty-three lights of 1,500 watts were placed around the mile track. Experts declare that the new system gives the equivalent of four candle-power per square foot in front of the grand stand. Woman Bound to Jury Mrs. Silester Ruthland, R. R. 18, Box 365, was bound to the Marion county grand Jury today on a charge of shooting with intent to kill. She shot her husband with a shotgun July 12.

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LOVE BROKER’S WIFE GRILLED ON MURDERS Says She’s ‘Through’ With Mate; Denounces Him as ‘Fiendish Wretch.’ (Continued From Page 1) persons in foreign countries whom Powers probably met when he was overseas during the war and of several of his women correspondents are included. A nation-wide check of Powers’ activities, conducted, police believe, under various aliases, was continued as police sought what may prove a key to the entire case—his diary. Police are confident Powers kept a diary, but so far all efforts to locate it have failed. The fact that he has records dating back to 1924 : and seemed to enjoy writing leads ■ them to believe he kept a daily account of his activities. Search for Diary Search for more bodies of possible victims has been abandoned temporarily, as deputies reported that bodies found on what was believed a second burial place were those of sheep. The plot of ground near Reynoldsville, was searched closely and no evidences of fresh digging was found. The original owner reported : seeing a man who he said closely resembled Powers about the place ( frequently at night. Failure of a “detector” to indicate J presence of any other bodies in the ; plot on which is located the garage and burned cottage near which five bodies were recovered caused the search to be abandoned there. The “detetor,” invented by a physician here, reacteed strongly when held over the spot where Mrs. Asta Buick Eicher, her three children and Mrs. Dorothy A. Pressler Lemke were buried. It showed reaction at other places on the property, police said. Search in Three States Farm land once held by Powers in three states—South Dakota, Illinois and Ohio—may be checked for evidence of more love murders, it was learned today. Letters so far uncovered have revealed him as wooing by mail from Miller, S. D., in 1924; Vandalia, 111., in 1925, and Mansfield and Crestline, 0., a year later. All these letters were from women lured by matrimonial agency advertising, as were the two he confessed he killed in his garage at Quiet Dell, near here, and buried with the three children of one victim. They were revealed as investigation of the Detroit agency through which he lured his confessed victims began. In the Dakotas Powers was known as Joseph Gildow. In Mansfield he was known as Powers. Wife Believed Doomed It was there he wooed by mail his present wife, the letters of the two abounding in honeyed phrases, and leading toward the sex discussions that were to follow. Louella Strothers, his wife, and her sister Eva eventually were to meet the fate of Mrs. Asta Buick Eicher and Mrs. Dorothy Lemke, officials believed. Powers had told friends he intended to buy anew automobile and take the couple for “a good long ride.” Also it was learned he had inquired about life insurance for both. Mrs. Powers admitted she had been wooed by mail after a letter was found addressed to him from her. It was addressed to him at Crestline, O. In it she described herself: “I have fine character, light brown hair and hazel eyes. Fair complexion, wear glasses, 5 feet 6 inches tall, weigh 160 pounds. I will be 40 years old the sth of next month.” Another Dupe Found By United Press CHICAGO, Sept. 2.—Harry F. Powers, parading his wiles then as Joe Gildow, persuaded a Hammond (Ind.) woman to give, him $5,400 after proposing to marry her and as a result spent the summer of 1925 in jail in Chicago Heights, police of that suburb disclosed today. Miss Lena Fellows was the victim. Powers induced her to withdraw $1,600 from a savings account and buy anew automobile for an elopement. Then he disappeared in the machine with the money, SI,BOO in building and loan stock, and two diamond rings. Chicago Heights police located him at Mansfield, 0., and returned him for trial.

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Bishop Manning Assails New Canon on Divorce

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NEW YORK, Sept. 2.—The proposed new canon which would permit Protestant Episcopal ministers to unite divorced persons in marriage is denounced as “amazing” and “shocking” by Bishop William T. Manning of New York in his first public expression on the subject. "The proposed new canon on marriage and divorce is a sign of the times,” the prelate said in letters to the Living Churchman and the Southern Churchman. ‘This canon proposes a complete departure from the Christian, scriptural and prayer book ideal of marriage. “If the general conference were to adopt this canon the Protestant Episcopal church would be confronted with the gravest crisis in its history.”

PARTY ENDS IN FATALJTABBING Four Arrested in Probe of City Killing. Stabbed in the abdomen by an unknown assailant, Thomas Connor, 23, address unknown, died early today at city hospital. Police arrested three men and a woman for questioning about a twoday drinking brawl that led to the killing. The fight occurred in an alley near Abbott and West streets, and Connor, before his death, said he was stabbed by a man whose name he did not know, but who had been drinking with him. Police, several hours after the fight, arrested Goldie Spencer, 26, of 606 Spring street; Earl Youngman, 31, of 5341 West Washington street; Mike Piercy, 33, of 520 West Merrill street, and Ed Justice, 48, of 511 West Abbott street, as material witnesses and held them under high bond. The drinking party had been in Justice’s house, detectives said, and several trips had been made by participants to a house on Blackford street, where liquor was obtained. Connor gave his address as 317 East South street, but police and detectives said persons who live there denied that Connor was a resident. Bar Tribute Paid McGuire Tribute was paid the late Newton Jasper McGuire, Indianapolis attorney who died Sunday, in memorial services held in superior court two today by the Indianapolis Bar Association. Schuyler A. Haas was chairman of the memorial meeting. ,

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Weather condtions at 9 a. m.: North-northwest wind, 11 miles an hour; temperature, 64; barometric pressure, 29.76, at sea level; ceiling, overcast; light rain and fog, estimated 300 feet; visibility, onehalf mile; field wet. Weather Halts Airmen Aerial traffic through Indianapolis, and over the entire midwest virtually was suspended today because of “soupy” weather. With the ceiling almost on the ground and rain falling, the air races at Cleveland were called off for the day, while double events were planned for Thursday. Embry-Riddle air mail due through at 2 this morning finally nosed through the fog after daylight, while the westbound T. W. A. night air mail, due in at 3:30 a. m., arrived about 10 and pushed on through the soup to St. Louis. Passenger flights were canceled. Floodlight Is Moved The huge BBT floodlight at municipal airport was perched today atop the control tower of the administration building after workmen labored all day Tuesday carting it from its former base in a shack south of the building. Arrivals and Departures Municipal Airport—Central Aeronautical Corporation: Harold Caroon, Eaglerock, Shelbyville to In- 1 dianapolis; Bill Love, Ford tri-mo- ; tor, St. Louis to Cleveland. Girl Flier in Siberia By United Press KRASNOJARK, Siberia, Sept. 2. —Amy Johnson, British girl flier, arrived here at 8:10 a. m., today on a return flight to England from Japan. She continued her journey after twenty minutes for rest and refueling her plane.

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FRANCE DODGING DEBT TO U, S„ INSISTS WATSOt But He Can’t Recall Nam of Diplomat Who Gave Him Information. Senator James E. Watson. R publican majority leader, declan today he could not recall the nan of the member of the French del gation who had told him "Fran did not intend to pay” for tl $2,000,000,000 of war materials so to her for $400,000,000. “We had luncheon together thr or four times, but I do not remer. ber his name,” Watson said today. “He was a member of the cor mission which came to the Uniti States soon after the close of tl war to negotiate the manner ai method of paying for the war su plies, which we had in France the time of the armistice, and whi we had sold them.” “France does not intend to p; any of her debts to the Unit States and will defer payments un all hopes of cancellation have be< exhausted,” declared Watson in j elaboration of his Monday nig statement opposing cancellation. “The American people no long are sympathetic with France b cause of this attitude. France in the best position of any Europe: nation to pay her debis,” the sc ator pointed out. “Her people now are more pre perous individually than any oth in Europe, and. next to the Unit States, she has the greatest stc of gold.” “We played the part of Go Samaritan and poured the savin of the American people into Frar to rehabilitate her physically a financially and gave that nati plenty of time in which to pay the debts. “At the treaty of Versailles, whi wa did not ratify, the burden the war was saddled on Germai for France professed to fear an German nation. “If France does not pay her del to us, our own people who pi chased the bonds will have to br the loss and I never shall vote f cancellation,” he declared.

Crisis m Railway Revenue This statement marks, the beginning of the twelfth consecutive year in which there has appeared each month in the advertising columns of the newspapers a message from the president of the Illinois Central System presenting some railway subject of current interest. The series began September 1, 1920; this is message No. 133. Much railway history has been made in the last eleven years. When these informative discussions were undertaken, the railroads were just being released from war-time government control, and there was a serious shortage of transportation. Under the stimulus of the newly formed Transportation Act and its support by the public, however, that emergency was safely passed. Now the railroads face another crisis. Revenue losses imperil their credit. There must be quick relief, and this is being sought through an emergency advance in freight rates. Again the railroads ask public support—this time on a record of having provided the best service ever known. Constructive criticism and suggestions are invited.

.... . ■President, Illinois Central System Chicago, September 1, 1931. • We consider it a duty and • privilege to inform the public on railway matters. • ILLINOIS CENTRAL SYSTEM ■ OEHNPABU FOR 10 YEARS