Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 110, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 September 1931 — Page 3

SEPT. 16,1931.

‘BEER HOSTESS' BEGINS 180-DAY TERM IN PRISON Ritzy North Side ‘Tearoom' Closed When Suspended Sentence Is Revoked. Revelry Is just a memory today at the Oriental Nook, de luxe liquor resort at 2216 North Meridian street, as its operator, Mrs. Pearl Ledgerwood, started serving a 180day sentence at the woman’s prison. Mrs. Ledgerwood, arrested Tuesday afternoon on blind tiger and nuisance charges, was the victim of the speediest justice administered in municipal courts since their creation several years ago. Less than half an hour after her arrest, Judge William H. Sheaffer revoked a suspended sentence and SIOO fine levied against her at the time of her first arrest on blind tiger counts three weeks ago. Neighbors Had Objected Although police failed to find booze in the raid Tuesday, they claimed overwhelming evidence of the nuisance charge. They said neighbors had objected to the hilarity of good fellowship that resounded from the tearoom during early morning hours. Sergeant Edward Kruse led his squad into the swanky tearoom and booze joint Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Ledgerwood greeted “the boys” with a smile and the assurance they would find no liquor on the premises. The officers failed to find booze, but arrested the fashionably dressed woman. Remanded to jail in lieu of SI,OOO bond, Sheaffer ordered Mrs. Ledgerwood before him a few minutes later and revoked the suspended judgment. Asked “for Continuance Mrs. Ledgerwood ' first was arrested Aug. 20 and, appearing in court Sept. 4, asked for a continuance of her case. As the Sept. 14 court session closed, Mrs. Ledgerwood returned to the court and pleaded guilty to possessing 172 quarts of beer. Sheaffer suspended the judgment after Mrs. Ledgerwood had pleaded ill health, poor financial circumstances and had thrown herself on the “mercy of the court.” At that time, Sheaffer said since Mrs. Ledgerwood was a first offender, he had a “perfect legal right” to suspend the sentence and fine.

ONE OF TWELVE IN CROWDED AUTO DIES Tragedy Overtakes Boys and Girls on Trip to Wicne| Roast. By United Press CAMBRIDGE CITY, Ind., Sept. 16.—Eleven of the twelve boys and girls bound for a wiener roast near Cambridge City Tuesday night in a five-passenger automobile, escaped serious injury when the machine crashed into a telephone pole and was demolished, but Myron Albertson, 15, Milton, died soon after .e crash. Crowded conditions in the small automobile were believed responsible for Wilbur Shafer, the driver, losing control at a curve. Albertson was recently elected president of the sophomore class at Milton high school. CONSPIRACY TRIAL SET Two Indianapolis Men Will Face Court at Anderson Sept. 25. By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Sept. 16.—Returning to the Madison circuit court bench following a vacation, Judge Carl F. Morrow set a score of criminal cases for trial. Carl Kreis and Gilbert Harries, executives of the Krebay Construction Company, of Indianapolis, will go to trial Sept. 25th on a charge of conspiring to commit a felony. They are accused of having misrepresented facts to Harry Muller, causing him to invest $25,000 in a theater enterprise. Harry Goldberg, Detroit, who organized the project and left Anderson before Muller discovered the alleged fraud, is serving a sentence in the Indiana reformatory. FAMED BANKER IS DEAD Leopold Zimmerman, 78, is Victim of Heart Disca.se. Bp United Press NEW YORK. Sept. 16—Funeral arrangements were being completed today for the burial of Leopold Zimmerman, internationally known banker, who died Tuesday of heart disease. He was 78. Zimmerman was founder of Zimmerman & Forshay, international banking organization. The company suffered heavy losses when the German mark fell in 1923, but Zimmerman reorganized it a year later and paid back all creditors. STREET CARS DOOMED None Oppose Abandonment of Service at Muncie. By Times Special MUNCIE. Ind., Sept. 16.—Not a dissenting voice was raised against the petition of the Indiana railroad to discontinue its street car service here. Hearing of the petition was filed before Frank Singleton of the Indiana public service commission. Muncie city officials were interested only m the repair of the streets on which car lines are now located. The petition likely will be given comnjssion approval, it is understood. Extortionist Sentenced By Times Special TERRE HAUTE. Ind., Sept. 16. ■ Sentence of one to five years in the Indiana state prison was imposed upon David H. McCracken, 34, when he pleaded guilty in Vigo circuit cou*, to an attempt to extort $42,000 from Benjamin Blumberg, local financier. Man and Wife Poisoned Bp Tinas Special ROCHESTER, Ind., Sept. 16. Mr. and Mrs. James Abbott of Plymouth are in a serious condition at a hospital here as a result of . eating fish rolled in a poisonous powder. In cooking the fish, Mrs. Abbott through error used the poison instead of flour. Both were in similar sacks.

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OPEN HOUSE AT SEARSJOEBUCK 46th Anniversary to Be Observed Tonight. Forty-sixth anniversary of Sears, Roebuck & Cos. will be celebrated here by open house at the store at Massachusetts avenue and Alabama street, from 7:30 to 10 tonight. Special features in various departments of the store will augment a musical program and other entertainment arranged for visitors. Outstanding events will be a style show, featuring fall and winter fashions, a cooking school in the house furnishing section, and other displays. A modern living room, dining room, bed room, and kitchen will be the chief attraction in the furniture section. New things for children will be exhibited in the infants’ and children’s section, and airbther display is arranged in the men’s section. Nothing will be sold during the open house, while employes play host to their guests. The company has provided parking space for visitors’ autos. TRUCK DRIVER ROBBED Suspects Indianapolis Man Who Helped Load Sweet Potatoes. By Times Special KOKOMO Ind., Sept. 16.—Ed Van Helsland, a truck driver of Niles, Mich., notified the local police that he was held up Monday just riorth of Westfield on United States road 31 by a man who took about $25. Helsland, who had taken a truck of peaches to Indianapolis, said he hired a man to assist him in loading the truck with sweet potatoes, for the return trip. When Helsland reached a hill just north of Westfield he heard a noise at the back of the truck and got out to investigate. A masked man, who he identified positively as the man who had helped him load the truck in Indianapolis, held a gun to his face and demanded money. $1,000,000 BILL FACED Two Lake County Townships Will Have Poor Relief Deficit. Bij United Press CROWN POINT. Ind., Sept. 16. A deficit of nearly $1,100,000 will be faced for poor relief in North and Calumet townships at the end of the year, it is revealed in a report by William Whitaker, Lake county auditor. Whitaked said the deficit would be the largest in the history of poor relief in ' the Calumet district. Poor relief tax levies for next year are the highest ever established in the two townships, Whitaker pointed out. The North township levy will t 24 cents and the | Calumete township levy will be 28 ■ cents. NAB GIRLS AS ‘HOBOS’ - Ohio Pair Held in City Pending Word From Parents. t Lucille Ridgeway. 16, Springfield. 0., and Elsie Kitchen, 17, Cincinnati, set out Tuesday to see the world, but a town marshal in Otterbein, Ind., convinced them the hobo’s highway was not for their feminine feet. Without funds, they boarded a bus to Indianapolis, where the driver turned them over to police, who are trying to establish commuir ation with parents of the girls. Overgrown Mushroom By Times Special MARTINSVILLE, Ind., Sept. 16. —Morton Lindley found a three and one-fourth pound mushroom in a woods northwest of here. It is eleven inches in diameter and thirty-four inches in circumference. Former Officla’ Dies ARLINGTON, Ind., Sept. 16. Mrs. Eva B. Moore, 71, former Richland township trustee, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Luther She succeeded her husband in thr trustee’s office. He died before fie expiration of his term.

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Not So Deadly By United Press CHICAGO, Sept. 16.—One cheering phase of the depression is that it has been good for our health. Dr. Preston R. Hubbell, Detroit, told the American Electronic Research Association that the death rate dropped during the year and people in general were much healthier. “It may be people can’t afford to get sick and there is less illness and less dying,” he said. “With the reduction of income has come less foodstuffing and overindulgence. Many thousands who would be dead otherwise as the result of overindulgence have been given longer leases on life.”

KIDNAPING CHARGED Blind Woman Sues Divorced Husband for Child, 7. Ray Chamberlin of Southport is charged with kidnaping his daughter from a public school in a petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed in superior court five Tuesday by his former wife, Mrs. Ethel Overlease, of 553 Eugene street. The suit contends the daughter, Helen Frances Chamberlin, age 7, was taken from the school Sept. 8, and asks the court to force the father to return the girl to her mother, who is blind. Mrs. Overlease was divorced from Chamberlin in December, 1928, and was granted custody of the child. It is alleged that Chamberlin served a bogus court order on the mother, purporting to give him right to the child. The father secured the child which was sept to school when visiting the mother. STAGE CALLING MAUDE Miss Adams May Return With Skinner in Shakespeare Play. By United Press NEW YORK. Sept. 16.—Maude Adams and Otis Skinner will appear together soon in a production of Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice,” it was reported today. Miss Adams’ return to the stage after an absence of nearly thirteen years will be in the role of Portia, which, as far as can be learned, she never has played. Skinner often has played Shylock, however. Rehearsals are slated to begin Oct. 5: ‘HOOK' BURGLAR ACTIVE Fares Poorly, However, As Loot Is Only 51.25 and Purse. The screen-ripping burglar fared poorly in his work Tuesday night, his only accomplishment being the theft of $1.25 and a purse from the residence of J. B. Collins, 1302 North New Jersey street. The burglar uses an improved hook to pluck purses from tables, chairs and beds. Fall Injures Four By Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Sept. 16Fall of a scaffold used in construction of the Union building at Indiana university resulted in injury of four men, who fell thirty feet to a concrete floor. They are Stephen Bryant, whose skull was fractured; Frank Ellis, chest and abdomen injuries; Walter Whaley, fractures and dislocation of arms, and H. B. Carney, cuts on head and shoulders.

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KANSAS LIFERS' MASSACRE PLOT IS UNCOVERED Eight Convicts Had Planned to Shoot Their Way Out of Prison. By United Press LANSING. Kan., Sept. 16.—Extra guards searched hiding places today in Kansas State prison, for weapons which might be ready for use by convicts who had planned a massacre in a prison escape plot. Seven guards and trusties were marked for death in the prison break frustrated Tuesday, according to authorities. The plot was nipped only a few hours before murders and escape were to have taken place. Eight men had planned the prison delivery, it was said. Guards believed they had found all the convicts’ arsenal, manufactured mostly by them in the prison shops. This equipment included a high powered rifle smuggled into the prison, three shotguns and a pistol made inside the walls, home made knives, and a set of rope ladders. Gun manufacturers paid tribute to the ingenuity of the men who fasihoned the home made guns. The shotguns and pistol were correct in every detail. ’The ejght convicts had their plans worked to the finest detail, prison officials said. The high-powered rifle was to pick off one of the guards in a tower. The knives were to cut the throats of one guard and a trusty. The s’ otguns and pistols were to be usea in other pre-arranged murders. The rope ladders were to get the men on the walls, where they could take the machine guns from dead guards and so gain command of the entire prison. The warden’s chauffeur was to be murdered and his car used in the leaders’ escape. Officials said that Wilbur Underhill, a lifer, who recently came to the prison after murdering a policeman in Wichita, had assumed leadership of the plotters.

BAPTIST PABLEY CLOSES TONIGHT Dinner at Calvary Church to End Convention. The Indianapolis Baptist Association’s two-day convention will close tonight with a dinner at Calvary Baptist church, Roosevelt avenue and Stuart street. “The Response of Youth to the Challenge of the Church” by officers of the association in the young people’s department will be a feature of the program. Six ministers of Baptist churches Indianapolis who have held, their present pastorates for a combined total of eighty-seven years, were to be honored at a short service at the church this afternoon. Those to be honored for consistent service are Dr. F. E. Taylor of First Baptist church, the Rev. C. H. Scheick of Lyndhurst church, the Rev. George C. Chandler of Memorial church, the Rev. U. S. Clutton of Tuxedo church, the Rev. L. C. Trent of Woodruff Place church and the Rev. Carl Mcßee of the Bluff avenue church. With a total membership of more than 10,000, a net gain of approximately 600 members during the past year was reported at meetings Tuesday of the Baptist Association. MACARTHUR DECORATED Receives Grand Cross of Legion of Honor From French. By United Press RHEIMS, France, Sept. 16.—General Douglas MacArthur, chief of staff of the United States army, was decorated with the Grand Cross of the Legion of-Honor today at the conclusion of French military maneuvers in the “red zone” of the old western front. Fifty thousand troops passed in review at the concluding ceremonies at Berry Au Bac. T 1 lecoration was presented by M iter of War Andre Maginot in the presence of Generals Weygand and Claudel.

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It Should Be By United Press SEAL HARBOR, Me., Sept. 16.—Edsel B. Ford, son of Henry Ford and president and treasurer of the Ford Motor Company, was recuperating today at his summer home here from a “temporary attack of indigestion” which forced him to leave a train at Newport (Me.) Monday and hire a taxicab to take him the 85 miles back here. Ford was taken ill while en route to Detroit. H. F. Brown, the cab driver, did not recognize him and apologized because he didn’t have “anything but a Ford.” Ford replied it was good enough for him.

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Riddle line was started back ia 1927, and before the government had established a lighted airway between Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Chicago, with frequent emergency landing fields. Thus far promises to participate in the ceremony have been received from three farmers. Bert Emmons, Wolcott; John Sidebottom, Milroy, and Melvin Bassett, Shelbyvilie, and others are expected. Divorce After Five Weeks By Times Special PERU. Ind., Sept. 16.—Arthur Reavis is seeking a divorce from. Beatrice Reavis after only flvo weeks of marriage. He alleges cruelty.