Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 110, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 September 1931 — Page 5

SEPT. 16,1931.

BANDITS STAB GROCER AS HE PHTSUP FIGHT Pair Flees Store Without Loot; Victim Is Recovering. % Everett O'Rear, 38, of Carmel, manager of a Standard grocery at 820 West Michigan street, doubted the sincerity of two Negroes who, apparently unarmed, held him up Tuesday night. However, a stab wound in nm shoulder today tonvintvi, Mm they meant business when they ordered him into a backroom, where he resisted. After wounding O’Rear, the Negroes rah from the store without loot. While police emergencies combed the neighborhood unsuccessfully, searching for the bandits, O’Rear was sent to city hospital, where physicians said his condition is not dangerous. Dresses, a fur scarf, and a fraternity pin, all valued at $165, were stolen from the home of Thelma M. Parks, 1129 West Twenty-ninth street, Tuesday night. As he entered his garage Tuesday night, Sam Bishop, 3450 Carson avenue, was accosted by two gunmen, who robbed him of $lB. John Thacker, 27, of 919 West New York street, substitute meat truck driver, was held under $3,000 bonds on a vagrancy charge, "or investigation, today. He is alleged to have stolen a sack containing about S2OO at the W. H. Plummer grocery at 3512 Nowland avenue. Jack Duncan, 32, Tegro, 118 West Fourteenth street, was held today as an alleged purse snatcher, accused of taking a purse containing a small amount of money from Mrs. Stella Patton, 118 West Vermont street, at Vermont and Illinois streets, Tuesday night.

MILLIONAIRE IS IRKED BY CUSTOMS GRILLING Postal Telegraph Head Promises Protest Against Inspectors. By United Press NEW YORK, Sept. 16.—Clarence Mackay, millionaire head of the Postal Telegraph Company who returned last night from a honeymoon trip to Europe with his bride, the former Anna Case, operatic singer, planned to make a formal protest today to Washington on the “unnecessary delay” in examining his baggage. The Mackays arrived on the Majestic, which docked at 5:30 p. m. It was almost 8 when they passed customs, the last of the ship’s passengers to pass. Mackay said he and his wife were “questioned almost continuously.” Mrs. Mackay, who took the ordeal good-naturedly at first, was seen to brush away a few tears before the inspectors were finished. No undeclared articles were found in their baggage.

SERMON WINS YOUTH BUTLER SCHOLARSHIP West Park Christian Church Rewards Harry Sanders, 18. Sunday night, Harry Sanders, 18, preached a sermon in West Park Christian church on "What Are the Measures of Human Life?” Today, because of that sermon, Sanders is enrolled in the Butler college of religion. The Rev. N. L. Collins and members of le congregation have provided h. i with a four-year scholarship. Sanders, son of Mr. and Mrs. Allie P. Sanders, 54 North Addison street, was graduated in June from Washington high school where he was president of the senior class, captain of the basketball team and half back on the football team. Pauline Townsend, 605 North Rochester avenue, also was given a scholarship by the church members. She was graduated from Washington high school and was vice-president of the Washington, senior girls’ organization. OPEN POLICE_ TELETYPE Prison Break Alarm Is First Use of New York State’s System. By United Press ALBANY, N. Y., Sept. 16.—Tile New York state police teletype system was called into action today to sound an alarm for two escaped convicts, less than twelve hours after it had been placed into operation late Tuesday by Governor Roosevelt. The convicts for whom the teletype sounded an alarm reaching 299 police points in the state, escaped late Tuesday from Auburn prison. They are John Thomas, 19, of New York City’s Harlem, and Alfred Smith, 36. of Lackawanna. N. Y., both Negroes. 3 DIE IN RAIL BLAST Locomotive Explosion injures 3 Others in New Jersey. By United Press PORT JERVIS, N. Y., Sept. 16. Three men were killed and three others injured, one critically, when th boiler of an Erie railroad locomotive exploded at Graham Crossing, near here today. The dead: W M . Mallett, engineer, of Matamoras, Pa. F. J. Brewster, brakeman, of Port Jervis, N. Y. George Hamilton, brakeman, of fort Jervis, N. Y. SLAIN FROM AMBUSH Wealthy Manufacturer Shot After Putting Car in Garage. By United Press PARK RIDGE, N. J., Sept. 16. Police today sought a man who shot and killed Otto Ziegler, 38, well-to-do manufacturer, from ambush as he returned home Tuesday night from putting his automobile in the garage. No motive was apparent. The assassin fired from a clump of bushes. Neighbors said they saw him run a minute or two after the shots were fired. Northwestern Enrollment Up By United Press EVANSTON, HI., Sept. 16. —More applications for admission to Northwestern university have been received than in any previous year in the school’s history. President Walter Pill Scott said today,

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These pictures show Jesse Lucas, 48, of Mt. Carmel, 111., as he looks today and as he appeared twenty-two years ago when he was sent to prison for life for a murder he never committed, so now it is claimed. Lucas is expected to be freed soon as the result of a deathbed confession of a 62-year-old farmer, who said he was the slayer.

CQUZENS’ DAUGHTER ILL By United Press DETROIT, Sept. 16.—Mrs William R Yaw, eldest daughter of Senator James Couzens, is in Harper hospital here seriously ill from infantile paralysis. Her condition was reported slightly better today.

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BY BEN STERN Casting about for a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor in 1932 who views the public utility problem much as they do, many members of that party are discussing the availability of Mayor John W. McCarty of Washington. Dapper, sartorially almost the Beau Brummel, Mayor McCarty is easily an outstanding figure in Hoosier Democracy, yet he never takes an active part its broils and intrigues. For twenty years mayor of a Republican city and still the first choice of his townsmen, McCarty has led in the fight for municipal ownership of public utilities and has succeeded where others have failed. U tt tt His first success was public ownership of the electric light plant and street car line in Washington. Using the profits derived from this utility, Mayor McCarty reduced the city’s tax rate from $1.12 to 49 cents and expects to slash it further to 4414 cents next year. Despite this tax reduction, the plant has been built up from a 500-kilo-watt outfit to ia modern utility valued at $5,000,000. And again, despite the tax rate slashes, McCarty has paved, twen-

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CITIZENS FIGHT BOOK DEAL IN RURALSCHOOLS Gladden Backs Principals in Refusal to Sell in Townships. Complaints from Marion county school patrons that their children are forced to go long distances this year to purchase text books, when last year they secured them at the school buildings, were answered today by Fred T. Gladden, county superintendent. Gladden said the system had been changed “because several principals, who lost text book money in bank failures last year, have declined to handle books this year.” “Although we approve handling books at the schools in each township, there is no way to force this upon principals,” Gladden said. The county board of education selected Crawfords book store, at 813 North Delaware street, as the county book depository, where pupils are buying books, Gladden said. About half of the schools are handling their own books this year, he further declared. In Washington township, the Parent-Teacher Association has taken responsibility for selling books. “I heartily indorse the latter method and think it a good suggestion for all Parent-Teacher groups to follow,” the superintendent stated. Other schools handling textbooks this year at the buildings are: Warren Central high school, Perry township school No. 4, New Bethel high school and Acton schools. Total enrollment in county schools announced today by Gladden are: 2,388 high .chool pupils and 9,303 grade school pupils. The total is 11,691, as compared with 10,936 last year. YATES IS RECOVERING Victim in Apartment Shooting Is Discharged From Hospital. By United Press NEW YORK, Sept. 16.—State Senator Roy T. Yates of New Jersey, who was shot almost fatally, weeks ago in the apartment of Miss Ruth Cranmer, his former secretary, was discharged today from ,the hospital in which he had been confined.

ty-two miles of city streets, built a $120,000 city hall, a $35,000 business block for the light company and established a city park with a lake. And last week the citizens of Washington, so well pleased with public ownership of their light company and street car line, voted overwhelmingly in a special election to authorize their mayor to buy the $650,000 water company for their city. This is in the face of opposition of those interests to whom the spectacle of successfully public ownership of a utility is both a bogie and a specter. # a a Public ownership of utility advocates believe they have their man in McCarty. If afforded the opportunity through a deadlock in the convention, his Supporters may enter his name. But McCarty’s candidacy would present one problem to his party. From a political standpoint, and political only, and peculiarly indigenous to Indiana politics, he labors under a handicap—the same which counted aganist AI Smith in Indiana, and it is not his attitude on prohibition. Were it not for this, Washington’s progressisve “wonder mayor” would easily be the outstanding contender for Governor.

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‘FAITH’ TO BE SUBJECT Catholic Converts League to Open Fall Session Thursday. The Converts’ league of the Indianapolis court, Catholic Daughters of America, will hold the first of its fall and winter bi-monthly meetings Thursday at 7:45 at the Catholic • ommunity center, 1004 North Pennsylvania street. The Rev. Clement M. Bosler will speak on “The Place of Faith in the Modem World.” Mrs. Theodore Wolf is in charge of the program.

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DELAY PRODING OF TRUCK RIDS Manlove Dismissal Also Awaits Leslie Return. No action will be taken by the state highway commission on its in-

tended purchase of 120 trucks, halted by Governor Harry G. Leslie, until the Governor returns next week. This was announced today by Director John J. Brown and Chairman Albert J. Wedeking as commissioners convened to receive road petitioners. It was the same program announced by Leslie before he left here for Detroit and Washington Monday. One thing reported as certain is that those slated by Leslie for dis-

missal have been given notice for Oct. 1. They are Owen S. Boling, assistant to Brown; Russell Bosart. assistant to A. H. Hinkle, maintenance superintendent; Omer Manlove, garage superintendent and his assistant. Russell Gardner; A. C. Hastings, Greenfield district E. S. Lockeridge, Laporte district engineer, and Paul Meisenhelder, chief chemist. The Knights of Columbus has a membership of about 620,000.

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RUNAWAY BOY HUNTED City Police Asked to Aid in Search for Lagrange Youth. State police aid in locating Oliver Franklin Waters, who ran away from his home at Lagrange, Sept. 7, because his father requested that the youth's S3 a week salary >e used to support the family of nine, was asked today by the boy's mother. Mrs. Waters said the fa.nily was financially unable to carry on a search for Oliver.