Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 122, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 September 1931 — Page 5

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THOUSANDS TO BE GUESTS OF PETTIS STORE Public Reception Will Be Feature of Anniversary Fete Tonight. The greatest day of the year for the Pettis Dry Goods Company store and its patrons comes Thursday, with the advent of the store’s 78th anniversary sale and celebration, preceded by a public reception and open house tonight from 7:30 to 10 o’clock. Many prominent residents of the city and state will be In attendance. The outstanding feature of the program will be the formal dedication of the Pettis-WKBP crystal studio, on the fourth floor. W. Stanley Truby, general merchandise manager, will introduce each member of the Pettis buying staff to the air audience, and each will briefly tell of the part he or she contributed to the preparations for the store’s greatest anniversary sale. All women who visit the Pettis store Thursday will be invited to register in the birthday books located on the second floor where souvenirs will be distributed and men registering in the men’s shop will receive souvenirs. Prizes to Be Given Special preparations are being completed to handle a throng. All department managers will be identified by carnations and serve as guides. There will be no selling tonight but all salespeople and other employes will be in their regular positions to greet visitors and tell of the prospective sale and the merchandise. More than a hundred attractive prizes will be distributed to listen-ers-in competing in Pettis’ anniversary and dedicatory broadcast from 7:30 p. m. to 12:30 a. m. They will be asked to send telegrams featuring any of the words “Pettis for 78 Years,” and these will be judged solely on their merits. The general public will have the initial opportunity to visit the new crystal studio for the first time during any evening occasion and see and hear a program actually broadcast. The big store building has been equipped with microphones. Fashion Pageant Tonight At 8:30 o’clock the second floor apparel section will present an appealing promenade of smartest fall and winter fashions. Many other features are to be offered throughout the store, as explained elsewhere in this issue of The Times. Refreshments are to be distributed and there will be plenty for the throngs to see and do during the two-and-a-half hour reception, which has long been an institution with the New York Store. LOVE SUIT STIRS CHINA Pretty Concubine Seeks Divorce From Former Boy Emperor. By United Press ¶ PEIPING, Sept. 30.—'The divorce suit brought by Shu Fei, second concubine of the former boy emperor of China, now plain Mr. Pu Yi, has been magnified by the Chinese press into a battle between Chinese conservatism and the modern spirit, with the pretty little concubine as the spirit of modern youth. ¶ Chinese newspapers are generally sympathetic with the lady in the case, and some openly urge her to carry through her divorce action in spite of vigorous attempts being made to persuade her to withdraw her complaint and return to the former emperor. CHINESE KILL RAIL HEAD Armed Bandits Derail Train in Indochina; Murder Frenchman. By United Press ¶ HANOI, French Indo-China, Sept. 30.—Chinese bandits armed with machine guns derailed the international train from Yunnanfu, capital of Yunnan province, today and murdered a French railway official. ¶ The bandits escaped without booty. ¶ The train was derailed in the hills near Lielang. Troops were sent after the bandits. Chinese authorities co-operated in the search.

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Girl Suspect in Pyre Deaths Also Linked to Fatal Illness of Uncle. By United Press ¶ ANN ARBOR, Mich., Sept. 30. The body of Judge Darwin Z. Curtiss, uncle of Miss Kate Keller, accused accessory to the Ypsilanti “torch slayings" of two young couples, will be exhumed and examined on suspicion that he was poisoned. ¶ Judge George W. Sample, who is conducting a one-man grand jury investigation of Miss Keller’s alleged connection with the quadruple murder, ordered the body of the former Ypsilanti municipal judge exhumed Tuesday night. ¶ Judge Curtiss died last Feb. 1, of what was diagnosed as bronchial pneumonia. He left all his property to Miss Keller, with the stipulation that she care for his 6-year-

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old adopted daughter, Helen Curtiss, until Helen should come of age. ¶ Helen disappeared mysteriously shortly after the will was probated, but authorities believe she was adopted by a tourist family which passed through Ypsilanti last summer. Her whereabouts also are being investigated. ¶ Miss Keller was the sweetheart of Fred Smith, one of the three hoodlums who killed and burned two young girls and their escorts. She is accused of being an accessory after the fact through attempting to shield her lover. Damage Suit Settled By Times Special ¶ MARION, Ind., Sept. 30. —As the result of an agreement reached out of court, Maywood Shultz of Marion will receive $2,100 damages from the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company. He had sued for $15,000.

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Following is the explanation of Ripley’s “Believe It Or Not,” which appeared in Tuesday’s Times: A Perfect Set of Teeth at the Age of 116—Ramon Gomez, a Madrileno, who died in June, 1906, at the age of 116, remembered clearly the French revolution and the Napoleonic campaign in Spain. He never had had a toothache in his life and had a perfect set of teeth when he died. (Ref., Prof. Metchnikoff’s “Macrobii.”) The Shortest Charge Delivered to a Jury—A new record for speed in the disposal of contested suits in circuit court was established in October, 1930, by Judge Vincent M. Brennan of the Third judicial district court of Michigan, Detroit, who handled an appeal case from the common pleas court in 12 minutes and 45 seconds. In the case of Sprague vs. Roberts after trial in the lower court, the lawyers’ arguments were limited to two minutes, only three witnesses were called, and Judge Brennan then charged the jury, “Go.” The jury was out only five minutes to reach a verdict of no cause for action. Thursday: “The Word That Originated in a Wager.”

TILLING STATION BANDITS KIDNAP, ROB ATTENBANT ________ Two Negroes Slash Victim of Early Morning Holdup; Stores Looted. Kidnaping of a filling station attendant and beating of a victim by Negroes were among the exploits of bandits who struck today in various sections of the city. Byron Moore, 1025 South Belle Vieu place, was taken for a ride by bandits who robbed him of $25 after they ordered him into their car at the Gasteria filling station, 1702 West Washington street. Moore told police he was hurled from the car after riding several blocks with his three kidnapers. Drug Store Is Held Up Two gunmen Tuesday night obtained an unestimated amount of money at the Harbison pharmacy, 1740 East Tenth street, police were informed by L. S. Stuart, 614 Hamilton avenue, manager. Stuart said he and Frank Rogers Jr., 16, of 2232 East Michigan street, were forced to lie behind the prescription case while the bandits looted the cash register. Forrest E. Medley, 29, of Kokomo is in serious condition in the detention ward of the city hospital from knife wounds and bruises sustained when two Negro bandits beat him early today. He said they attempted to rob him at West Michigan street and Capitol avenue. When he fought them, both bandits drew knives and slashed his back, Medley said. Grocery Is Looted Police said Medley had been drinking and held him pending investigation. The bandits obtained no money, police were told. Two Negroes were arrested early today by Sergeant Barrett Ball after they are alleged to have obtained S2OO worth of merchandise in a robbery in the grocery of the Fred W. Meyers, 4902 Northwestern avenue. John Hicks, 23, of 2936 Paris avenue, and Richard Hicks of the same address, were held by Ball on counts of burglary, petit larceny and vagrancy. Theft of a gladstone bag and contents valued at $l7O from his parked car was reported by H. C. Martin, Minneapolis. The car was parked at Pratt and Pennsylvania streets, he told officers. DALTON RETURNS HERE Succeeds Lindgren as General Manager of A. & P. Division. The Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company announced the transfer

to the Indianapolis unit of F. A. Dalton, who succeeds John A. Lindgren Jr. as vice-president and general manager of this branch office. Da 11 o n’s experience with the tea company began nineteen years ago in Boston and sjnee he has been on service in seventeen different states. Dalton served

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in Indianapolis previously. Eight years ago he pioneered in developing the district centering on Indianapolis. He is a member of the board of directors of the central western division of the A. & P.

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