Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 135, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 October 1931 — Page 11

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PISTOL FIRING DRY SLEUTH IN JAILASDRUNK Federal Agent Pulls Gun and Legionnaires at Barbecue Flee. LAYS BLAME ON JOB \ Tells Deputies He’d Been in 18 Speakeasies as Investigator. When the smoke cleared and pistol shots sounded their last echo from the Happy Hour barbecue, filling s'ation and dance hall early today, Patrick A. Currie, 45, federal prohibition agent, was under arrest on charges of drunkenness and disorderly conduct. Currie admitted to deputy sheriffs he had made eighteen investigations in bootleg joints in Marlon and Putnam counties during the afternoon and night. And with testing of beverages in each of the eighteen places it is not surprising what a man might do at the Happy Hour, Rockville and High School roads, at 3:15 in the morning, he also admitted. After an hour’s investigation of their own, deputy sheriffs finally sifted the story of a fight and a shooting that occurred at the bar-becue-filling station-dance hall. Ex-Soldiers Step Up Inside the place were members of an American Legion post and on the outside was Currie, demanding two receipts for ten gallons of gasoline he had purchased. In a government-owned automobile sat George Armstrong, 36, of 4323 Rockville road, who said he is a “sworn in" deputy of Prosecutor Marshall Abrams of Putnam county. As Currie demanded a receipt, an argument flared between him and Charles Reimbold, Happy Hour employe. As the argument waxed warmer, members of the Legion group stepped up. Blazes Away Swiftly Believing Currie was a holdup man, they demanded to see his credentials and one jerked his memorandum book from his pocket. With that, Currie drew his automatic pistol, firing four times and barely missing the legionnaires who surrounded him, deputies were told. The ex-soldiers scattered for cover and John Lazaro, proprietor of the place, called for help. Armstrong rushed Currie to his house and called for more help. Deputy Sheriffs Ed Kassenbrock, Gilbert Thomas, Louis Mikesell and Howard Armstrong answered the calls. He Gets the Last Word They returned with Currie and Armstrong to the place and said Currie charged he had bought four drinks there before the battle started. Deputies said the agent smelled bottles in the place while they were with him. On Lazaro’s plea the deputies searched the place and found no liquor and said persons there had not been drinking. The officers said the agent staggered while bottle sniffing and they declared he should spend a few hours elsewhere. But Currie had the last word. When he was placed in the cell he yelled: “I'm going to get your jobs and you'll sweat for this ” After several hours in jail, Currie was released on his own recognizance and deputy sheriffs took him before Charles Britt, deputy prohibition administrator.

‘TANGIANA’ WILL BE DANCED AT BALLROOM Times Readers Given Opportunity to Learn New Step. The "Tangiana,” new dance hit, will be demonstrated publicly for the first time when Jac Broderick and his dancing partner, Miss Alice Stanton, dance it before visitors at the Indiana Roof Ballroom tonight. The dancing couple will be accompanied by Henry Thies and his WLW orchestra, who are to wage a musical battle against Morrev Brennan and his CBS orchestra tonight on the Roof. Times readers are to be given free instructions on the new dance starting next Tuesday, Oct. 20. A full description of the “Tangiana" will be given, at that time, in a daily series of articles, and Times readers will be granted free admission to the Indiana Roof for dance instructions. FAIL TO NAME BANDIT Plainfield Bank Employes Can Not Identity Suspect. Employes of the First National Bank of Plainfield Wednesday failed to identify Forest Strothers, alleged gang leader, as the “early bird" bandit in the robbery of the bank Dec. 18. 1930. Strothers was viewed at the county jail Wednesday afternoon by four persons who were herded into the bank’s vault almost a year ago by a bandit who escaped with approximately SIO,OOO. Strothers and six other men are being held by police in connection with a series of robberies and safe crackings. TWO OHIO BANKS CLOSE Institutions at Youngstown Blame Frozen Assets, Withdrawals. £i i Vmi ted Press YOUNGSTOWN, 0., Oct. 15. The Dollar Savings & Trust Company and the City Trust & Savings Bank were closed for business today, because of frozen assets and heavy withdrawals. A third bank, the First National, was closed temporarily pending completion of plans for consolidation with the Mahoning National And Commercial National banks.

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Pals Wage Fight for Dog’s Life Put Up S2OO Bond to Stay Death Sentence for Biting Child. By United Press BATTLE CREEK, Mich., Oct. 15.—Roxie—a kindly appearing German shepherd dog—today was awaiting an appeal in circuit court here from a death sentence on charges of being a vicious and dangerous animal. A sentence of death was passed on Roxie in lower circuit court after she was accused of biting a child. Her

owner defended her and dog fanciers came to his aid. A S2OO nond was necessarv tc appeal the case. Roxie’s friends obtained the amount late Wednesday and posted it with the court. Judge Blaine W. Hatch will hear the case.

SHOT IN HEART FAILS TO KILL Young Chicago Bride Clings to Life. By United Press CHICAGO, Oct. 15.—A young bride who lived on, despite the fact that part of her heart was shot away, fought toward recovery today while physicians marveled and planned to remove a bullet from her back, if her condition would permit. “It couldn’t happen again once in 100,000 times,” declared Dr. Charles G. Shannon after determining by X-ray that the bullet which Mrs. Helen Smith, 21, fired into her breast actually cut away a piece of her heart. The bride told physicians and her husband she shot herself because she was despondent over ill health. After wounding herself, she completed her house work, cooked her husband’s dinner, and did not reveal until three hours later what had happened. She then said she wanted to live. “Shannon and other doctors were mystified. Under ordinary circumstances, they said, the bride would have died instantly. What kept her alive, they could not determine. The bullet, after piercing her heart, lodged in her back. Shannon said he would remove it today if she was strong enough to stand the operation. BEER SURVEY BARED Lawmaker Says Government Knows It’ll Yield 5300,000,000 Tax. By United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.—The assertion that the treasury department has made a survey of the revenue-producing possibilities of beer was made today by Representative Britten, (Rep., 111.), who said he had been told the treasury figures show a possible governmental income of $300,000,000 annually from this source. This figure, Britten said, was based on estimates for the first year consumption with a tax of $lO a barrel. This would permit the return of 5-cent beer, he added.

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When Henry Thies and his WLW orchestra wage a musical battle against Morrey Brennan and his CBS orchestra on the Indiana Roof Ballroom tonight, they will be ably supported by Charlie Dameron, crooning tenor and favorite with WLW radio fans.

STOLE FOR FAMILY; COURT MERCIFUL

Justice, with its odd turns and twists, has taken William Camplin, 28, of 2121 Olive street, from jail and may bring anew future to him, his wife and 4-year-old son. Month after month, Camplin has been without work. He had a small truck and now and then found persons who would pay him to haul trash from their premises. Several days ago, he and James Price, 21, living at the same address, went to the Big Four railroad yards near Raymond street and loaded 150 pounds of coal on the truck. A railroad detective arrested them and they pleaded guilty before Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron. Camplin was sentenced ten days in'jail and fined $5. Price received

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SHORTRIDGE P.-T. TO HOLD FIRST SESSION Russell Willson, School Board Head, to Make Address. First meeting of the Shortridge Parent-Teacher Association for the 1931-1932 school year will be held at 8 Tuesday night in Caleb Mills Hall, the Shortridge auditorium, at Thirty-fourth and Pennsylvania streets. / Russell Willson, president of the board of school commissioners, will speak, dedicating the new Shortridge high school organ. Mrs. George Losey, president of the association, will preside. Address of welcome will be given by principal George Buck. Dale W. Young will be organist during the musical program. Two bass solos will be sung by Fred Newell Morris.

GATES DEFENDS LEGION STAND For Referendum, Not Wet, Says State Commander. “The Detroit convention was deliberative to the extreme. The American Legion suffered a great injustice from individuals and spokesmen of other organizations who slandered our membership.” This was the declaration of Ralph F. Gates, newly-elected Indiana de-

partment commander, at a Twelfth district installation meeting in the Antlers Wednesday night. “We did not go on record as wet; we merely went on record to submit the question to the American people,” Gates declared. Outlining the Indiana legion program for 1932, Gates said that it would include con-

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tinuation of work on behalf of the veteran, his widow and orphans rehabilitation, Americanism, unemployment and relief. John W. Hano, new Twelfth district commander, announced district plans for a membership campaign with a goal of 40,000 for the state. Officers and committee chairmen for the district were announced by Hano. Ollie A. Davis, department adjutant, installed commanders of seventeen posts in the district.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL TO BE CHURCH SPEAKER Ogden Scheduled for Address at Northwood Christian. Attorney General James M. Ogden will be the principal speaker tonight at the weekly fellowship dinner of the Northwood Christian church, according to announcement Wednesday by C. G. Dunphy, dinner chairman. Ogden will discuss the recent laymen’s retreat, held at the J. K. Lilly country home. First of a series of addresses on history of the Disciples of Christ church will be given by the Rev. Herbert Wilson, pastor. In charge of devotions will be Dunphy and K. V. Ammerman, chairman of the church board. The choir, under direction of Mrs. Carolyn Ayres Turner, will sing special numbers. Mrs. M. E. Penrod, chairman of Electa circle, will be in charge of serving the dinner. Pinchot Calls Legislature HARRISBURG, Pa., Oct. 15. Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania announced today he had issued a call for the state legislature to meet in extraordinary session on Nov. 9 to consider unemployment relief measures.

the same sentence but it was suspended and he was given six months to pay his $5 fine. Price communicated with Miss Laura Thayer, probation officer, and she and Detective Clarence Golder decided Camplin should have a chance. Appearing before Cameron, they told the judge the story of Camplin's battle againt starvation and unemployment. Relenting, the court directed Camplin’s release on a suspended sentence, and gave him five months to pay his fine. And now Miss Thayer and Golder are trying to get Camplin a job so he won’t have to steal coal to provide for his wife, Lucille, and boy, Billy.

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1931

CAPONE FATE SOON TO REST WITH JURORS Defense Rests Case After Testimony Limited in Scope. AL PAINTED AS ‘SUCKER’ Witnesses Tell of Huge Sums He Tossed Away at Race Track. BY RAY BLACK United Press Staff Correspondent FEDERAL BUILDING, CHICAGO Oct. 15.—A1 Capone’s attorneys rested his income tax fraud case at noon today, after a defense limited to portraying him as a race horse gambler who lost $375,000 or more. A last minute motion of the defense to strike from the record testimony regarding Capone’s alleged gambling house revenues was overruled by Federal Judge James Wilkersc/. Another motion to exclude the testimony of internal revenue bureau officials that Capone admitted he had filed no returns and paid no income tax also was overruled. Third Motion Overruled A third motion, also overruled, would have struck out testimony that Capone shouted “I’m the owner of this place” when raiders entered a Cicero gambling house. * The defense then launched into argument for a directed verdict of not guilty on all the counts up to 1928. Capone’s defense was a paradox. His attorneys had called witnesses to describe the gang leader as a colossal dupe of race track bookmakers, as his trial on charges of income tax evasion in United States district court swept toward conclusion. A1 Capone, owner of the gambling house “gold mines” in Cicero, with a yearly net of $150,000 each, had been depicted in prosecution testimony. Pictured as “Sucker" A1 Capone, sucker, hail fellow to the bookmakers, who placed four or five bets a day on each day of the racing season, bet as much as $6,000 on a single horse to win, and almost always lost, was pictured Wednesday by the defense. Federal district courtroom took on the color of race stand and betting booth as a procession of bookmakers went to and from the witness stand. Their testimony was intended by the defense to show that while Capone was a plunging gambler and bet large sums, he lost consistently ar.d had no wealth on which to pay income tax. Some of those who testified and the amounts they said Capone lost playing the ponies were: Sam Kitelson, brother of Ike Bloom, whose levee “Midnight Frolics” was a night life rendezvous, testified to Capone losses of $25,000. Harry Belford testified Capone lost $25,000 and bet every day. Tell of Heavy Losses William Yario said Capone lost between $20,000 and $30,000 in 1926 and between $25,000 and $30,000 in 1927. Sam Rothschild said the gangster lost $15,000 in 1924 and SIO,OOO the next year in bets placed with him. George Liederman testified to losses of $15,000 in 1924 and SIO,OOO in 1925. Oscar Gutter, dapper and diminutive, testified to losses of $60,000 in 1927. Milton Held testified to losses of SIO,OOO in 1924 and $12,000 in 1925. None of the bookmakers could recall any of the “also rans” on which Capone wagered from SI,OOO to $6,000 “on the nose.” All agreed Capone w r as a good credit risk.

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Decorated four times, Chief Clear Bell, Mission Indian overseas veteran, will appear in full regalia at the Americanization meeting of Veterans of Foreign Wars tonight at Cadle tabernacle. He is a resident of Sacramento, Cal. The Indian veteran was wounded twice in action. RING THIEF IS JAILED Judge Baker Sentences Confessed Crook to 1 to 10 Years. Alleged kleptomaniac tendencies of John Carpenter, 23, Negro, of 1867 Draper street, were treated today by Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker. Baker sentenced Carpenter to the state reformatory for one to ten years on a theft charge. Carpenter pleaded guilty. *■ Carpenter was house boy and chauffeur for James A. Babcock, attorney, 5245 Broadway. According to testimony he stole a diamond ring from the Babcock home, Aug. 26. and pawned it for $6. The ring, Babcock said, is valued at S6OO,

JOY REIGNS AT REUNION

Boy Grosses BY CARLOS LANE FROM his pillow this morning, 15-year-old Helmuth Schulz looked out on his first Indiana morning. It was gray, cold and dreary. But not so was his heart. It leaped happily, brighter and warmer than the sun hidden above the foggy clouds. For at his bedroom door was a footfall he had loved in babyhood, but missed poignantly since the day, more than eight years ago, when his mother kissed him goodbye and set out for a home in anew land, where soon she planned he should come to join her. Asa train lumbered to a stop in Union station Tuesday afternoon, the mother, Mrs. Hertie Huhn, of 956 Leland avenue, and the son, Helmuth Schulz, were reunited. n n n HELMUTH'S father fell with a gray-green wave of imperial Germany’s fighting men in the World war. The years that fol- ‘ lowed peace were bleak with privation in Germany, and finally Mrs. Schulz saw hope in the land that had helped to conquer her country. She would slave there, save money, and bring Helmuth to America with her. Meanwhile, she left him with his grandparents. Here she married John Huhn, also a native of Germany, and they saved their income for Helmuth. But the grandfather heard tales of wealth, a phonograph, and an automobile. He demanded money for the boy’s board and room when Mrs. Huhn at last lyrote that she could pay his steamship passage and railway fares. That was three years ago. The Fletcher Savings and Trust Company, the American consul in Berlin, the North German Lloyd line, and the Red Cross intervened, and a few months ago the grandfather capitulated, even threatened to place the boy in an orphanage if he were not sent for at once. Thus a long time before the train arrived Tuesday, Mrs. Huhn paced the platform in the station here, awaiting completion of her boy’s long trip from Germany. nun “T WILL know him! I will know X him!” she exclaimed as the fomotive puffed around the last curve into the station. “I only hope he will not be so big as me.” But suddenly her joyous heart was constricted with fear as a familiar figure strolled by. “That is my own brother; he won’t speak to me,” she said. It was a continuation here of the family tragedy of hatred. The boy’s uncle was the first to greet him. Her small fists clenched, Mrs. Huhn ran to the boy. “I will take him away if I have to use these,” she cried, shaking the fists. nun BUT force was not necessary. The blue German eyes of her son dimmed with happy tears as he clasped her. In her excitement, Mrs. Huhn talked only English to her boy, forgetting that he knew not a word of it. “You are all right? You are all right?” she asked over and over. He only grinned and clung to her arm. With his mother and stepfather, Helmuth went to his new home, stopping en route for new American clothes to replace the German raiment he wore here. Tuesday night there was a party at the Huhn home, with friends and relatives celebrating Helmut h’s arrival. Today he is at home—his mother’s son again.

PROOF OFJPANKING Husband and Wife Friendly After Whipping. By United Press FT. WAYNE,' Ind., Oct. 15.—Mr. and Mrs. William J. Crawford are on amicable terms again today, all arguments settled as to whether he was “man enough” to spank her. Crawford resented his wife’s careless remark that he was not strong enough to a spanking. He decided to show her. His proof, however, was so conclusive that she filed assault and battery charges. Crawford paid a fine of $lO and both leffc the courtroom contented. ADAMANTJNJ)IL STAND Texas Governor Says Only Hoover or High Court Can Lift Ban.. By United Press TYLER, Tex., Oct. 15.—Only orders from President Hoover or the United States supreme court can halt regulation of oil production in the east Texas field, Governor Ross Sterling declared in commenting on a federal court injunction against pro-rationing. State troops patroled the field today, despite the temporary ruling of United States District Judge Randolph Bryan, ordering the state to cease curtailing production from five oil wells of the Brock-Lee Company. World Fair Exhibit to Be Planned First draft of plans for the Indiana exhibit at the Chicago world’s fair in 1933 will be drawn by members of the Indiana-Chicago Worlds Fair Commission at a meeting in the statehouse Tuesday with E. J. Barker, commission secretary. E. Murray Turney of Hammond, is chairman of the commission. Holdup Suspects Jailed Accused by a woman of holding up Gilbert Buck of 1210 West Washington street, John Ford, Tenth street and Eagle creek, and William Hanley of 130 Parkview avenue, were held in city prison today on vagrancy charges.

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POISON TESTED TO AID MRS. SIMMONS

Housewife Reveals Effort to Clear Mother in Death Case. (Continued From Page 1) nights after the sandwich experiment in the home of a neighbor. “We prayed for Mrs. Simmons,” she said. “Do you believe in the power of prayer?” she was asked. “Yes.” “Do you believe prayer can overcome truth?” “No.” For the fourth time the defense turned its legal fire on Horae* Jackson, brother-in-law of Mrs. Simmons, who has been the target of intimations that he may be the poison murderer. Nurse Tells of Statement Miss Martha Barlow, nurse in the hosiptal here, testified that while he was confined there from poison illness he said, “I wonder who tried to get me. It must have been Carrie. She made the sandwiches.” Telling the jury that members of the Simmons family “were devoted to one another,” the E. C. Fisher of Hancock county testified he had been one of the group on the experimental trip in September. He said that after the sandwiches were opened in Memorial park by Mrs. White, they were burned in the home of W. H. Parr Sr., defense attorney. He also stated the marshmallow tin was burned after the experiment. Mrs. Charity Simmons, 82. mother of John Simmons, testified this morning following Wednesday’s hurricane court session, when the defense struck deftly three times to pierce the state’s charge that Mrs.

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A father’s desire to see his 12-year-old daughter, missing two years, has led Homer Gilbert, 645 Birch street, to make a public appeal for information which may result in his finding Eulamae Gilbert. Gilbert said he and his wife separated about six years ago, Eulamae being left with him, but that two years ago, while he was at work, the mother visited the home and took Eulamae with her. Gilbert said he does not wish to take Eulamae from her mother, but merely to see her.

NAVY BUDGET STILL OVER HOOVER MARK

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.—The navy department submitted to President Hoover today a revised budget for 1932, in which many millions were trimmed from the original $401,000,000 estimate, but in which the navy was unable to meet Mr. Hoover’s demand for a $61,000,000 cut. There was no comment at the White House. Secretary of Navy Adams declined to make public details of the revised schedule of expenditure, but said he had found it impossible to

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Carrie Simmons was the purchaser of sixty grains of strychnine from Charles W. Friedman, Indianapolis druggist. The defense first tossed a barrage at the state with testimony cf Harry Short, New Palestine druggist, that he thought Jackson purchased sixty grains of strychnine from him to kill crows. The second slam of the defense came with the testimony of Miss Louise Robinson, of Bargersville, that she, not Mrs. Simmons, was the purchaser of the bottle of strychnine from Friedman. Druggist Denies Story Friedman denies that Miss Robinson was the purchaser. Mrs. Simmons and Miss Robinson do not resemble each other in either mannerism, dress, or facial expressions. The defense’s third strike at the state’s case came with the identification of Jackson as the person who attempted to purchase a dime's worth of poison from Mrs. C. H. Johnson of Cumberland. Jackson was not in the courtroom when the charge was made. He will be recalled by the state. Aged Woman on Stand But with identifications flowing thick and fast from the defense, and charges of “lies” hurled by both sides, a mellow moment struck the trial when Mrs. Charity Simmons stepped into the witness box to tell of the family life of Mrs? Carrie Simmons and her son. Her horror of the tragedy that bore down on the family that Sunday of June 21 was told simply, as she said, “I'd seen them so happy together that morning.” The simplicity with which she told how her son called out at the picnic, “Don’t eat those sandwiches, folks, they’ve got something in them,” softened the harshness of the intrigue and bitterness apparent in the courtroom. She testified that Jackson told her, while lying ill on the ground, “Maw, don’t come near me and don’t let the hem of your dress touch me.” Boon to Defense Affectation did not tinge her words. She gave them for what they were worth and their worth proved more for the defense than the state. She described Mrs. Simmons as being “pure as the sun" and related how she had “cried hard” upon hearing of the death rs her daughters. The state charges that Mrs. Simmons was “cold-blocded” in actions during and following the picnic tragedy that cost the lives of her daughters. Defense won a point when objections halted Mrs. Charity Simmons from telling the jury whether she was “trying to cast suspicion on any one.” Consoled His Wife The elderly woman said she saw John Simmons attempt to console his wife and she saw one of the poison capsules “on top of the chicken” in the sandwich of Mrs. Emma Pollard. That Mrs. Carrie Simmons “appeared agitated” following the deaths of her daughters was brought out by the defense in the testimony of Franklin Durham, Lebanon youth, who said he was seated in an auto near the hospital the day of the picnic. The state is expected to offer evidence to refute charges that the identification by Friedman of Mrs. Simmons is not a true one.

reduce naval expenditures in as drastic a manner as desired by President Hoover. High naval officials indicated that operations will be reduced materially under the revised plan, with reduction in personnel, rotation of ships in commission, and abandonment of some navy yards furnishing the major economies. There was no intimation of the number of men who would lose employment under the revised program.

LESLIE’S AID DENIES ‘PULL’ ON COAL BIDS State Job Holder Revealed as Agent of Company Seeking Contract. ‘JUST NOT INTERESTED’ Dr. John W. Hewitt Scoffs at Intimation That He Will Use ‘lnfluence.’ BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Dr. John W. Hewitt, who is on Governor Harry G. Leslie’s roll for $3,000 as director of unemploy-, ment relief and occupies the lieu-tenant-governor's office at the statehouse, also Is agent for the Electric Coal Company, 531 Merchants Bank building, it was learned today. The company has bids pending to supply coal to state institutions, but Dr. Hewitt declares that he became agent after the bids were made and "isn't interested in them.” Contracts for some $500,000 worth of coal deliveries are to be made soon by the joint state purchasing committee. Daily McCoy, who retires as state purchasing agent Nov. 1, said today that he expected the purchasing committee to consider the coal bida at a special session next week. Hewitt never has talked to him about the possible success of the Electric Coal Company in the matter, McCoy said. Leslie “Knows AH” Hewitt explained that Governor Leslie knows all about his position as coal agent and that he isn’t selling to the state, but to Indiana manufacturers. Hewitt, at one-time a Republican state senator from Terre Haute, quit practicing medicine after the 1929 legislative session and opened the Indiana Coal Bureau in the Lieu-tenant-Governor's office. This was done w-ith $12,000 a year. Governor Leslie providing $4,000 from his emergency contingent fund, the Indiana coal operators another $4,000 and the Indiana union miners the same amount. Hewitt went throughout the state boosting the use of Indiana coal. But the miners’ union failed to come through last year, and on Oct. 1, the operators stopped further appropriations. So Hewitt revived the unemployment activity which he handled last winter. The Governor agreed to give him $3,000 for that, he said. So He Sells Coal “But I can’t live on that, and I am selling coal for the Electric Coal Company, but not to the state,” Hewitt asserted. Other state pay roll Republicans who work for companies selling or attempting to sell to the state include Representative Sam Farrell and Homer York, reformatory trustee, salesman for the Indiana Truck Company, state highway department favorite. Recently, Attorney-General James M. Ogden gave an opinion protecting them in their position. He is also a Republican. On the Demicratic side Is Representative H. Curtis Bennett, fellow member with Farrell of the state budget committee. He sells coffee to the purchasing board when he can. May Delay Coal Deal That the coal deal may be held up until after McCoy’s successor, Wallace Reiman. Shelbyville, takes office appeared likely today. McCoy, however, will submit his findings regarding prices and burning tests at the meeting next week. He refused to say whether the Electric Coal Company will be among thbse bidders recommended. He estimated that approximately 175.000 tons will be purchased at a cost of around $250,000, to which $300,000 shipping costs will be added.

KIWANIS CLUB GIVES MEDAL TO FORTUNE Red Cross Chairman Paid Tribute by Indianapolis Club. For devotion to interests of the community, William Fortune, chairman of the Indianapolis chapter, American Red Cross, was awarded the star of service medal by the Indianapolis Kiwanis Club Tuesday. Presentation was made by Jack Harding, chairman of the club citi-

zenship committee, at the weekly Kiwanis luncheon in the Claypool. Fortune, for forty years prominent in civic affairs, was a leader in organization of the Chamber of Commerce, both in city and state. He guided Red Cross activities during the World war and is a former president of the American Peace Society.

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He also led the George Rogers Clark memorial movement and is a former president of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. a. r. hollTdaYmourned Fletcher Trust Directors Deplore Death of Fellow Member. Resolution lauding the career of Alexander R. Holliday, city business man, who died Wednesday after an illness of two months, was adopted by directors of the Fletcher Trust Company, of which Holliday was a board member. The resolution read, in part: "No other member ever served with more fidelity. Especially, as one of the auditing committee, he gave of his time and effort diligently and with discernment. Companionship in the service of the company with a gentleman of such quality has been a privilege which will be missed sorety."