Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 155, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 November 1931 — Page 3

NOV. 7, 1931

MAN CAPTURED AS HE TRIES TO BREAK IN STORE Dr&ggist Holds Suspect Until Police Arrive; Hunt for Taxi. Returning to a drug store at 1301 North Pennsylvania street a few minutes after he had closed it, Eugene Dome, 325 East Forty-Sev-enth street, owner, Friday night captured a man in the act of breaking the front door glass. The suspect, Ralph Batchelor, 22, of Edgewood, was said to have admitted attempting to enter the drug store for “whisky, money or anything." He was arrested on charges of burglary and entering a house to commit a felony, and was being questioned today by detectives. Dome told police that he noticed Batchelor loitering near the store when he closed it shortly after midnight. Pretending to leave, Dome said he drove his car around the block and, returning, saw Batchelor hurl a brick through the door glass. Held Until Cops Arrive Seizing Batchelor, Dome called police and with the aid of a passerby held Batchelor until the arrival of motorpolicemen Harry Canterbury and Arthur Low. Batchelor said he is a taxi driver. Seatch was underway today for a taxi which drove to the curb when Dome seized Batchelor, but sped away as the police squad arrived. A burglar who tossed a brick through a front window at the Rose Tire Company, 365 South Meridian street, early today, narrowly escaped capture when a police squad, hearing the crash, reached the scene a moment later. The thief failed to gain entrance to the building. An amateur yegg failed to gain entrance to a safe in a Standard filling station at Fall Creek boulevard and Northwestern avenue, after ransacking the building, Harry Faulk, New Augusta, reported to police. Revolver, Cash Taken Theft of a revolver valued at $lO and $5 in cash from the home of Herman H. Hammer, 2219 Nowland avenue, was reported today to police. Hammer said the prowler gained entrance to the house by prying open a rear window. A fur coat and three dresses valued at $65 were taken by thieves who entered the home of Miss Beulah Ragsdale, 520 East St. Clair street, Friday afternoon, Miss Ragsdale reported. Ransacking the entire home of Miss Mary Marshall, 2421 East Sixteenth street, a thief Friday night took $2.50 in pennies from bureau drawer, police were informed. Alford Volz, 4205 East Morris street, a football fan attending the Manual-Cathedral game Friday at Delavan Smith field, reported a pickpocket lifted his purse, containing S2B.

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SATURDAY EVENTS Alliance Francaisc, luncheon, Washington. Indiana State Grotto Association, convention. Murat temple. Reserve Officers' Association, convention, Severin. Beta Theta Pi, luncheon, Board of Trade. Sigma Alpha Epsilon, luncheon. Chamber of Commerce. Junior Catholic Daughters of America will sponsor a dance, card party and night-club entertainment tonight at the Knights of Columbus hall, 1305 North Delaware street. Special tour ofthe L, S. Ayres & Cos. store will be conducted for members of the Indianapolis Rotary Club at noon Tuesday, it was announced today. GANG OUTBREAK FEARED Slaying of Capone Henchman, May Open “Territorial War.” By United Press CHICAGO, Nov. 7.—Police investigated reports today that the slaying of Salvatore Loverde marked the opening of a gang war for control of the A1 Capone liquor stronghold. Loverde was assassinated Thursday in the Italian-Ameriean Republican Club on the southwest side. Police were unable to locate any witnesses to the shooting. Detective believed Loverde was a member of the Capone gang and that his death marked an attempt by Capone enemies to recover the territory they lost to the Canones. MERCHANT RECOVERING Irving E. Silvers, Hurt in Auto Crash, Is Improved. Irving E. Silvers, shoe merchant, 103 West Thirty-third street, is recovering from injuries incurred Tuesday night when his automobile collided with another at Fortieth and Meridian streets. His brother, David Silvers, who was with him at the time of the accident, also was injured. Irving Silvers is manager of the Schiff Shoe Company store at 259 East Washington street and also supervises the other two Schiff stores in Indianapolis. HOWARD BUCK FREED By United Press AKRON. 0., Nov. 7.—Howard Buck, formerly of Indianapolis, upon whom an operation was performed to “cure'’ him of criminal impulses, was free today of a forgery charge, despite the judge’s disbelief an injury had been responsible for misdeeds. Buck said he suffered a head injury while playing with the University of Chicago football team in 1922 under an assumed name. Rink Receivership Is Asked Appointment of a receiver for Rink's Cloak House, Inc., is asked in a suit filed today in superior court one by the C. A. Wheeler Company, Inc., decorators. A $1,250 bill for decorating is charged unpaid. Proposes Bus Line to Gary Petition to operate a bus line between Indianapolis and Gary was filed before the public service commission today by Shields D. Conner, Chicago bus line operator.

Planes to Make Hazardous Trip

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In the most hazardous flight ever attempted by a squadron of planes, General Italo Balboa, Italian air minister, will try to take twenty-four Italian seaplanes on a flight around the world. He will start at Rome and proceed to Bolama, Africa, New York, the Panama canal, Vancouver, Canada, Japan, China, the Philippine islands, India, the Suez canal and back to Rome. General Balboa is shown at the left. The map on the right gives the proposed route of the flight.

TRIO TO JUDGE BLOND CONTEST _______ 4 SIOO in Prizes Will Go to ‘Platinum’ Winners. Judges selected to examine photographs of entrants in The TimesIndiana theater contest, to find the most nearly perfect platinum blond in the city are Walter D. Hickman, dramatic critic on The Times; Hale Mac Keen, stage director of the Civic theater, and Randolph Coats, noted portrait artist. Following the close of the platinum blond contest next Tuesday at 6 p. m„ these judges will meet as soon as possible to select winners of the SIOO in cash offered as prizes. Awards will be presented Thursday night at the Indiana theater, where Jean Harlow is appearing in anew talking film entitled “Platinum Blond.” Any one who is a platinum blond still has time to enter. Just go to the Block photographic studio on the balcony of that store. There you will be photographed without charge, and your picture will be entered in the contest. Entry is by photograph only. Judges reserve the right, however, to call in contestants who tie for a prize, to decide which girl is the most nearly perfect platinum blond. The cash prizes of SIOO are divided as follows: First, S6O; second, S3O; third, $lO. Block’s photographic studio will award six of its best photographs to the winner, three to the runner-up, and one to the third place winner. Any platinum blond is eligible except employes of the sponsoring groups.

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$75 Booty of Bandits; Taxi Driver Robbed by •Passengers.’ Investigating a noise outside the filling station early today, Viron Moore, 27, of 1001 Belle Vieu place, attendant at a station at Michigan and Indiana avenue, faced a masked gunman who robbed him of $25. Moore told police the bandit fled on foot. Holding up Gerald West, 29, at-

REPEAT FAKE CALLS False Fire Alarms Again Endanger Lives. From the northwest section of Indianapolis Friday night and early today, came two false fire alarms in defiance of the police and fire department’s edicts that potential killers must be halted from turning fake calls for apparatus. Police believe the violator is the same who turned in the false call from Fifteenth and Lafayette streets early Sunday which resulted in the death of a fireman in an auto crash. The first false alarm came from Box 292 at Seventeenth street and Boulevard place. This followed two incendiary attempts to burn a residence at 221 West Twenty-eighth street. Early today an incendiary fire destroyed a house in the 400 block, Blackford street. This was followed by another false alarm at 4:14 this morning from Box 313 at West and Twelfth streets.

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Injury Suffered in Fall Proves Fatal to Aged Woman. Three lifelong residents of Indianapolis and Marion county were claimed by death Friday. Death 6f Mrs. Louisa J. Newhouse, 89, occurred at her home on the Pendleton pike and Kingman drive, as result of a fall in June in which she incurred a broken right hip and arm. She was born on a farm, now a part of Irvington, Funeral services will be %held at 10:30 Monday at the Flanner & LION CLAWS VISITOR Animal Grabs Hand Huntington Man Waved as He Talked. By Times Special PERU, Ind., Nov. 7.—C. L. Couch is recovering from injuries suffered when he was attacked by a lion at the winter quarters of a circus here. Standing near the lion’s cage, Couch was in animated conversation with a friend, and waving his hands. The lion grabbed a hand and jerked Couch against bars of the cage. The animal was beaten by an attendant until it released its hold.

tendant of a filling station at Fifty-sixth and Illinois streets, late Friday, two bandits looted the station’s money till of S3O, police were informed. West told officers the men asked for gasoline for a stalled car and drew revolvers as he started to fill their order. Henry Bradshaw, operator of a filling station on the National road, one mile east of Ben Davis, told deputy sheriffs today he was bound and gagged by two gunmen who robbed him of S2O Friday night. Bradshaw said he worked loose his bonds after a long struggle. Two “passengers” obtained $5 and a $lO watch from Oscar Lear, 23, of 2550 Broadway, taxi driver, when they held him up at Nineteenth street and College avenue, he informed police Friday night. Lear told officers the men boarded bis cab at the Union station and drew revolvers when they neared the College avenue intersection. The “kid glove” bandit failed in his first attempt reported to police Friday night. Andrew Zix, 20, of 1722 South Meridian street, said the welldressed bandit stopped him at Charles and Palmer streets, but drove away when zix did not have any money.

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Buchanan mortuary, with burial in Crown Hill cemetery. Last rites for Mrs. Rosa Kossman, 72, of 206 West Forty-third street, will be held at 2 Monday, with burial in Crown Hill cemetery. She had been ill three years. Johnson Rites Monday Third of the city pioneers was Mrs. Margaret J. Johnson, 82, who had lived within a two-mile radius or Arlington avenue and Tenth street her entire life. She died at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Hazel Trout, 4210 East Tenth street. Services will be held at the Brightwood M. E. church at 2 Monday with burial in Crown Hill cemetery. Charles Burwell Hoover, 82, of 2340 Central avenue, retired real estate dealer, who died Thursday after a brief illness, and lived here a quarter century, coming to the city from Lafayette. Services will be held at 4 today in the Hisey & Titus mortuary, with burial Monday in Lafayette. Last rites for Lewis B. Skinner, 62, of 3490 East Fall Creek boulevard, will be held at. 2 Monday in the home, with burial in Washington Park cemetery. Mr. Skinner died of heart disease Friday while at his desk in his plumbing office at 815 North New Jersey street. He had bem in business here more than forty years. Dies After Long Illness Funeral services for Aden Riordan, 59, who died at his home, 2458 College avenue, Friday, after an illness of five years, will be held at 2 Monday in the home, with burial in Crown Hill cemetery. Mr. Riordan came to Indianapolis from Canmer, Ky., about twenty-seven years ago. Mrs. Nellie O’Neil Patterson, resident of Indianapolis many years, died at her home in Houston, Tex., Friday. She and her husband, Edwin Patterson, now deceased, moved from Indianapolis twenty years ago. Funeral services were to be held in Richmond at 2 today for Mrs. Martha L. Alexander, 82, mother of Robert P. Alexander, C. P. Lesh Paper Company vice-president, who died in Richmond Thursday.

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BRIGHTER DAYS FOR CLEVELAND SEEN BY BAKER Former War Chief Praises Repudiation of City Manager Rule. BY ALLEN SMITH Vnited Press Staff Correspondent CLEVELAND, Nov. 7.—Newton D. Baker has not lost his faith in democracy or government by the people and hence sees better administration for Cleveland in the return to the mayor-councu form of government. “Good government does not depend on ‘forms’ or ‘systems,’ ” he told the United Press today in an interview. “It depends upon good people, and the mayor-council plan stimulates more interest on the part of the people in the city. Such greater interest is bound to produce better government.” The former secretary of war, himself a former mayor, spoke freely of Cleveland's repudiation of the city manager plan in Tuesday’s elections. The city was the largest in the world to operate under the plan which was adopted in 1921. Baker was one of the staunchest supporters of the Danaceau mayor-plan charter amendment, which also provided for repeal of the proportional representation system of electing city council members. He criticised the arguments of city manager proponents that municipal government can function more efficiently -when operated like a business corporation. “The people get as good government as they deserve,” said Baker. “If they take an interest in their government, and select the proper men, and see that these men are conducting the affairs of the city properly, they wall get good government. “If the mayor-council plan does not accomplish that, it is the fault of the electorate. At least, under the plan, the election of the chief official stimulates interest. It places the responsibility upon the voters. “Such interest can not help but act as a check upon abuse of municipal administration. The manager plan, on the other hand, serves to bring about ‘negligent citizenship and bad government.’ ”

BLAZEjN HOME Child Forgets Light; Lives of Three Periled. ' A lighted candle, forgotten by a 10-year-old girl when she left her play room, set fire to the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. O. Heath, 2625 North Arlington avenue, Friday evening, and members of the family narrowly escaped suffocation while asleep. Deputy Sheriffs Harry Cook and Gus Catto, touring on Arlington avenue, saw flames roaring through an upstairs window of the home. Pounding on the front door, they awakened Heath, who quickly aroused his wife, and carried the daughter to safety. The child, Heath said, had been playing in her toy room in the evening, and apparently had forgotten to extinguish a candle, which ignited window curtains after the family retired. The entire room was aflame when the family was aroused. Damage was estimated at more than SIOO by firemen, who extinguished the blaze. Probe of Fire Asked By Times Special MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Nov. 7. The office of the state fire marshal has been requested by Fire Chief James Garwood to investigate a fire which destroyed the $15,000 home of George E. Crane on Duneland beach. Garwood says there are several unexplained circumstances, one being that within twenty minutes the flames enveloped the house.

‘THEY CAN’T LOSE’

So Say Co-Eds on Date Expense

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“T OAN me a nickel, so I can -L/ treat my boy friend at the soda fountain!” Butler co-eds, or at least two of them, agree with a group of women students at the University of Southern California that it is all right for girls to pay the expenses on dates, if their escorts can measure up to “the perfect man” standard. “I think it’s a dandy idea,” agreed Miss Ruth Lewis, 5609 Central avenue. “That way, the girls can be the boss.” “You would think it was a good idea, because your purse is empty, but wait until I hide this dime, and then I’ll agree with you,” countered Miss Joan Boswell, 4132 Graceland avenue. The California girls’ idea was that the “perfect man” should pay no expenses on a date, while those less perfect would pay a proportionate share of expenses, the girls standing half the expenses with a “fifty-fifty man.”

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“That way, it wouldn’t cost us much,” the two Butler co-eds jeered at several of their Butler “boy friends” who were applauding the expense-sharing idea. a tt n MISSES LEWIS and Boswell agreed in the main with the California group’s plan of rating the model man: Intelligence, 20 per cent; cultural background, 15; personal appearance, 15; personality, 10; courtesy, 10; sense of humor, 10; physical fitness, 5; clear understanding of the meaning of the word “no,” 5; social poise, 5; dancing ability, 5. “But I think dancing should be rated at least 15 per cent,” commented Miss Boswell. “Let’s see, from where can we take the extra 10 per cent?” “Take it from the cultural background item these dates don’t show much of it anyway,” snapped her companion as the “boy friends” fled.

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MODAFARRI RUM RING MEMBERS TO GETTERMS Society Bootleggers Also to Be Sentenced Today by Baltzell. In federal court this morning an imposing array of criminals, most of them violators of national prohibition laws, appeared before Judge Robert C. Baltzell for sentence. Most notorious among them were Joe and Paul Modafarri, convicted heads of a large liquor manufacturing and distributing ring that the goverment alleges has operated here more than four years. Both the leaders are convicted of conspiracy to violate liquor laws and of five counts of manufacturing, each. 27 Years Maximum Total maximum sentence for the violations would be twenty-seven years in federal penitentiary. Other members of the mob, convicted of conspiracy or manufacture of liquor, are: Patsy Rossi, Roscoe Pangallo, Mrs. Mary Skaggs, John Werz, Charles Fosso, and his wife, Antonia Fosso. Both Mrs. Fosso and Mrs. Skaggs are mothers. Mrs. Skaggs’ husband now is serving a term in Leavenworth prison on a liquor conviction. Headed Society Ring Another important rum gang, members of which pleaded guilty,, is the society bootleg ring headed by Lew and Irwin Goldman. The Goldmans and their confederates, Sam and Hyman Holowitz and Clifford Drummond, were captured last spring while serving hotel trade, and are said to have catered to north side customers almost exclusively. Sam Goblinger, the third member of a narcotic ring broken up by federal agents here last summer, also, will appear for trial, as will several minor violators. Fake Officers Get S4BB SOUTH BEND, Ind., Nov. 7. Two bandits, posing as United States customs officials, robbed Mr. and Mrs. Howard Mather of Detroit, on the outskirts of South Bend. The robbers escaped with S4BB, with which the couple were making their way to Los Angeles, Cal., in search of work. Tht bandits’ automobile bore a customs' official banner and both bandits carried badges, the couple told police.