Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 159, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 November 1931 — Page 11

NOV. 12, 1931

ROTARY UNIT AT HOSPITAL TO BE OPENED SUNDAY International Officials to Attend Ceremonial at Riley. ‘The Interest of Rotarians throughout the world is directed toward formal opening of the new $250,000 Indiana Rotary convalescent home Sunday afternoon at Riley hospital,” Ralph H. Edgerton, president of the Indianapolis Rotary Club, declared today. ‘‘lt will be a day unparalleled in his history of world service clubs.” Notables of Rotary International, more than 400 members of the fiftyeight clubs of the state and officials of Indiana university will attend the dedicatory ceremonial to begin at 1 Sunday afternoon, with a luncheon and program in the dining room of Riley building. Landon to Receive The Rev. Charles E. Watkins of Muncie, past district governor, will open the dedication with an invocation. Robert E. Huen of Richmond, Ind., chairman of the Indiana Rotary Riley committee, will present the new Rotary unit to Hugh McK. Landon, president of the Riley Memorial Association. An address of appreciation will be made by Dr. William Lowe Bryan, president of Indiana university, in behalf of the people of Indiana. The Rev. A. Elliston Cole of Bloomington will pronounce the benediction. A tablet bearing the dedication inscription will be unveiled by Frank C. Ball of Muncie, philanthropist and manufacturer, at the entrance to the convalescent home. Sent From England A tree planting ceremony will close the dedication program. Two red hawthorne saplings sent by Rotarians of Plymouth, England, as syfnbols of their deep interest in the event, will be planted by John H. Beeson of Cmwfordsville, district governor of Rotary. The public is invited to inspect the new building, which will be opened to all at 3 p. m. Informal tea for Rotary women and other guests will be served in the Ball nurses’ home at 4. International officers to be present Sunday include Charles A. Mander of Wolverhampton, England, international director; Edwin Robinson, Sheffield, England, chairman of the international service committee, and John Nelson of Montreal, Canada, third vice-presi-dent of Rotary International.

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Theodore Dreiser, American author who visited the mine regions of Kentucky to probe conditions there, is shown above (right) as he met Circuit Judge D. C. Jones of Harlan, who recommended that the grand jury investigate stories of “misconduct” by Dreiser at Pineville. The grand jury returned an indictment in the case. Dreiser accused Judge Jones cf favoring the mine owners in decisions made by him during the present trouble in Kentucky.

Novelist Declares Guilt Is ‘Physically Impossible/ By United Press BALTIMORE. Nov. 12.—Indicted by a Kentucky grand jury for alleged improper relationship with a woman, Theodore Dreiser, the author, denied the charge Wednesday night in an outspoken signed statement which contained an assurance of his ‘‘inescapable private morality.” The charge, Dreiser asserted, was inspired by Judge D. C. Jones at Pineville to blind the American people to cruelties in the Kentucky coal fields. ‘ The first thing, before attempting to discuss any important economic or social matter in America,” the novelist’s statement said, “is to assure or rather to convince everybody—church and state alike—of your complete and unabridged personal sexual morality. Otherwise you will not be able to get their minds off the matter and they cannot bring themselves to any serious mental attention. “Such being the case, I am going to reassure all Americans of both sexes and all shades of color and belief of my inescapable private sexual morality. “And how? By letting them in on a very sad but rather reassuring truth. And that is that I, at this writing, am completely and finally impotent. The fact that I may be seen here or there, on this or i’tat 'occasion, talking, walking or dining

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with an attractive girl or woman means nothing more than that a friendly and quite moral conversation is being indulged in.” SITUATION Armistice Day Finds Us on Verge of New Strife, Says Editor. Addressing members of the Indiana Association of Mutual Insurance Companies Wednesday asernoon, Boyd Gurley, editor of The Times, urged the nation pause and contemplate whether the World war was in vain. He called attention to the present situation in the far east and said Armistice day finds the world “on the precipice of another war.” Gurley’s subject was “Thirteen Years After.” The meeting was held at the Columbia Club. Bankers’ Trials Set By United Press HAMMOND, Ind., Nov. 12.—Trials of Peter W. Meyn and four other officers of the defunct First Trust and Savings bank here, charged with overdrafts and unauthorized loans, have been set for Nov. 23 and 30 in Jasper circuit court at Rensselaer.

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WORKS BOARD ‘PASSES BUCK’ TO ATTORNEYS Squirms Out of City Paving Worries by Handing Grief to Legal Branch. One way to pacify property owners who appeal for completion of street paving or widening pnvects, the works board has decided, is to “pass the buck” to the city legal department. This was the conclusion of the board Wednesday when it wiggled from beneath appeals of the Mass’ichusetts Avenue Merchants’ Association that the Massachusetts avenue widening and paving project be completed at once. This project, started in 1929, probably has caused the works’ board more worry than any other single street project ever attempted. Chief reason for delaying the

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project’s completion, perhaps until next spring, is the board’s hope of forcing property owners to pay at least 50 per cent of the assessment burden. To first appeals from business men at a hearing Wednesday, the board answered that it would not atempt to force completion at this time. Reconsidering the matter, the board ordered the Massachusetts avenue project, from Ohio to New York streets, completed, subject to approval of the city legal department. This order was given despite City Engineer A. H. Moore’s warning “that the work ought not to be finished this fall, because of possible weather conditions.” The legal department is attempting to compromise with property owners on a fifty-fifty assessment basis, despite a ruling of Superior Judge John W. Kern that property owners on the north end of Massachusetts avenue “should pay only 25 per cent.” Contractors are holding work until legal difficulties are cleared, Moore declared. One of the forerunners of the automobile and motorcycle was a bicycle propelled by steam. It was built in 1885. It is now owned by a Philadelphia man.

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SHALLOW GRAVE YIELDS WOMAN MURDERVICTIM Illinois Beer Feud Blamed, as Effort Is Made to Identify Body. By United Press WOODSTOCK. 111., Nov. 12.—The body of a woman, believed slain in a gang feud over beer traffic in the Fox river district, was examined today by authorities who removed it from a shallow quicklime grave for some clew as to the manner .of death. Sheriff Lester Edinger of McHenry county called in medical experts to aid in solving the mystery. The body was found on a farm near here by two boys who were hunting squirrels. They noticed a hummock of freshly turned earth near a road and investigation disclosed the body. It ha,d been packed apparently in an oil cloth bag sprinkled with

quicklime and a few shovels of earth thrown over it. Clews Are Scant Sheriff Edinger said blood stains on scraps of woman’s clothing indicated murder. He said he believed the woman had been slain in some squabble of beer runners, who have been operating in the Fox river valley recently. Reports were that the territory had been taken over by Terry Druggan, Chicago “beer baron.” Edinger said it was probable the woman was slain to prevent her giving information to police or rival gangsters. Clews to the woman’s identity were scant. A few strands of hair, scraps of clothing and the teeth on which dental work had been done, appeared to be the only material with which the authorities could work. May Be Missing Nurse Search of records cf missing persons in the vicinity was started in an effort to determine if any one answering the victim’s description had disappeared recently. J. E. Edwards, inspector for the state department of education, viewed the body in the belief it might be that of Jeanette Forbes,

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23, Kankakee nurse who disappeared six weeks ago. Edwards said the nurse had given him evidence to be used in a criminal prosecution against a physician. He said the clothing found with the body was similar to that worn by Miss Forbes when she was last seen and asked that It be sent to Chicago for further identification, Girl Debater Wins By Times Special CRAWFORDSVILLE. Ind., Nov, 12.—Girl debaters of Crawfordsvillo high school will be represented in a central Indiana contest to be held at Delphi Nov. 19 by Alberta Bechtel.

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