Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 166, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 November 1931 — Page 23

NOV. 20, 1931.

INNOCENT MAN ASKS COURT TO MAKE ‘AMENDS' Remove ‘Murderer’ Stigma, Is Plea of Lucas to Illinois Justices. l> !J 1 nilrrt press SPRINGFIELD, 111., Nov. 20. Jp.sse Lucas, who spent twenty-three V p ars In Chester penitentiary for a murder another man later confessed on his death bed. asked the Illinois supreme court today to proclaim his innocence in the court te cords. His petition to have the stigma of “murderer” removed from his name in the records in the first of its kind ever considered by the Illinois supreme court and one of the few that have been filed in the United States. It was presented to the court by Attorney Harry Olson of Chicago, former chief justice of the municipal court there. The former Wabash river fisherman was 27 when he went to prison, and a broken man of 50 when released last Sept. 15. He was exonerated in George Pontfs deathbed confession of the murder of Clyde Showalter. Three Suggestions Made “Having served twenty-th'ree years in prison for a crime he did not j commit, his health shattered, and j the best years of ihs life lost,” the ' petition says, Lucas still is “held and restricted by the orders of the board of pardons and paroles.” The least the state of Illinois can do “to rectify this cruel and unfortunate miscarriage of justice,” the petition states, “is to have the fact that he is innocent, if such is found to be the case, proclaimed in the court’s records. Three suggestions are made in the petition: That a commissioner be appointed to take testimony from witnesses who testified at the trial, and any other persons, to determine the truth or falsity of allegations and affidavits presented in Lucas’ case. That the supreme court revise its ruling in the case so the finding would be “not guilty.” That the court grant some other remedy or relief suitable “as is inherent in its power to do justice.” ! Wide Interest Aroused Wide public interest has been aroused in Lucas’ predicament. Evi- I dence that he was “railroaded” to I prison through perjured testimony ! and the connivance of authorities of Mt. Carmel, 111., where he was convicted on a murder charge in April, 1909, has been brought forward. Although he Is at liberty on threeyear parole, Lucas is not satisfied. “I don’t want a pardon. I am guilty of no crime. I want my good name back,” he said. The affidavit of Mrs. Anna Smith. Decker, Ind.. tells of the death bed | confession of George Pond. He told her: “I killed Clyde Showalter. I , knocked him on the head with a j hammer down by the bridge of Mt. : Carmel. There’s an innocent man j in the penitentiary doing time for ; his murder. It’s Jesse Lucas. He ought to be out. I though I was getting SI,OOO for it. but I only got SSO. I took and buried him in the sand.” CALL MASS MEETING ON HUNGER MARCH City Jobless to Name Delegates for Trip to Capital. Mass meeting to prepare for a national hunger march to Washington to demand immediate unemployment relief and social insurance laws, has been called by the Unemployed Council for 2 Sunday at the Workers center, 932 ' 2 South Meridian, street. Three delegates from Indianapolis on the hunger march will be elected Sunday, and will join delegations from the west. The conference will elect a committee to visit Governor Harry G. Leslie at 10 Monday to ask the state to provide cots and blankets for marchers from other states on Nov. 30. The committee also will ask Leslie for a conference Nov. 30 on the question of releasing Theodore I. unemployed leader, sentenced for interfering with a legal process, and also will ask a special legislative session to take up unemployment relief. C. OF TICKET MADE 14 Candidates For Directors to Be Voted on Dec. 8. Seven directors of the Chamber of Commerce are to be chosen Dec. 8, from a list of fourteen candidates. The list of candidates was released today by Joseph W. Stickney, chairman of the nominating committee. They are: Anvey E. Baker. Hugh J. Baker, Joe Rand Beckett, Cortland O. Bray, Postmaster Robert H. Bryson. Clarence E. Crippin, C Curtis Duck, Frank B. Flanner. Milton K. Foxworthy. Robert B. Gable, Perry W. Lcsh. William J. Mooney Jr., Ernest. C. Ropkey, and Edwin J. Muensch. Officers for 1932 will be elected by the new board. Dec. 17. THIEF VISITS CHURCH Steals $25 Coat While Owner Attends Services. Theft of a coat valued at $25 from Delmer Huppert, 525 East Morris street, while he was attending services at the Church, of the Advent, Thirty-third and Meridian streets. Thursday night, was reported to police. Breaking into the home of Mrs. W. B. Weddle. 3220 North New Jersey street, a thief Thursday night stole $5, she informed officers. LIQUOR. LAW. IS TOPIC Indiana Central College Professor Addresses Church Women. “Liquor and the Law" was discussed today by Professor John J. Haramy of Indiana Central college, at, a meeting of the Indianapolis Council of Federated Church Women in the North M. E. church. Other speakers were Mrs. L. H. Chatterson. missionary from Africa, and the Rev. P. A. Penner of India.

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Viennese Beauty Co-Respondent in Divorce Suit 1 lip United Press ST. JOSEPH, Mich.. Nov. 20 Conant Hatch, who last year was involved in a $250,000 breach of promise suit, brought by Herta Rit- ; tel, Vienna beauty today, was divorced from Marjory Woodruff Hatch. She named Miss Rittel, who lost her suit, co-respondent. The divorce action was no* contested. A property settlemen* was made out of court. Hatch, vice-president of the St. Joseph Iron Works, met Miss Rittel when he went to Europe on business. WINS $475 VERDICT Man Shot by Cop Victor in Insurance Fight. Judgment of $475 against an insurance company for a wound he received when he was shot by a policeman in an alleged attempt to S resist arrest, was awarded Otto Foxx, Indianapolis, today by a jury in superior court two. Foxx was shot by patrolman Alexander Dunwoodie near Noble and Georgia streets Nov. 15, 1930, after a fight with two other men over a revolver. Foxx is alleged to have , attempted to escape Dunwoodie! when (he latter arrested him. Foxx was shot through the abdomen. Under provisions of an accident insurance policy, Foxx sought to claim the sum for an alleged disability lasting almost five months. STATE ODD FELLOWS DRAFT 1932 PROGRAM Features of Year’s Work to Include Father-Son Nights. Features of the 1932 program for Indiana o<!<i Fellows as announced by giand lodge officers today will include father and son nights, roll calls, home-comings, guest nights and district meetings. Lodge sessions devoted to the good of the order were urged by H. C. Rockwood, past grand master, at closing sessions of the annual grand lodge meeting Tnursday. “Programs given at least twice a j year emphasizing our aims and our ; heritage as members of this great I order of ours would have a stimulating effect on our membership,” Rockwood said. The Rev. Golden A. Smith of New Albany, new grand master of the order, will confer soon with other lodge officials to complete plans for the coming year. ‘CUT EMPLOYES IN’ ON PROFITS, BOSSES TOLD Wage Slashes Decried by Tennessee Shoe Manufacturer. Oil l nil id Press NEW YORK, Nov. 20.—Shoe manufacturers in convention today were told by J. F. Jarman, president of a Nashville, (Tenn.) shoe company, to “think in terms of employment; not of making money.” Jarman’s rules to his colleagues for better business included: Spend all your profits in improving your product and in telling the world about it. Don’t cut wages. Cut your employes in on your company’s development—t hey ’ll make better goods. Follow Bobby Jones’ advice, “play against par; not against your opponent.” Par is last year’s production. So-called hard times is the opponent. ARRANGE BENEFIT PLAY “Southern Cinderella" to Be Given Given by West Park Church Class. A benefit play, “A Southern Cinrella,” will be given at 7:45 tonight at the Hawthorne Social Service House, 2440 West Ohio street, by a class from the West Park Chris- | tian church, in charge of Mrs. Oscar ! Jones. i Proceeds of the event will be used to provide Thanksgiving dinner for | needy families. Members of the cast will be Viola 1 Rentchler, Pauline Oaks. Floyd Boston, Carrie Meakin, Margaret ! German. Helen Williamson, and i Pearl Bontrager. Miss Elizabeth : Jones will give several dance numbers. MAP BUILDING DRIVE Meeting in the Chamber of Commerce at noon Monday, representatives of all branches of the building industry in Marion county will organize a campaign for remodeling and rebuilding of old properties. Representatives of the Governor’s unemployment relief committee i conferred Thursday with Ed W. Hunter, secretary of the chamber, on tentative plans for constitution lof a local organization to promote the campaign. Births Girl* Jai. sand Rubv Bfkrr. 6419 College. Russ- II and Lucile Partlow. 2966 North I Gordon and Oneite Shaw, Methodist ho.Eugene and Maurine Baird. Methodist i hospital. , ~ ~ . Burris and Mvrtle McMahan. Methodist hospital. „ „ . . Robert and Barbara W'allace, Met..odist hospital. . William and Louise Meier. Methodist hospital. .. , „ Lynn and Evelyn Dismore, Methodist hospital. Clifford and Mary Wilson, Til W 7 est Forty-first. Alex and Ella Jenkins. 960 West North. David and Edith Jeffries. 222 Hanson. Marshall and Georgia Fletcher/ 914 South State Claude and Mary Jefferson. 915 West Walnut. Walter and Stella Simpson, 535 Warren. Francisco and Frencisca De Maggio. 4101 English. Rots William and Edith Bise 2401 North Adams. Marion and Cecil Stone, Methodist hosI pital. Earl and Alma Thomas. 2014 North Capitol. Thomas and Gladys Crawford, 1413 South Alabama. Charles and Flovde Hinton, 163 Harlan. Joe and Esther Kane. 2705 East North. Deaths Brazier H. Coffing. 91. 3334 Brc dway. ; chronic myocarditis. Zetta Grubbs. 51. Twenty-seventh and 1 College acute dilatation of heart. ! Charles W. Robb. 78 529 East Sixt'th, i aueina pectoris. i James F. Brennen. 65 1114 Collegt. carcinoma. Margaret Staples. 61. Methodist hospital, i uremia. Samuel Black. 3a 1902 North Illinois. I tuberculous meningitis. Le Rov Hughe' 42, 10181a North Illinois, chronic- myocarditis.

Each Vehicle Now Travels 7.004 Miles to Each Single Accident. Striving annually for greater safety in transportation of mail by : trucks in Indfanapolis, postal aui thorities have succeeded in in- | creasing the mileage for each acci- | dent in which a postal truck is inI volved from 4.576 to 7,004 miles in j five years. The decrease in tranportation hazard was shown in a report today by Frank H. Coval, superinfpndent of motor vehicle service in the postal department, to Postmaster Robert H. Bryson. The number of accidents, likewise, w'as reduced from 139, in 1927, to only 94 in 1931. The number of trucks used remained the same during the five years; seventy-five were in service. Total mileage increased from 636,075 in 1927, to 658,377 in 1931. Decrease in the number of accidents, and increase in the mileage for each crash is shown from year to year by these figures in Coval’s report: In 1927, 139 accident, and 4.576 miles a n accident; 1928, 136 accidents, and 4.986 miles an accident; 1929, 130 crashes, with mileage of 5,329; 1930. 123 mishaps, and mileage of 5,310; and 1931, 94 accidents and mileage of 7.004. CONVICTS WOMAN, 68: SUSPENDS JAIL TERM Ninety-Day Sentence Is Lifted by Baker in Booze Case. Mrs. Martha Copeland, 68, of 1906 North Emerson avenue, was given a suspended jail sentence of ninety days following her conviction today by Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker on a blind tiger charge. Baker also suspended a SIOO fine. According to police, several “patrons” were found in the woman’s home in a raid. Mrs. Copeland told Baker she was “a victim of neighbors who don’t like me.” Baker suspended the penalty, he said, because of the woman's age. Two Negro youths were given three-to-ten-year reformatory sentence following their conviction for second dergee burglary. They are Jess Curry, 17, and George Owens, 21, charged with robbing a dry goods store at 2028 North Rural street, owned by Everett Chaille. REVOLUTION CALLED JUST ‘GROWING PAINS’ Brazil Tired of Coffee Barons, Says Town Hall Speaker. Declaring that the recent revolution in Brazil was not the “growing pains of a 42-year-old republic,” Edward Tomlinson, author and traveler, painted a bright business future for that country in his talk on “Wings Over South America,” on the Town Hall series at English’s today. “The revolution was not very disastrous to Brazil,” he said. “The people became tired of the army and the coffee barons and they kicked the barons into the Atlantic ocean politically.” The speaker saw no serious danger of the present temporary government interfering seriously in trade relations with the United States. He told of the success of Henry Ford’s rubber plantation in Brazil and predicted his victory over English rubber in the future. Tomlinson did not forget the romance and beauty of this great country which he termed “the melting pot of all civilization.” CHARGES FILED AFTER GRAND JURY REPORT Ring Theft Laid to Woman, Ax Attack to Man. Series of charges today were filed against persons in criminal court with return of the eleventh partial report of the county grand jury which contained nine indictments and two discharges. Miss Edna Alexander. 1628 North Arsenal avenue, was charged with the theft of a SIOO diamond ring and Phillip Belk faces a count of assault and battery with intent to kill for an alleged ax attack on Fred Shinkle, Oct. 30. Included among those indicted are: Charles R. Beaver, grand larceny and second degree burblary; Irvin Curry and Leon Spence, grand larceny and burglary, and William Wilson, burglary. Arrested as Dice Game Dealer Alleged to have been the dealer in a dice game, W. S. Fifer was arrested on gambling charges today by Sergeant Ed Kruse and his squad. The gaming was being staged in the rear room of a restaurant at 128 East Court street, police charged.

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THERM SYSTEM IS BANNED BY ELLIS' ORDER Utility Patrons Will Win Fight If Commission Adopts Ruling. An order forbidding further use of the therm unit by utilities in; measurement of natural and artificial gas was to be presented the public service commission this after- i noon by Howell Ellis, commissioner. The therm method of billing is based on heat qualities of the gas sold, and replaces the cubic foot system of measurement. If the board adopts the order it will be a victory for hundreds of utility patrons in cities and towns throughout the state who have waged a long battle against use of the unit of measurement. In hearings before the public service commission is of gas utilities contended .ere the victims of utility g nless the cubic foot measure. used. In order to make ue decision effective, Ellis must obtain the vote of a majority of the board. Chairman John W. McCardie said he probably would ask that final action be delayed a week until he had an opportunity to scan the Ellis order. Other members of the commission indicated they favored the step. Although Ellis declared the therm unit is correct scientifically, the order was prepared to halt unfavorable public relations throughout the j state which were created in the squabbles over the use of the therm j unit by utilities. In addition to consideration of the Ellis order, the commission will ; rule on the petition of the Indianapolis & Southeastern Traction Company to abandon its line from j Indianapolis to Greensburg and I Connersville. The company seeks to replace the electric line with buses. Reduction of electric rates sought by Richmond manufacturers from ! the Richmond municipal plant also will be considered by the commission. Members of the board are expected to rule on the motion to dismiss the North Manchester electric case. This involves the question of whether a town can cut into the line of a power company and, with power obtained, operate a town plant as a municipally-owned project. LONG LEASE IS SIGNED Store Without a Name to Occupy Delaware and Washington Site. Signing of a long-term lease on the building now occupied at Delaware and Washington streets was announced today by owners of the I Store Without a Name. At the .same time announcement ; was made that work on general expansion of the store is nearing completion. Paul and Abe Nathanson, brothers, are owners.

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WAR’S OUTLAWRY ASKEO Governor’s Secretary Bemoans Apathy Toward Communism. Outlawry of war by the universal brotherhood of man was pointed

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out as one of the great challenges for Christian churches in an address by L. O. Chasey, Governor Leslie’s secretary, at a fellowship dinner in the Northwood Christian church Thursday night. Doctrines of Communism, pitted

against the church, are taught in fifteen centers in Indianapolis, he said, “all of which goes on while we sit idly by.” Clark to Coach T Swim Teams Swimming teams of the central

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iY. M. C. A. will be coached thi season by James Clark, who has guided championship teams of tha city during the last two seasons. Teams for senior and junior members will be formed and special periods for practice will be arranged.