Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 167, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 November 1931 Edition 02 — Page 3

NOV. 21, 1931

WALL STREET GUARDED AFTER BOMBING SCARE Strangers in District Are Questioned; Bundles Eyed Suspiciously by Cops. By Vnitcd Press NEW YORK, Nov. 21.—Wall street, financial center of the world, was under the rule of additional guards, police and detectives today added to the increased force already on guard there to prevent threatened bombings. Strangers in the district were quizzed. Anyone carrying bundles within certain restricted areas was stopped and questioned; some were searched. Heavy guards placed at the offices of J. P. Morgan & Cos., international bankers and financial representatives in this country of the Fascist government, were increased during the night. Strangers Scrutinized The dead line, Felton street between the East river and the Hudson, was enforced more strictly than ever with police and plainclothesmen familiar with the district scrutinizing all strangers who passed below that street toward Wall Street. Reason for the unusual activity lay in fear of bombings threatened Thursday before arrival of Signor Dino Grandi, Italian foreign minister for a visit in New York, and fear of violence in the district expressed by certain financial leaders. Some ten years ago the district was shaken by bombs which burst in the thretvs that packed the narrow street near the J. P. Morgan offices at Broad and Wall. The bombs, purportedly, were set off by fanatics. Sandswiches Draw' Inspection The fear that “something dreadful might happen’’ was expressed by financial leaders, according to Police Commissioner Mulrooney’s order increasing the guard. “The nresent unequal distribution of wealth,” it was feared, might lead to violence,” he explained. J. P. Morgan, who originally employs a 24-hour armed guard of his own, twelve men working in 8-hour shifts, w r as at his office all day. He would not comment on the increased police activity. Other workers went about their business as usual, except that any carrying 3-decker sandwiches or other packages under their arms were asked to prove their package contained no infernal machine. CITY ETCHER HONORED Mrs. Mess* Picture Is Chosen for New York Exhibition. “A Water Fantasy,” an etching by Mrs. Evelynne C. Mess, Indianapolis artist, has been chosen for the sixteenth annual exhibition of the Society of American Etchers, in New York, Nov. 26 to Dec. 26, according to word received today in Indianapolis. Mrs. Mess, president of the Indianapolis Etching Club, is active in art circles in the city and a number of her etchings now are on display at the Broad Ripple library. She studied in Europe for several years. RUM CUSTOMER FREED But Speakesy Oumer, Bartenders Face Booze Charge After Raid. Two bartenders and the proprietor of an alleged speakeasy were held to the federal grand jury, but a customer arrested with the trio was freed by a United States commissioner Friday. Steve Dennis, admitted owner of ihe speakeasy at 444 West Washington street, and Mike Surkevich and Kosti Ivanoff, who said they were paid S2O weekly to tend bar, were held on bonds of $2,500 each. IMPERSONATOR BILLED Miss Edna Means to Be Featured at Big Meeting Sunday. Portraying character sketches of People You and I Pass Daily on the Street,” Miss Edna Means, entertainer, will head the weekly Big Meeting program sponsored by the Y. M. C. A. Sunday afternoon at 3 in Keith’s theater. Miss Means also will do other characterizations, and the Big Meeting orchestra will give a concert before she appears. There is no admission charge.

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Kenneth McCaslin, star of Washington high school’s football and basketball teams, is the newly elected president of the senior class at the west side school.

P.-T. A. GROUPS URGING SAFETY Warren Council Will Have Home Products Show. Safety measures for protection of children attending rural schools in Marion county and home economic activities are being stressed at meetings of Parent-Teacher Associations in rural township schools. Activities of the organizations follow; Warren Township Pleasant Run Association will meet at the school Tuesday at 7:45. The Warren township choral society will sing and E. O. Snethen w’ill furnish part of the program. Warren P.-T. A. council will sponsor a home products show In the high school auditorium tonight. Booths will be exhibited by Banner-Whitehill. Vonnegul’s, Indianapolis Power and Light Company. Fisher Brothers Electric Company. Lyman Brothers, Pearson’s Piano Company and other merchants. Food products will be shown and given Indianapolis wholesale houses and mill companies. Pike Township “Worthy Home Membership” Is the subject for the next meeting Dec. 8, at the New Augusta school. Child welfare committee reports five new subscriptions to the Child Welfare Magazine. The summer-roundup committee reports three 109 per cent children ' Instead of two. Finance committee work at the school carnival was successful in selling the “White Elephants.” Wayne Township The Flackville association held a "safety meeting” Thursday. Miss Julia Landers of the safety department of Marion county and a representative of the fire prevention bureau, spoke. Laws covering passing of school busses were given by Miss Landers, who recommended motorists acquire a book on automobile laws at the statehouse and cooperate in helping patrols and children to greater safety. Davis cautioned against danger of possession of gasoline or cleaning fluids in homes. The next meeting will be held Dec. 10 at 7:30.

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Other officers are Edythe Flack, vice-president; Ruth Eldridge, secretary; La Verne Conway, treasurer, and Paul Dunbar, ser-geant-at-arms.

UTILITY PARLEY SOON Sullivan to Call Committees Together on Rate Fight. First conference of Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan’s committees to seek reduction of Indianapolis light and water rates will be held soon. Sullivan has asked Harry Cuthbertson, public service commissioner, to attend the parleys as arbitrator. Cuthbertson suggested compromise settlement of the rate cases when the city filed petitions with the commission. Sullivan told the commissioner he soon would notify him when the first session will be held. Civic and business organizations are backing the city’s fight against the Indianapolis Water Company and Indianapolis Power and Light Company.

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ST. LOUISANS IN STRONG PLAGE FOR COMEBACK ‘Pay as You Go Plan’ Spared City Extreme Distress in Depression. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Press Staff Correspondent (Copyright. 1931. bv United Press! ST. LOUIS, Nov. 21.—Cautious and thrifty in past days of plenty, St. Louis is plodding forward now on a much better foundation than is the case in some localities. A big trade gateway to the wheat and cotton country, business is beginning to get the first traces of encouragement from rising prices in those commodities. St. Louis is a manufacturing center but it does not go in for “style” or “class” goods. It makes staples, like work shoes and chemicals, and does a tremendous jobbing business in groceries and clothing. It is the opposite of Detroit, which lives solely by selling automobiles. Therefore, it experiences neither the elation of boom times nor the extreme anguish in depression. Building Under Way St. Louis is, in its conservative way, carrying on a substantial public and private construction program, involving expenditure of probably $30,000,000. Miles of streets are being widened. Anew bridge is being built. Anew terminal is under way. The St. Louis Star has started work on a new building and the St. Louis Globe-Democrat recently moved into its new building. St. Louis is showing the country how a conservative, pay as you go community can weather one of the nation’s worst depressions. There has been just one bank failure. That was a small institution not even a member of the clearing house. When money ran out on the new courthouse job, wooden steps were built. The stone approach was left to another time. Never Swept Off Feet Business men here feel St. Louis has something which might be emulated by those communities which were swept into a fever of speculative frenzy by the infectious ballyhoo of the rollicking days of 1928 and 1929. It left this city

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Would It, Jim? By United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 21. Jim Watson, adroit, imperturbable senior senator from Indiana, herded a squad of Butler college football players out into President Hoover’s back yard to have their picture taken with Mr. Hoover. Then the senator stepped aside. “Come on over here,” called the President, “and make it respectable.” “Would that do it?” queried Watson. The President did not reply.

seeming a little drab by comparison. St. Louis wasn’t up with the spirit of up and coming America, which demanded that every city keep on building furiously new apartment houses, hotels, office buildings, athletic clubo—anything —whether there were tenants in sight or not. The population was less inclined in 1929 to turn in good securities for the bounding market favorites of the big boom. So now they have on their hands less of those deflated bond and stock certificates which are hardly worth using as wall paper. They didn’t try to have two cars in every garage. St. Louis people admit business is far below normal. Bank clearings last month were more than 40 per cent below normal. Out of 387,000 persons normally gainfully employed, conflicting estimates of unemployed range from 45,000 to 75,000. The city spent $450,000 for relief last year. A community drive to raise $3,000,000 had to be extended this week because only half the sum was raised in the allotted time. “But you can be sure St. Louis will not ask for federal aid,” said M. M. Drake of the Chamber of Commerce. “St. Louis refused Red Cross aid after its two cyclones. It cared for its own. It will do the same this time.”

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SUICIDE VICTIM’S RITESJRE SET Mrs. Evelyn Langdon to Be Buried Monday. Funeral services for Mrs. Evelyn Langdon, 22, who committed suicide by asphyxiation in her apartment at 1001 North Delaware street on Thursday night, will be held at 2 Monday afternoon at Finn Brothers’ funeral parlors, 1639 North Meridian street. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Mrs. Langdon ended her life after she was arrested with another woman and four men, who participated in an alleged brawl and robbery In

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the apartment. Mrs. Langdon was slugged by one of the men and robbed of $lO. Two men face trial on robbery charges a* result of the brawl. Mrs. Langdon was born in Indianapolis in 1909 and always had lived here. She was a graduate of School 8, and attended Technical high school. Survivors are her husband, Ray Langdon, now serving a term at the Indiana reformatory for robbery; Junior 4, a son, and her parents, Mrs. Charles Hersey, 307 South Gray street. Before ending her life the woman

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wrote three notes, one to her mother, asking that Junior be well cared for, and another to her mother-in-law, Mrs. W. A. Langdon, 1712 Central avenue. In the third note she asked that her mother be notified of the tragedy.

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