Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 175, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 December 1931 — Page 6

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STREY CHARGES PAYOFF IN JORS TO LEGISLATORS Utilities’ Friends Get Posts on Service Commission, Says Senator. Charge that legislators who “play ball" with big utility interests, are rewarded with places on the public eervice commiss.tm was made today by State Senator Charles L. Strey (Rep. Wabasn and Kosciusko) in a statement to the press. He cited the three to two decisions in the North Manchester electric case as the ‘'horrible example” and declared that “the people haven't a chance.” Meanwhile, Commissioner Harry K. Cuthbertson, former state senator, one of the trio voting to forbid hearing the North Manchester petition for public ownership of Insull power lines there, is preparing a defense of his stand in the mat-

ter, it was learned. Uphold Town’s Rights Others who voted against hearing the North Manchester petition were Chairman John W. McCardle and Commissioner Jere West. Commissioners Frank Singleton, who presided in the case, and Howell Ellis voted to deny the Insull motion to dismiss the case and wrote memorandums upholding the town's rights in the flatter. Etroy’s “The rejection 6f the North Manchester light plea by the public service commission recently should convince the public that they haven’t a fighting chance with this body. It is quite evident that the policies of the public service commission are dictated by big utility interests. “Usually Play Ball” “I learned from observations as a legislator that the boys who usually ‘play ball’ with the big utility and other large interests land the jobs on some of these needless and expensive commissions—that’s one of the reasons why people haven’t a chance to get a square deal from these public servants. “Therefore, the people should demand abolition of these commissions at the earliest possible date, unless they want to ‘take it on the chin’ continuously.” HEART ATTACK FATAL TO AGED CITY WOMAN Miss Emma Lemmen, 82, Dies While Walking Near Home. Stricken as she walked near her home at Forty-second street and Emerson avenue, Miss Emma Lemmen, 82, R. R. 15, Box 784, fell dead from heart disease today. She was accompanied by her sister Ella, 78, who attempted to keep her from falling to the roadway. Deputy sheriffs and Coronor Fred W. Vehling were called by R. W. Cory, 441 South Webster street, health board inspector, who saw Miss Lemmen collapse. The deceased woman, her sisters, Misses Ella and Inez Lemmen, have lived on the farm for more than ten years. They moved to Marion county from Ohio in 1882 and have lived on other farms in the northeast section of the rity since.

LAST RITES SET FOR STREET CAR VICTIM Funeral Services to Be Held on Wednesday for Jesse Peck. Funeral services will be held at 2 Wednesday afternoon at the Flanner & Buchanan mortuary for Jesse Peck, 53, of 6 South Tuxedo street, injured fatally Monday when struck by a street car near his home. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Peck, a resident of the city thirty-two years, was on his way to work when the accident occurred. He attempted to run across the street to catch the street car and was struck by another going in the opposite direction. He was a native of Zanesville, O. Survivors, in addition to the widow, are four sisters, Mrs. Dora Scott, Bluflton; Mrs. Eva Woods and Mrs. Mary Woods, all of Ft. Wayne, and Mrs. Mattie Hill, Dayton, 0., and a brother, Charles Peck, also of Dayton. WILL CASE NEAR JURY Sister, Nephews Seek Shares in $35,000 Estate. Probate court jury this afternoon was expected to receive the case in which a sister and nephews of the late John C. Bailey of Ben Davis are seeking to have a will, disposing of a $35,000 estate, set aside. The trial has been under way since Nov. 17. Scores of witnesses have been heard by the jury. Mrs. Mary Miller, sister of the deceased man, and Wayne and Paul Bush, nephews, alleged Mr. Bailey was influenced in leaving his estate to charitable, lodge and church organizations. MEDAL RITES ON AIR WKBF to Broadcast Presentation to City Officers. Award of the Northwest Police Journal medal for distinguished service to Harold Morton, motorcycle policeman, who captured an alleged rum runner in a gun battle on the west side several months ago. will be broadcast at 9 tonight over WKBF. The ceremony will be in charge of Andrew J. Allen, secretary of the Associated Employers of Indianapolis and chairman of the Citizens’ Police Radio commission. Following the capture, Morton was promoted to detective sergeant and was commended for bravery by the safety board and Police Chief Mike Morrissey. COPS~SEEK~COW~THIEF Jersey Is Stolen From Barn at 3360 Jennings Street. A kingdom may be sacrificed; this time for a cow. not a horse. Mrs. John Short, 3360 Jennings street, informed police today that a Jersey cow had been stolen from the barn in the rear of her home Monday night. Police have assured Mrs. Short Miat if the culprit is captured, his of liberty will be lost.

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HUNGER MARCH MOVES EAST; ONE HELD HERE Trial of Man Pinched at Statehouse Is Set for Dec. 11. While the “hunger march” caravan that visited Indianapolis Monday moved eastward toward Washington today, one man remained under arrest here as a result of the local demonstration. He was the only person taken into custody. ' R. G. Clark, R. R. 5, Indianapolis, arrested when he was ejected by police from the office of Harry G. Leslie during the unemployment meeting, is charged with disorderly conduct and vagrancy. His trial has been set for Dec. 11 in the court of Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron. A “personally conducted tour of the city,” was accorded the delegation of sixty-three visiting hunger marchers by Police Chief Mike Morrissey. Morrissey met the auto and truck caravan as it entered the city, told caravan chiefs and leaders of the city Unemployed Council that there would be no meeting on the statehouse grounds, as scheduled, and remained with the marchers until they reached Workers Center, 932 Ms South Meridian street, following a parade through downtown streets. During the attempted demonstration a strong guard of city and state policemen guarded entrance of the statehouse while a reserve of twenty national guardsmen waq held inside the building. Headed by a guard of motorcycle cops, and accompanied by mounties, the downtown parade was followed by Chief Morrissey and squad cars. All other squad cars were held under orders to be ready for emergencies. Governor Harry G. Leslie awaited a delegation of the marchers in his office, but was informed by police after the meeting at the statehouse entrance that the delegation would not visit him.

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Times-Circle Opportunity Is Here; Bring Your Canned Goods. You enjoyed your warm breakfast, your tasteful lunch, your bountiful dinner yesterday. So did thousands of other Indianapolis people. But other thousands w r ent hungry while you feasted and they 11 go hungry again today and tomorrow and other days, unless they get help. And here is your chance to help, and enjoy yourself while you help. You can go home w T ith the knowledge that you have done a good deed for others less fortunate than you are. The Times, co-operat-'ng wdth B. V. Sturdivant, zone manager of the Skouras-Publix theaters in the territory, today arranged for collection of canned goods for the city’s needy, through the Circle theater, this food to be turned over to the Salvation Army for distribution. Every youngster v.ho brings a can of food to the Cirele theater Friday night or Saturday afternoon will be admitted to the theater without other charge to see the talking picture entitled “Secret Service,” starring Richard Dix. Starting at 6 o’clock Friday night, canned goods will serve as tickets, and their acceptance wall be continued until 6 o’clock Saturday night. Tomatoes, com, beans, peas—anything in the canned goods line—will be received gratefully. However, an especial plea has been made for home-canned fruit. Bring them unwrapped, to prevent accumulation of lifter at the theater entrance. Bring two or three cans if you have them to spare. Adjutant Arthur V. Cass of the Salvation Army has requested. HIAWATHA PROVES POINT His Testimony Sends Man He Knifed to State Penal Farm. Hiawatha Johnson, Negro, 1322 North Senate avenue, has been vexed by the insistence of John Price, Negro, 1300 North Senate avenue, in hiding alcohol tins under Johnson's back steps. Today, before Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron, Johnson explained that was why he carved Price with a knife Monday. Because of his testimony, Cameron suspended a $25 fine against Johnson on a deadly weapon count and sentenced Price to sixty days on the state farm and added a SIOO fine for good measure on a blind tiger count. Meet After 63 Years By Time s Special ELLISVILLE, Ind., Dec. I.—lsaac N. May, 86, met his sister. Mrs. Minera Anderson, 83, Glencoe, Okla., fox the first time in sixtythree yea t “, at a family reunion held in Kansas.

“Hunger marchers” paraded through the Indianapolis business district Monday after they were refused permission to hold a demonstration on statehouse grounds, and their committee was prevented by police in its efforts to reach Governor Harry G. Leslie, who waited in his office for them. “We Want Permanent Relief, Not Charity,” “Against Police Terrorism,” “Demand Unemployment Insurance,” read some of the banners carried by the marchers.

FUNERAL RITES SET Death Claims Two City Men and Woman. Funeral services for B. E. Canary, 55, of 416 Bancroft street, who died Monday in Methodist hospital, were to be held at 2:30 today in the Flanner & Buchanan mortuary. Mr. Canary, who had been employed in the Kingan & Cos. purchasing department for many years was a member of the Metropolitan orchestra. Services for John Burke, 1321 Marlow avenue, former school No. 7 custodian, who died Sunday, will be held at 9 Wednesday in Holy Cross Catholic church. Burial will be in Holy Cross cemetery. Born in Ireland, Mr. Burke came to Indianapolis at the age of 19. Last rites were held at 11:30 today at the home for Mrs. Alice Taylor Derry, 5821 Central avenue, who died of pneumonia Sunday. Burial was to be at Shelbyville. She was the wife of Albert Derry, broker. Ashes of Mrs. Jemima A. Wills, former local resident, who died Sunday in Norwalk, Conn., will be brought to Indianapolis for burial. The body was to be cremated following services in Norwalk today. BAN ON SHULER STICKS Pastor Must Stay Off Air Until Appeal Is Decided, Ruling By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. I.—The District of Columbia court of appeals today refused to permit the Rev. Bob Shuler' of Los Angeles to resume radio broadcasting pending his appeal from the federal radio commission order which ruled his station off the air.

MAIL CLUB CHECKS Banks Begin Distribution of . Christmas Savings. A flood of gold expected to find its way into stores and play a part in the return of prosperity today was pouring forth from Indianapolis banks in the form of Christmas savings club checks. Nearly 15,000 Indianapolis shoppers will share in the small fortune, totaling apporximately a halfmillion dollars, banks reported. Most banks maintaining Christmas savings clubs began mailing checks to depositors today, although a few will not mail checks until Dec. 10. Some of the banks do not mail checks, but require depositors to call for the checks in person. Checks distributed will average $33 each, an increase of approximately $4 over the average last year, bankers report. Twins Born to Widow By Times Special ORLEANS, Ind., Dec. I.—Twins boys were born to Mrs. Harry Patton at her home in French Lick township, the day after their father, 31, died.

INDIANA OIL MEN TO OPEN 2-DAY PARLEY

Many to Address State Association in Sessions at Severin. Means of putting the independent oil jobber on an even competitive basis with major companies will be discussed by Paul R. Kempf, secretary of Dixie Distributors, Inc., of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in his ad-

dress at the annual two-day convention of the Indiana Petroleum Association, opening Wednesday at the Severin. Herbert F. Davis, for two years president of the association and president of the Service Oil and Gas Company, Sullivan, will stress the necessity of organization. Floyd E. Williamson, state au-

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COUNTY OFFICE CHOICES MADE BY DEMOCRATS Clarke Picked for Attorney, Schlotz Named Head of Poor Farm. (Continued from Page 1) county commissioners from a choice of two, Clarke and Gideon Blain, of Kane, Blain & Hollowell, who is Democartic Third ward chairman. Clarke is a brother of Walter Clarke, attorney for the Center township trustee. He was a member of the state senate in 1913 and 1915 and was a candidate for the congressional nomination several years ago. The attorney’s salary has been reduced from $4,500 to $3,400. Wanamaker Man Chosen Despite the claims that Charles Mann, incumbent county highway superintendent, has a four-year contract, he will be succeeded Jan. 1 by John S. Mann of Wanamaker, owner of Mann’s chicken dinner place, the commissioners declared today. Until 1913 Mann owned a livery stable on Wabash avenue. He has had road construction experience on state highway work. For several years he has been vice-president of the Wanamaker state bank. The highway superintendent’s salary has been reduced from $lO a day tc SB. The 1532 appropriation for the salary totals $2,544. The new courthouse custodian, Maurice F. Reilly, has been employed as a tool etcher by E. C. Atkins & Cos. for thirty-five years. He has been precinct committeeman in Washington township several terms. The post pays $1,200. Pierson Is Bailiff Verl Pierson, who succeeds James McConnell as bailiff of the commissioner’s court, is a Beech Grove insurance man. He was elected town clerk there in 1917 and 1919 and was deputy township assessor from 1922 to 1926, when he was elected to the Beech Grove school board. The bailiff’s salary has been reduced from $1,500 to $1,350. Both Vorhies and Ellis joined in saying that only active Democratic workers were appointed and an effort was made to secure representation for each township. Several scores of minor appointments remain to be made. POISON TALK IS SLATED Dr. R. N. Harger, Toxicologist, to Speak at I. U. Building. Poisons and poisoners will be discussed tonight at 8 by Dr. R. N. Harger, associate professor of biochemistry and toxicology at the In-

diana university school of medicine, at the extension di v i sion building. Dr. Harger is well known in the state for his testimonies in poison trials of D. C. Stephenson, Vi rgil Kirkland and Mrs. Carrie Simmons. The lecture is one of a series on recent de v elopments in medicine and is open

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to the public. Other discussions will be on bacteriology by Dr. T. R. Rice and the heart by Dr. G. S. Bond. Liquor on Purdue Campus LAFAYETTE, Ind., Dec. I.—A drive against campus bootleggers at Purdue University will be planned here this afternoon when Howard Long, deputy prohibition director for northern Indiana, will confer with university officials.

Other speeches Wednesday of interest to dealers and station superintendents will be made by Hugo Wagenseil, advertising and merchandising counselor for Calumet Refining Company; E. L. Barringer, editorial department of the National Petroleum News of Cleveland, and J. Howard Pile, supervising ecVor of Check-Chart Corporation, Chicago, and Technical editor of Motor World and Automobile Trade Journal. Wednesday’s session will close with a banquet at 6. Thursday’s meeting will open with a noon luncheon. “Needed Oil Legislation in Indiana” will be discussed by State Senator H. V. Tormohlen of Portland, Ind. “The Future of Indiana Oil Markets” will be given by Frank W. Lovejoy, Vacuum Oil Company of New York. Possibility of eliminating the service station from the chain stor? taxation bill, will be presented by John Oscar Dowin, associate-gen-eral counsel of the Indian Refining Cos., of Lawrenceville. Max L. Wickersham, executive secretary of the association, and E. V. Weber, president of the Ohio Marketing Association, also will speak. The convention will close with a business meeting and election of ofi fleers.

STOVE BLAST RAINS BLAZING OIL ONWOMAN Victim’s Recovery Dubious; Oil Tank Explosion Injures Man. Covered with flaming coal oil when a stove in ner home exploded today, Mrs. Mertha Swineford. 51, of 837 Joseph street, in the Biltmore addition, west of the city, was burned critically. She. was rushed to the city hospital where physicians said her chances for recovery are slight. In another oil blast at the Par-x-Oil Company, 2939 Columbia avenue, G. L. Smith, 3941 McPherson avenue, was burned early today. Mrs. Swineford was caught in the wave of flaming fluid after she had thrown the oil on hot ashes in the firebox of the stove. Screaming for help, the woman fell to the floor and wrapped a rug around her body, after her apparel already had been burned from her. She stumbled from the house into the arms of Dewey Smith and Herbert Orr of Ben Davis, who ran to her home when they heard her screams. She was taken to the home of Mrs. F. E. Key, where neighbors gave her first aid until arrival of an ambulance. Mrs. Swineford, a widow, had lived in the cottage in the suburban addition several years. She has a brother, Harry Sutherland of Fortville, who works in a garage in the northeast section of Marion county. The house, furnishings and money Mrs. Swineford had saved from laundry work were destroyed before the arrival of apparatus from Engine House 18. In the oil company fire, the refinery plant was damaged more than SI,OOO, according to firemen. Smith was alone at the plant when the tank exploded. He said he was standing nearby and that his clothing and face were covered with the flaming liquid. Without calling for aid., Smith ran from tjie building, a one-story block structure, beating out the flames with his hands. v He summoned fire apparatus and was given first aid by firemen. Th# fire was extinguished without serious damage to the refining machinery, firemen said. Smith declined to be taken to city hospital and remained at the plant. LIG HT-FIN GE R EDM 0B ACTIVE, CHIEF WARNS City lo Be ‘Hot Spot’ During Holidays, Cops Are Told. Indianapolis will be a “hot spot” for shoplifters, thieves and racketeers during the Christmas season, according to instructions given policemen today by Police Chief Mike Morrissey. In an order issued at roll call, Morrissey directed officers to literally “camp on the trail” of suspicious characters, and arrest them at once if they fail to heed orders to “get out of town.” Policewomen were directed to keep sharp outlodk in all department stores for pickpockets and shoplifters. The order further directed officers to treat out-of-town shoppers with utmost courtesy, and to aid them in locating business houses they intend to patronize. MINSTREL TO BE HELD Choir to Present Fourth Annual Show at Masonic Temple. Choir of Pentalpha lodge, No. 564, F. & A. M., will present its fourth annual minstrel show and dance Saturday night at 8:15 o’clock in the auditorium of Masonic temple, Illinois and North streets Solo numbers will be sung by Hallie Mitchell, Lloyd Mosiman, Dr. Farrington, Willis Milam, Bert Moon, Richard Hartley, William Brink and John Glazier. The choir directed by Arnold Spencer will be assisted in its Christmas charity show by Roy Wood, popular radio entertainer. AND THERPST REASON Support Children or Pool Cue, Says Judge; Man Chooses Children. When it came to choosing between a pool cue and support of his children, Charles Jines, 49 South Addison street, today chose the children. He was charged with being a lazy husband by his wife, who claimed he would rather be in a poolroom than at home. Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron directed Jines to pay $6 a week for the support of his family, despite Jines’ assertion that he had his wife were estranged. “Suit yourself,” Cameron said. “You can decide between a pool cue and your children. If you take the pool cue, remember it’s backed up with a term on the state farm.”

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DUVALLS ARE HURT IN AUTO ACCIDENT

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John L. Duvall Former Mayor, Wife Suffer Body Bruises, Cuts as Car Overturns. When their car was overturned in an accident at Forty-ninth street and Washington boulevard today, John L. Duvall, former Indianapolis mayor, and his wife, Mrs. Maude Duvall, were injured. The former mayor incurred head lacerations and his left shoulder and arm were injured. He was sent to the city hospital by police. Mrs. Duvall was bruised on the arms and body, and was treated by a neighborhood physician. Driving south on Washington boulevard, the Duvalls were en route downtown from their home, 6327 Bellefontaine avenue. A car driven east on Forty-ninth street by Mrs. Nancy E. Stenzel, 650 East Twenty-fifth street, collided with the Duvall car. Mrs. Stenzel was uninjured. William Hall, 6171 Cornell avenue, riding with the Duvalls, incurred body and arm injuries. He was taken to city hospital. Convicted on Statutory Charges Convicted on statutory charges, Miss Gene Rogers, 1723 North Meridian street, and Carl Ferguson, Waverly, Ind., each were sentenced thirty days in penal institutions and fined $25 and costs. Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron meted out the judgments.

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CHARGE ACID ATTACK Women Are Held in Alleged Street Brawl. Four Negro women and a Negro man were held in city prison today after two of the women are alleged to have thrown acid on a white man in an attack near the downtown district Monday night. Two of the women were identified by Louis Risto, 34, of 27 South California street, as the persons who accosted him as he walked in the 400 block West Vermonth street, throwing acid on him when he resisted their attempts to talk to him. Those held are Mildred Haines, 22, and Frances Haldon, 24, both of 433 West Vermont street, r-d Kathryn, 40, and Bessie Vurtis, 29, both of 436 Tippecanoe street, and Jack Murray, 29, of the Tippecanoe street address. Risto identified the Haines and Ross women as the two who accosted him, according to detectives. The three other persons were arrested when police raided a room said to have been occupied by the quintet. Wires Melt; Fire Ruins Home By United Press AMES, Neb., Dec. 1.--Because fire melted the telephone wires and cut off all communication, Ida Olzen’s home was burned to the ground be- j fore aid arrived.

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2.000 MASONS WILL WITNESS DEGREE WORK Ceremonials to Be Held on Wednesday as Part of Reunion Rites. Nearly 2.000 members of Scottish Rite bodies attending the semi-an-nual convocation and reunion at the cathedral, will witness ceremonials of the twenty-first to the thirtieth degrees on Wednesday. The eighty-six candidates who will be inducted through the twentieth degree tonight will be conducted through the twenty-seventh degree of “knight commander of the temple” Wednesday by members of the Madison county Scottish Rite Club. A. V. Reschlar of Anderson, master of ceremonies of Indiana Sovereign Consistory, will preside. Dr. James W. Putnam of Butler university and William Forsyth, noted Indiana artist, will address members of the “Ten thousand” class of 1924 at a buffet-supper in the cathedral tonight at. 6 o'clock. Members of the 1931 class of Engene Vatet will dine at the Scottish Rite cathedral tonight at 6:15. Dr. Loon Zerfas of Indianapolis, president, will preside. Impressive ceremonies of the nineteenth or “grand pontiff” degree, first of the philosophical and historical series, will be exemplified tonight by a cast chosen from the Henry County Scottish Rite Club. Martin L. Koons of Newcastle, vicechairman of the state activities committee, is in charge of the work. Outstanding in its presentation of degrees from the fourth to the fourteenth, Adoniram Grand lodge of Perfection closed induction of candidates by its members with presentation of the fourteenth degree Monday night David C. Pyke, thrice potent master, presided at ceremonials m which every member of the class participated. TOM MIX PAST CRISIS Continues to Improve at Hollywood Hospital Attendants Say. By United Press HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Dec. I. Condition of Tom Mix. motion picture actor who is recovering from peritonitis, the result of a ruptured appendix, continued to improve today. Although physicians’ statements continued to be conservative, hospital attendants considered him well over the crisis.