Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 186, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 December 1931 — Page 9
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MORE RESPECT GIVEN LAW AS GROUP WORKED Offenses Less During Drive by Indiana Crime Commission. GAIN IN VIOLENT CASES Murders and Robberies Increase Despite Smaller Total of Violations. During 1930, when the Indiana crime commission waged a statewide campaign for more effective law enforcement, there was a sharp decrease in the number of law violations as compared with the two previous years, it is revealed today in a report compiled by the state legislative bureau under direction of Charles Kettleborough. The number of criminal offenses charged in all of the state’s courts in 1930 was 86,148, as compared with 90,518 in 1929 and 93,447 in 1928. But while the total number of erimes decreased, there was a decided increase in those usually committed by hardened criminals. Crimes in which increases were noted were homicide, criminal attack, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny, forgery and counterfeiting, embezzlement, fraud and sex offenses. Decreases were noted in miscellaneous assaults, carrying and possessing weapons, offense against family and children, disorderly conduct and vagrancy, gambling and Violations of city ordinances. Conviction Ratio High Evidence of direct results in the crime commission's attempt to tighten court procedure and thus prevent violators from escaping punishment by legal maneuvers was seen in the fact that 62 per cent of all persons accused of violations were" convicted, and only 30.1 per cent were dismissed or acquitted. The percentage of conviction is considered high compared to preceding years. Os the number convicted, 14.6 per cent were sent to jail or to a state penal institution, while 36.5 per cent were fined only. Statistics on civil cases filed in all courts in 1930 show that judgment was rendered in 69 per cent of the cases disposed of during the year, while 27.8 per cent were dismissed and 3.2 per cent were taken to other courts on venue changes. Civil Cases Increase There were 13,960 more civil cases pending at the close of the year in 1930 than at the close of 1929, an increase of 24.2 per cent, the report said. The statistics disclosed an increase in the number of arrests for driving while intoxicated and liquor law violations. The number of drunken drivers taken to court increased from 1,909 in 1928 to 2,120 in 1930, and liquor law violations increased from 8,046 in 1928 to 9,033 in 1930. Arrests for drunkenness increased to 17,440 in 1929 against 16,650 in 1928, and then decreased to 16,224 in 1930. The report showed that in each year, the arrests for drunkenness outnumbered those for any other offense. Forty-five and one-half per cent of the 86,148 criminal offenses charged in all courts during 1930 were for violations of liquor and automobile laws. This figure was a decrease of 6 per cent from the preceding. year, the report said. Traffic law violations decreased to 11,826 in 1930 from the 1929 mark of 13,400. despite an increased number of automobiles in the state.
More Burglaries The number of robbery and burglary ca-ses more than doubled in the three-year period, as did the number of forgery and counterfeiting cases. Robbery cases numbered 333 in 1928, compared with 851 in 1930. There were 614 burglary cases in 1928 and 1,641 in 1930. Forgery and counterfeiting offenses increased in number from 320 in 1928 to 644 in 1930, and embezzlement and fraud cases increased from 1,392 in 1928 to 2.062 in 1930. There was a less rapid increase in most crimes of violence, the report showed. Homicide cases numbered 154 in 1928 compared with 248 in 1929 and 361 in 1930. Statutory offense 'cases totaled 216 in 1928, 200 in 1929 and 348 in 1930. Aggravated assault cases, however, increased from 477 in 1928 to 1,905 in 1930. Sex offenses, other than statutory cases, increased from 2,131 tin 1929 to 2,508 in 1930. The greatest decreases were recorded in disorderly conduct and vagrancy offenses which totaled 10.849 in 1928 and only 2,667 in 1930, and in gambling offenses which numbered 2,667 in 1930 compared with 5.188 in 1928. 200 GALLONS OF RUM SEIZED BY DRY AGENTS t Whisky and Champagne. Intended for Indianapolis, Strikes Detour. Two hundred gallons of whisky and champagne struck a detour en route to Indianapolis over the weekend and, consequently, will not arrive here to quench the holiday thirst of dry law snubbers. Prohibition agents at Lafayette blocked the trip of the booze from Boston, to Indianapolis. According to northern Indiana dry agents, the liquor was in barrels marked “oil” and consigned to a fictitious oil company at Lafayette. The “contact” man for the consignment had placed the liquor in a Lafayette warehouse and said he would return for it later. It was supposed to be removed to Indianapoli* by truck, agents said. The liquor, contained in quart, pint and half pint bottles, was valued at $7,000.
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Pinchot Hopes to Pedal Way Into White House By I'nital I’re*s HARRISBURG, Pa., Dec. 14.—Governor Gifford Pinchot has announced he favors the “return of the mustache cup and the old-fashioned trouser clip” in discussing the 1932 presidential campaign with Eddie Cantor, the comedian. In a magazine article discussing presidential possibilities. Cantor ruled him out because the White House would have to be re-
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“I understand that you think it impossible to get into the White House on a bicycle. With the government still doing nothing about the depression, except wish on the short end of a wishbone, the fellow who still has a bicycle left has the jump on the rest of the country that’s junking its automobiles and walking,” Pinchot wrote. ‘ I never have been an exponent of the close shave theory of politics. For a lot of people it goes against the grain. You aren’t complimenting a man when you call him smooth-faced.”
TORNADO TAKES TERRIFIC TOLL Arkansas Child Is Killed, Property Loss Great. By United Pres* LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Dec. 14. Four southwest Arkansas towns lay stricken today by a tornado that claimed one life, injured more than a score of persons, and did hundreds of thousands of dollars’ damage. Crews of workmen, aided by national guardsmen, were sent into the area today to clear away debris and search ruined buildings for other possible casualties. Five-year-old Helen Colvert was killed at Camden, where the storm struck first. Her parents and 2-year-old sister, Louise, were injured so seriously they may not live. The twister ripped through the business section of Camden and then out over the state to Waldo, Bluff City and Stephens. It cut a wide swath and farms along its route were damaged. Damaged communication lines were being repaired today. Roads were cleared of fallen trees and other wreckage and railroad service between the stricken towns was resumed. More than twenty-five residences were wrecked and an estimate placed the damage in the towns at close to a million dollars. This did not include the rural sections. A heavy rain accompanied the twister. NEGRO REDS INCREASING Communist Gains Among Race Is Laid to Jobs Prejudice. By United I’mxs NEW YORK, Dec. 14.—Negroes are being discriminated against in apportionment of work to unemployed, and thus axe made easy converts to Communism, T. Arnold Hill, director of the industrial relations department of the National Urban League, charged today. The result has been that sympathy with the Communist cause has grown among Negroes, Hill Qoncluded. He said Communists had gained followers in Atlanta, Birmingham, Washington, New York, Detroit, Oklahoma City, South Bend, Ind., Chicago and Indianapolis. WOMAN HURT IN FALL Topples Down Stairs, Breaking Arm and Suffering Cuts. Falling downstairs at the residence of a friend early Sunday, Mrs. Stella Koehler, 47, of 1726 Cottage avenue, Apartment 3, sustained a broken arm, face cuts and internal injuries. Mrs. Koehler and her husband were spending the night with Mrs. Eldon Rogers, 1557 Barth avenue. ; Mrs. Koehler was taken to city hos- ; pital.
PAVING IS ‘FOUGHT’ BY DEAD PERSONS
Disclosure that three persons whose names were included in a remonstrance against paving of Villa avenue have been dead for a number of years, and that two others are nonresidents of the city, were made today in Superior court three. This was learned when Judge William A. Pickens, on motion of James E. Deerv, city attorney, ordered David F. Smith, attorney for the remonstrators, to file writ-
Girl, 7, Is Jailed for Rifling Postal Boxes By United Press MERCED. Cal., Dec. 14.—The full force of the government of the United States appeared pitted today against Amalia Villabolos, 7, and the frail little girl was in jail, weeping. No formal charge was against her name, but federal officers who placed her in jail four days ago accused her of the theft of mail, a felony. Amalia was so frightened when officers took her away from her father and mother and her two brothers and sister, that she war. unable to talk. Amalia is accused of going through postoffice lock boxes and removing the contents. Frequently she found colored slips of paper in envelopes. Amalia said she cut out paper dolls from th*m. Postoffice investigators said many of the dolls were cut from checks.
modeled to permit Pinchot’s entrance on account of the “handle-bar” mustache he affects. Pinchot, whose given nam is Gifford, although Cantc called him “Amos,” remindt the comedian that “there ar two ways of going through door.” The Governor sent Cantc a letter suggesting “return c the mustache cup,” defendir. the political significance o. his own facial adornment, and intimating that a “fellow on a bicycle” has the best chance of reaching the White House.
SIOO,OOO Libel, Charged in Suit by Ackermann By United Press SOUTH BEND, Ind., Dec. 14. The South Bend Tribune was named defendant in a SIOO,OOO libel suit filed here today by Rudolph Ackermann ousted as city controller two weeks ago by Mayor W. R. Hinkle. Ackermann charges that the Tribune, expressing its favor of Hinkle’s action, published news stories and editorials which he claims were libelous, scandalous and injurious to his character and reputation. The South Bend city council tonight will hear Ackermann’s charges that his dismissal was brought by his efforts to block Hinkle’s alleged attempt to protect vice and gambling in South Bend. Appointment of Harry S. Taylor, Republican, twice prosecuting attorney of St. Joseph county, as a deputy of Attorney-General James M. Ogden, is the topic of much comment, due to the strife in the city administration involving Hinkle and Ackermann. William A. Bertsch, St. Joseph county chairman, declared that in a conference with Ogden prior to the appointment, the Hinkle-Acker-mann incident was touched “only lightly.” It is recalled that after Ogden made charges regarding vice and liquor conditions in Marion and Lafayette, investigations resulted.
BOY SCOUT HANGED Lad Apparently Victim of Knot Tying Test. By United Press NORTHEAST HARBOR, Me., Dec. 14.—Everett Allan, 14-year-old Boy Scout, was dead today, apparently a victim of his own knot-tying prowess. A few hours after he had attended Sunday school Sunday his body was found hanging from a tree limb on the summer estate of Mrs. Harriet Eltinge of Philadelphia. After investigating, authorities decided the scout, who spent much time experimenting with the rope, climbed the tree, placed a noose around his neck, then fell to his death. Allan’s hands were tied behind his back, but investigators said the boy undoubtedly bound them himself. Bomb Explodes in Theater By United Press GARY, Ind., Dec. 14. —An audience composed largely of children was terrorized here when a bomb exploded in the rear of the theater. No one was injured in a rush for exits, and in a few minutes the film,' a western “thriller,” was resumed. Labor trouble is blamed for the blast.
ten authority of his appearance as counsel for the dead persons. The remonstrance petition was filed before Pickens after the wonts board overruled objection of the remonstrators and ordered the paving laid. According to information filed by Deery, Mrs. Margaret Kammerling, George W. Spencer and Frank Biacftwell. three of the remonstrators, died several years ago. and Mrs. Mayme Blackwell and Mary M. Norris, two other objectors, are nonresidents.
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U.S. SAILORS ! MENAGE LIFE OFJAPANESE Hundreds of Seamen Riot in Honolulu; Kidnap, Beat Attack Suspect. MARINES CALLED OUT Battle Rages Throughout Night; Police Unable to Curb Throng. BY DAN CAMPBELL United Press Staff Correspondent HONOLULU, Hawaii, Dec. 14. Military officials today maintained peace in this city, torn by rioting which Started Saturday, when United States sailors kidnaped a Japanese accused in an assault on a white woman and threatened to hurl him off a 1,030-foot cliff. Eight riot calls had been turned in before order finally was restored by combined efforts of naval, marine and local police officers. All leave was canceled at the navy station, one of the largest owned- by the United States. Naval patrols were doubled in the city. A company of marines was brought from Pearl Harbor for police duty. Captain J. D. Wilson, commanding the navy yard, and Rear Admiral Yates Stirling Jr. took personal charge of the situation. Punishment Is Demanded The trouble started late Saturday. American sailors demanded punishment for five men charged with criminal assault on the wife of a naval officer. They kidnaped one of the defendants, Horace Ida, a Japanese. They threatened to hurl him over the historic Pali, a precipice 1,000 feet high. According to the police, Ida was stripped, beaten, and left unconscious by the roadside. The police were unable to handle the situation when rioting developed and called for aid from the naval station. Marines arrived from Pearl Harbor and aided the regular details of military police in rounding up several hundred sailors. Fighting continued throughout Saturday night and early Sunday. Three of the codefendants with Ida, all freed when their trial ended with a hung jury, were taken into custody for protection after the Japanese was kidnaped.
Sailors Kidnap Suspect According to the police version, the events of the week-end developed as follows: Police were told that several automobiles loaded with sailors, said to have been armed, had left the navy yard and were looking for Ida and the other defendants. One group of sailors kidnaped Ida from a downtown street, took him several miles up in the mountains to the Pali, one of the most famous scenic spots in Hawaii, and forced him to the edge of the precipice. According to legend, King Kamahameha ordered his army to drive hostile natives over the precipice to their death on the rocks below, when he was struggling to unite Hawaii in the eighteenth century, % Life Is Threatenend The sailors were alleged to have threatened Ida with hanging, but to have relented after producing a rope. According to the police, the Japanese then was forced to strip. He was beaten with belt buckles and pistol butts. He was thrown by the side of the road and found by a motorist, who took him to hospital. Ida’s condition was not critical, it was said at the hospital, although he was beaten badly. Meanwhile, police received a tip from a taxicab driver that sailors were planning to wreck the Waikiki park dance hall, where the alleged assault was reported. Riot squads were rushed to the park. They dispersed groups of sailors, but fighting started in several other districts. One sailor and one civilian were taken to hospital as the result of street clashes. PASTORS TO CONVENE Lutheran Conference to Be Held at First English Church. Lutheran pastors of the Indianapolis conference were to meet today. for a pre-Christmas meeting in First English Lutheran church. “Outside the Church No Salvation,” the principal address, was to be given by the Rev. H. E. Turney of Columbus, Ind. The Rev. H. C. Hadley, Elwood, also is scheduled to speak. Following the luncheon, to be served by the Y. M C A, a business meeting will be held with the Rev Allen K. Trout presiding. Drops Fee for Marriages By United l'rcss FRANKLIN, Pa., Dec. 14.—Young couples “with the courage to marry these days” should not be charged a fee, Mayor Harry Ferringer told city council. Council showed its approval by providing the mayor with anew seal.
HUNTERS, IN WATER ALL NIGHT, SAVED
j By Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind., Dec. 14.—R. L. Perkins and George Voelz of this ! city, after remaining in water up to their armpits most of Sunday night, : were rescued early today by Al : Sweeney, farmer in the Ogilvilie ! neighborhood, seven miles southwest of here. The men accidentally stepped into the swollen waters of a creek while hunting. Both are I suffering from exposure. The men, with their dogs, were making their way through a dense woods and were caught in a downpour of rain. They were unable to see their way and '.believed they were
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More than four thousand persons, many of them war veterans, inspected the new United States Veterans’ hospital on Cold Springs road, at its dedication Sunday. , In the upper photo, are shown a few of the thousands jammed at the doorway, seeking entrance. Below are a group of the notables who spoke or
AIRMAN'S LEAP SAVES PLANE Craft Lightened and Pilot Lands It Safely. By United Press GREENCASTLE, Ind., Dec. 14. An aviator’s daring leap from a plunging plane permitted the pilot to right the ship and bring it safely to earth near Danville. The aviator, Richard Scanlon, 30, came down in Greencastle. He suffered a leg fracture and bruises, falling to a street after crashing through high tension wires. It was his first parachute leap. Frank Spring, 45, pilot, returned to Greencastle after landing the ship. Scanlon and Spring left St. Louis Sunday morning en route to Detroit. Striking heavy fog, they became lost and wandered for several hours. At 700 feet, the ship, a light monocoupe, went into a nose dive. Scanlon leaped so that Spring, with the plane lightened, would have less difficulty in righting it.
DIESEL STILL GOING Passes 46th Houc of Its Endurance Run at Noon. At noon today, the Cummins Diesel motor truck passed the fortysixth hour of its non-stop endurance run at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and which may continue for two weeks, should all go well with the giant automobile. The test was started at 2 Saturday with C. L. Cummins of Columbus, Ind., the builder, at the w'heel of the oil burner, and accompanied by Dave Evans, the veteran speed star, and Ford Moyer, a relief driver. Lieutenant Lawrence Genaro boarded the truck both Saturday night and Sunday night, from an auto which pulled alongside, to aid in piloting the truck. Genaro hopped off at dawn. The truck started with 900 gallons of oil in sealed tanks and Cummins said the truck possibly may cover 15,000 miles before it runs dry. The test is being conducted under the supervision of A. A. A. officials. Booze Seized, Police Report Raiding a residence at 501 North East street, Apartment 12, Sergeant John Eisenhut and squad Sunday night arrested Mrs. Lelia Carter on a charge of operating a blind tiger. Thirty-four quarts of beer and two quarts of whisky w r ere seized, police said.
headed toward a road, where they had left their automobile. So suddenly did the river rise that the two men stepped off into deep water before realizing the danger, and were unable to get out due to the swift current. They w T ere washed against a barbed wire fence to which they clung. Meanwhile, Voelz was stricken with chills and cramps and Perkins was forced to hold him above the water. Their cries for help finally attracted attention of Sweeney, who hurried to the aid with a horse and rope. Sweeney succeeded in getting the men out of the water.
were introduced at the dedication ceremony. They are, left to right: Major Charles W. Spofford of Chicago, veterans’ bureau administrator for this area; Governor Harry G. Leslie; Major O. W. Clark, assistant administrator of veterans affairs; Dr. C. W. Griffith, medical director of veterans’ administration; and W. R. Talbott, chief of the technical division of veterans’ administration.
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BY BEN STERN
YF the two Republican county A commissioners are doing any fowl eating in the period between now and Jan. 1, when the term of John Shearer, one of the G. O. P. place holders expires, th# wishbones certainly are getting a great slay. Os course it nullifies a wish to tell it, according to the test informed, so, to spare Shearer and George Snider any doubts, we’ll do it for them. The wish is, if the Marion county grand jury determines to indict or impeach Coroner Fred Vehling that it return the true bills before Jan. 1. As the situation is at present, and Will continue until the first of the year, there are tw’o Republican county commissioners and one Democratic. On Jan. 1 Shearer will be succeeded by Tom Ellis, which will make the standing two Democrats and one Republican. tt tt tt Quite naturally, if Vehling w r ere to resign before the first of the year, the two Republicans would fill the vacancy with one from their own party, so they cherish hopes, although very faint, that the grand jury action come before the exit of Shearer. Whether he and Snider could agree on a choice is still another question, but that can wait upon the eventuality of a resignation. Democratic leaders, of course, do not particularly care to have the grand jury make a return in the Vehling matter until after Ellis has assumed office, and that appears to be the situation at present. The incumbent grand jury’s sixmonth term expires Jan. 4, and it is believed that if any findings are made they will be either upon that day or a few days before. Indications are that if Vehling's post is to be filled, it will be with a physician. All party leaders join in agreeing that there will be no more coroners selected from the ranks of undertakers. Focal point of recognized Democratic opposition to Vehling’s conduct of the office of coroner was reached when Henry O. Goett, city clerk, whose popularity with all factions is an established fact, voluntarily appeared before the grand jury to testify against the coroner. If but one more straw wrere needed to indicate party disapproval of tlife man, it was this.
Effete Eastern Hunters Just a Laugh to Garner By United Press WASHINGTON. Dec. 14.—Speaker of the House Garner today delivered himself of some caustic remarks about the way eastern hunters behave when they take to the out-of-doors. “I like to go out with another man and hunt for three or four days, camping out and cooking my own meals,” Gamer said. “But up here they go out like lords, in big droves, and hunt on huge preserves. There's not much sport in that. They take their own cook, too. “I don’t like to hunt that way.” Garner said he wanted to go home to Texas to hunt during the Christmas holidays, but that his duties would keep him here. Congressional leaders, Gamer said, have agreed upon a Christmas recess from Dec. 22 to Jan. 4.
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SUSANNA PRAY OUSTINGDENIED County Heads Ridicule Hints Home Chief to ‘Go.’ Denial that the board of Marion county commissioners is contemplating discharging Miss Susanna Pray, superintendent of the juvenile detention home for twenty-five years, was made by Commissioner Dow W. Vorhies and Commissionerelect Tom Ellis. The denial was made in connection with reports that Miss Anna Pickard has been recommended as Miss Pray’s successor. “We have given the matter little, if any, thought,” Vorhies declared. “The first thing we want to do is to improve living conditions at the home. It is rather premature to consider an exchange of superintendents at this time.” Commissioners also disclosed the monthly rental of the detention home building at 250 East Michigan street, will be decreased from S3OO to S2OO a month, beginning Jan. 1. In previous years the county has paid as much as $350 a month for occupying the structure.
ASK GAS RATE GUT Firms' Appeal Contingent on City Acquisition. Petition of nine Indianapolis firms for reduction in gas rates, if the city acquires the Citizens Gas Company, was filed today before the public service commission by Louis K. Karns, accountant. The petition contends that nearly one-half million dollars will be taken from the utility’s tax structure under the acquisition, and that city industrial users therefore are entitled to rate reduction. Several of the petitioning companies were among industries seeking introduction of natural gas into the city for manufacturers. Petitioners are Virginia Sweet Foods, Inc.; Hotel Lincoln, Hotel Harrison, Fishback Virginia Sweet Grill, Sam’s Subway, Circle Motor Inn, Zaring theater, Wheeler Catering Company and United Cases. LAD ATTACKED BY DOG Owner of Animal Is Arrested After Newsboy Is Taken to Hospital. While delivering a newspaper in the rear of 1101 North Delaware street, Saturday, Lawrence Woodward, 12, of 1201 Broadw'ay, was attacked and bitten by a dog. He is recovering from right arm lacerations at city hosiptal. Police arrested Miss Elizabeth Burford, 3025 North Meridian street, on a charge of harboring a vicious dog.
NATION’S HOPE DECLARED IN MIDDLE WEST Claude G. Bowers Asserts Democracy’s Fate Rests in This Generation. LAUDS STATE PIONEERS Their Descendants Should Not Become Cogs in Machinery of Government. Democracy in America is in grave peril, its preservation depending on middle west residents, Claude G. Bowers, New York City, historian and journalist, declared at the Society of Indiana Pioneers’ annual dinner Saturday night at the Claypool. The dinner, closing feature of the two-day Indiana history conference, was attended by nearly 500 members and guests. William H. Insley, president of the society, presided. “Battle for preservation of democracy in America will be fought out in the lifetime of the present generation,” Bowers said. “You and I must choose under which flag we will serve. Thera may be sections of the country where the people are tinctured with, the vicious isms that have floated in upon us like debris from across the sea—but not in the valley of democracy. “In these days of confusion and chaos, when so many Americans are wandering into strange pastures and after false gods, the hope of Americanism, which means democracy, is here in the middle west. Urges Individualism “Our Indiana pioneers were children of democracy. It were blasphemy to permit their progeny to become mere cogs in the machinery of state. The highest tribute we can pay them is to remain steadfast for that individualism and democracy they planted in the wilderness, to remain true to their ideals of freedom, to hold fast to the liberties and humanities that from the beginning they have made the peculiar glory of this great commonwealth.” Bowers decried the tendency to permit memory of famous Indiana pioneers to die. “We have become so rich in great men in Indiana that we dissipate their memories as though they were the leaves of autumn and we were the owners of the Rocky Mountains,” he said. “For generations American history was lopsided!y interpreted and colored by New England to the detriment of the middle wesi and south, stupidly enough, we permitted our Yankee frienc's to interpret America as a mere expansion of New England. ‘*17115 was due in part to the tacit concession that no one living outside of Massachusetts or Connecticut was competent to tell the story of the past. “And the New England interpretation of history has always been prejudicial to the country west of the Hudson. In the beginning there was a bitter prejudice against the western because the industrialists of New England resented the draining of their labor market by western farms. It was better to have a surplus labor than a shortage, since* that kept wages down. New England Dominant For generations children in their school histories have read pages on some minor engagement of the revolution in some New England hamlet and only a few lines on the epochal victory at Vincennes. The- * early historians could not penetrat beyond the Alleghanies. “And that is the reason genera* tion after generation of children have grown to manhood in utter ignorance of the fact that some of the most bitter fighting of the revolution was in the middle west. “Two months ago we celebrated the victory at Yorktown, but the victory at Yorktown, without the previous victory at Vincennes would have left the vast empire reaching to the Mississippi in possession of the English.” Insley was re-elected president. Other officers named were Almus G. Ruddell, vice-president; Mrs. Walter Montgomery, secretary; Miss Katharine M. Graydon, registrar, and Herbert Foltz, treasurer, all of Indianapolis. Board of governors member* elected were Mrs. E. M. Blessing Danville; Lee Burns, Arthur Carr, Amos W. Butler, J. Raymond Lynn, Charles N. Thompson and Miller Hamilton, all of Indianapolis; Curtis G. Shake, Vincennes; Elmer Scott, Madison; Harry Stoops. Brookville.
GAS ATTENDANT NABS BOYS FOR AUTO THEFT Recognizes License Tag as That of Car Reported Stolen. Two youths face trial on vehicle taking charges today as result of the alertness of a filling station attendant. Tlie boys, Frank Quattrocchi, 14, of 822 South Gray street, and Richard Franklin, 15, of 739 South East street, were arrested after they drove the car into a filling station at Kentucky avenue and South street for an oil change. The attendant, Maurice Horton, 21, of 1082 Russell avenue, was in the station a short time before when John Rodenbarger, 524 West Forty-first street, phoned police to report his car as stolen. Horton remembered the license number, and when the youths drove into the station, he called headquarters. Tries to Sell Ring; Jailed Charged with attempting to sell a “paste” diamond ring to the attendant of a filling station at 900 West Washington street, Sunday night, Sam Kindle, 30, Negro, of 817 Blake street, was arrested on a charge of vagrancy.