Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 196, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 December 1931 — Page 2

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RECORD STONE ORDER FILLING TO BEGIN SOON Two Years Will Be Required to Provide Material for Radio City. BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor. The Times Outstanding in Indiana business end industry during the week ended today was announcement oi plans of the Indiana Limestone Company for filling the largest order for its product ever obtained, that of providing material for Radio City, the world’s largest structure, which is being erected in New York. Work will be started in January and continue two years. For the next few months there will be no quary operations, as stone already stacked will be milled and shipped to New York. Quarrying will be resumed in the summer, and it is expected every quarry owned by the company will get a share of the order. Officials to Be Larger Officials of Servel, Inc., Evansville, anonunce that its plants will be on a normal operating basis by Jan. 15 with more than 3,000 persons on the pay roll. The present force is about 2,000. Igleheart Brothers, Inc., food products company, operated its plants throughout 1931 on a basis of a twenty-four hour day and six days a week. Its plants in Indiana include three in Evansville and one at Vincennes. The plant of the South Bend Shirt Company at Greensburg is idle for the holiday season. Work will be resumed Jan. 4 with a full force. Factory to Be Opened Operations will be resumed Jan. 6 in the plant of the Majestic Furniture Company at Warsaw, recently told by a receiver to a company which is headed by James P. Goodrich, former Governor of Indiana. Fifty men will be employed. A large number of orders has been booked by the Anderson Company, Gary, manufacturing automobile accessories, it is announced by John W. Anderson, president, who reported that November business netted a profit 5 per cent larger than the total capital of the firm. Production and marketing plans are announced by the Bendix Aviation Corporation, South Bend, for its latest product, a seamless, flexible metal tubing. Orders for 3,000,000 feet have already been booked. ACCUSER OF MAYOR AT GARY FILES 30 CHARGES Dismissed Police Clerk Takes .Step for Impeachment. By T intis Special GARY, Ind., Dec. 25.—Thirty charges are on file here with the object of asking impeachment of Mayor Roswell O. Johnson and members of the safety board. Paul C. Roberts, discharged police department clerk, is the accuser. Earlier in the week Roberts said lie was prevented from filing tne charges because Johnson "framed” him, resulting in liis arrest on an intoxication charge. He was in custody four hours and released too late to present his case to the city council. Among accusations against the mayor is one that he was intoxicated. It is probable the charge will be presented to the council at a meeting Jan. 19.

COURT OKUERS PROBE UF uci-UiMUr UUIVIhANY Evansville Judge Desires to Determine if Officials Are Liable. By Times Special EVANSVILLE, Ind., Dec. 25.—An investigation ox actions of officers oX the delunct Well are Finance Company, to determine if any civil lia unity attaches to them for losses resulting lrom the failure, has been ordered by Superior Judge Buente. Henry Veatch, receiver, and Albert J. Veneman, as a friend of the court, will make the inquiry and will submit a report on or before Feb. 1. J. Williams Heyns, executive vicepresident of the company, pleaded guilty to embezzling $267,000 of its funds and was sentenced to prison lor a term of five to fifty years. SUIT ON POOR RELIEF Delaware County Auditor Refuses to Allow Claims. By Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., Dec. 25.—A mandamus suit is on file in Delaware circuit court, brought by Carl Ross, Center township trustee, to compel County Auditor Max snaier to accept claims from merchants for poor relief. Shafer has refused individual <Aims, contending the claims should be bunched and then presented to him lor approval. An opinion from Attorney-General James M. Ogden supported Ross’ contentions, but Shaier ignored the opinion. examiners from the state board of accounts assert Shafer’s action is contrary to law and have urged him to accept the trustee’s program. MAYOR DALE REPLIES Asserts Only Liquor Plot in Muncie Aim to Stop Bootlegging. By Times special MUNCIE, Ind., Dec. 25.—Mayor George R. Dale admits there is a liquor conspiracy in Muncie. ne asserts that it is the work of himse. t and the police department ana t;iat its purpose is to drive bootleggers lrom tne city. He believes me conspiracy has succeeded. That was the mayor's answer to an announcement that department of justice agents had been detailed to iviuncie to Investigate alleged conspiracies to violate the liquor law. Bandits Escape By l imes Special ANDERSON, Ind., Dec. 25—While police were searching for two bandits who obtained S4B in a holdup at Fred Van Noy’s filling station, north of Anderson, the bandits appeared at the Bluebird barbecue stand, east of here. William Massey, proprietor, became suspicious of their actions, hurriedly entered the stand and bolted the door. The bandits fled while police were being notified by Massey.

TWO UNDER ARREST ON THEFT CHARGES

What! No Tree? Thieves Take the Merry Out of Christmas for Sheriff.

By Times Special WABASH, Irid., Dec. 25.—Zeno Malott, Wabash county sheriff, decorated a Christmas tree and left it on the porch of his home intending to bring it in after his children had retired for the night. The tree was stolen. tt n a Why He’s Merry By Times Special GOSHEN, Ind., Dec. 25.—It’s a merry Christmas for Charles Harris, 34, Nappanee. Arrested on seven charges, he was convicted on only one when arraigned In Elkhart circuit court here, and the penalty was a fine of $25. He pleaded guilty to operating an automobile with improper license plates. Harris was acquitted of driving while drunk, intoxication, leaving the scene of an accident and transporting liquor. Charges of possessing liquor and reckless driving were dismissed. an a Gift for Monkeys By United I’rtss Evansville, ind., Dec. 25. Santa Claus made a visit to Meskcr zoo here and left 65 pints of jelly for a colony of monkeyas L. M. Rerick made the donation. 000 Santa Boomerang By Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., Dec. 25. —Christmas cheer did not miss a home here. But taking some of the cheer away was the statement from relief agencies that persons receiving Christmas baskets would be denied relief from the agencies for a week. Harley Finer, restaurant owner, planned a turkey dinner for himself today. He placed the fowl in a room above his restaurant. An open window explained the turkey’s disappearance. 000 Yuletide Judge By United l’t ess GREENCASTLE, Ind., Dec. 25. A $24,366.67 Christmas present was given to depositors of the defunct Exchange bank of Spencer when Judge James P. Hughes ruled in Putnam circuit court here that depositors and other creditors of the institution were entitled to recover that amount from stockholders of the institution. The ruling was made in a suit of Emery Gray against Maude N. Alspaugh and other stockholders of the bank which failed June 17, 1929. Assets of the institution fell short more than $120,000 of paying liabilities. 000 Through the Bars By United Brcss MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Dec. 25. —Christmas dinner for the 2,400 inmates of the Indiana state prison here consists of roast chicken, sage dressing, candied parsnips, dill pickles, mince pie, apples, bread, butter and coffee.

SHERIFF SUED FOR $15,000 Case Filed as Result of Auto Accident. By Times Special COVINGTON, Ind., Dec. 25. Damages of $15,000 are sought from Fred Kay, Fountain county sheriff in a suit filed in circuit court here by Chester Teegarden. The plaintiff suffered injuries while riding with the sheriff in the official’s automobile. Kay received fractures of his legs. The car collided with one driven by Fritz Purnell, son of Fred S. Purnell, Attica, representative in congress. Teegarden alleges he was permanently disfigured as a. result of his injuries, which included a-cut on the throat and a broken knee cap. He alleges the sheriff was driving too fast. CRIME PLOTS ADMITTED Prisoner at Muncie Confesses Plans for Bank Robberies. By United Bress MUNCIE, Ind., Dec. 25.—Several Indiana bank robberies may have been prevented by the arrest and conviction of Ray Mclntyre, 25, the authorities here believe. Mclntyre, charged with assault and battery and intent to rob a grocery here in April, was sentenced to ten years imprisonment. In a confession to Sheriff Fred Puckett, Mclntyre admitted that he and Elmer Gentry and Howard Wolfe, both of whom are under arrest, had planned bank robberies in Hartford City and Pennville. The plans were not carried out, Mclntyre said. Lack of Kinship Sworn By Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Dec. 25. Owing to their last names being the same, Ervin Kinser, Heltonville, and Maudie Kinser, Monroe county, were compelled to sign an affidavit here that they are not related nearer than second cousin before the county clerk would grant them a marriage license. Insanity Charged By Times Special ROCHESTER, Ind., Dec. 25.—Following an attempt to place her 2-months-'-ld baby in boiling water, Mrs. Clifford Suit, declared by authorities to be violently insane, was placed in jail here pending a sanity hearing. Bridge Wrecked By Times Special FRANKTON, Ind., Dec. 25. Damage of several thousand dollars resulted when a large dredging machine crashed through a bridge over Little Pipe creek west of here. Both machine and bridge were damaged, but none the men on the dredger was hurt.

Father and Son Accused of Stealing from Farms. By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Dec. 25.—Captured after being a fugitive ten months, Basil Greenlee is a prisoner in the Madison county jail here awaiting trial on a charge of robbing farmers. He was returned here following his arrest on a misdemeanor charge at Harrison, O. His father, David Greenlee, 75-year-old farmer, is under bond in connection with the same thefts. A brother, who recently served a prison sentence for stealing hogs, has been a fugitive since his Escape from jail at Alexandria recently. The Greenlee family first came into notice as law violators three years ago when David and Basil were Indicted in Madison circuit court for alleged beating of a relative, an Indianapolis woman, when she arrived at their home to attend the funeral of Elihu Greenlee, pioneer Greene township farmer. She died a few weeks later allegedly as a result of blows struck by the younger Greenlee. The woman’s husband was also attacked. Suspicions were directed to the Greenlees last February when farmers living in the vicinity of Pendleton and Ingalls were victims of thieves who carried away their crops and livestock. Organizing as vigilantes under the direction of Sheriff Bernard Bradley, the farmers lay in wait hoping to catch the Greenlees coming home from one of their depredations. Patience was rewarded on the night of Feb. 23, when Sheriff Bradley and deputies stopped an automobile in which David and Basil Greenlee were riding. The driver added more speed and the sheriff started in pursuit. Following an exchange of shots the Greenlee automobile was abandoned in the road, its occupants leaving and fleeing through a woods. Thirty-five bushels of wheat stolen from the farm of Allen Bollinger was found in the automobile. The father was arrested a few nights later by Deputy Sheriff Marion Fisher. Another man suspected of having hauled loot in a truck is still being sought.

ODD ACCIDENT INJURES THREE Members of Family Leaped From Auto. By Times Special BERNE, Ind., Dec. 25. Three members of one family are suffering from injuries received in an unusual automobile accident near here. Mr. and Mrs. Vance Mattax, with their daughter, Vera, 17, and son, Robert, 3, were riding in an automobile when the boy, after opening a door of the machine, fell out while the car was traveling thirty miles an hour. Panic stricken, the mother and daughter jumped to the road. Mrs. Mattax suffered a fracture of the right arm, her left shoulder was dislocated and she was badly bruised. The daughter suffered a cut on the head and a sprained foot. The boy escaped unhurt except for a scratch on his face. TRUSTEE AND ASSESSOR ABOLITION IS FAVORED State Representative Cantley Would End Township Offices. By United Bress COLUMBUS, Ind., Dec. 25.—Elimination of township trustees and assessors and primary elections was advocated by John M. Cantley, representative to the state legislature from Cass county, in an aduress before the Chamber of Commerce here. Cantley asserted that his program, if followed, would save the state $21,700,000 annually. He pointed out that one of each twelve persons in the United States receives public aid and recommended abolition of teachers’ pensions, the state school building program and reorganization of the highway commission at a saving. *

BIRD CENSUS REPORTED Noblesville Man Counts 198 of Twenty Different Species. By Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Dec. 25. Perry Bray, a member of the park board, has taken an annual bird census in this locality, covering a distance of nine miles. He walked seven of this distance and drove two miles in his automobile. He observed 198 birds, representing twenty species, as follows: Cardinal, 6; Starling, 9; Field Sparrow, 17; Juneo, 26; Tree Sparrow, 41; Flicker, 14; Robin, 1; Winter Wren, 1; Downy Woodpecker, 1; Marsh Hawk, 1; Red Tailed Hawk, 1; Crow, 17; Blue jay, 22; Titmouse, 11; Chickadee, 6; Nuthatch, 4; Kingfisher, 1, and unidentified, 1. Veteran of March Dies By Times Special LINTON, Ind., Dec. 25. —Funeral services were held here for Francis Browning, 86, Civil war veteran, who was with General Sherman on the famous march from Atlanta to the sea. Business Man Dies By Times Special PERU, Ind., Dec. 25.—Funeral services were held here for Wiley M. Jackson, 67, member of an undertaking firm, who died at his home after a long illness. He had lived here thirty-one years. Auto Crash Fatal HUNTINGTON, Ind., Dec. 25. Collision of two automobiles here caused the death of Mrs. Alme Heater, 58, Roanoke. Mrs. Heater was hurled from the machine in which she was riding to the pavement. Wife Branded Gambler By Times Special RENSSELAER, Ind., Dec. 25. George Thompson, seeking a divorce from Hazel Thompson, charges she is an inveterate gambler and would use most of his $l3O a month salary in pursuit of her Jiobby. She always lost, Thompson asseits.

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LODGE EMBLEM USE IN LIQUOR RAIDS^ASSAILED Federal Judge Slick Gives One-Day Terms to Two Defendants. By Times Special HAMMOND, Ind., Dec. 25.—Use of lodge and other affiliations in enforcing the dry law was assailed in federal court here when Judge Thomas W. Slick imposed suspended one-day jail terms on Julius Schwartz, fish house proprietor, and his employe, Mrs. Clara Beaker, widowed mother of seven children. Willis McCorkle, federal dry agent who arrested the two, was accused of using a Masonic lodge emblem to gain their confidence. He is said to have resorted to his leadership in American Legion affairs, in arresting Art Norton, Gary hotel proprietor, last spring. Discussed Rockne Death Denial that he used the lodge emblem was made by McCorkle, but he admitted to conversing with the two at length concerning the death of Knute Rockne, having learned they were admirers of the great coach. Circumstances surrounding the arrests were given after Judge Slick inquired what disposition had been made of a previous liquor charge against the same defendants. He was informed guilty pleas had been entered and that Schwartz and Mrs. Beaker were awaiting sentence. Three Drinks Bought The court then permitted evidence concerning events since the first raid which was made in April. Both defendants asserted McCorkle displayed the lodge emblem when he bought three drinks of whisky. Judge Slick expressed himself as disgusted and referred to a statement by one agent that he had returned to make a second raid on the Schwartz place because "Julius had squawked so much about the trap that was laid the first time.”

Indiana's First Elected Woman Dies at Auburn By Times Special AUBURN, Ind., Dec. 25.—Dr. Lida Leasure, 81, the first woman elected to office in Indiana and the state’s first woman school superintendent, is dead. She was chosen superintendent of Dekalb county in 1911. Born at Spring Hill, Decatur county, she was reared on a farm and received her early education in country schools. Later she attended the normal school at Terre Haute, the present Indiana State Teachers’ college. Dr. Leasure’s first teaching position was at Marshall, 111. Later she held several positions in Indiana, having been located at Indianapolis, Terre Haute, Princeton and Auburn. She was graduated from the University of Michigan ir. 1888 with a degree of doctor of medicine and for many years was engaged in practice in Auburn, Angola and Logansport. She relinquished the practice in 1903. She was married in 1880 to John H. Leasure of Auburn. Besides the husband she leaves a son, Dr. Kent Leasure, Indianapolis; two sisters, Mrs. George Hindman, Greensburg, and Mrs. J. W. Johnson, Radersburg, Mont.

RAIL MERGER OPPOSED State Would Prevent Union of Monon and B, & O. Intervening petition of the state opposing merger of the Monon with the Baltimore & Ohio railroad was filed with the interstate commerce commission Thursday by AttorneyGeneral James M. Ogden. The petition, prepared by George Hufsmith, deputy attorney-general, points out that the Monon’s location has no physical connection with B. & O. properties and that the merger would be opposed to public interest. It would mean abolition of Monon shops at Lafayette and Bloomington and add to the unemployment problem, the brief sets out. Cemetery Change Dropped By Times Special GREENCASTLE, Ind., Dec. 25. Members of the Greencastle city council have refused further consideration to a proposal to remove bodies buried in an old cemetery to the Forest Hill cemetery due to criticism directed at officials when it was learned recently that the matter u T as being studied. Barber, 86, Still Active By Times special SPARTANBURG, Ind., Dec. 25. James F. English, 86, a barber more than fifty years, still is working at the trade here. His mother died at the age of 93 and a brother, a cripple throughout his life, was nearly 80 years old when he died. Memorial Provided ANDERSON, Ind., Dec. 25.—The will of Mrs. Emma Z. Knight, admitted to probate by Judge Lawrence M. Busby, bequeaths SI,OOO to a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Duncan, in memory of James W. Knight, deceased brother and Anderson newspaperman several years ago. The First Methodist Episcopal church of this city is given SSOO. There are bequest* for all nephews and nieces.

‘Give Us —’ By United I’ress KENDALLVILLE, Ind., Dec. 25—He who can recite the Lord’s prayer from memory need not want in Kendallville. Lawson Brickley operates a lunch room across a street from the county jail. It has been his daily habit to feed a dozen or more of those who have lodged at the city’s expense. “Henceforth,” said Brickley indignantly, “there shall be no food for any one who does not first recite the Lord’s prayer from memory. The ungrateful bums don’t even thank me for their meals.”

Woman Out of College 25 Years Awarded Degree By Times Special BRAZIL, Ind., Dec. 25.—Mrs. Carl Hunt, formerly Miss Jessie James, daughter of T. N. James of Brazil, who became a college student after being out of school for twenty-five years, has been awarded an A. B. degree by Indiana State Teachers’ college, Terre Haute, and has returned to her home in Mont. Mrs. Hunt, former student at Indiana university and the Terre Haute college, once taught schools in Jackson township, Clay county, and in Brazil and Dana. She is now the principal of a high school that serves an entire Montana county. Her home is eighty miles from a railroad. Some of her students live as far as 100 miles from the school, which maintains dormitories for them. County Buys Printing By Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Dec. 25. Commissioners of Hamilton county have awarded a stationary contract for 1932. Contract for Classes Nos. 2 and 4, including the larger books and court records, was awarded the William B. Burford Company, Indianapolis. Classes Nos. 1 and 3, including smaller supplies, was given to the Ledger Company of this city.

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ACCUSED CIVES HEAVY BOND IN SWINDLE CASE Foreign Born Charge Racket to Defraud Them on Trips to Homeland. By Times Special HAMMOND, Ind., Dec. 25—Facing three charges, John Pora, a leader among foreign born residents of the Calumet district, is at liberty under $25,000 bond. He is accused of swindling persons in arranging for trips back to their native lands. Pora, a real estate dealer, also deals in foreign exchange, and is a steamship line representative. He is charged wtih embezzlement, grand larceny and obtaining money under false pretense. Julia and Zola Zigmon, East Chicago, told authorities they arranged with Pora for a trip to their native Rumania. He instructed them to pay him $2,400, which, he said, would be used in establishing their credit, and would be deposited in the Italiana Trust Company, New York. On arrival in New York, they charge, their money could not be found.

Pastor Charges Four Men Made Threats on Life By Times Special SALEM. Ind., Dec. 25.—For the second time within two weeks a '■ Washington county minister has ' charged that his life was threatened. ; The latest charge was made by the Rev. Pleasant Brown, pastor of the Haleysburg Pilgrim Holiness church, who has filed affidavits against four men charging they threatened to kill him if he held scheduled revival meetings, came to the church during the meetings and j attempted to shoot him, attacked,' him and locked up the church. The Rev. Mr. Brown said that following the first notice to stop the meeting, church leaders gave no heed, but after the men visited the meeting house during a sermon, and were prevented from shooting the pastor, only through intervention of a woman in the congregation, the church was closed. The windows of the building were nailed shut and a sign was placed on the door saying the building was closed, but the men again visited the church, attacked the minister and ; took the keys from him. Action will be taken in the case at j the next coming court term. Last week the Rev. O. W. Scott 1 of the Church of Christ said he was “on the spot” because of sermons denouncing roadhouse proprietors.

DEC. 25, 1931

STATE SANCTION GIVEN MERCERS INSDLL SOUGHT Electric Units Become Part of Public Service Company. Two InsuD mergers were approved by the public sendee commission Thursday. Attica Electric Company and the Wabash Valley Electric Company were merged with the Northern Indiana Power Company and the Indiana Electric Corporation into the Public Sendee Company of Indiana. Commissioner Howell Ellis attached a proviso to the Attica merger reserving right for future purchase by Attica. This supported right of municipal ownership against the provisions opposing it laid down by the commission in the North Manchester case. Both Ellis and Commissioner Frank Singleton opposed the North Manchester decision, which forbade the town to cut in on the Insull lines. Singleton voted against the mergers.