Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 199, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 December 1931 — Page 10
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GRAND JURORS NEAR CLOSE OF VEHLING PROBE Investigate Charges That Students Rushed Embalming. BY DICK MILLER County grand jurors today delved into charges that hurried embalmings were performed on bodies taken to the funeral establishment of Coroner Fred W. Vehling at 702 Virginia avenue by students of the Indianapolis Embalming school, who resided in Vehling’s building. Clifford Askin, president of the : chool, was one of the witnesses today as the four-week probe neared completion. Report of the jury's findings are to be filled with Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker Monday, terminating the jury’s period of service. According to allegations, embalming school students w'ere on duty at Vchling’s establishment, where they had dormitory quarters. Rush Work Alleged It is charged the students performed rush operations on bodies as soon as they were brought to the place. These embalmings have resulted in charges against Vehling of “body grabbing” and levying exorbitant fees against relatives of deceased persons for the operations. Askin and Vehling appeared before the city health board last spring seeking permission for equipment of an embalming room in a new wing of the city hospital which was nearing completion. Tell of Other Autopsies They suggested embalming bodies which were classed as coroner’s cases and charging a standard fee for the service to Indianapolis undertakers. Permission was not granted by health board and hospital authorities. Vehling also is said to have failed in a proposal to name a resident hospital doctor a deputy coroner, to facilitate the embalming. Mrs. Margaret Arnold, 1018 South Gale street, testified about alleged threats made by Vehling in the Stickle-Coble gas death case. Mrs. Arnold charged she and other relatives attempted to get the bodies of a cousin, Mrs. Letha Stickle; her husband, Ben Stickle, and William Coble from the Vehling undertaking establishment, | where they were embalmed hur- j riedly. Vehling is alleged to have told j them that if the bodies were re- j moved from his establishment, he | would change the verdict to prc- 1 vent them from collecting insur-1 ance.
CUSTODY OF STOLEN GOODS LEADS TO PRISON Sentence Imposed After Guilty Plea at Columbus. By Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind., Dec. 29.—Paul Pollitt, 23, of Connersville, was given a sentence of from one to five years by Judge Charles S. Baker in circuit court here when he pleaded guilty to receiving stolen goods. He was originally charged with being a member of a gang which robbed the Dalmbcrt store at Hope. Pollitt admitted receiving stolen goods, but denied having any part in the robbery. A charge of second-degree burglary was dismissed. Frank Calvin, who was held here for eight weeks, charged with being implicated In a number of home robberies, was released on recommendation of Prosecuting Attorney Lloyd C. Bryer, due to lack of evidence. Seven charges were filed against him when he was arrested with Orrel Brown and his wife, Nellie Brown, now serving prison sentences for robberies. Robert O’Neal, Indianapolis salesman, pleaded guilty in circuit court to a charge of forgery and was sentenced to serve' from one to ten years in the Indiana reformatory. He gave a forged check to Reign Julian, filling station attendant here. He also is wanted in Shelbyville for a like offense. IMPEACHMENT ACTION AGAINST MAYOR ENDS South Bend Council Refuses to Consider Charges. llp United Press SOUTH BEND. Ind.. Dec. 29. Impeachment action against Mayor W. R. Hinkle was dropped definitely at the city council meeting here Monday night, when the councilmen refused further consideration of charges preferred by Rudolph Askermann. Ackevmann. who presented his impeachment charges after being ousted from office by Hinkle, sent a letter to the council deprecating that body's action in quashing his seven charges. His concluding sentence, “I do not accept any such miscarriage of justice as final, nor will the public,” friends interpreted as an intimation that he will present the charges to a grand jury. Fire Truck Strikes Auto lip Times Special NOBLESVILLE. Ind., Dec. 29. While making a run to a fire, a NoblesviUe fire department truck collided with an automobile occupied by the Misses Elizabeth and Virginia Neal daughters of Judge N. C. Neal of the Indiana appellate court and Miss Ruth Craig, who escaped injury. W. A. Miller, who was on the truck, making the run for the experience was thrown over to the paved street and sustained injuries that made hospital treatment necessary.
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United I'rt ** CHICAGO, Dec. 29.—“ You can’t keep seven kids hap 'y on $27 a week,” sobbed the fat or of 16-year-old Dorothy Evan- today. He was trying to e:cr‘*in why she was being held as one of the “gun girls” accused of participating in the slaying of Patrolman James J. Caplis when he attempted to avert a holdup of the Beachview Gardens cabaret. Prom the luxurious apartment of Marcella Royce, 17, there came no word. Her prosperous f t :t: : j c! m 1:“r wars reported prostrated because she was held
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Uncle Sam played Santa Claus with a bonfire a couple of days late this Yulctide. For at Keystone avenue and the Pennsylvania railroad Monday, while boydom shouted and aided, he burned 2,583 Christmas trees that had arrived in Indianapolis too late for the Yuletide sales. Uncle Sam, in the person of George M. Poland, collector of customs, ordered the trees destroyed as perishable goods, but you couldn’t make the youths in the upper photo believe Santa’s old trees were no good. Denied the right 1o use the trees for hanging empty stockings, the youths made merry by aiding customs agents in dragging the trees from a flat car. Foland said the trees originally were grown in Vermont and shipped to Canada for sale. Canadian customs refused to permit the sale of the trees, and they were shipped to Indianapolis by a Detroit firm. They arrived Dec. 21, too late for the Christmas trade, and in a semidried condition. Uncle Sam then ordered the wandering firs to be burned to the stake. The retail price of the governmental bonfire is estimated at approximately $2,000. However, the cost of the trees at the car would be approximately one-half of that amount. NEW ML SOUGHT Convicted Slayer Files Motion at Decatur. Bp Times Special DECATUR, Ind., Dec. 29.—Arguments will be heard in Adams circuit court here, Jan. 4, on a motion for anew trial by Joseph Everett, convicted of slaying Doris Werling. The motion cites eighty-nine reasons. Werling was shot fatally last June when it was said Everett became angry because Werling and others were swimming in St. Mary’s river, disturbing him while he was fishing.
BANDIT ROBS THEATER AT MARION OF $345 Cashier Is Held Up in Box Office; Thief’s Description Only Clew. Bp Times Special MARION, Ind., Dec. 29. Police are searching for a young robber who held up the cashier of the Indiana theater and escaped with $345 Monday night. The robbery was quickly executed, and no one saw the bafidit but the cashier, Miss Ellen Perkins. The theater is in the center of the business district, one block from the public square. The bandit knocked on the door of the box office, and Miss Perkins expecting one of the ushers, admitted him. After taking all the night’s receipts, the bandit ordered Miss Perkins to walk to the inside of the theater. Police obtained a good description of the robber, but have obtained no reliable clews as to his identity. The theater is owned by the Fourth Avenue Amusement Company, Chicago. Murder Trial Shifted Bp Times Special CANNELTON. Ind.. Dec. 29. William L. Taylor, charged with the murder of his son, Bryant Taylor, has been granted a change of venue, but the county in which trial will be held has not yet been designated. The younger Taylor was shot fatally at a dance hall Nov. 7.
as the other "gun girl.” They spanked Marcella because she stayed out so late the night of the slaying, only to learn that four men associates had accused her of pulling a pistol from her purse while she sat at a table near the dance floor and firing a bullet through Caplis’ back. Evans and his wife wept in each other’s arms at their squalid clapboard house, so poverty stricken that the electricity has been turned off because of unpaid bills. “Twenty-seven dollars a week just \ fnou-th to kc:p all the kids ltd and clothed,” said Evans.
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Bum Luck By United Press . KANSAS CITY, Mo„ Dec. 29.—Harry Hyner, 65, itinerant, had a good reason for wanting to get to Denver when he was plucked off a train: They have such a fine jail there—radios in every cell, movies, and so forth. I planned to steal a bar of soap so I could winter in that jail.”
OGDEN WINS IN MARION COURT Circuit Judge Upholds Liquor Case Indictment. Bp United Tress MARION, Ind., Dec. 29.—A motion to quash a liquor indictment against Harry Miller was overruled in Grant circuit court here by Judge D. D. Clawson. Ruling.on a plea in abatement filed by Miller is pending. The court's decision not to quash she indictment is regaled as a victory for Attorney-General James M. Ogden, w'ho recently conducted a campaign against alleged vice and 'orruption in Marion. Miller was arrested during Ogden’s investigation, conducted by George Hufsmith, deputy attorney-general. In questioning of Elmer Gowing, foreman of the grand jury which .ndicted Miller, defending counsel attempted to show that Hufsmith influenced the jury to indict him. Evidence was introduced to show that the indictment was approved before witnesses whose names, appeared on it had been questioned. It is believed the court also would reject the abatement plea. STATE WINNER IN SUIT Former Oil Inspector Ordered to Pay S4OO. Bp United Press GREENCASTLE, Ind.. Dec. 29. A judgment for $404.27 was returned against Arthur L. Reat. former state oil inspector, in Putnam circuit court here in the suit of the state against Reat and the Fidelity and Casualty Company. The state’s complaint showed that Reat owed the state $6,955.57 in fees collected and unaccounted for. Salary vouchers and $5,000 paid by the insurance company settled all but $404.27 of the debt. Judge James P. Hughes returned the judgment. County Council Sued By United Press GREENCASTLE, Ind., Dec. 29. A suit to mandate Putnam county council to appropriate funds for the salary of a county farm agent has been filed in circuit court here by the Putnam county farm bureau. Last summer th' council lost a suit in a similar action, but still refused to appropriate the funds on the ground that there is no necessity for a county agent.
“That’s the real trouble and the explanation of Dorothy’s downfall. All seven were born in the west and when we came to Chicago, the city was just too much for them. , “I’m a structural steel worker by trade, but since the depression I’ve had to take any job I could get. The girls couldn’t have the things they wanted. Now that the electricity had been turned off, they couldn’t even play the radio. And the house was cold and dark at night. “I can’t Jjrfme Dorothy for wanting to
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Sheaffer Also Slaps Ban on Attorney, Forfeits SSOO Surety. Branded by detectives as a criminal sought in several cities of the country, Fred Stimpson of New York today evaded the law in Indianapolis when he failed to appear before Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer on a theft charge. Asa result of his failure to appear. Sheaffer revoked a SSOO bond, and barred an attorney and two bond signers from posting bail hereafter in his court. John (Bull Moose) Walker and James Gordon, signers of the bond, and Thomas McNulty, attorney, who posted the bail, were the targets of Sheaffer’s order. 'All Over Country* According to Detectives Dennis Houlihan and George Stewart Stimpson is wanted in Cincinnati and “’all over the country.” He was arrested Dec. 16 for the alleged theft of a manicure set from a downtown department store. The case was continued several times and was called again today. Gordon refused to come to the courtroom despite the fact he was in headquarters and was brought before the bench by court attaches after Sheaffer threatened “to go after himself.” ‘There’s only one thing to do when you can’t depend on lawyers and bondsman and that’s to forfeit the bond,” Sheaffer said. “Spring" Plot Reported According to reports at headquarters and the courts a plot had been instigated to “spring” Stimpson. It was reported this had been done by Stimpson in other cities in the country, and followed closely the custom of gangsters in Chicago who avoid court hearings. Walker failed to appear at headquarters. Both Walker and Gordon have been barred from bonding by Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron for several weeks, the judge said.
ERROR CAUSES WOUND Boy Shot After Being' Mistaken for Prison Fugitive. Bp Times Special MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Dec. 29. Mistaken for one of three convicts who escaped from the Indiana state prison here, William Sims, 15, is suffering from wounds inflicted when fired upon by George Bohle, brother of a prison guard. Several shotgun slugs were removed from the boy’s right leg. His condition is not serious. Bohle says he found the boy in a railroad yard, and, suspecting he was one of the fugitives, ordered him to surrender. Instead, the boy ran and Bohle fired. Scarlet Fever Spreads Bp Times Special COLUMBUS. Ind., Dec. 29.—Dr Omer Woolridge, secretary of the city board of health, has issued a warning to parents to keep their children out of crowds in an effort to check a scarlet fever epidemic More than fifty cases have been reported. and the situation is regarded as serious.
she didn't go with the right kind of boys. If she was guilty I want her punished, but I don’t believe it. She didn t know what she was getting into last night when she went to that cabaret.” Luxury of Marcella’s home contrasted with that of Dorothy’s. Marcella lived in a beautifully furnished, seven-room apartment. The Royces have one other child, a large automobile and everything that a girl could want, except excitement. Excitement it was that Dorothy and Marcella were after, they told reporters before Detec-
POLICEWOMEN RUMORED ‘OUT 1 ; FOUR PROMOTED Safety Board’s Action Gives No Hint of Reported Dismissal of 18. A protest to the Indianapolis safety board on the proposal to eliminate the eighteen police posts held by women was indorsed today at a board meeting of the Indianapolis Council of 'Women. The council urged the board to make every attempt to retain the policewomen. Mrs. Frank Symmes is president of the council. Although reports are current that eighteen Indianapolis policewomen soon will be discharged, the safety board today gave no indication of this, when four were promoted to posts as matrons. Chief Mike Morrissey and members of the board have admitted they feel discharge of the women would “be desirable to the administration,” and effect a saving of about $30,000 annually Those named vo the higher paying posts today were Mrs. Anna Peats, Mrs. Mary Cantlon, Miss Lillian Jachka and Miss Nell Dunkle. They will serve in the women’s division of the city prison. According to rumors, charges were to be filed against the policewomen to deprive them of their jobs. Allegations must be filed before the safety board, and it is probable the women would band to carry their cases to county courts. Pay Will Be Cut Previously, an effort to discharge them, failed when county judges upheld the women in test cases. Morrissey said the ouster plan was “news to me,” but if it were done, “it would be welcome news.” Jobs of the w'omen, who have functioned in jail, courts, guarding dances, watching department stores and walking beats, have been branded “useless” by the city administration. Under the 1932 budget, police women wdll receive a pay cut from $2,025 to $1,320 annually, effective Friday. The matrons are paid $1,500 annually under the new schedule. One Draws Pension One of the present policewomen is the widow of a fireman and draws a pension; another is the wife of an insurance agent; a third the wife of a government employe, and two others are wives of police officers. Policewomen, other than those named for promotions, are; Mrs. Emma Baker, Negro; Mrs. Irene Beyers, widow of a fireman; Mrs. Anna Brunner, widow; Miss Metta Davis, Mrs. Elizabeth Denny, Mrs. Bertha Duclus, Mrs. Leona Franks fort, wife of an insurance agent; Mrs. Loren Fullalove, Mrs. Margaret Hildebrand, wife of a government employe; Mrs. Mary Moore, wife of a policeman; Mrs. Mary Moriarity, wife of a policeman; Mrs. Margaret Osborn, Miss Ruth Haywood and Mrs. Cosetta Osborne.
BLAMES FINANCIERS Americans Stuck With Depreciated Bonds. Bp United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.—Inexperienced American bankers are to blame for the plight of holders of Latin-American securities that have depreciated greatly in value, W. W. Cumberland, New York and Philadelphia banker, asserted today. Cumberland, a member of the firm of Wellington & Cos., said nearly $6,000,000,000 of Latin-American loanp had been floated in this country. He estimated the present market value of these bonds averaged about one-fourth of their original value. Cumberland spoke at a meeting of the American Economic Association. Sales of Latin-Aiperican securities, he said, were based on “oversanguine appraisals of Latin-Amer-ican financial possibilities.”
BRIDGES TO BE BUILT State Highway Commission Awards Contracts for Five. Contracts for construction of five bridges were awarded Monday by the state highway department. Successful bidders were: Bridge near Auburn, on State Road 1, General Dredging Company, Ft. Wayne, $6,322.99; two bridges near Salem, on State Road 35, R. P. Olinger, Huntingburg, $29,509.81; bridge on State Road 234. near Kingman, Burk Construction Company, Newcastle, $12,086.64; another bridge near Kingman, on Road 234, Columbia Concrete Corporation, Lafayette, $13,357.34. Highway commissioners probably will discuss awarding contracts for a half-million gallons of gasoline and oil at their regular meeting Wednesday. Decatur Pastor Dies Bp Times Special DECATUR, Ind., Dec. 29.—Funeral services were held Monday for the Rev. Harry H. Femtheil, 40, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, who died following an appendicitis operation. He had been pastor for five years. He was a former state chaplain of the American Legion, and the first minister to become a member of local Rotary Club.
tive Chief Shoemaker locked them in a cell and denied them to any one but attorneys and relatives. They said they wanted the thrills of “going around with gangsters.” "But we didn’t think there was going to be any shooting or anything,” wept Dorothy. Their swaggering escorts swaggered no’ .onger. Nicholas Bruno, 21; Tony Pape. 18; Jack Burlison, 20, and Frank Freeman, 25. were in nearby cells. They implicated three cjiher youths who wore sought by detectives.
AVALANCHES, SNOW AND FLOODS TAKE TOLL IN CALIFORNIA
Hundreds of Motorists Are Marooned; Rising Rivers Spread Fear. By United Press SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 29.—The Pacific coast, deluged by rain and snow, surveyed flooded homes and farm lands today as it began slowly recovering from one of the worst storms in years. Rail lines were torn by avalanches. Hundreds of motorists were marooned by snow. Rivers flowed at peak capacity or broke their banks. Rainfall shattered long standing records. Crops ruined by floods and property damage along the coast from pounding breakers brought heaviest losses. But the rains proved a boon to agriculture in many places by filling dams and reservoirs. Unsettled weather was predicted today.
Fear Flood Damage Rivers and streams are not expected to reach their highest flow for two or three days. The fact many are now at capacity caused grave concern. Trains held fast in the Sierra Nevada mountains by snow began coming through to San Francisco, and airmail planes resumed partial schedu.es. East and W’est mail planes were grounded for fight successive days, the longest sustained delay in the history of the service. Two deaths in California were attributed directly to the storm. Snow Is Deep Snow continued falling in the Sierras, where most of the motorists and trains were stalled. Snow at Sierra summit measured 181 inches and at Truckee, 65 inches. The rain on flat lands closed at least a score of roads and delayed train and motor traffic between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Southern Area Flooded By United Press LOS ANGELES, Dec. 29.—The heaviest rainfall in years flooded streets, isolated homes, filled water courses to overflowing, delayed trains, and halted airplane traffic in Southern California Monday. Eleven Southern Pacific trains were delayed by a slide on the north side of Cuesta grade. Small boats were driven ashore, and some sank Ballona creek, which carries water from Los Angeles storm drains, overflowed and flooded truck farms. Hundreds of automobiles were marooned on highways.
REALTY POLICE , ARE PROPOSED Damage to Vacant Property to Be Combated. Real Estate Board members will form their own police force for inspection of property, if tentative plans outlined by Lawrence G. Holmes, executive secretary, are approved. “Vandals in Indianapolis are costing property owners between $200,000 and $300,000 a year,” Holmes said today. “The reward system in use during the last year has not solved the problem of guarding vacant buildings.” A plan to be submitted to the property management committee of the board early in January will provide for maintenance of a private police force which will inspect the properties at least once a day. The force will co-operate with local police. Holmes derided the explanation that unemployed men have taken \\"jcd for fires. Homes have been stripped of sidings and floors. “Vandals operating in this city are not poverty-stricken individuals,” Holmes asserts. "In the majority of cases the pilferers are members of well-organized gangs, and the Real Estate Board is going to clamp down.”
ARTIST KILLED AS CAR PLUNGES OVER CLIFF Road Made Treacherous by Storm Blamed for Tragedy, By United Press SANTA MARIA, Cal., Dec. 29. A road made dangerous by heavy rains was blamed today for the death of Gardner Hale, 48, noted painter of murals and frescoes. His body was found at the bottom of a 500-foot cliff, near his wrecked automobile. He had been crushed to death. Authorities said he apparently had missed a turn in the road, made treacherous by the storm. Hale’s home was in New York. He leaves a widow, the former Dorothy A. Donovan, whom he married in 1929 after a divorce obtained in 1926 by his first wife, Marie Louise Gibson. Truck Permit Sought Petition to operate a freight trucking line from Chicago to Indianapolis was filed with the public service commission Monday by Supreme Motor Transport Lines. The line which would operate through Lafayette, Elkhart, Ft. Wayne. Decatur, Warsaw and other northern Indiana cities, would do interstate trucking only.
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Fearfully and with tears in their eyes, the four confessed partially, saying the missing trio engineered the holdup of the Beachview, using the two girls “as a front.’’ “Who shot Caplis through the back?” demanded detectives. The youths shifted uneasily and mumbled: “Dorothy did it” She was trying to dispose of her gun when police received an anonymous telephone call suggesting that she be arrested. “Yes, I had the gun. but I didn’t do any shooting,” she said. •'I swear I didn’t.
The Fun Is Off By United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 29.—When two stepsons of Abraham N. Cohen, 55, and six friends had identified a body taken from Lake Michigan as his, preparations were made for a funeral. Old friends of Cohen, including Frank Rabinowitz, were invited to the services, which were to be held Monday. Rabinowitz set out for the funeral and on his way stopped in at a notion store, w-here he saw a familiar face. “Well, well," Rabinowitz’ friend said, "How' are you and where are you going?” “Hello, Cohen,” said Rabinowitz, “believe it or not, I'm on my way to your funeral, which is going to be held in fifteen minutes.” Cohen accompanied his friend to the funeral. “There’s a big mistake here.” Cohen told the mourners, “I'm still alive." The mourners pinched themselves and then called off the funeral.
LANDIS BOOKED BT RADIO CHAIN Logansport Editor to Make Debut Jan. 9. By Times Special LOGANSPORT, Ind., Dec. 29. A weekly broadcast over the Columbia chain will be made weekly beginning Saturday, Jan. 9. by Frederick Landis, Logansport news-
paper editor, who has been a radio speaker for the past year. As “the Hoosier Editor,” Landis has won popularity among radio listeners during the past year. He served two terms as a representative in congress from Indiana.” His brother, the late Charles B. Landis, represented an adjoining district. The editor wrote a novel,
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dramatized under the title of “The Copperhead,” which was successful as a stage play and motion picture. He also was the author of “The Angel of Lonesome Hill,” woven around the life of Theodore Roosevelt as President, and which Roosevelt declared was the picture of himself he wished his family to remember.
FLAYS TAX DODGING Rainey Seeks Repeal of Stock Selling Act. Bp United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.—House Democratic Floor Leader Rainey today advocated a chance in present tax laws, w’hich permit wealthy people to unload stocks at depressed prices and avoid income taxes. This practice is permitted by the so-called capital gains and losses tax, which Rainey said should be repealed. “If we are going to get any additional revenue from increased taxes on the wealthy, we will have to repeal this provision,” he said. “It’s repeal is a necessary corollary to any program for raising the rates on higher incomes, such as is proposed to increase the government's revenues. “This practice is going on in the stock market right now. Wealthy people are unloading stocks at a loss which they will deduct from their income tax.” AIMS AT HIGH INCOMES House Ways and Means Chairman Opposes Mellon Tax Plan. By United Press WASHINGTON. Dec. 29.—Chairman James W. Collier of the house ways and means committee revealed today that he is working out a tax increase program chieflly confined to large incomes. It will be ready for consideration by his committee when it begins formulation of a tax measure after the holidays. Collier opposed Secretary Mellon’s proposal for lowering exemptions and for otherwise raising taxes on the small taxpayer. He said he would consent to a luxury tax only as a last resort. Likewise, he looked with disfavor upon Mellon’s proposal to make the tax increases retroactive.
REDUCED EXCURSION FARES SUNDAY, JAN. 3 SATURDAY, JAN. 2 ST. LOUIS $4.00 CLEVELAND . .$4.00 Leave 11:30 p. m.; returning, Leave 12:35 a. m. or 2:45 a. m.; leave Cleveland 6:00 p. m., or returning, leave St. Louis 5:30 9:45 p m „ eastern time, Sunp. m. or 10:15 p. m. same day. day, Jan. 3. SATURDAY, JANUARY 2 DETROIT $4.00 TOLEDO $3.50 Leave 10:15 p. m.; returning leave Detroit 11:20 p. m., eastern time, Sunday, January 3; leave 'J'oledo 1:30 a. m., eastern time Monday, January 4. Week-Ends During January and February CHICAGO $5.00 Good on all trains Fridays and Saturdays, also 12:10 a. m. and 1:55 a. m. trains Sundays. Good returning until Monday night following date of sale. LOUISVILLE $3.60 Good going Fridays and Saturdays; returning Monday following-* date of sale. Tickets good in coaches only. Half fare for Children. Tickets—City Ticket Office, 112 Monument Circle and L’nion Station BIG FOUR ROUTE
YOUTH JUDGES SELF; DEPARTS WITH WARNING ‘Slowest Man on East New York Street’ Wins $lO Fine. The “slowest driver on East New York street" and a high school pupil, who was his own judge on a traffic, violation charge, today brought humor to Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron's court. Police arrested Harry Stewart. 40, of 1249 Kappes street, for speeding forty-six miles an hour for fourteen blocks on East New York street. Patrolman Jake Hudgins caught him at Gray street, the court was informed. Stewart admitted the speed, but added this comment: “Judge, all I've got to say is I'nv the slowest driver out there.” He was fined $lO. “I’d Suspend Everything" Lanky Bob Huntzleman, 5124 North Pennsylvania street, Shortridge high school senior, was charged with failure to stop at a preferential street at Thirtieth and Delaware streets. "Yes, I did it. judge.” he admitted. “I didn't see anyone coming, so I slipped through.” “What do you think I ought to do to you?’’ Cameron asked. “Judge, that's a bad question to ask a fellow." “Really, what do you think I ought to do?’’ “Well, I'm not the judge, but if I were, I’d suspend everything,'! the boy answered. Cameron withheld judgment and warned the youth against traffic law violations. Thomas E. Jones. Negro. 1018 East Twenty-sixth street, a chauffeur, who ran afoul the law while rushing to "meet my boss" Monday afternoon, did not fare so well. Disregards Lecture Police said he ran through safety zones at the rate of forty-four miles an hour. He was arrested at Illinois and Washington streets. Cameron levied fines of $5 and costs for driving through safety zones, a $lO fine for speeding, and dismissed a reckless driving count., Mrs. Sarah Withrow. Negro, 2041 Ludlow avenue, who refused to heed a warning of a motorcycle officer, was fined $5 and costs on a reckless driving count and $1 and costs for driving ori the wrong side of the street. . Motorcycle officer Nolan Hill said he stopped her and demanded to see her driver’s license warning her not to cut into traffic as she had been doing. Hill told the court Mrs. Withrow started her car and roared away as he finished his lecture. Driving her car to the wrong side of the street, she fled into the home of a relative in the,l6oo block Sheldon street, where Hill arrested her. he told the court. PLAN SCHOOL SURVEY State Superintendent to Inspect Physical Education Methods. Plans have been drafted for a survey of physical education activ-’ ities of 800 high schools throughout the state, it was announced today in the office of George C. Cole, state school superintendent. The survey will be in charge of D. A. Glascock, director of physical education for men at the Indiana State Teachers college, Terre Haute, and will be under the auspices of a committee of high school instructors and attaches of Cole’s office. The plan will be laid before the state board of education at its meeting in January for approval.
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