Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 199, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 December 1931 — Page 2

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G. 0. P. DEFEAT SAD BLOW TO JOB HOLDERS Democrats, Taking Reins in House, Sweep Out Republicans. By Serif ?r a rd Jftwtpnpcr Alliance WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.—Christmas holidays at the Capitol find approximately 125 men and women out of Jobs, and twice that many, more who know that during January they too will be added to the ranks of the unemployed. Democrats are making a clean sweep of Republican employes of the house and replacing them with their partisans, brought for the most part from outside of Washington. Those who are being turned out are presumed to have savings on which they can live for a time. Most of them have earned from SI,OOO to $3,000 a year during the Republican administration. Few Retained From page boys to grizzled veterans of the public service, the ax is falling indiscriminately. Veterans of the Civil war who serve as door keepers under a special dispensation of life tenure are the only secure and unruffled members of the house attache list, numbering between 375 and 400 employes. A few others, who have served the house so long that their politics is forgotten and their services are indispensable, are being kept, also, but the list of these is very short. A few of the Democrats who have succeeded to responsible positions have been working at the Capitol as minority employes, during the Republican administration, and are not totally unacquainted with the duties they have assumed. Keep Agreement This is true of Joseph J. Sinnott, new doorkeeper, who has been at the Capitol some forty years, through changing administrations. Finis Scott, new house postmaster, has held one of the nineteen positions the Democrats managed to retain through the Republican sway, and so has Kenneth Romney, new sergeant-at-arms. Under a sort of reciprocity agreement, Democrats are retaining a few prominent Republican appointees on anew minority list. Thus includes William Tyler Page, former clerk of the house; J. G. Rodgers, former sergeant-at-arms; Bert W. Kennedy, former doorkeeper; Frank W. Collier, who has been postmaster; M. L. Meletio, a deputy ser-geant-art-arms, and James Griffin, special employe. The house police force has been changed almost completely, and so have the house elevator operators. Where it has been necessary to train new employes before turning over responsible positions to them, old workers have been kept on the job until January.

SAFETY PLAY GIVEN BY DRAMATIC PUPILS Part of Program Sponsored By Film Indorsers. A safety play, prepared by Helen Frances Starr for Lieutenant Frank Owens of the safety board, was prepared by her dramatic art pupils at 1:30 today at Fountain Square theater as a part of the program for the potato and apple matinee, sponsored by the management and the Indiana Indorsers of Photoplays. Plot of the play concerns a meeting of “our gang’’ to discuss compositions on “Safety,” prepared for their school’s safety program. Miss Starr’s pupils take the part of children in the “Our Gang” comedies. The play will be presented again Thursday at the Indianapolis Home for Aged Women and will be broadcast as a part of the safety program conducted by Lieutenant Owens at 3:45, Jan. 6. PLAN MINSTREL SHOW Khvanis Past Presidents to Put on Program for Club. Past presidents of the Indianapolis Kiwanis Club wtl present a mintsrel show at a meeting Wednesday in the Riley room at the Claypool. Members of the cast will be Herman C. Wolfe, Eli Schloss, Julian Wetzel, Walter B. Harding, Mervin J. Hammel, Harrj E. Yockey, Dwight S. Ritter, Carl S. Wagner, Walter T. White, Henry L. Dithmer, O. B. lies, Edward E. Gates and John A. George. MRS. GRACE BORTZ DIES Succumbs at Hospital Following Illness of Five Months. Mrs. Grace May Bortz, 26, of 313 East St. Clair street, died Monday at the Methodist hospital following an illness of five months. Mrs. Bortz, who had lived in the city five years, is survived by the husband, Gerald G. Bortz, a son Gerald G. Jr., her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Smith, and two sisters. Funeral services will be held at the Wald funeral parlors, 1619 North Illinois street, Friday at 10 with burial in Crown Hill cemetery.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to: Lewis Callerman .120S st. Paul street. Chevrolet sedan 744-865. irom 200 Vlrsinia avenue. D. L. Canarsdale. 1027 North Revs Lone avenue. WiUvs-Knlaht sedan. 733-142. from 1027 North Keystone avenue. Flovd Faulkner. 260 North Grav street. Auburn sedan. 95-797. trom earase In -ear of 250 North Grav street. Ralph Condon. 2025 South State street Nash sedan. 39-324. from Prospect street and State avenue. F. O. Wißlev. 1736 Prospect street. Chevrolet coach. 749-574. from Dawson and Prospect streets.

BACK HOME AGAIN

Stolen automobiles recovered by police belomt to: Edward Jones, 2401 Marttndsle avenue. Nash sedan, found at Twenty-filth street and Gornell avenue. Northwestern Sales Company. 2929 Northwestern avenue. Chevrolet coupe, found at Fifteenth street and Cornell avenue. Wilson McAdoo. 528 West Twentv-ninth street. Dodee tourine:. found at 853 West Walnut street. Ralph Conden. 2025 South State avenue. Nash sedan, found at Beecher and Shelby streets. Mrs. Mary McClintoclr. 1018 East Maryland street. Ford sedan, lound in frcnt of 845 Collece avenue. Lowell Tavlor, 935 South Delaware street. Ford roadster, found at Market and New Jersey streets. Mnlor West. 1515 Martindale avenue Diana sedan found In rear of 541 Htaatha street. Ford sedan. 78-590. found in rear of Home hotel. 228 South Illinois street.

Fiend’s Victim Is Buried

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With six of her playmates as pallbearers, the body of Marian McLean, 6-year-old victim of a fiendish murderer in Cincinnati, 0., was being borne from St. Patrick’s church in Covington, Ky., when this picture was taken at the conclusion of funeral services. The child’s mutilated body was found in a tenement cellar after a city-wi4e search.

EX-CITY TEACHER IS PNEUMONIA VICTIM

Mrs. C. M. Biilings Stricken Fatally While Visiting Parents Here. While spending the holidays at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John E. Whitney, 1930 Sugar Grove avenue, Mrs. C. M. Billings, 30, of Norfolk, Va., was stricken with pneumonia and died Monday in the Methodist hospital. Mrs. Billings was married to the Rev. C. M. Billings of the Southern Baptist church in October. Mrs. Billings, professor of French and Spanish at Chowan college, Murfreesboro, N. C., was educated at Emmerich Manual Training high school and Indianapolis normal school. During the summer months she studied at Indiana university. In 1926, she received the A. B. degree from Adrian college, Adrian, Mich., and in 1927 a master’s degree from the department of romance languages at Michigan university. Last summer she was awarded a certificate for advanced studies in French' at the Sorbonne in Paris. She was professor of Spanish and French at Lagrance college in Missouri before going to Chowan college. She also had taught at city schools Nos. 4,5, 29 and 44. Mrs. Billings was a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority and Beta Pi Theta, honorary French fraternity. Survivors, besides the husband, are the parents, a sister, Miss Esther Whitney, and a brother, Robert Whitney. Funeral services will be held at 2 Wednesday at the Unity Protestant church, Harding and Nineteenth street, with burial in Crown Hill cemetery.

JAMES BYROAD, 73 CLAIMED BY DEATH

Succumbs Almost on Eve of 50th Wedding Anniversary. Plans tc celebrate his fiftieth wedding anniversary Jan. 16 w r ere shattered Monday by the death of James Monroe Byroad, 73, who died at his home, 2206 Prospect street. Mr. Byroad had lived in Indianapolis for twenty-ope years, and had been employed by the Forbes Lumber Company until eighteen months ago. Besides the wife, Mrs. Ella Byroad, he is survived by five daughters, three sons, three half-brothers and a half-sister. Funeral services will be held in the Victory Memorial M. E. church and burial will be in Glen Haven cemetery. Miss Henrietta Schrake, formerly a teacher and school executive in Indianapolis, died recently at her home in Ontario, Cal., according to W'ord received here Monday. The body was cremated and will be brought to Crown Hill cemetery for burial. Miss Schrake, daughter of Christopher and Mary Schrake, pioneer residents of Indianapolis, was a teacher* forty years. She w r as principal and later supervisor of No. 9 and No. 39. Twenty years ago she went to California to live with her sister, Mrs. C. C. Brown. Funeral services for Mrs. Hulda Smith Harmeson, 80, who died Sunday at the home of her daughter, Illinois street, will be held at the Mrs. Minnie Wechsler, 722 South home at 2 Wednesday. Burial w'ill be in Floral Park cemetery.

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Bathless * By Times Special SHELBYVILLE, Ind., Dec. 29. —Charles F. Warner refused to bathe and wore the same clothes for months, Mrs. Mary Warner alleges in a divorce suit on file here. Two haircuts a year and a shave once a week were her husband’s limit, the wife alleges, she asks restoration of her maiden name, Mary Bailey; $8 a week support money, SIOO for attorney fees and $750 alimony.

THIEVES LOOT AUTOS, BREAK INTO HOUSES Take Articles Valued by Owners at • $315, Police Say. Looting automobiles and homes Monday night, thieves took personal possessions worth $315, police said today. A sample case and a traveling bag valued at $250 were stolen from an automobile parked by Fred Geyer, 22 West Georgia street, at Balsam and Fairfield avenues. Two trumpets valued at $45 were stolen from the car of J. C. Kegg, 2245 Park avenue, in front of the home Monday night. Using a pass key, a burglar entered the home of Harold C. Roempke, 230 Hoefgen street, stealing a rifle and fiishing taekle worth S2O. Thieves who broke into a lunch stand at 653 River avenue, Monday night, opened a music box money drawer but failed to obtain money.

SEEKS TOMBAUGH’S AID Vermont Adjutant-General Fights Guard Personnel Cut. Aid of Adjutant-General Paul Tombaugh in a move to oppose a federal budget plan before congress reducing national guard personnel and paring the number of drills annually was sought in a letter today by Herbert T. Johnson, adju-tant-general of Vermont. The federal proposal would reduce the number of drills from silty-two to forty-four annually, and would reduce camp personnel to 75 per cent of the present enlisted strength. Tennis Now in Season By United Press STERLING, 111., Dec. 29.—Tennis, enthusiasts have planned a tournament for New Year’s day unless an unexpected blizzard snows under the present summer weather. Other residents have been swimming in Rock river, horseshoe-pitching and golfing at the country clubs.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

HOODLUM FREED BY LESLIE HELD FOR FAKE RAID Art Dampier, Two Mates to Be Grilled on U. S. Impersonation. Art Dampier, Indianapolis hoodlum, recently freed from the state reformatory by Governor Harry G. Leslie without paying a SSOO fine on an assault conviction, was held by police today in connection with a fake booze raid Nov. 16. Dampier and two companions, known police characters, were arrested late Monday by Lieutenant Dan Cummings and squad. The trio is charged with robbery and impersonating federal officers in a raid on the residence of Eric Schelski, 908 St. Peter street. Those held with Dampier are Chester Alfrey, 24, of 134 South Keystone avenue, and Lawrence Hiatt, 29, downtown hotel resident, identified by police with west side hi-jacking activities. Guns, Money Taken According to police, the trio forced their way into Schelski’s residence, in the guise of federal dry agents, and stole two revolvers and S4B. Detectives Clifford Beeker and Alfred Schultz saw Dampier and his companions in a borrowed car in the southeastern section of the city Monday and notified squad cars to be on the lookout for them. Cummings and members of his squad, later saw them at Ray and Mount streets, where the trio attempted to escape by swerving their car out of the path of the police auto. Officers crashed their car into the side of the suspects’ auto to prevent their escape. The fine which Dampier escaped through executive clemency was imposed by Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker after Dampier was alleged to have slugged a south side resident in a hi-jacking encounter. Just Finished Term Dampier had completed service of a six-months’ sentence on the assault and battery with intent to kill count, when the fine was revoked. 'Officials of the Marion county school fund, into which the fine would have been paid, admitted after Dampier’s release they probably signed the clemency petition, but were unaware of the facts in the case. Leslie was criticised for his clemency by Baker and county officials following the hoodlum’s release. Dampier, wounded gunshot, was arrested in November by detectives on a charge of chicken stealing and vagrancy. The vagrancy count was dismissed shortly after his arrest and he later was discharged in municipal court on the theft charge.

LIBRARY LISTS NEW BOOKS FOR CHILDREN Adventure Stories, History, and a Pastoral Tale Included. Among books recently received by the Indianapolis public library are many editions for children. They are available at the central library or at any of the seventeen branches. “TIMOTHY AND THE BLUE CART,’ bv Elinor Whitney—A jolly country story of three children. “CALL OF THE RIO BRAVO." by Albert Bailey—A vigorous story about a boy. written out of the author’s own exnerience in Brazil. “JUAN AND JUANITA," bv Frances Baylor—About Juan and Juanita, who lived with their parents In Mexico and were captured bv Comanchi Indians. “A CHILD’S HISTORY OF THE WORLD.’’ by V. M. Hillver —A popular companion to “A CHILD'S GEOGRAPHY OF THE WORLD.” CRASH INJURIES FATAL Miss Josephine Clay, Graduate of Butler, Dies in California, Injuries suffered in an automobile crash Christmas day in Cali-

fornia proved fatal to Miss Josephine Clay of North Salem, Ind., Butler university graduate, according to word here today. Miss Clay was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and had been teaching in the west since her graduation in 1928. The body will be returned to North Salem for burial,

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the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Clay.

After-Christmas SALES DOWNSTAIRS ■ AYRES

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