Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 264, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 March 1932 — Page 3

MARCH 14,1932

L.J.WILLHOFF, LONG ACTIVE IN POLITICS, DEAD Orphans Home Secretary for 26 Years; Rites Set Wednesday. Lawrence J. WillhofF, 64, prominent in Democratic politics, died Sunday at his home, 953 English avenue. He was a life-long resident of Indianapolis. Mr. WillhofT was a member of the Scottish Rite, the Shrine, Prospect; lodge No. 714, F. & A. M., Aerie No. 211, F. O. E., and the Second i Reformed church. He was secretary of the General | Protestant Orphans’ home twenty- i six years. Funeral services, in charge of the Rev. George P. Kehl, will be held at 1:30 Wednesday in the Second Reformed church. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Two Sisters Survive Surviving him are two sisters, j Mrs. Albert Schumacher and Miss Louise WillhofT. Funeral services for David Hume Steele, 56. who died Sunday at his home, 5549 Guilford avenue, will be held at 10 Tuesday in the residence. Mr Steele was assistant manager of the Victor Furniture Company. Born in Quincy, 111., he came to Indianapolis thirty years ago. He had been - associated with the Victor company twenty-nine years. Burial will be in Memorial Park cemetery. Following apparent recovery from Internal injuries suffered when struck by a street car Feb. 3, John F. Barrett, 60, died Saturday at his home, 4259 College avenue. Headed Fuel. Company Mr. Barrett was president of the Barrett Coal and Fuel Company, which he established thirty-five years ago. He was a member of St. Joan of Arc Catholic church and the Hoosicr Athletic Club. He was active In politics several years. Funeral services will bp held in the home at 8:30 Tuesday and at 9 in St. Joan of Arc church. The Rev. Maurice O'Conner, pastor, will officiate. Burial will be in Holy Cross cemetery. Arthur Stedman Pearce, 45, a na--live of England and employe of the Pennsylvania railroad, died Sunday morning in his home, 143 West Thirty-third street. Born in England Mr. Pearce was bom in Guilford, Surrey, England. Christian Science funeral services will be held at the Flanner &; Buchanan mortuary, 25 West Fall Creek boulevard, at 4:30 'Tuesday. Cremation will follow. Funeral services for Charles E. Ferrell, 66, who died Saturday night in his home, 4515 Park avenue, will be held at 2 Tuesday in the Kirby & Dunn undertaking establishment, 1901 North Meridian street. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Mr. Ferrell, born in Greens Fork, had been connected with the Indianapolis Life Insurance Company twenty-five years. At his death, he was superintendent of the eastern division. John R. Peters Dies A week’s illness resulted in the death Sunday night of John R. Peters, 21, in his home, 227 East Fall Creek boulevard. He had lived in Indianapolis seven years, having come here from Danville, 111., where he was born. He was a graduate of Shortridge high school, and a former student at Butler university. He was a second lieutenant, quartermaster corps, officers’ reserve corps of the ’army. He formerly was manager of the St. Clair and the Ritz theaters. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. Funeral services for Stephen E. Lee, 71, of 4444 Guilford avenue, former assistant state geologist, who died Saturday, were to be held at 2:30 today in Advent Episcopal church, of which he was a member. Burial was to be in Crown Hill cemetery. FOWLER TO BE SPEAKER Former Publicity Manager to Address Delta Upsilon. ‘'After Office Hours in Europe” will be the topic of Volney B. Fowler, former publicity manager for General Motors Export Company, in a speech before the annual state banquet of Delta Upsilon Saturday night, at the Claypool. Fowler toured more than 5,500 miles in Europe as part of his work. Delta Upsilon chapters from De Famv, Indiana and Purdue universities will be represented. A dance will follow. KOKOMO MOVIE BOMBED Labor Trouble Blamed for Blast; Damage Is Slight. By United Press KOKOMO, Ind„ March 14.—A bomb exploded at the rear of the Indiana theater here Sunday night, but damage was slight and no one was injured. The management blamed labor trouble.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to: R. F. Bellows, Rockford. 111., Ford sedan, 185-957. Illinois, from 340 Barton avenue. Ora Richardson, Franklin, Ind.. Chevrolet coach. 248-521. from Franklin. Ind. Feckman Motor Company. Kokomo. Ind., De Sosto sedan, from Meridian and Vermont streets. A. R. Young. R. R. l. Box 338. Chevrolet coupe 62-026. from Bouthport. Ind. D. F. White. 2106 Shriver avenue. Chrvsler sedan. 59,564, from 710 North West etreet. Bowman Keene, 30, 131 South Catherwood street. Ford coupe. 531-778. from Wst street and Indiana avenue.

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Stolen automobiles recovered bv police belong to: Red Cab Company. 739 East Market stret. Ford tudor, found in rear of cab company s office. Carl Robinson. Brownsburg. Ind.. Chevrolet aoupe. found at Twenty-third street and Manlove avenue.

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Apache Herder Is On Trial in Co-Ed Slaying

Golney (Mac) Seymour By United Press Ariz., March 14.—Golney J (Mao Seymour, 21, Apache Indian herder, will go on trial today charged with the murder of Henrietta Schmerler, young Columbia university student. The death of Miss Schmerler last July was a tragic ending to her sojourn among the Apaches, with whom she lived to study anthropology and their tribal habits. It was precisely her failure to understand these tribal customs which led to her death, the defense is expected to maintain. ts n tt ALTHOUGH John P. Dougherty, Seymour's attorney, refused to indicate his plans, there has been persistent talk among the Indians that Seymour had been “led” into asserted intimacy with the girl through her supposed breach of tribal etiquette. The Indians say that Miss Schmerler accepted an invitation to ride behind the young brave on his horse. Among the Apaches, it is a gross breach of etiquette for a young woman to ride a horse with a brave unless she is his squaw. They maintain it amounts to a confession of intimacy. * tt THE defense was expected to contend that the girl’s death was accidental during a fight, in which they were to claim Seymour was threatened with death because he refused to mairy the girl. The government’s chief witness was expected to be Robert Gatewood, Apache range rider, who told authorities Seymour confessed to having fought with the girl and “acting bad” the night he was to have taken her to an Apache dance. Miss Schmerler’s body was found three days later. NO BANK FAILURES Canadian Institutions Meet All 1931 Dividends. By United Press WASHINGTON. March 14. Canada’s ten chartered banks were free from failures and paid their usual dividends during 1931 despite shrinkage in profits, the commerce department reported today. Canada operates a banking system similar to that of Great Britain —a few large chartered banks with numerous branch banks. newTooks are issued Eight Volumes Placed on Shelves at Business Library. Business branch library today placed the folowing new books in circulation: •'More They Told Barron,” by Pound and Moore; - The Young Man in Business.” by Davies: "Canadian Customs Tariff and Excise Duties," 1931; "Traffic Officers' Training Manual,” bv Taylor; "Teaching Gregg Shorthand by the Analytical Method." by Frick; “Accounting Problems,” bv Rittenhouse; "Stock Swindlers and Their Methods." by Frasca, and "Purchasers’ Guide to Music Industries, 1931.”

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NEGRO CLAIMING HE’S JOHN SHAW TO DIE IN CHAIR: Figure in Brutal Murder Here Is Convicted in Tennessee. John Shaw, who insists he is the same Negro who was acquitted Jan. 30, 1926, of the murder here of Mrs. Helen Hager Whelchel, young white woman, was sentenced to die in the electric chair at Nashville, Term., today, according to press dispatches. Execution was set for May 20. He was convicted of murdering Mary Lee Foster, 12, Negro, who died Dec. 9, after a criminal attack. Despite the Tennessee prisoner’s claim, W. S. Henry, local Negro attorney, who was chief counsel in the three trials of the Whelchel case defendant, doubts he is the same man. His view is shared by James Curley, cousin of the local Negro, who says he attended the trial of Shaw in Nashville. The local men declare the Negro acquitted of slaying Mrs. Whelchel is living in Cleveland, 0., under another name. Body of Mrs. Whelchel was found beneath a Big Four railroad bridge four and one-half miles west of Indianapolis, Nov. 28, 1923. She had been strangled and beaten. Police believed she had been kidnaped m an automoble near her home. Bloodstains on Shaw’s automobile and his possession of jewelry belonging to the dead woman led to his arrest, Dec. 2, on a charge of murder. He insisted he bought the jewelry from “Hunky John” Aaron, whose name was mentioned in the statement of the Negro at Nashville. Feeling ran high following the

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LEGISLATORS WILL PONDER TAX PLAN

Relief Proposals Will Be Sent Lawmakers for for Study. Copies of the official report of the citizens’ tax relief committee, containing recommendations, announced Saturday, for attempted equalization of the governmental burden were being prepared today for distribution to members of the general assembly for study and possible ratification. Meanwhile. Governor Harry G Leslie, who several months ago announced he would convene the assembly in special session if the majority of members could agree on a tax relief program, is analyzing provisions of the program and awaiting legislators’ opinions. Digest of the report sets out recommendations for a personal income tax (corporations not included); a levy on intangibles; a 25 per cent increase in passenger automobile license fees and 100 per cent

arrest and Shaw was taken to the Indiana state prison at Michigan City for safekeeping. Shaw was convicted of murder on Christmas eve, 1923, after a trial of five days in Marion criminal court and Judge James A. Collins sentenced him to die in the electric chair April 7, 1924. He was removed to death row at the state prison. Appeal to the Indiana supreme court was taken by cousel for the Negro, a stay of execution was granted and finally the case was remanded for anew trial in Morgan circuit court at Martinsville on a change of venue. Trial was held in May, 1925, and a jury disagreed. The third trial, also held at Martinsville, brought acquittal.

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1 t < DIRECTORS ROY E. ADAMS President J. D. Adams Manufacturing Company CLARENCE S. ALIG Vice-President Home Stove Company FRED G. APPEL President Gregory & Appel, Incorporated HENRY W. BENNETT President Indianapolis Stove Company ARTHUR V. BROWN . President Union Trust Company EUGENE H. DARRACH President Inter-State Car Company G. A. EFROYMSON President Occidental Realty Company HENRY EITEL Vice-President R. MALOTT FLETCHER Vice-President and Cashier Co-Trustee Malott Estate J. S. HOLLIDAY President. W. J. Holliday 65 Company W. G. IRWIN President Irwin-Union Trust Company, Columbus, Ind. JOHN J. MADDEN President John J. Madden Manufacturing Company GWYNN F. PATTERSON Vice-President NORMAN A. PERRY Capitalist SAMUEL E. RAUH Chairman of Board, Belt Railroad 85 Stockyards Company PETER C. REILLY President Republic Creosoting Company OBIE J. SMITH Real Estate and Insurance WILLIAM L. TAYLOR Attomey-at-Law FRANK D. STALNAKER President

increase for trucks; return of half i of the gasoline tax and motor j license fees to the counties cities and towns, instead of one-fourth, as at present; control of all township roads by county commissioners and reductions of from 5 to 20 per cent in salaries of public officials. Other recommendations to slice j governmental costs include appoint- I ment of a commission to study the state’s system and suggest plans of consolidating departments. Repeal of the three-mile- gravel road law; prohibition of county unit highway bonds for two years; limitation of the 1933, 1934 and 1935 budgets to the aggregate of that adopted in 1932; and administration of poor relief by the county commissioners instead of township trustees, also are recommended. A radical departure in Indiana statecraft is suggested in the proposal that “no bonds shall be issued by any municipal corporation until such issuance shall have bean approved by a majority vote of the qualified voters of the corporation at a general election.”

ORAL ARGUMENTS SET Chancery Master to Hear Water Case Pleas Friday. Oral arguments in the Vincennes Water Supply Company rate case wiH be heard Friday in federal court before Albert Ward, special master in chancery. Submission of evidence ended Saturday. The Vincennes company is seeking to block the enforcement of a rate cut ordered by the Indiana public service commission. Crossing Collision Claims Life lia United Press FT. WAYNE, Ind., March 14.—Ira Wark, 59, was killed when his auto was struck by a traction car near here. William Mason, 8, riding with Wark, was injured.

PARTY WHIPS ARE CRACKED ON SALES TAX Democratic Leaders Seek to Force Rebellious Mem- . bers in Line. By United Press WASHINGTON, March 14.—Party whips cracked in the house today. Democratic leaders were trying to force rebellious members into line on the revolutionary sales tax feature of the new billion-dollar revenue bill. Displaying a complete change in strategy, the leadership now seeks to force the issue, confident that the opposition to the 2U per cent tax is ready to collapse of its inability to find and unite on an “adequate” substitute. Jouett Shouse, executive chairman of the Democratic national committee, Sunday injected the national party organization into the bitter sales tax battle, urging party members to support this feature ot the bill. Both Acting Chairman Crisp oi the ways and means committee and Majority Leader Rainey expressed confidence that the tax would be passed by the house. Although attacking the “Republican deficit,” Shouse declared that he had “not hesitated to advise Democratic members” to vote foi the sales tax as the only means oi balancing the budget.

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