Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 270, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 March 1932 — Page 3

MARCH 21,1932

RETURN BANDIT SUSPECTS FROM OHIO FOR TRIAL Movie Theater Holdups Are Charged to Pair; Crime Flares Over Week-Fnd. Two men are under arrest today charged with robbery of the Fountain Square and Granada theaters Feb. 7 when total loot of SSOO was obtained. The two, Harry Fields, 26, and Maurice O’Flaherty were brought here from Columbus, where they were nabbed. O’Flaherty had announced his intention of resisting extradition, but with Fields being brought here Saturday, O’Flaherty gave up the fight. Detectives say Fields has made a statement in which he asserts he was invited to come to Indianapolis by O'Flaherty to stage the robberies. Booze Arrest Follows Crash Captured by police after running his automobile into a tree and wrecking it at Forty-sixth street and Kessler boulevard, Sunday, Loren Bowers, 23, Negro, of 2612 Burton avenue, was accused by police of transporting a five-gallon can of alcohol in the car. A burglar who escaped after grappling with Charles Gerard, 401 East Nineteenth street, early Sunday night, when discovered looting the home, was sought by police today, A downtown clothing store and an east side barber shop were losers j to burglars over the week-end, police reported. Smashing a window of the Capitol Clothes Shop, 10 East Washington street, a burglar took a top coat valued at, sls. Police discovered the broken window and reported to H. O. Wharton, manager of the store. Barber Shop looted Razors, brushes, combs and a pair of shears, valued at $26, were stolen from the barber shop of Charles Moore, 1117 East Tenth street. Loot valued at several hundred dollars was taken from four automobiles, police were told. A. L. McDuffie chased a Negro who stolen two robes from his automobile parked In front of McDuffie’s place of business at 42 Virginia avenue. Mrs. Philip Jassa, Muncie, reported theft of clothing valued at ! S2OO from her car parked at Meridian and Georgia streets. Taxi Driver Held Up Two overcoats were stolen from the automobile of Arnold Benson, West Lafayette, which was parked at Capitol avenue and Washington street. The coats were valued at S4O. Clothing valued at $lO was stolen j from the automobile of C. W. Schuman, Logansport, parked in front of 136 North Delaware street. Two men robbed a taxi driver, Flovd Sterrctt, 1214 Bellefontaine street, of $3.35, at Washington I street and Warman avenue. Loot of S4O was obtained by a Negro when he held up M. J. Tim- ; berlfike, Negro, 2505 Indianapolis | avenue, in his news stand at North I and Douglass streets. CRASHES AND THEN IS ROBBED OF HIS AUTO Ohio Man Loses Car When He Goes for Aid; Dynamite Is Mystery. Contender for the champion hard j luck story of motoring was revealed I today as well as the mystery of a ' dynamite-laden automobile, when ; Miss Gladys Ramsey, Cincinnati, called local police by telephone to report theft of her father’s automobile. According to Miss Ramsey, her j father was driving near Miamitown, ! 0., early Sunday, when his car skidded from a road and overturned in a ditch. He crawled out unhurt and went in search of aid in righting his car. On his return, the car was missing. Another automobile j hearing an Indiana license and ; containing a large quantity of dynamite, had been abandoned at the scene. SCOUTS’ APPEAL fOR CLOTHING IS RENEWED Hoys Will Collect Contributions for Poor Throughout City. Boy Scouts of the city have col-' looted more than 100 pairs of shoes and trousers, with overcoats, hats and other apparel in their clothing drive to aid the Red Cross and the American Legion supply the needy, F. O. Belzer. Scout executive, announced today. The relief station is in need of; almost ten thousand more articles. Tcrsons who have donations may call Scout headquarters, Lincoln 3112, or the Red Cross relief station, Riley 2976. Scouts will call for bundles. Out of town residents are requested to send articles by parcel past.

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Soft Boiled By Scrippu-Howard Xc wit paper A llianre WASHINGTON, March 21. Meet the “soft boils” of the senate. This Is the name now being applied by senators to that group of Republicans not identified with the Borah-Nor-ris-La Follette progressive group, sometimes called “sons of the wild jackass,” or the “standpat" administration backers like Reed. Watson, Bingham. Moses, and Fess, or the “young guards,” led by Vandenberg, It includes Republicans like Capper, Steiwer and McNary.

CHAPLAIN TO SPEAK The Rev. T. J. Simpson Will Address Capital Lodge. The Rev. Thomas J. Simpson of the Washington Presbyterian , church will speak at the Washing- ] ton bicentennial observance of Cap- | ital City lodge No. 322, F. & A. M., Tuesday night, Mr. Simpson is chaplain of the lodge. The celebration will open with l conferring of the Master Mason degree at 5. A banquet will be served at 6:30. Benediction and convocation was to be pronounced Toy the Rev. W. H. Kendall, pastor of Memorial Presbyterian church. Craft Club, under the direction of | Frank Mellis, junior warden, and Walter Fuller, master craftsman, ! will confer the degree work. A special program of music will j be given by the lodge choir under ' the direction of Arnold F. Spencer. In charge of arrangements will be Dewey M. Mead, worshipful masi ter; George Van Cleve, senior warden, and Frank Mellis, junior warden. ALUMNI TO HEAR WEST Former Secretary of Interior Will Address De Pauw Association. Roy O. West, former secretary of the interior, will speak at the annual dinner meeting of the Indianapolis De Pauw Alumni Association Tuesday night at the Broadway M. j E. church. Other speakers will be Dr. G. Bromley Oxnam, president; Dr. B. Longden, vice-president; ; Robert G. McCutchan, dean of the school of music, and Dr. William M. Blanchard, dean of the school of liberal arts. GANGSTER GIVEN ‘RIDE’ Chicago Hoodlum's Bullet Riddled Body Found Beside Road. By United Press CHICAGO, March 21. ended another gang career, when the body of Frank Battaglia, 26, four bullets in the head, was found beside a country road just southwest of the city, where a dozen gangland rides have ended in recent years. Battaglia was known to police as a minor hoodlum and member of the “42” gang of young west side criminals.

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Patrolman De Vault Is Hurt;. Two Drivers Arrested in Week-End Crashes. Five persons, including a city policeman, were injured and two motorists were arrested in week-end traffic accidents. Struck by an auto as he directed traffic at the scene of a fire Sunday night, patrolman Robert De Vault, 56, incurred bruises, a fractured shoulder bone ar.d leg injuries. His condition uas reported improving today at city hospital. The accident occurred at Capitol j avenue and Twenty-sixth street. Charles Barnes, 19, of R. R. 16, Box 801, driver of the car, was arrested for disobeying a police signal and assault and battery with an auto. Suffers Cuts, Bruises When an automobile in which they were riding collided with another at Sherman drive and English i avenue, late Sunday, E. L. Ramsey, 54, of Edgewood and Leonard, 25, his son, were cut and bruised. William Holliday, 20, of 413 Caven street, driver of the other par, was arrested for speeding and reckless driving, and Ramsey was ordered held for failure to stop at a j preferential street. Runs in Car Path Lester Humphrey, 5, of 5338 Washburn street, was bruised and cut when he ran into the path of an automobile driven by Mrs. Lyda Norton, 32, of Chicago, near his home Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Norton swerved her car and ran down an eight-foot embankment in an effort to avoid striking the boy. Marcus Hooker, 51, of 520 North Jefferson avenue, was cut on the shoulders and head when the auto he was driving crashed into a street car at Washington street and Jefferson avenue, Saturday night. ORR WILL TALK ON TOWNSHIP MERGING Manufacturers to Hear Plan For Reduced Government Cost. How governmental costs can be reduced through consolidations of functions and wiping out the town- i ships will be explained to the Indiana Manufacturers’ Association by Lawrence F. Orr, chief examiner of the state board of accounts, April 7. Seventeenth annual meeting of the association is to be held at the Columbia Club at which time Orr will speak. James E. Emery, general counsel of the National Association of Manufacturers, will discuss national legislation. Manufacturers and employers of the state have been invited by H. M. Cochrane, secretary. INCOME TAXES LESS Collections Show Big Decrease Over Last Year. By United Press WASHINGTON, March 21.—Con- ! tinued decreases in income tax collections this year were recorded in the treasury statement today. The total receipts for the month through last Friday were placed at $152,428,074, a reduction of $86,695,907 from the corresponding total for last year. CHICAGO EDITOR COMING Charles E. Snyder Will Address Sigma Delta Chi Alumni. Indianapolis alumni of Sigma Delta Chi, national professional journalistic fraternity, will hear Charles E. Snyder, editor of the Chicago Daily Drovers Journal, and national president of the fraternity, at the chapter’s annual founders' day dinner at the Columbia Club April 14. The dinner will be in celebration of the founding of the fraternity at De Pauw university in 1909.

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TWO DEMANDS ARE VOICED FOR ASSEMBLY CALL Unemployed Council, State Representative Urge Special Session. Two demands for a special session; of the Indiana legislature were made today at the statehouse. Committee of the unemployed council called at the office of Governor Harry G. Leslie to present a demand for a session. The Governor was absent. It has been charged that he hesitates to convene the legislature through fear it will appropriate a million dollars for needy relief. The Governor, proclaiming “Indiana takes care of her own,” repeatedly has opposed relief measures other than tho&i now in use. Addressed to Heads The other demand is contained in a letter from H. H. Evans, Newcastle attorney and state representative, addressed to Ed Bush, Lieutenant Governor; Walter Myers, Speaker of the house; Lee Hartzell, senate leader, and Delph McKesson, house leader. “As leaders of your parties,” the Evans letter states, “you should call ; a rump-joint session of the members of the legislature to serve for two days without pay, to see if it is not possible to arrange for a special session. I suggest that such a session be called not later than the second week in April.” Tax Changes Vital Evans says tax changes must be made “if the homes, the farms and the business houses in the state are to be saved from bankruptcy.” He assails Leslie for demanding a tax program in advance of any special session. “We are not a rubber stamp, Evans writes. “Under the Constitution, it is unfair, unjust and illegal to demand from us a stereotyped program made up by people who don’t know as much as we do about the real situation.”

ARREST SIX IN NEGRO MURDER Cops Probe Killing During Running Gun Battle. With six persons in custody, police today are continuing an investigation of the slaying March 11 of Elijah Carpenter, Negro, alleged bootlegger, and the serious wounding of James Owens, believed the result of a hijacker feud. Prisoners include Carl Vonwiller, 30, of 1835 North Meridian street, and Harry Pierson, 29, of 1132 North Illinois street. Others held, all Negroes, are Walter Williams, 32, 2861 Shriver avenue; his wife, Martha Williams; James Southern, 22, 916 Locke street, and George Alex, 59. of 361 West Twenty-ninth street. The arrests were made at the Shriver avenue address, home of Williams, by Sergeant Noel Jones and squad. A newspaper containing an account of the slaying was found in a room occupied by the woman, police said. Carpenter and Owens were riding in the former’s automobile in the 5700 block West Washington street, when a hail of bullets were fired from a passing machine. Carpenter died almost instantly, but Owens survived serious wounds. Police said they found eleven gallons of alcohol in Carpenter’s car. Officers have expressed a theory that the shooting was due to a belief Carpenter sold hijacked liquor. - * GLASS TOGET WORK Golden Rule Lodge No. 3 Team to Exemplify Ritual. Degree team of Golden Rule lodge No. 3, United Order of American Workers, will exemplify the revised ritual to a class of candidates at a meeting tonight at 116 Vi East Maryland street. Following the degree work will be a social hour and the regular monthly luncheon. Five new officers were installed at the meeting of Golden Rule lodge last Monday. Those installed were: Mattie James, secretary; Emma Baranek, treasurer; Nettie Elmore, assistant social chairman; Harry Johnson, inner doorkeeper, and Eldon O’Connor, outer guard. Easter musical and dancing party will be staged by the Booster Club of Golden Rule lodge at 8:15 Monday, March 28. Feature of the entertainment will be Rodgers’ dancers. In addition, there will be other singing and dancing acts. The party will be open to the public. Members of the committee on arrangements will be Mrs. Nellie Good, Mrs. Nettie Elmore, Hyatt G. Johnson and William D. Goode. Former Vaudeville Star Dies By United Press DETROIT. Mach 21.—Richard E. Lynch, once a well-known vaudeville star, both in this country and England, died today after an illness of several weeks. Lynch, called by George M. Cohan, “the greatest clog dancer of all time,” was 63.

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damages druing the week-end, fire officials said today. When & gardener's cottage at the J. A. Goodman estate. Kessler boulevard and Sunset avenue, caught fire Sunday, H. T. Smolski, the gardener. was burned on the hands, his wife on the head and face, and their daughter Susan, 2, on the body. Lieutenant Jesse Day of Engine

House 32 cut his foot when he stepped on a broken glass jar while fighting the blaze. Damage to the cottage was estimated at SSOO. Home of M. S. Schoener, 2914 Bellefontaine street, and adjoining residence of L. W. Yancey, 2910 Bellefontaine street, were damaged more than SSOO as result of a roof

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fire at the Schoener home Sunday. Fire in a garage in the rear of the home of K. D. Kenderson, 326 Grand avenue, Rundu.y afternoon, caused damage of $350. City firemen battled nearly an hour early Sunday morning to halt a roof fire which caused $1,500 damage to the farm home of George Ebaugh, near Cumberland.