Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 297, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 April 1932 — Page 11

APRIL 21, 1932

Ruth, Gomez Shine as Yankees Wallop A’s Grove Victim of New York Slaughter Before 60,000 Fans; Swetonic of Pirates Blanks St. Louis and Gray Hirls Second Shutout. S.Y JACK CUDDY United Pm* Stair Crr*a,>ondentNEW YORK. April 21 .—Babe Ruth, uaseball's outstanding individual performer, continues in championship stride despite age and ailments, but the champion St. Louis Cardinals have dropped into the National League cellar with the New York Giants. Today, the 38-year-o!d Babe leads the majors with runs batted in, twelve. He is tied with Foxx and Terry for home run honors, each having four, and he ranks second to Foxx as the leading hitter. Ruth's percentage is 471. while Foxx has .481.

Rather than disappoint some firtOOO fans at Yankee stadium Wednesday, George Herman Ruth crawled out of his sick bed and blasted a homer into the right field bleachers, to help the Yankees down Connie Mack s Athletics, 8 to 3. He had been ill with the grippe. Grove’s Defeat Lefty Grove was the victim of the Barn's mighty smash. Grove, leading big league pitcher last season, was outpitched all the way by Lefty Gomez, the slender Yank ace. Grove was combed for six hits and lour runs in six innings and was charged with his first setback of the season. Earnshaw, Connie Mack’s second ace, also received rough treatment. Lyn Lary also homered for the Yanks and scored four times. Ruth added a single to his average, driving In three runs. It was Gomez’ eecond victory over the league champions, registered with nine hits and nine strikeouts. Paid Attendance 55,452 The biggest crowd of the 1932 season, estimated at, 60,000, of which 65.452 were paid customers, witnessed the battle. Meanwhile, the champion Cardinals suffered another stroke at Pittsburgh, where veteran Steve Swetonic blanked them, 7 to 0. Swetonic allowed only three hits, holding the Cardinals hitless until two were out in the eighth. Hallahan and Lindsey were knicked for eleven hits by the Burs

The St. Louis Browns inaugurated their home stand with a 5 to 0 shutout over the Chicago White Sox, behind the masterful pitching of

Sam Gray, who limited the visitors to three hits, while the Browns garnered thirteen safeties off Hadley, Lyons and Gregory. Schulte and M ell ilo smashed homers Tor the Browns. D u p 1 i eating Tuesday’s performance, Bill Terry smashed out two homers to push the New

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York Giants into their second victory in seven starts as they beat the Phillies at Philadelphia, 14 to 5. Lindstrom and Jackson also homered for New York. The Giants got seventeen hits. u a a Waller Johnson's Washington Senators and the Detroit Titers remained tied for first nlaee In the American League as Washinrton nosed out the Boston Red Sox, t to 3. and Detroit heat Cleveland. 2 to ]. • Burke of the Senators and MarFavden of the Red Sox pitched great hall for eight Innings, Martv McManus hitting a homer In the second to rive the Sox a tworun lead. In the ninth, Boston pushed over another tally. but Burke aincled to drive In the winninr run in the Senators final frame. Clint Brown lost a pitehine duel to George tJhte s the Tirers heat the Indians. Doubles by Johnson and Stone in the eighth Inning gave Detroit the victory. Brown's single drove in Cleveland’s only marker. van Critz, Koenccke, Lindstrom and Terry each got three hits for the Giants, Terry and Lindstrom driving home five runs each. tt H tt At Chicago, the Cubs inaugurated their home season bv drooping a 1 to 2 decision to the Cincinnati Reds. Red Lucas held the Bruins to five hits, and the defeat dropped the Cub* out of first place In their circuit. Morrissey led the Cincv attack with three hits. Including two doubles. Malone. May. Baecht. Tinning were the Bruin hurlera. More than 30.000 fans witnessed the wetion. Boston, now In first olsre as the result of the Cubs' loss, and Brooklyn werr net scheduled.

Major Leaders

• (Including Gamp* of April 20> LEADING HITTERS Player Club GAB R H Pet. Poxx. Athletics 7 27 8 13 .481 Ruth, Yankees 4 17 7 R .471 Gehrig, Yankees 6 24 9 11 .458 Llndstrom, Giants 7 31 10 14 452 Terry, Giants 7 33 8 14 .424 HOME RUNS Ruth, Yankees... 4!Cochrane. Athletics 3 Foxx. Athletics... 4 Gehrig. Yankees... 3 Terry, Giants 4 Bvrd. Yankees..* 3 * RUNS BATTED IN Ruth. Yankees... 12 Herman. Reds .. 8 Tarry. Giants .. IT Frisch. Cards ... 8 Manush. Senators 10 West. Senators 8 Foxx. Athletics.. 8 Gehrtnger. Tigers. 8 Hurst, Phtliles .. 8 Gehrig. Yankees.. 8 CAPTURES GUN TITLE P'j TJnitrd Preas PINEHURST, N. C.. April 21. breaking ninety-fivp targets from Ihe twenty-yard line, Andrew J. Smith of Providence. R. 1., won the united north and south handicap today, feature event of a week's trapshooting at the Pinehurst Country Club. Samuel H. Sharman of Salt Citv, who ffas pla*,d at the twenty-eight-yard l*v?. haC ninety-four to take second place and in third place was Isaac Andrews, Spartanburg. S. C., and former grand American champion. who broke ninety-three targets from the twenty-one-yard line. JENKINS SHOOT VICTOR A record of 148 out of 150 targets enabled R. c. Jenkins to carry off major honors in the singles event featuring Wednesday’s all-day shoot at Indianapolis Gun Club. Oscar St-gall was second with 147 and J Do'ley third with 146. L C. Miller triumphed in the handicap with 49 out of 50 Ax -Tony and J. M. Cason tying for /second with 47. In the doubles, George Wendling and A. V. Byrd shared honors with 47 each. WIN BOAT RACES HAVANA, April 21.—The fifty-seven-foot schooner Windjammer of New Orleans and the thirtv-foot Gamecock of Miami. Fla' today were winners in the Class A and Class B divisions, respectively, of the third annual St. Petersburg! Fla, to Havana yacht race.

Baseball

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Won. Lott, Pet ; INDIANAPOLIS 7 2 Kansas City 5 2 'lli Milwaukee 4 -i 'fl, Louisville 4 4 "uui Minneapolis 4 4 Columbus 3 4 m Toledo ”2 S j st. paut ; 2 7 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pet.! W T ne?rnfl ton 2 l ’IK Chicago.... 4' 5 444 v J 2 .750 Phlladel ... 3 4 .429 1 a 'wS St ' k^ l *- • 3 6 -333 Cleveland. 4 4 .500 Boston .... 1 6 .111 NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet.! w L Pet Boston ... 4 2 .667 Pittsburgh 4 4 566 EL I }** * 3 .625 Brooklyn .33 100 Chicago ..4 3 .571 3t. Louis.. 2 5 .286 Phlla 4 3 .571 New York. 2 5 .286 Games Today AMERICAN ASSOCITION Kansa, City at INDIANAPOLIS. Minneapolis *t Toledo S.. Paul at Columbus. Milwaukee at Louisville. AMERICAN LEAGUE Detroit* at CteveSand' m>st ™ n ' d: ™m. ,*L .Washington. Philadelphia at New York. $ NATIONAL LEAGUE St. Louis at Pittsburgh. Cincinnati at Chicago New York at Philadelphia. Brooklyn at Boston. Results Yesterday AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 'Ten innings) I St. Paul 331 002 000 l—io 12 2 Columbus 300 100 005 0— 9 11 3 Harris. McEvov and Snyder; Lee. Beckman, W. Miller. Klinger and Sprinz. Minneapolis 320 100 HO— 814 0 Toledo 200 200 311— 9 16 3 Wilson. F. Miller. Brillheart and Griffin, Lee. Bachman, Van Gilder and Henline, Devormer. fSix innings, rain) Milwaukee 000 404 8 10 1 Louisville 010 000— 1 8 1 Knott and Crouch; Hatter, Deberry and Shea. NATIONAL LEAGUE New York 301 053 011—14 17 3 Philadelphia 002 000 120— 5 10 2 Mitchell and Hogan: Collins, Hansen, Bolen, Adams and V. Davis. St. Ipuis 000 000 000— 0 33 Pittsburgh 000 331 OOx— 7 11 1 Hallahan. Lindsey. Dean and Wilson: Swetonic and Grace. Cincinnati 105 010 000— 7 9 2 Chicago 000 100 010— 2 5 4 Lucas and Manion: Malone, May, Baecht, Tinning and Hartnett. Brooklyn and Boston not scheduled. AMERICAN LEAGUE Philadelphia 000 100 101— 3 9 1 New York 102 010 31x— 8 9 0 Grove. Earnshaw and Cochrane; Gomez and Dickey. Boston 020 000 001— 3 5 0 Washington 000 000 202 4 8 1 MacFavden and Berry; Burke and Spencer. Detroit 000 010 010— 2 8 0 Cleveland 010 000 000— 1 5 1 Uhle and Hayworth. Susce; Brown and Myatt. Chicago 000 000 000— 0 3 0 St. Louis 201 110 OOx— 5 13 1 Hadley. Lyons. Gregory and Tate: Gray and Ferrell.

-Pin GossipBY LEFTY LEE

An open letter from .Fred Schleimer, secretary of, the Indianapolis League, explains to t'he bowlers his idea of the reason local teams fail to hit in their usual stride in the national and other big tournaments, and suggests that local fast leagues roll their title games under tournament conditions throughout the season. Here is Schleimer’s explanation, and remedy: Bowling Editor. Indianapolis Times— As Indianapolis bowlers did not roll so well in the recent national meet, it is my suggestion to the fast leagues of the citv that send teams to this meet, to take up the matter of runways and weight of pins with the various allev owners, reauesting them to mop the runways and using pins weighing as near as possible to three pounds six ounces. Personally, I think local teams would show better form in all big tournaments if they rolled their season’s games under A. B. C. and other tournament conditions. Yours for better scores next year. FRED N. SCHLEIMER. Now' that Schleimer has started a move in what we believe to be the right direction let us hear from other interested parties, and if the demand is found to receive the support of the bowlers, no doubt the alley owners will abide bv their wishes. * The Indianapolis Post Office team will roil the Ft. Wavne Post Office ouintet in the final half of a home and home match on the Central alleys. Sunday afternoon. The first three games of this match rolled at Ft. Wavne last Sundav found the local team on the short end of the score by a margin of 140 pins, and they will have to roll in real form to be returned the winner. The Avalon Bowling League will hold Its annual banauet. at the Avalon Country Club. April 29. This banquet tops the season of one of the best fraternal loops in the citv in a manner that finds a 100 r r attendance. Earl Showalter and Jim Randall were the only members of the Rotary team to hit in form during the Rotary national telegraphic meet, and as a result the team is out of the running, ha-ving a total of 2.604. Showaller rolled 573; Randall, 571; Demaree, 502; Zeller. 494. and Bowers. 464. These games were rolled on the Indiana alleys. The Lions Club team won the championship of the Inter-Club League, leading the field by a wide margin, winning seventvfour games and losing twenty-nve. Mutual insurance, the runnerup was twelve games behind the leaders. Lou Daughertv copped individual honors with a season's average of 196. Chrisney In second placa had a mark of 192. Three errors in their second game cost the Lions the high single game score of the season, these boys having a count of 1.084 that was topped earlier in the season by the Optimist team with a count of 1.086. The Optimist bovs also won high three-game total with a score of 3.034. High three-game total Individual went to Bert Bering with a count of 672, while Freeman took the single game prise with a 275 count. A season-end Banquet at the Washington nex't Wednesday evening at 6:30. and a league sweepstakes at Pritchetts will close this loops activities until next season. Lee Carmin and Don Johnson, rolling against each otHer during the Coca-Cola vs. Marott Shoe Shop match, staged a thrilling race for top honors In the Indianapolis loop. Carmin winning out 731 to 729. The Coca-Cola team won the odd game, rolling 3.185 as the Marott's scored 3.067. Wheeler Lunch. Union Title. St. Philip’s A. C-, and Underwood Transfer also won two games from Gregory & Appel. Hollenbeck Press. Oeftering-tit*el-man Coal and Vollmer Brothers. Fall City Lager, paced by Huebcr’s 713 total, scored 3.156 to take three games from Pritchett’s Pickups. Liebtag Barbers also won three games from Trule Beverage. Other 600 totals in this lop were. Abbott. 629; Fehr, 642: Westover, 635; Pritchett. 610: Ra&smussen. 616: L. Fox, 634; E. Streibeck. 662; Schott, 623; Mack, 606; Thompson, 631; Meyer, 633; Wimberly. 620; Hornberger. 621; R. Fox. 634; Power. 600; Stich. 605. Alford. 632; Heiss. 643; Smith. 615: Myers. 618: P. Streibeck. 601. and Hunt, 611. Fred Shaw again in the Uptown League, having games of 204, 264 and 257 for a total of 725. to lead the Augustiner team to a triple win over TiptonLvtle. Anew high single game for the season was recorded by Augustiner when they hit for a count of 1.222. Their threegame total was 3.346. Omar Baking also won three games from City Candy during this plav. while Hanna Register and Beam Recreation won two from Coca-Cola and Selmier Towel. Green posted the high single game of the night when he crashed a 276 to total 651. Spencer rolled 692: Flgg. 877; Wuensch. 671: Roberson. 646: Goodhue 646: Dawson. 643: Wheeler. 641; Mace, 633; Bill Krels. 629: Palmer, 621; Mlndach. 617; Leppert. 611: Eppert, 610: U*nna. 605, and Stemm. 604.

SENATE WILL RENEW NEEDY RELIEF DRIVE 1 Lawmakers Are Alarmed by Unemployment Conditions Through Nation. By United Press WASHINGTON, April 21.— The senate commerce committee today authorized a favorable report on the Wagner unemployment system bill, which would sbolish the present employment service in the department of labor and set up a national system to obtain work for the unemployed. A total of $17,500,000 would be appropriated for the program extending over a period ending June 30, 1937. Alarming reports of unemployment relief conditions so aroused interested senators today that the United Press was authorized to say without qualification that the drive for direct federal aid would be renewed at once. Funds Arc Vanishing An official survey of relief conditions in industrial areas placed before senators described generally depleted funds and disappearing sources of additional revenue. Birmingham, Ala., is cited as the most critical spot in Jie United States with relief said to be so inadequate that the situation is disquieting, if not actually dangerous. On the basis of new estimates of conditions a poll of senators previously opposed to direct federal relief is said on good authority to have shown a shift of almost twenty votes. Advocates of relief now believe that a majority of the senate favors federal appropriations to aid the hungry and destitute. Majority for Relief The prediction was made by a senator interested in obtaining an appropriation that the senate would approve a relief bill before adjournment in June. The Ccstigan-La Follette bill for direct federal Relief through allocations to the states was defeated Feb. 16 by a vote of 48 to 35. Thirteen senators did not vote.. If the recent shift in sentiment proves as general as it is said to be a direct relief appropriation would now appear to have a majority of four or five senate votes.

CLEANUP DRIVE SHOWS RESULTS City Beginning to Take On Neater Appearance. Indianapolis today had begun to take on a neater appearance, as result of wholehearted co-operation of its citizens in the annual cleanup, paint-up, modernize campaign which opened Monday. Campaign officials reported that piles of rubbish which for months have been in back yards and on vacant lots are beginning to disappear, many houses are undergoing dressing up with paint brushes, special attention is being given to street cleaning, and even fireplugs are getting fresh coats of yellow paint. Trailers of the sanitary department are being worked to capacity to carry away all the rubbish deposited in containers in alleys and on curbs, department officials said. Frank E. Gates of the Chamber of Commerce fire prevention committee, campaign chairman, today said reports indicate the clean-up, paintup, modernize campaign is resulting in odd jobs for many unemployed citizens.

DANVILLE MINISTER CLAIMED BY DEATH Long Siege of Poor Health Ends for the R*v. Mason B. Meeks. The Rev. Mason B. Meeks. 47, died today in St. Vincent's hospital after a long illness. Poor health forced him to give up pastorate of the Christian church at Danville two years ago and he since had been for a time a patisnt in the Mayo clinic, Rochester, Minn. He leaves the widow, Mrs. Jessie M. Meeks, and four children, Mabel, Mary, Eunice and Harry. Funeral services will be held at 2 Saturday afternoon at the church in Danville, to where the body will •Xupuj paAOuiaj aq IRISH BEAT LEAGUERS By Times Special NOTRE DAME, Ind„ April 21. Ed Lagger, sophomore right-hander, made his debut with Notre Dame Wednesday and hurled the collegians to a 4 to 2 triumph over South Bend’s Central League team. He allowed seven hits and struck out nine. South Bend took a two-run lead in the first on two walks, a single and an error, but the Irish knotted the count in the third and pushed across two more in the eighth. PISTOL RIVALS MEET Pistol and revolver teams from Ft. Harrison, the Indianapolis Police Department and the Hoosier Rifle Club will compete tonight in a 20-shot match at the range of the Hoosier Rifle Club at Tomlinson Hall. Admission to the match will be free and the public is invited to attend, according to Charles Ridlen. president of the Hoosier club. MANUAT WINS AGAIN Maschmeyer allowed only six hits during the five-inning tilt and was given errorless support as Manual diamond pastimers thumped Plainfield here Wednesday, 8 to 0. It was the Redskins’ second triumph in a row. Leoper starred with a homer. On Friday, the southsiders invade Franklin to face Masonic Home. FOUR RACES ON CARD A fifteen-mile feature and three five mile events are on the opening dirt track racing‘program at Walnut Gardens Sunday. Earl West, Harry Quinn, Merill Williams. Edward Davis and several other prominent pilots have signed entry blank*.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

CHILDREN ARE OIL KING’S HOBBY

Lew Wentz, Oklahoma’s Richest Man, Helps Cripples

The new economic order In the oil Industry which h** been marked bv the recent price increase to SI a barrel, has alto marked the passing of “America’s greatest gamble" when huge fortunes were msde almost overnight. This—the third story in a series of live—ls the story of Oklahoma's richest man. whose spectacular rtse to riches ruold not be duplicated under changed conditions.

BY ROBERT TALLEY NEA Service Writer iCocvright. 1932. NEA Service. Inc.) PONCA CITY, Okla., April 21. Os all the men who tossed dice with fickle nature and won in the great gamble that made millionaires overnight a few years ago—an era that has now passed in the oil industry—there is no more colorful figure than Lew Wentz of Ponca City. Wentz is reputedly the richest man in Oklahoma. A few years ago, when federal income taxes were made public, he was one of the seven men in the United States paying on an income of more than $5,000,000 a year. The most unusual thing about Lew Wentz today is that, despite the depression and the past year’s decline in the oil market, he still is making money. Maybe he is not making the $50,000 a day said to have been his income for a time when the oil boom was on, but Oklahomans say he still is making plenty. He has turned much of his vast profits from oil into investments in many diversified lines. Unlike others who have sought to build up great oil companies of their own and make their names familiar on gasoline stations from coast to coast, Wentz has been content to remain a producer. His one-man oil company owns leases on perhaps 200,000 acres throughout the Mid-Continent field. These are checker-boarded in such a way that activity in almost any section—discovery of oil and sudden soaring of lease values —is likely to enhance his holdings. n n EVERY millionaire is entitled to his hobby, and Wentz has his. His tastes, however, do not run to private yachts, stables of fine race horses or priceless art collections. The hobby of Oklahoma's super-millionaire is children. And, strangely enough, he is a bachlor. Wentz is godfather of the Oklahoma Society for Crippled Children, which has a great hospital in Oklahoma City, built mostly wtih his money. / He has taken hundreds of crippled children in Oklahoma under his protection and made it possible for them to get treatment from the best doctors and surgeons. Each Christmas for many years he has played Santa Claus to the children of Ponca City. He contributes money for dolls, toys and othr gifts and various organizations do the rest. Each year this bachfelor-million-aire holds a beauty contest for "unmarried ladies under 6” and awards prizes. The kids have a great time. . To the boys of Ponca City he has recently given a magnificent concrete swimming pool, complete in every detail, including underwater illumination. Often, he has engaged the city’s auditorium for free movies for families who might not otherwise be able to attend. He has given large sums to orphanages and similar institutions for child care. He has established a $125,000 loan fund at the University of Oklahoma and a $75,000 loan fund at the state agricultural college to assist deserving students, in getting an education. n n n FOR sentimental reasons, Lew Wentz still lives in a modest old hotel in Ponca City. When he came here twenty-one years ago to seek his fortune in the oil fields, the place was a boarding house run by Mrs. Annie Rhodes. Mrs. Rhodes treated him like a mother, and credited him for his board bill when his money ran low. Today, this venerable lady, who still lives at the hotel, is one of Wentz’s closest friends. He never has forgotten her; every night he is in Ponca City they dine together in his private apartment, where he has his own servants. Despite his tremendous wealth, this Croesus of the oil fields is the most human of persons. His office, like his home, is that of a man who hates ostentation. No prying secretaries or haughty butlers bar the visitor’s way. I When I called at his office I was told that he was in a neighboring town and would be back that evening. At 7 p. m. the telephone In my hotel room rang. “Hello.” said the voice. “This is Lew Wentz. How about coming over and having dinner with me?” Mrs. Rhodes, a charming grayhaired old lady, with wits that are exceedingly keen despite her 70 years, also was present. Wentz's secretary and her sister completed the dinner party. . The occasion was one to impress a visitor. Here was the richest man in Oklahoma—whose wealth easily could buy him palatial country homes, private yachts and win him a certain place In even the highest society circles—dining simply in an old downtown hotel with his secretary and the woman who had befriended him as a boarding house keeper as his guests. m * * BUT the story of Lew Wentz’ rise to riches is well known to everybody in Ponca City. They tell you how he grew up as the son of a Pittsburgh blacksmith, finished his education in high school, played baseball with semipro teams and came in 1911 to Oklahoma, 30 years old and practically broke. The great Blackwell oil field, one of the richest, was then opening up. Wentz believed in it and began buying oil leases from nearby farmers. He worked in the oil fields to get money, often slept at night on a derrick without removing his clothes, tramped on foot from farm to farm, and put up every dollar he could earn and borrow. In those early days, one could buy oil leases for cents an acre

tMOO/DOOFPR N & M O. LEASES .

Lew Wentz, richest man in Oklahoma and a bachelor-millionaire whose hobby is children, is shown at the left with a. tiny prize winner in one of his annual ‘ beauty contests for unmarried ladies under 6," and at the right is a closeup. In 1927, at

a year—with the first twe years free. Just as his capital was near the vanishing point, oil was struck on some of his leases. With the proceeds, he bought more leases in the new Tonkawa fields. Oil was struck there, too. Just about that time Wentz made the greatest decision in his life. A big oil company offered him $400,000 in cash for his holdings. That night he sat in Mrs.

STATE ABSORBS 904 MILES OF HIGHWAYS

Blindfold Jury By United Press CHICAGO, April 21.—Jurors in the trial of petite Miss Laverne Lindgren on charges of making false bank statements were cautioned by the prosecution “not to allow the charm or good looks” of the defendant to influence them in reaching a verdict.

TAX HEARINGS ARE FINISHED Senate Committee Listens to Many Protests. By United Press WASHINGTON, April 21 —The senate finance committee concluded two weeks of hearing on the house billion-dollar revenue bill, climaxing with the testimony from a procession of more than ninety witnesses with consideration of administrative features of the measure. The committee adjourned until next Monday, when it will begin the task of considering the form in which the house measure will be reported to the senate. Senator Huey Long <Dem„ La.) introduced a resolution which, if passed, would require the senate finance committee to readjust the revenue bill so that no person should have an annual income in excess of SI,OOO or receive during his lifetime more than $5,000,000, either through gifts or inheritance. Clyde L. King, secretary of finance of Pennsylvania,' protested the revaluation clause for depreciated estates. The clause provides for revaluation of estates of those who died after Sept. 1, 1928, on the basis of their valuation eighteen months after death. Representative Wilbur M. White (Rep.. O.) opposed the proposed check tax, which Secretary Treasury Mills estimates would raise $95,000,000. _ Guy H. Bloom, Rochester, N.Y., representing the American Institute of Bank and Commercial Stationers, objected to the tax as “unfair and discriminatory” to small household checks. A brief submitted on behalf of the National Association of Building Owners and Managers urged reduction of taxes affecting real estate, *end modification of the capital gains and losses tax.

CITE DRY FIGURES Morrill Asserts Record of Arrests Improving. Comparative figures showing federal dry agents in the southern Indiana distjict, including Indianapolis, are making improved arrest records have been received by John W. Merrill, local deputy dry administrator. The report shows that agents averaged 3.11 arrests each in this district for the first three months this year, compared with only 2.84 arrests for the entire Seventh district, embracing Indiana, Wisconsin and Illinois, known as the Chicago area. The average cost of completing a case for the entire country during the period, the report shows, was $107.88. For the Seventh district the cost averaged $11761, and for the local district It averaged only $85.32, Morrill said. Approve Elwood Swimming Pool After a lengthy controversy, the state tax board today approved a bond issue of $30,000 for building a swiming pool at Elwood. Taxpayers of the city opposed the project.

the height of the oil boom, Wentz paid federal taxes on an income of more than $5,000,000. Wentz started on his road to wealth when, with only $39 in the bank, he refused an offer of $400,000 cash for rich oil leases he had acquired. It wasn't long before these leases were earning him $400,000 a year.

Rhodes’ boarding house, fingering his bank book, which showed a balance of only $39, and trying to decide what to do. Finally, he decided not to sell .... Not long afterward, his interest in those very leases was paying him a net profit of more than $400,000 a year. # # ANOTHER crisis in his life came when he decided to buy out all those in partnership

Maintenance Now Provided to Relieve Counties of This Burden. State maintenance is now in progress on 904 miles of county highways absorbed into the state system this season to relieve the county of the burden, it was announced today by Director John J. Brown of the state highway department. New roads added to the system this week follow: Road 3—From Road 20 east of Lagrange, south to the Lagrange-Noble county line, eight miles in Lagrange county. Road B—Auburn east to the Ohio state line, fourteen and six-tenths miles in DeKalb county. Road 18—From Road 31 near Bennett to Road 21, thirteen miles in Miami county. Road 28—Albany to Union City, twentyfive and nine-tenths miles in Randolph and Delaware counties. Road 38 —Sheridan south to Noblesville, seventeen and one-half miles in Hamilton county. Road 42—Mooresvllle west to Road 39, six and one-half miles in Morgan county. Road 44—Martinsville to Franklin, twenty and four-tenths miles in Morgan and Johnson counties. Road 102—From Road 9 north of Columbia City east to Road 2, five miles in Whitley county. i Road 221—Matthews north to Road 18. nine and one-half miles in Grant county. Road 16—From Road 5 northwest of Huntington, west to Road 15. fourteen miles in Huntington and Wabash counties. Road 33—Elizabeth to Bennettsville, twenty-two and four-tenths miles in Clark and Harrison counties. Road 58—Bedford northeast to the Jack-son-Bartholomew county line, forty-seven miles in Lawrence and Jackson counties. Road 256—Blocher to Austin, eight and three-tenths miles in Scott county. Road 262—Dillsboro to Risine Sun. sixteen and one-tenth miles in Ohio county. Road 356—Lexington northeast to Road 62, five and six-tenths miles in Scott county. Reporter Candidate Speaker Plea that Republican party workers interest themselves in presenting their party’s cause to independent feminine voters was made by Miss Genevieve Brown, candidate for renomination for reporter of the supreme and appellate courts, at the meeting of the McKinley Club auxiliary Wednesday night.

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with him in the oil business and form his one-man company. This deal took every dollar he could rake together. Everybody said the price his associates asked was too high . . . but in less than a year after the deal was made Wentz was getting 25,000 barrels of oil a day from his own wells and for a time his* income was $50,000 a day. or at the rate of $18,500,000 a year. Today no one—probably not even Wentz himself —knows how many millions he is worth. For the last three years, Wentz has been a member of Oklahoma’s state highway commission and close friends estimate that the time he has taken from his business in this period has cost him at least $10,000,000. For this, he has been paid by the state a salary of SSOO a month and each check has been turned over to the hospital for crippled children. A Republican, Wentz is a bitter political foe of Governor “Alfalfa Bill” Murray, Democrat. The latter has sought to oust him from the highway commission in a re- - cent spectacular political battle, but Wentz contends that his appointment has three more years 'to run and refuses to quit. Next—Fading fortunes of the Osage Indians, once “the richest people in the •world,” whose individual incomes have dropped as their oil wells play out.

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ASH CAN BADY’S FAYHER FACING MURDER CHARGE J__ Bound Over to Grand Jury Without Bond: Wife in Hospital. Joseph Tozier, 28, wno with Mrs. Josephine Tozier, 25, his bride of less than two weeks, is accused in the death of their infant son. whose body was found in an ash can, today was held to the grand jurr without bond on a charge of first degree murder. He was bound over on arraign - men before Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer. Mrs. Tozier. who was without medical service at the time of the baby’s birth a week ago, will be arraigned before Sheaffer April 2e. She is confined to city hospital, her condition being such that she’was unable to appear today. The baby was born at 1335 North Alabama street, April 13, and the body was found the following day in an ash can in an alley back of the 100 block East Fourteenth street. The couple was arrested Saturday. Records of superior court one shew that Tozier was granted a divorce from Mrs. Beulah Tozier Dec. 28, 1931. and ordered not to marrv again for two years. He and his present wife, formerly Miss Josephine Duckwall, were married April 10 at Noblesville.

TOWN HALL PROGRAM FOR FALL IS MAPPED Internationally Known Lecturers to Appear in City. Lectures by twenty internationally prominent persons will form the program of the Indianapolis Town Hall next season, beginning Oct. 28, it was announced today. Policy of holding luncheons after each lecture in honor of the speaker will be continued. These will be held at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Among speakers scheduled to appear are Countess Margit Bethlen, wife of the Hungarian prime minister; Vicki Baum, novelist and playwright; Stuart Chase, economist; Clemence Dane, actress and novelist: Thornton Wilder, novelist: V. Saekville-West, novelist, and Glenn Frank, president of the University of Wisconsin.

MRS. KATHRYN PERRY PYTHIAN SISTER HEAD Banner Temple Member Made County President. Mrs. Kathryn Perry of Banner temple No. 37, Pythian Sisters, was installed as president of the Marion County Organization of Pythian Sisters at a meeting in Knights of Pythias hall, 119 East Ohio street, Tuesday. Others who took office were: Nancy Carr of Irvington temple, first vice-president: Carrie Crone of Monitor temple, second vice-president: Claudia K. Erther of Mvrtle temple, secretary; Florence Webb of Brownsbure temple, treasurer; Nettie Parker of Danville temple, manager; Hattie Walls of Monitor temple, protector: Sally Montgomery of Danville temple, guard: Hettie McKittrick of Banner temple, pianist, and Jessie Travis of Mvrtle temple, press correspondent.