Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 15, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 May 1932 — Page 2

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LEADERS BALK INDIANA PLEDGE FOR ROOSEVELT Democratic Delegation to Convention Will Be Fancy-Free. BY BEN STERN FRENCH LICK BPRINOS HOTEL, May 28.—Dropping state politic® for the nonce. Democratic editors, meeting here for their summer session today, and party managers preesnt, turned their attention to the presidential situation, as a drive was being staged In caucus rooms to pledge the Indiana delegation of thirty to Franklin D. Roosevelt. Proponents of the pledge plan, however, received a setback when they were told by Thomas D. Taggart, national committeeman, and R. Earl Peters, state chairman, that the Indiana delegation was going to be “footloose and fancyfree.” Party scouts and workers making reports declared that indications from over the state were to the effect that the New York Governors boom had come to a halt and that party opinion was leaning toward Newton D. Baker of Cleveland, secretary of war in the Wilson administration. Laffoon to Be Speaker The Baker sentiment went into the upgrade as a result of the heat being turned loose on Mayor Jimmy Walker of New York by the Seabury commission, which is intensifying the Hocsier distrust of New York politics, they reported. A play for Roosevelt support is expected to be made tonight by Governor Ruby Laffoon of Kentucky, who will be the principal speaker at the editorial dinner here. Anti-Roosevelt men were viewing his visit with suspicion because of Laffoon s outspokenness in behalf of the New Yorker. A fight was scheduled at the state committee meeting here today to change the order of business for the state convention to prmit the nomination of Judges before those of senator and Governor. Supporters of Paul V. McNutt for the Governor nomination will oppose this, because they are fearful that he will lose much delegate strength as a result of the trades which will go Into the nominating of the Judiciary. Nominated Better Judges Such a change in procedure oc- i curred in the 1930 convention and made for the nomination of a better type of Judicial ticket than had been the case in former years, proponents of the plan are asertlng. No rays of peace in the conflict between Frank Mayr Jr., secretary of state and the McNutt forces appeared on the horizon today, despite the strenuous efforts of “Little Dick” Werneke, Terre Haute boss, and "Uncle Joe" Cravens, Madison veteran to heal the breach. The name of Tom McConnell of I Fowler, Second district chairman, and former state commander of the American Legion, was being advanced for the post, but his legion connections were said by many to be a draw back. Much talk was being heard regarding advisability of nominating Clifford Townsend of Grant county, representative of the state farm bureau, for Lieutenant-Governor, to win agricultural support; and Peters and McNutt men desirous of rewarding the loyalty of Philip Lutz Jr. of Boonvllle, old First district chairman, were advancing him for the attorney-general post. Committee Is Named The editors in their business session apopinted Dale J. Crittcnberger of Anderson, Scott Chambers of Newcastle, and Bernard McCann of Lawrenceburg as members of a resolution committee. Wray Fleming, editor of the Michigan City Dispatch and first vice-president of the editorial association, was appointed to have charge of the publicity for the Democratic state committee In the coming campaign.

SUES FOR AUTO DEATH Woman Asks SIO,OOO Damages From Driver of Car. Suit asking SIO,OOO damages was flled in superior court three Friday by Mrs. Edna Hiett, De Land, 111., administratrix of the estate of Jesse E. Hiett. Defendants are Leo and Marie E. Lauck of Indianapolis. The suit averred that Mr. Hiett, traveling salesman, was Injured fatally by an automobile driven by Lauck and owned by his mother, Marie Lauck. The accident occurred at Meridian and Michigan streets, Dec. 18, 1931, the suit said. ASK SIO,OOO DAMAGES Death in Crash Following Funeral Is Basis of Salt. Ac accident that occurred while two men were returning home from the funeral of John McGregor, former county commissioner. April 13, was basis of a suit for SIO,OOO damages, flled in superior cotut three Friday. This amount Is asked by relatives of Arthur Eaton, who was killed. Eaton was riding in an automobile, driven by James McConnell, former commissioners’ court bailiff, which I was struck by an automobile belonging to William A. Shepler.

Don’t Do That! By United Prttt CHICAGO, May 28—Thumb biting Is very bad taste, John Villa, 36, has discovered, especially If the thumb belongs to a policeman. Officer Herman Rosenthal arrested Villa for assault and battery. While the officer and his prisoner awaited the arrival of a patrol wagon. Rosenthal was startled to feel Villa's teeth snap down on his thumb. Writhing in agony. Rosenthal was unable to release his thumb until arrival of his fellow officers, who managed to persuade the prisoner to desist At (he station Villa was booked on two charges of

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FLAYS ‘CARE’ OF COURT RECORDS Niblack Assails Failure to Preserve Papers. In a letter today to Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron, John L. i Niblack, an attorney, declares records of the municipal courts and the old police court which preceded them are in “a deplorable condition.” Niblack recalls that Cameron made an effort about one year ago to preserve the records, and offers his aid to the court in the matter with the suggestion that the Indianapolis Bar Association take action. The attorney says he had occasion to use records of a case filed in 1926 and in the ensuing search found some court records on the third floor of the police station piled with mops and brooms in a small room. Others were found in a sub-base-ment room at city hall, back of a boiler. He says a state board of accounts attache informed him that a janitor burned a box of old affidavits, assuming they were rubbish. “There is no system or order by which any one could And a case in those records.” Niblack asserts. SEEKS STATE OFFICE Miss Schmiit Asks for Post in Department of Women. Miss Esther M. Schmitt, local attorney, was named in The Timr* Friday as an applicant for the Democratic post on the state industrial board to be vacated June 1 by Horace G. Yergin, Newcastle. Miss Schmitt explains that her letter of application to Governor Harry G. Leslie is for a possible vacancy in the department of women and childern of the state industrial board and not a board membership. She is a Republican, she said. FLEES FROM ATTACK Mother, With Baby in Arms, Escapes Being Dragged Into Alley. A mother with her 9-month-old baby in arms escaped from a Negro Friday night after he attempted to drag her into an alley. He ran when she screamed. The mother was Mrs. Bessie Wcidman, 934 South Delaware street. She encountered the Negro when he emerged from an alley as she was walking on McCarty street, near East street. Four Killed in Hanger Clashes By United Press BERLIN, May 28.—Four persons have been killed and at least a score wounded in clashes between hunger marchers and" police in the Rhineland, it was revealed today.

Motor Routes to Speedway West Thirtieth Street Traffic on Memorial Day Will Be One-Way West Bound From It A. M. to 1 P. M.; East Bound, From 1 P. M. to 6 P. M.

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I “Can’t We Talk It Over?” Is | the theme song at Indiana Cen- ; tral college these May days with ; the sporting offer made by the college’s dean of men, Earl Stone- ! burner. The collegians built a mound with the school’s name lettered in rocks on the campus. The dean then offered “A free wedding license to the first couple that became engaged while talk-

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Legion Juniors to Be Given Instructions in Diamond Art by Indians. “Let’s go to Perry stadium.” That’s the battle cry In every secj tion of the city today, as junior baseball players mobilize for the march to the big brick-inclosed arena, where at 10:30 this morning Manager Emmett McCann and all members of Indianapolis baseball team will act as instructors to the future greats in a baseball school. The basball school will be conI tinued throughout the summer, twice . a week, when school Is out, whenever the Indians are at home. Besides, several other attractive entertainment features throughout the coming season kre being planned for the sandlot stars by Norman A. Perry, owner of the Indians; Russell Cook and John Kelly of the American Legion junior baseball ’ championship; George McAlevy, who will be in charge of the PerrySpalding knothole gang, and The Indianapolis Times. Kids all over the city planned today to be on hand when Manager McCann and his team trot out on the field. McCann will tutor the boys who aspire to become first sackers. Tom Angley and Johnny Riddle the catchers, Jonah Goldman the shortstops, Sammy Hale the third sackers, and so on. Doug Taitt, the leading batsman of the Indians; Harry Rosenberg, Frank Sigafoos, and other leading hitters will show the lads the fine points of making safe hits. Everything is free. So, let’s go out to Perry stadium and learn to play ball like the professionals do.” WALES CHARGES AUTO HURTING BEEF TRADE Mourns Days When Dad Brought Home a Goodly Joint. By United Press YEOVIL, England, May 28.—The prince of Wales told “fellow farmers” at an agricultural fair here that "baby” automobiles are killing beef production and trade. "Youth now takes to the roads on Sundays, and a couple of cutlets for father and mother are substituted for a whole joint of beef at the Sunday meal,” the prince said. He mourned the passing of the "good old days” when father brought home a goodly Joint every Saturday night.

Speedway road iWest Sixteenth street), and West Thirtieth street to Georgetown road. Motorist leaving the race will be routed one way over the Speedway road and Thirtieth street from 1 to 6 p. m. Route for busses and taxicabs follows: £ * West on Washington street to

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ing it over on the mound, and to the first couple this leap year a free cleric, too.” So in the top photo you see the co-eds and their “eds” talking it over on the mound while in the lower photo is a view of the “matrimonial mound.” Witnesses to the authenticity of an engagement perfected on the mound are as necessary as they are at the wedding.

SCHOLARSHIPS TO BE GIVEN MUSIC STUDENTS Twelve Selected Freshmen to Receive Honors at De Pauw. By Times Special GREENCASTLE, Ind., May 28. De Pauw university, already the home of the largest singly endowed undergraduation scholarship foundation in the world, will extend to students, for the first time, next September, scholarships in school of music. The Edward Rector scholarships are limited to the liberal arts college, but these new scholarships, twelve in number, are primarily for the music school, Dean R. G. McCutchan announces. Provision has been made to care for twelve carefully selected freshmen in applied music next year. Four will be granted for the study of voice, four for piano, two for Molin, one for cello and one for symphonic, wood-wind or brass instruments. Only superior students will be chosen for these scholarships and the awarding is in the hands of Dean McCutchan, who will make his selections on the basis of correspondence and personal interviews with the applicants. HUNT BANK ROBBERS Posse Seeks Fleeing Pair in Oklahoma Shooting. By United Press MORRIS, Okla., May 28.—A statewide hunt was in progress today for two bank robbers who hurled their dead companion and a wounded woman cashier from their speeding automobile in their flight after holding up the Morris State bank. After robbing the bank the three men forced Miss Clare Apbus. 44, cashier, to accompany them to their automobile. Marshal I. Z. Compton exchanged pistol shots with the bandits. One fell screaming to the sidewalk. A bullet struck Miss Aggus’ head. One bandit dragged the wounded man into the machine, while the other forced Miss Aggus to climb in also, and they fled. Twelve miles from here a posse found Miss Aggus lying beside the road, and a few miles farther on, the body of the bandit, shot by Compton, was found.

Tibbs, north to Cossell road, northwest to Grande avenue, north to West Tenth street, west to Main street in Speedway City, and north to the Prest-O-Lite plant. Return trip will be over the same route. Extra duty schedules will be in effect for all police Monday. 1

WEB' BY PROXY ‘Bums Ride’ From Friend; There’s Alky in Car. “Bumming a ride” home in a friend's automobile almost proved costly to William B. Floyd, 826 North New Jersey street. Floyd and Earl Heindenrlch were taken before Fae W. Patrick, United States commissioner, Friday by federal dry agents on charges of liquor transportation. “Judge, I met Earl downtown and he asked if I wanted to ride home," Floyd pleaded, adding he knew nothing of the two gallons of alcohol confiscated by agents In the car. Heidenrich corroborated his story, and dry agents who made the arrest said they believed Floyd was telling the truth, but they felt they had no alternative but to take him before the commissioner before releasing him. Patrick dismissed charges against Floyd and held Heidenrich to the federal grand Jury under $1,500 bond. OFFICES TO MOVE Farm Bureau Takes Two Floors in Old Trails. Indiana Farm Bureau, Inc., will move seventy-five office employes into the Old Trails building, Washington street and Senate avenue, it was announced today. Entire fifth and sixth floors of the building have been leased by the bureau from the Washington-Sen-ate Realty Company and the name of the building is to be changed to the Indiana Farm Bureau building, it was announced. Move from the present quarters In the Lemcke building is to be made June 10. FIVE MAP APPEAL IN RADIO LOTTERY CASE XED Station Group Sentenced for Using Mails in Ticket Sales. By United Press CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex., May 28. —Will Horwitz, Houston theater man, and four co-defendants, today planned appeal from their convictions in conection with the XED Lottery case. T. M. Kennerly, federal judge, Imposed jail and penitentiary sentences ranging from sixty days to five years, suspended. Horwitz also was fined $5,000. Prosecutors charged that Horwitz, owner of broadcasting station XED at Reynosa, Mex., conspired with his wife, station announcers and others to use the station in advertising the Tamaulipas state lottery, seling tickets through the United States mails. Engineer Dies in His Cab ROCHESTER, Ind., May 28.—Lon Ware, 57, of Huntington, brought his locomotive to a halt in Erie ; yards here and fell dead in his cab. He just had completed a run from j Hammond on a freight train. The i widow and seven children survive j him.

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WALKER DENIES HE WILL RESIGN JOB UNDER FIRE Eight Witnesses Contradict N. Y. Mayor’s Story of Official Conduct. By United Pren NEW YORK. May 28.—New testimony intended to prove that Mayor James J. Walker s jpemorjr is defective, or that he lied about financial transactions In which he had been named by other witnessses. will be offered Tuesday before New York’s city-wide investigation committee. Eight witnesses already have contradicted the song-writing mayor’s story of his social conduct, of his franchise negotiations, of stock and bond deals, of his relations with a missing accountant, Russell T. Sherwood, of Sherwood's accounts showing deposits of nearly a million dolllars. One of these witnesses testified Friday after the mayor had concluded his testimony. Testimony of seven others who preceded Walker had been denied, contradicted in part by the mayor himself. Mayor Denies He Will Quiet And as the Hofstadter investigation committee, conducting the hearings, adjourned until Tuesday, the mayor denied at city hall that he intended to resign, or that he intended to ask Walter R. Herrick, park commissioner, to resign. Herrick told the committee Friday that he bought 350 shares of Interstate Trust Company stock, which he thought he was buying for the mayor. The money, he said, came from city hall, from either the mayor or Edward Stanton, his former secretary. Herrick didn't remember which, and he didn’t recall whose name was signed to checks involved. Walker had testified that “I never owned any, I never saw any, I never paid for any, and I never profited by, and I never got any money out of any share of stock. Walker Voted for Franchise The significance of the stories concerning the Interstate Trust shares lies In the fact that Samuel Seabury, counsel for the committee, has shown that the stock eventually was used as collateral for a loan to build up a fund held by backers of the Equitable Coach Company, which sought a bus franchise from the city. Mayor Walker voted for that franchise. And the day before he sailed for Europe in 1927 he shared in a letter of credit bought for members of his party by an agent of the bus company, although it has been testified that Walker contributed $3,000 as his share of the credit. The committee’s questions concerning the stock transaction leave the inference that it is attempting to prove that Walker, as well as close friends of the mayor, was among the promoters of the company seeking the bus franchise. CONDUCTOR TO RETIRE Edward Botelcr to Finish 43 Years of Service Tuesday. Edward M. Boteler, 111 East Sixteenth street, Big Four railroad conductor, will be retired from service Tuesday, after forty-three years with the company. Boteler has been a resident of Indianapolis for the last forty-three years. PLAN~ BARRYMORE FILM Ethel Joins Brothers; Three Will Appear in Picture. By United Press HOLLYWOOD. May 28.—Ethel Barrymore was here today to appear with her brothers, Lionel and John, In a motion picture—the first time the famous trio has been united before a camera.

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The recent warm weather in California helped the photographers as well as the vegetable man. Here we have June Clyde, movie actress, as she prepared to cool off in her private pool after a hard day at the studio. DEMAND UTILITY GUT > — Civic Clubs Pass Resolution After Sharp Debate. Demand for reduction in rates of all public utilities is contained in a resolution adopted Friday night by the Federation of Community Civic clubs after two hours debate. Bickering began with demand of J. Ed Burk that his South Side Civic clubs be given credit for lowering water rates. Paul C. Wetter, .former municipal judge, replied that the committee “had been hoodwinked and got a raw deal.” Oscar F. Smith denounced the public service commission for locking out the federation delegates. John F. White said the federation should have filed its own petition if it wanted to be heard. Solution lies in the power given municipalities to condemn and buy utilities, President E. O. Snethen asserted.

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REJECTION OF DATA IN WATER CASE SOUGHT Ellis Charges Figures Are Handout’ From Company. Rejection of the rate data of public service commission engineers in the Indianapolis Water Company case will be asked of the commissioners today on the grounds that the figures are a mere “handout from the company." That a motion will be made to bring this about was announced by Commissioner Howell Ellis, who Friday conducted a quiz of accountant* which disclosed that no original investigation was done by them on April billings of the company. The commission had voted to secure consumer data for April, as the first month in which the new compromise rates were effective. Job Fassed On Commissioner Harry K. Cuthbertson, who wrote the compromise order, was placed in charge of the investigation. He turned it over to Webb Gilbert, chief commission accountant, who put Ted Michaels and Glenn Ray, staff accountants, on the job. The three were questioned by Ellis under oath and admitted that aside from a few simple arithmetical deductions made at the statehouse, the water company furnished all figures. H. S. Horse, general manager of the Indanapolis Water Company* after learning of the quiz issued a statement setting out that company books and billings are open to commission accountants and the company officials merely tried to aid and not mislead the commission Inquiry. Cuthbertson Mewed the Ellis inquisition as an affront to him and recalled Gilbert for cross-examina-tion before the entire commission Friday afternoon. Before doing this he held a conference with Governor Harry G. Leslie, but refused to divulge the nature of it as ddi the chief executive. Orders Complete Audit Cuthbertson said Gilbert's testimony varied some from that before Ellis. He also announced that he had ordered a complete audit and appraisal of the water company properties. This was asked by anew company petition for rate increase, growing out of an Injunction suit restraining them from collecting increased compromise rates on the Mouayhan apartments. Thee ompany also asked an Interlocutory order to restore precompromise rates during the audit and aprraisal. It was originally announced that hearing would be held on this, but no date has been set, Cuthbertson explained. A fight looms when the rate data rejection motion is considered. The Continental United States has an area of 3,026,789 square miles.