Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 33, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 June 1932 Edition 02 — Page 3

JUNE 18, 1932.

CONVICTED OF ' MURDER: FIND BOY INNOCENT Youth Free After Serving Since October, 1931, on Life Sentence. H'l I mli and Pri nn DETROIT. June 18.—A pale youth sleepily stumbled from his bed in a modest home here today and hurried downstairs to breakfast with his father and mother—finally freed from a life sentence in prison, for a murder he did not commit. Gerald Growden, 20, was not always pale, nor did he possess that hunted, fearing look in his eye when on Oct. 21, 1931, he heard Judge Guy A. Miller pronounce the sentence of the court that he be con-j fined to Jackson state prison for the remainder of his natural life. Late Friday he stood before that | same judge. An ill-fitting cheap j brown suit, given him at the prison, hung loosely on his body. He twisted a rap nervously in his hands.; Then the same voice sounded through the courtroom. “Fortunately, you now are free,” j said Judge Miller. “The sentence i will follow you, so be a good boy. I am speaking as one free man to another.’’ Four boys, arrested in a police j roundup recently, suddenly changed their pleas to guilty for the killing * of James B. Smith, Romulus, Mich., I and admitted they did not even know Growden. f The prosecutor’s office acted swiftly, and Growden—who had been returned from prison to testify in the trial—was brought into the courtroom where he had been convicted. This time, anew murder warrant against him was quashed. He was freed. “I’ll keep out of trouble, judge,” Growden blurted, “I’m going home right now.” Out in the neighborhood where he was raised, Gerald found his mother I and father waiting for him. “We alw'ays knew you were innocent,” his mother assured him as she led him upstairs to his room—a room daily kept ready for his return since the dark day when the law took him away. WOMAN DECLARED DEAD - TWICE IN SINGLE DAY Revived First Time as Neighbors Pray; Last Collapse Is F.nd. By l.iiitid Pirn* NEW YORK, June 18.—Mrs. Amelia Redino, 43, was declared dead twice Friday. Early in the afternoon, the woman suddenly collapsed from a heart attack, and was declared dead for four minutes. Three emergency crews. respond- ! ing to her husband's call, worked over Mrs. Redino for four hours and finally succeeded in reviving her. Meanwhile, forty friends and i neighbors knelt in prayer on the street outside the house. Friday night Mrs. Redino again collapsed and all efforts to bring her back to life failed.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to: Otto Pohler. 1121 Evison street. Buick coach. 41-803, from 134 Virginia avenue. Tracv Cox. 1821 North Harding street. Auburn speedster. 105-043. from garage in rear of 1821 North Harding street. John S. Clark. 337 South Arlington avenue. Plymouth coupe. 121-350. from Perry stadium. Charles McOarvev. 5264 Washington boulevard. LaSalle coupe, 51-131. from Vermont and Meridian streets. Vaughn Burls. 5105 Hovev street. Chevrolet coach. 47-176. from 600 Massachusetts avenue.

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Stolen automobiles recovered bv oolice belong to: Aichie Love. 328 North West street found In frdnt of 2725 Indianapolis avenue. Dr. M. W. Manion. 333 North Capitol a\enue, Ford coune. found at Noblesville. Ind. H. H. Woodsmall. 331 North Meridian street. Chevrolet, coune. stripped of license plates 16-804 and five wheels and tires found on College avenue north of citv limits. Joe Scott. 410 East Forty-sixth street Chevrolet coupe, found west of Rtlev hospital stripped of license 61-955.

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Company May Take New Revenue Reduction Without Fight. Whether the Indianapolis Water Company will take the new emergency rate order passed by the public service commission into federal court to restrain its becoming effectice July 5 remained problematical today. Neither Howard S. Morse nor other company officials would commit themselves. They had not seen the full text of the commission order, they said. But at the hearings which brought the order forth the company offered a conciliatory attitude In contrast to the "hard-boiled" stand taken when rate reductions first were discussed last year. It may be the company will take the revenue loss caused by the new rate decrease as the company’s contribution to aiding the present plight of the public generally, it was suggested. The suggestion came from Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, who expressed approval of the order. To go into court might mean months of litigation. Public service commission engineers and accountants have been at work for some time making audits and appraisals

of the company property and upon completion of this work, the emergency rate will be replaced by a permanent one based on their findings. Commissioner Harry K. Cuthbertson based his emergency order on a valuation of $21,118,252, while the company claims a value of upwards of $26,000,000. Cuthbertson allowed a 6 per cent return and the company wants 7 per cent. The new rates scaled down the increases to large consumers, contained in the April 1 compromise, so that no apartment house will be increased more than 95 cents. Formerly an increase of $7.57 was possible. The order retains the SI.OB minimum rate and the $66,000 saving to the city. ASK STATE BUDGET CUT Indiana Chamber of Commerce Pleads for Governmental Economy. Budget reductions and nothing else will be the goal of the special session of the Indiana legislature, which convenes July 7, if the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce has its way. At a meeting of the legislative committee of the chamber here Friday afternoon, all new tax raising methods were condemned by a resolution which urges that the session deal only with governmental economy. A lobby was provided.

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The lads who sit behind the wheels of the speed crates on Indianapolis Motor Speedway always are glad of refreshment at the end of a gruelling race. And even so with Verle Collins, 1321 Lee street, pilot of the snappiest looking of fifty pushmobiles that ran qualifications preparatory to a race at Tibbs avenue and Michigan street this afternoon. Verle guided his little Bowes Seal Fast Special, a replica of Lou Schneider's big racer, around the four laps for a qualifying position Friday afternoon, and at the finish demanded his ice water. The lower photo shows Verle piloting his mount around a sharp corner, being pushed by Richard Goss. 1401 Blaine avenue. The pushmobile race is a feature of a celebration by west side residents of the widening and resurfacing of Michigan street west of Tibbs avenue. INVITES GERMAN FLEET TO AMERICAN WATERS Governor of Virgin Islands Suggests Warships Take Winter Cruise. /?./ United Pres* WASHINGTON. June 18. The German fleet may visit American territorial waters next winter for the first time since the World war. Governor Paul M. Pearson of the Virgin islands., an American possession in the Caribbean, called on German Ambassador Von Prittwitz Und Gaffron here and through him invited the German warships to visit the islands on a winter cruise. Governor Pearson recently invited the deposed German ruler, Kaiser Wilhelm, to spend a vacation in the Virgin islands. He has not yet replied.

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U. $.. UNEASY, REGARDS CHILE AS ‘DYNAMITE’ Explosion Likely to Come Any Time, View Taken by Washington. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripin-Howard Fortin Editor WASHINGTON. June 18.—Washington regards Chile uneasily as still “an open powder barrel” liable to blow up at any time, despite the dramatic return to power of Carlos Davila, former ambassador to the United States. It still is touch and go which of the two Karls—Marx or Rodbertus, fathers of Communism and state Socialism—Chile will follow. For while the dapper and likable Davila is on top for the moment, another turn of the wheel may find him back on the bottom tomorrow. The tide in Chile today distinctly is towards the left. It seems to be merely a question of how far the government will swing. Even the bourgeoisie and former conservatives now are demanding state Socialism, while mobs in the streets of Santiago, the capital, are pressing for something still more radical. U. S. Interests Important Davila again announces his intention to set up a purely Socialist state. To carry out his plans will require the expropriation of vast domestic and foreign-owned properties in Chile which, in all likelihood, would be paid for in Chilean currency and bonds. Under existing conditions these are inevitably of doubtful value, thus at least partial confiscation is feared. American interests in Chile are the most important in that country. They are estimated to be worth from $700,000,000 to $1,000,000,000. British interests are about half that. American interests are divided into two categories, namely investments in actual properties, like mines and public utilities, and bonds. The one amounts to some $440,000,000, the other $260,000,000, or an actually invested total of 5700,000,000. Program Not Yet Concrete The most important single foreign interest in Chile is the nitrate company known as Cosach—Compania Salitre de Chile. This is a $363,000,000 concern, half of which is owned by the Chilean government, half by foreigners, principally the Guggenheims. Davila has yet to announce a concrete program, but a “pure Socialist state,” such as he favors, means that vast concessions would be made to the workers without destroying capitalism. The major sources of production, distribution communications would be taken over by the state without destroying individual enterprises in toto. It would appear, therefore, that foreign-owned nitrate, copper and other workings, public utilities and so forth, most of which are owned by Americans, stand to be taken over by the government. This would be with compensation of some sort, if Davila or his regime sticks, or without—if the extremists win out. FRIML FREED ON BOND Composer Arrested in Connection With Suit for $1,700. By United, Prent HOLLYWOOD, June 18.—Rudolf | Friml, composer, today was free on | SI,OOO bond posted after arrest | had been obtained by Frank L. | Bernstein. i Bernstein’s representation that he j could not prosecute a suit for $1,700 | due, he claimed, from the composer i if Friml left town, brought the ar- ! rest order.

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“What’s the name?" queries the patient, at the left in the photo. of the man at the right. “Doctoi ‘ is the retort. * <i \" JHSgHpSar:" “I know, but what doctor?" asks -yAqfc;. m the patient. Doctor Doctor,’’ is * the reply. And that's no kibitzing. either. v ■’‘’wsilla S-j ~jm k --i

“What's the name?” queries the patient, at the left in the photo, of the man at the right. "Doctoi is the retort. “I know, but what doctor?” asks the patient. “Doctor Doctor.” is the reply. And that’s no kibitzing, either.

r TT'HE first is last and the last is first with one government employe at the United States veterans’ hospital, West Riverside drive. He does what his name says he does. He can’t dodge his title, even among a quiet group of friends. You can write his title, and name, with six letters of the alphabet. * And his son, who has leanings in the same profession, will carry the same name, with the exception of the addition of “Jr.” Now, by this time, cross-word addicts and puzzle fiends should have this man tabbed, for he’s Dr. W. R. Doctor, chief surgeon at the hospital. And to write his name in abbreviated fashion you ?et, "Dr. W. R. Dr.,” which is six letters, no more, no less. a a a BUT Doctor prefers to toss part of the cognomen in the discard to avoid repetition, and so signs his name "W. R. Doctor, M. D.” Os course, he could sign it “W. R. M. D. M. D„” “M. D. W. R. M. D„” but what’s the use when for the last eighteen years he’s found the idea of having a name a perpetual roundelay of wisecracks and witticisms? If a nurse ever was in a hurry to call him to a patient's bedside she'd have to say “Doctor Doctor! Oh! Doctor Doctor!” And it's just this doubling up of profession and name in the same bed that causes more than one person to redden in the countenance as they speak or to quip with him. “And you can imagine that after years it does get to be stale. Every time I meet new people I’m compelled to go into my ancestry and explain how it came about that my name is Doctor, and I am a doctor,” the surgeon said. ana “'VTURSES sometimes become In embarrassed when they call to me ‘Doctor,’ fearing I might believe they are violating i breach of hospital etiquet. “But it does give me a common ground for meeting new patients and people for it’s about the first thing they notice and

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perhaps the last thing I want them to notice.” The name Doctor, he believes, first was used by his family, of German birth, in the United States. “Translated into German it would be Artz, and I think the correct name at one time was Artz. But I'll admit I’ve never even asked my mother or father how it happened. I'm the only Doctor of the Doctors that is a doctor. “I went to Marquette university in Milwaukee, and it was ehere that the kidding and punning on the name began.” a a a A CROIX DE GUERRE was won by the doctor during the World war for bravery in the front line trenches. Following the war he began practice in Minneapolis. Minn., and it was there that his name first became a town byword. His office windows carried the name and attracted attention. And now for a bit of disappointment to the tipsters who informed The Times of Doctor Doctor’s residence in the city. The tipsters were entrants in The Times Believe-It-or-Not contest and the Surgeon Doctor dashes their hopes for a crosscountry' trip or gold watch with "Old Ripley had me in one of his drawings several years ago.”

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DEATH TOLL IN OIL SHIP BLAST Divers and Firemen Risk Lives Seeking Bodies in Dock Wreckage. By United Peru MONTREAL, June 18.—Divers and firemen risked their lives today among smoking steel plates and twisted wreckage of the British oil tanker Cymbeline, seeking bodies buried by three explosions which killed a score or more in drydock here Friday. Officials of Canadian Vickers, Ltd., who checked the casualty lists, said they believed the death toll in the. million dollar fire would reach twenty-five. Some bodies never may be recovered, because the explosion destroyed all trace of some men, they said. They fixed the casualty list as revised this morning at tWenty-five dead, fifteen of whom are missing but accepted as dead. Thirty-seven were listed as injured and in hospitals where thirteen were posted as "in danger.” The list of known dead included four Montreal firemen and six Vickers workmen who died in hospitals. Fifteen Vickers men are missing, believed dead, “blown to bits or buried in the debris.” The four dead firemen included Fire Chief Raoul Gauthitr, noted for his bravery. Eye witneses described the disaster, one of the greatest in the history of this city. They said workmen were busy in the drydock and aboard the ship when there came a great bulge amidships followed by a loud explosion. Flames shot 100 feet into the air. Most of the crew of thirty men were asleep aboard the Cymbeline, but none was killed. Workmen, blinded by the explosion, their clothing aflame, ran screaming for help. A second explosion followed tearing the ship almost in half. The third blast came in a huge burst of flame and deafening roar, totally wrecking the tanker and the dry dock. Authorities immediately began an investigation, but it has been hampered by condition of the wreckage. SSOO IN CASH A CHANCE TO WIN ... AT NO COST TO YOU! Six Lucky Sales Slip awards to cash winners every day. Get in this contest today.