Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 75, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 August 1932 Edition 02 — Page 2

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1,000 STILL IN BONUS ARMY'S BROKEN CAMP Determination to ‘Ride Cushions’ Keeps Last Men in Johnstown. BV JOSEPH S. WASNF.Y I nilrd Pr Sl*fT Corrunnndent JOHNSTOWN. Pa., Aug. 6 Determination “to ride the cushions" home kept the last remnant of the bonus army ui Camp McCloskey today while negotiations with the Pennsylvania railroad for a train were continued. Approximately 1.000 veterans of the original 8,000 in the B. E. F. remained. An unofficial count showed 400 from Pennsylvania, 300 from New York, 50 from Connecticut, 50 from Massachusetts and 150 others from various states. Edward Atwell, chief-of-staff of the army, ruled just before midnight against complete evacuation of ihe camp until today. “I promised the men they would ride on cushions and they will,” Atwell told Mayor Eddie McCloskey. He said he was negotiating with the Pennsylvania railroad, and that the line probably would furnish a train today, if an accurate count of the men was made. 500 Are in Chicago Ay T intrii I’rm CHICAGO, Aug. 6.—Between 500 and 800 homeward bound members of the bonus expeditionary army were in Chicago today, and the question on the lips of all was “where do we go from here?” The veterans who reached here by railroad train from Johnstown Pa., made their headquarters at an old two-story building just a block from the city’s exclusive Gold Coast. Temporarily the men had sufficient food, due t.o generosity of residents of the neighborhood. Pushes Khaki Shirts Plans for organization of county chapter of the "khaki shirt” army, ex-service men's political group, and arrangements for providing work for unemployed veterans, are two steps in a. program undertaken by Ellis E. Campbell, leader of Company H, Second regiment, bonus expeditionary force, which returned to Indianaplois Friday. Headquarters for Campbell and homeless Indianapolis marchers have been established at, 931 Virginia avenue, from where activities will be directed. Campbell has announced a meeting of ex-service men in the city tonight at 8 at the headquarters. The national body of the ‘khaki shirts" has placed Campbell in charge of the state organization. Campbell said solicitatioft of food, money and clothing by any one other than B. E. F. members, authorized by him, should be ignored. COLLEGE TO BE SOLD Union Christian to Be Put on Block Aug. 22 hv Receiver. Receiver’s sale of the property of Union ChnsUaa • college, Merom, Ind., with a campus*overlooking the Wabash river, will be held Aug. 22, another chapter in the history of a liberal arts institution of learning opened more than three-quarters of a century ago. The receiver is Dan O. Gettinger, Merom, and the auctioneer for the sale will be Tom Vinnedge of Indianapolis. The college, which has been closed eight years, has property including a campus of twenty-eight acres on which there are 235 trees. Buildings include an administration structure, dormitories for men and women, Hattrn hall, a combined gymnasium and chapel, and a president’s home. According to the receiver, original cost of the plant was in excess of SBOO,OOO.

MRS. NEWHOUUSE DEAD Born in Frankfort, She Lived in Indianapolis Most of Life. Mrs. Harriet E. Newhouse, 63, died Friday in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Bertha Kline. 2255 Eastern avenue. She was born in Frankfort, but lived in Indianapolis most of her life. Funeral services will be held at 2 Monday in the home of her son. John F. Smead, 1133 East Ninth street. Burial will be in Floral Park cemetery. Marriage Licenses Horen Mitchell. 17. of 1826 West. Vermont street, peddler, and Georgia A Wrison, 37. ot 526 North Elder avenue, housekeeper. Wiliam A Dewerse, 20, Indianapolis, laborer. and Marv Margaret Young, 18. 01 433 West Abbott stre't housekeeper. Benjamin G. Hunter, 32 ot Indianapolis, florist, and Jean Robertson. 33, of IPI 1 Cot'rge avenue, stenographer and cashier. Everett L. Quinnette. 24. of 2053 Soutn Meridian street, paper ruler, and Gladys Marie Strahan. 18. of 1450 Rembrandt street, inultigraph operator. Alfred McFall, 55. Milwaukee, Wis . government employe, and Gertrude Bennett. 36. Indianapolis Louis Clevenger. 29, of 708 Fletcher avrrur. plumber, and Caroline L. Cook, 21. of 1224 West Vermont street. Stewart Wright. 40. Eaton, laborer, and Nellie N Hickey, 40. of 408 South New Jersey st tee*. Kenneth J. Rupert, 26, Syracuse. N Y . telephone * company representative, and Elizabeth Anna Underwood, 25. of 627 Stevens street, teacher. Deaths Alva Nicholas. SO. Central Indiana hospital. general paralysis. James McCain, 65, city hospital, chronic myocarditis. Hattle Jane Hancock, 39. Methodist hospital, carcinoma. Georgia M. Alexander, 33, city hospital, acute myocarditis. * Infant Schoolcraft, 1 day, city hospital, prema'ure birth. Martin V B< Rr( j, 71. 2333 North Delaware, carcinoma John W Rodgers, 60. 1335 East Market. carcinoma. B'rths Girls Veits and Avonel'.a Harriman, Coleman hospital Cllflord and Mary Barr. Coleman hospital. Edward and Helen Benael, Methodist hospital M'ron and Bessie Starn, Methodist hospital Charles and Roxie Ilett, 1304 North Tvxedo Ravmond and Nellie Thiesing, 3411 Brookside parkway. Rays John and M ideltne Murphy, St. Vincent's hospital. Jofeoo me Idell Commiskey, St. Vincent's hospital. Prul and Ruby Dunn, St. Vincent's hospßa! William and Ruth Jonea. 128 North N'b>. Harold and Mar> Fitch, Methodist heapltal nobert and Helen Fry, Methodist hospital Donald and Marion Millholland, Meth odivt hospital. Georg' and Juanita Roberson, 3151 tugar Gro'.t.

Letters Bare Romance Ending in Death Trial for English Air Pilot

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Story of Hunger, Then of Wild Love Revealed in Lancaster Case. By l n ited f're** MIAMI, Fla., Aug. 6.—Letters that told of Captain W. N. Lancaster’s love for Mrs. Jessie M. Keith-Miller and his trust in Haden Clarke were read by State's Attorney N. Vernon Hawthorne Friday as the state sought to establish a motive for the death of Clarke, with whose murder Lancaster is charged. The letters to Mrs. Keith-Miller proclaimed a wild love, tinged by seriousness of finding himself in circumstances bordering on absolute poverty. Portions of a diary, telling of his love for the woman, were heard. Most of the letters were written after Lancaster found himself almost stranded in the west, where he had gone to investigate a proposed airline. ‘‘l have eaten only one 30-cent meal in four days—thank Haden for his kindness to me . . Oh, to give you a great big hug and feel you close to me once more . . . wish you were here with us. This bed is damnably cold,” one note said. Tells of Quarrell These letters were writen before Lancaster found Clarke was to marry Mrs. Keith-Miller. his flying partner and sweetheart for five years. Clarke was found fatally shet in the room he occupied with Lancaster the day after the latter had made a hurried flight from St. Louis to Miami. The men quarreled before going to bed that night, said Mrs. KeithMiller, Lancaster had gone away and left Clarke living in the same house wilh Mrs. Keith-Miller. He was to “ghost-write” a book of the woman’s aerial adventures, hoping to sell it and bring them money, of which they had little. While together they fell in love. Hawthorne read from letters written by Mrs. Keith-Miller to Lancaster: “We are living on bread and jam. We have no ear. If you think you are. having a hell of a time, don't think my life is a bed of roses. . . .” Another time she wrote’ ‘ Haden is so damn lazy he isn't getting anywhere with the book. . . . We have only 70 rents left and a continuous stream of collectors at the door. . . . We used part of the cat's hamburger for dinner." In one letter she almost demanded financial help from Lancaster. He replied the men he had gone west with, J. B. Russell and J. M. Tancrel, had disappointed him; they had no money, and “Russell is a crook." , Then Hawthorne, just before court , adjourned, read a letter from Clarke to Lancaster, revealing the remorse he felt at taking Mrs. Keith-Miller away from the Britisher. ’Hell for One of Us* “I know it is going to be a hell | of a blow to you, old boy. but I am I faced with the obvious choice of ' hell for one of us and heaven for two of us, or certain hell for two of us." Before the letters were read. RusI sell finished his testimony that began Thursday when he said that [ Lancaster, while they were in Hollv--1 wood, learned of the planned wed- ! ding of Clarke and Mrs. KeithMiller and. in a fit of rage, shouted, "I’ll get rid of him." Under bitter cross-questioning by Defense Attorney James M. Carson, Russell admitted he had been brought to the courtroom from Dade ! county jail, where he is serving a ( sentence and that he had served a ! term for smuggling Syrians across : the Mexican border.

•BOOER’ GETS 30 DAYS Baseball Game Disturber Given Jail Sentence at Utica. By f nilrd Preit UTICA. N. Y„ Aug. 6.—Alexander Barkey didr t like a certain player on the House of David baseball team when that team played a recent (tame here. He began to boo” the particular player. Patrolman Arcuri noticed the booing and told Barkey to stop it. Barkey refused, and a fight started during which a spectator tripped the policeman causing him to fall on top of Barkey. Barkey was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. He was given a sentence of thirty days in jail.

AUTO DEALERS TO MEET HERE Buick-Olds-Pontiac Session to Attract Hundreds. Automobile makers again are taking the lead in meeting and conquering radically changed business conditions that, have developed during the last three years. One of the foremost moves in f his direction is

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being made by the Buick-Olds-Pontiac Sales Company, which is con ducting meetings of its dealers and salesmen in thirty-six important business centers of the country. The Indianapolir meeting will be held at the Columbia Club or j Tuesday with sev- i cral hundred dealers and .sales-

men in attendance. L. C. Burnett, Indianapolis zone manager, announced today. The session will consist of talks by executives, and

pictures and a playlet that will illustrate the new type of selling methods required to meet present day conditions. Courtney Johnson, a s sistant general sales manager, and W. R. Huber, sales promotion manager, will head the visiting group. Changes in economic conditions and in the public

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state of mind have necessitated a new selling technique, Burnett explains. These meetings will present this new method to dealers and salesmen of this area. Talking pictures and a dramatic skit will be used to illustrate the new ideas by example. To produce these in the various cities where meetings are held, a special carload of equipment, consisting of a collapsible stage with scenery, drops and complete lighting equipment, and full motion pictures and sound apparatus is carried.

DOG WAR VETERAN IS DEAD AT AGE OF 17 Trained by Germans, Pat Served on Both Sides in Conflict. /?.)/ Initrd f'rrxg SUNBURY, Pa., Aug. 6.—Pat, a war veteran who served in both the German and the allied armies in the World war, died here at the age of 17. Pat, a German-trained war dog. was found by members of Company M, Three Hundred Fourteenth infantry, Seyenty-ninth division, after an attack on the Germans. He was taken back to the American lines, but refused to make friends with the soldiers. Finally, one who spoke German addressed him and Pat became friendly. He was brought to America after much difficulty. Several times en route, other soldiers stole the animal. but Company M always got its pet back. He became the property of George Finch nere and appeared in all soldier celebrations since the end of the war. Plans are being made to stuff and mount the body to place it in the section of a log cabin at Valley Forge housing the regimental war relics. CHAPEUTSPRINGING up Small Rural Churches Again Coming Into Prominence. By I nited Prr* FORT WORTH. Tex.. Aug. 6. The small, rural chapels again are coming into prominence as a part of the church in New Mexico. Colorado and Texas. More than 250 of the deserted crossroads chapels, which were abandoned during the urbanward population movement, will be reoccupied within the next few months in fhese states by the Methodist church alone, Bishop Sam R. Hay said. The economic' stiuation with the accompanying trend away from the city, has brought a need for reviving rural churches, Bishop Hay said.

NEW FLAREUP OF BREAD WAR POSSIBLE HERE Grocers’ Fight Reopened to Force Bakers to Return to 4-Cent Price. Possibility of a bread war in the city loomed again today when grocers reopened their fight to force local bakers to return to wholesale price of 4 cents. Fred W. Steinsberger, president of the Indianapolis Retal Meat and Grocers' Association, charged bakers in the city are invading towns near Indianapolis to undersell bakers there in retaliation for selling here at prices under local bakers. Products of out-of-town bakers are being bought by local grocers at prices enabling them to compete with chain stores, Steinsberger said, after local bakers refused to lower wholesale bread prices here. Price War Is Denied Baking company officials, however, denied that retaliatory measures in the form of reduced prices w'ere being taken in surrounding towns. Karl Kunert. regional manager of the Continental Baking Company, stated that whatever steps taken would be in the form of sales competition rather than a price war, if his company decided to act against the inroads of out of town bakers. Explanation of the alleged raise in wholesale prices of bread here was explained by bakers as a return to a former price rather than an increase. Buy Bread Out of Town According to officials of baking companies, a price war between bakers resulted in all producers lowering their wholesale prices from 6 cents to 4 cents for a onepound loaf in April. Approximately a month later, the bakers agreed to return to the 6cent. price, which had been in effect for a year, and the increased price went into effect over protest of local grocers, it is said. Steinsberger stated that local grocers then began buying bread ! from outside sources.

57 PERISH IN MINING BLAST Japanese Explosion Fatal to Six Students. By United Press TOKIO. Aug. 6.—Fifty-seven persons, including six students, were killed Friday in a coal mine explosion at Sorachi, Hokkaido province, a dispatch to the newspaper Asahi said today. Fifty bodies had been recovered. The students were studying mining. BRITISH POSTMEN ARE DENIED UNDRESS RIGHT Postmaster-General Thinks Ties Should Not Be Doffed. By United Press LONDON, Aug. 6.—Pity the poor, perspiring postman! Here, right in the middle of one of the warmest summers in a generation the postmaster-general flatly has rejected a proposal to let the mail carriers discard their ties and wear open-neck shirts. In a letter printed in The Post, the department’s magazine, the chief says that his conscience will not allow him to endanger “that smartness of appearance which is always associated in the public mind with efficiency.” Even a clean shirt, he says, would look incongruous without a cravat; what a somewhat-less-fresh shirt | would look like he leaves to British moral judgment.

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HOLD ALL-STATE DAY Greenfield Will Be Host to Public of Indiana Sunday. All-state day will be observed Sunday at Greenfield with the Greenfield Country Club and city park board as hosts, invitations being on an “everybody welcome’ basis. For the sports inclined the attractions will be baseball and golf. For those of literary bent, the old home of James Whitcomb Riley, Hoosier poet, and a swimming pool on the site of 'The Ole Swimming Hole,” one of his poems, can be visited. TREASURE HOUSE BARED Aged Man’s Home Reveals Hidden Fortune to Searchers. By United Press WARREN, 0.. Aug. 6.—The home of Henry I. Leeper, 86, near here, was a veritable treasure house. Two deputy sheriffs searched the house recently upon request of relatives, who had obtained a guardian for the aged man. They found $5,800 in old style bills of small denominations; $3,700 in uncashed pension checks and SIOO in gold coins in tin containers, a trunk, under a loose floor board, and in a cupboard. They also found campaign cards for every presidential election from Lincoln’s on down.

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Aerial Tear Bombs Menace Miners

Mine strike warfare went ultra-modern when Indiana national guard troops moved in on the tense situation at the Dixie Bee coal mine, Terre Haute, Ind., where sixty-four nonunion miners were besieged. A fleet of bombing planes w'as mobilized

YOUTH DROWNS IN FAU GREEK Lad, 19, Was Only Support of Aged Parents. Eighth drowning victim of the year in Marion county is Paul Adams, 19, only support of his aged, feeble parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wil-

liam H. Adams, R. R. 13, Box 158 P. Y'oung Adams perished Friday in Fall creek at a point two and onehalf miles northeast of Millersville. A married brother, Walter, lives in Shelby county,. The youth, who could not swim, went bathing in the creek shortly after noon Friday with three companions, Russell Sigman, a

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close friend; Harold Brunson and Clarence Flannigan, all living on R. R. 13. They had worked at threshing during the forenoon, and had eaten a heavy dinner shortly before going into the water. Adams father had urged him not to go, pointing out that he was suffering from a cold, but was not heeded. Stepping into water twelve feet deep, Adams sank. As he came up, Sigman and Brunson, both swimmers, struggled desperately to save him. Both are of slighter build than Adams, and were unable to subdue him, and he sank for the last time.

SERVE BEER, PEANUTS IN BEAUTY SALONS Latest Idea in Efficiency Is Adopted by Master Worker. By United Press PARIS, Aug. 6.—Beer, ice cream, and peanuts served while beauty is being applied in a more or less painless manner, is the latest idea in efficiency adopted by the master beautician here—Antoine. Fifty women representing the cream of aristocracy and monetary success, lined up in a long salon, back to back, with their heads encased in white K. K. K. coverings. They sippped mugs of foaming beer and became comfortably drowsy while the last word in waves was compressed into all shades of hair—including pink and mauve—by tubular heat released from fifty shining spigots poised over each head.

Tea for the dowagers and cocktials for the debutante daughters are drunk while the last coat of crimson enamel is being applied to the fingertips, or the last lash to the eyelid that has been shadowed and perfumed with the secrets of the Nile. DETROIT PAPER QUITS Morning Mirror, Tabloid. Suspends Publication With Friday Issue. By United Press DETROIT, Aug. 6.—The Detroit Mirror, morning tabloid newspaper, is no more. “The management has been forced to the conclusion,” stated the paper in its last issue Friday, “that there is not room in Detroit for two morning newspapers.' J. M. Patterson, one of the owners of the New York Daily News, was president, and R. M. McCormick of the Chicago Tribune was viceoresident of the Mirror.

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and aerial tear gas bombs were issued for use against the 3.500 union mine pickets. Picture shows five guard pilots cair.ving the new type bombs, with the fleet lined up in the background. Infantry troops, how'ever. routed the besiegers after one man had been killed and eight wounded.

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Stanley Parker and Glenn McCleary, held as accomplices of Roy Love, 17-year-old bandit who fatally wounded Jack Werner, clothing merchant and loan office operator in a holdup Tuesday, were bound to the grand jury by Sal C. Bodner, judge pro tern, in municipal court Friday afternoon. Parker, who previously had been held for grand jury action on a charge of robbery, was ordered held without bond on a murder charge placed w'hen Werner died Thursday night. TWO Dfc BY SHOCK High Tension Wire Falls: Farmer, Wife Killed. By United Press GRIFFITH, Ind., Aug. 6. Two persons were dead here today, victims of shock from a high tension wire carrying 11,000 volts that fell across their farm during a thunderstorm. Mrs. Sarah Candea, 36, was shocked fatally when she attempted to move the wire. Her husband, Nick, 38, died when he attempted to free her. A son, Nick Jr., 19, suffered severe burns when he attempted to free his parents. Jobless Veteran Kills Self By United Press GARRETT, Ind., Aug. 6.—Despondency over unemployment led Burr Downend. 39, world war veteran to commit suicide by shooting. at his home here last night.

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SEVERAL HURT IN ACCIDENTS Mother, Daughter Struck by Car While Walking. Mother and daughter incurred cuts and bruises when they were struck by an automobile Friday night while walking on Twentyfir.ii street near the Monon railroad crossing. The injured are Mrs. Mattie Hogan, 58, and Sendona Hogan, 22, both of 2604 Columbia avenue. The driver was Thomas King, 2032 Columbia avenue. He was not held. Lauren E. Arbuekle, 21, of 2328 Brookside parkway, a special delivery employe of the postoffice, suffered cuts on the head shortly after midnight when the automobile he was driving struck a safety zone guard at Cruse and Washington streets.Stepping from behind a parked truck at 331 South East street, Seymour Jones, 63, of 407 South Alabama street, was struck by an automobile driven by Lelan Raub, 60, of 1121 North Olney street, suffering cuts and bruises. Sprained back and cuts were incurred by John Williams, Zionsville, R. R. 28, when the automobile he was driving collided with one driven by Pat Dixon, Shelbyville, R. R. 8, at Sixty-first street and the Michigan road.

ARRANGE STREET DANCE City Tark and Recreation Departments to Sponsor Event. Dance on Michigan street, between Pennsylvania and Meridian streets, will be held Saturday night from 8 to 11, under auspices of the city park and recreation departments, with A. C. Sallee, park superintendent, in charge. Lieutenant Frank Owen of the accident prevention bureau, will be master of ceremonies. Music will be provided by an eight-piece orchestra. Program will include a juggling act by Cecil Byrne; acrobatic dance. Billy Parsons; accordion duet, William Schumacker and Ralph Tierce % and Vaughn Cornish, baritone, of the WKBF staff.

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3 PLEAD GUILT IN KOKOMO DRY RAID ON HOTEL Men Arrested During State Legion Convention Are Given Continuances. Three Kokomo men. arrested this week when federal dry agents raided a Kokomo hotel during the state American Legion convention, were granied indefinite continuances today when they pleaded guilty before Federal Judge Robert C. Baitzell to three counts of a liquor indictment. The trio, Herman Albrecht, Donald J. Golding and Hanley Orem, entered a general plea of guilty to charges of sale of liquor, possession of liquor for sale and maintaining a nuisance at Room 214 of the Francis hotel. Baltzell said he continued sentence in order that a more extensive investigation may be made as to possible complicity of other persons. Fedora] agents seized and destroyed 708 quarts of real beer when they descended on the hotel room, and their arrest tactics provoked considerable editorial criticism in state papers. The room in which the raid was staged will need repapering and redecorating, and beer poured out by the raiders leaked through to the hotel dining room.

DEATH TRIAL FOR BOY Lad. 17, Slavs Father Who Killed Mother; Murder Charge Filed. By United Press CLEVELAND, Aug. 6.—Second degree murder charges were filed late Thursday against Raymond Heths, 17-year-old Willoewick high school boy, who killed his father when the latter attempted to escape after beating the boy’s mother to death with a sledge-hammer.

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