Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 78, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 August 1932 — Page 2

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WOOLLEN WILL BE DEMOCRATS' FINANCE CHIEF National Chairmanship for Raising Campaign Funds Given City Man. • coming campaign. dd-Eaover “Rvbanker, today was named chairman of the national finance committee of the Democratic national committee in the coming campaign.

Earl R. Peters, state chairman, and Thomas D. Taggart, national c o m m i tteeman, returned today from New York, where they attended a conference of state chairmen and national committeemen called by James A. Farley, chairman of the national committee. Farley made the formal announce-

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ment of Woollen’s appointment today. The new national finance chairman is president of the Fletcher Trust Company, and was the 1926 nominee for senator and in 1928 was the state’s favorite son candidate for the presidential nomination. Peters expects to return to New York in two weeks to make arrangements for appearance of national speakers in the state during the campaign. Woollen also will go to New York soon to confer with Farley. STATEMENTS OnTaXES ARE TO BE MAILED Persons Who Wish to Pay Before Official Dale May Get Data. Statements for the fall installment of taxes and Barrett law payments will be ready about Sept. 1, Timothy P. Sexton, county treasure’- said today. He said statements will be mailed to persons desiring to pay taxes before the official date. “When calling or writing for taxes r - Barrett, kindly mail or bring your last paid receipts, as this will be a great help to clerks,” the treasurer advised. When receipts arp not available, taxpayers should give their address for the last two years, for personal and poll tax. Book and page number should be given for each separate improvement under the Barrett law assessment. Lot number, addition and location of real estate is necessary. INDICTED FOR BURGLARY Dewitt Parker and Woman Companion Named by Grand Jury. Burglary and grand larceny indictments were returned today by the Marion county grand jury against Dewitt Parker, Beech Grove, and Mrs. Margaret Isley, 1502 South Emerson avenue, based on discovery of dynamite and an electric drill and cutter in their possession. Parker and Alfred Isley, husband of the woman indicted today, were convicted of burglary and grand larceny in previous cases. The grand jury, which today submitted its final report for the summer, returned thirteen indictments and discharged seven persons. ADMITS SHOOTING GIRL Tennessee Man Is Held for Firing at City Sweetheart. Admitting that he is the man who shot Miss Artemia Brandon, 29, of 2064 Brighton boulevard, Sunday, but insisting the shooting was accidental, Earl Shamwell, alias Harris, of Drover, Tenn., is held on charges of shooting with intent to kill, according to police. Shamwell was arrested today after police learned he had been keeping company with Miss Brandon for some time. When found at 2442 Ethel avenue, police said Shamwell readily admitted the gun was in his hands when it discharged, wounding Miss Brandon in the right leg. She is recovering in city hospital. SWINDLERS GET $ 10,000 Fake Race Horse Bookies Vanish With Cleveland Man’s Fortune. By United First DETROIT, Mich., Aug. 10.—Two well-dressed strangers who operated a fake race horse booking establishment, swindled William Rowe, 62, of Cleveland, out of SIO,OOO, he reported today to police. Rowe, chief engineer on a steamship operating out of Cleveland, told police he met the men while he was “taking baths” at Mt. Clemens, Mich., Aug. 6. The strangers w r on two bets for him, Rowe said, then promised to triple his money, and vanished. ORPHANS TO BE FETED 65th Anniversary of Institution’s Founding to Be Observed. Children of the General Protestant Orphans’ home will be honored guests Sunday, when the sixty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the institution is observed at the home, 1404 South State avenue. Several thousand persons are expected to attend. The celebration will begin at 10:45 with the Rev. Titus Lehmann, pastor of St. Pauls Evangelical church, in charge. In the afternoon Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan will speak and a concert will be presented by the Odd Felfows band. Supper will be served by the ladies’ auxiliary of the home. 10 YEARS FOR BURGLARY Negro Is Sentenced to Prison for Breaking Into Home. Convicted of burglary, James Johnson, alias Frank Sanders, Negro, 34. of 617 West Michigan street, was sentenced to ten years in the state prison by L. Ert Slack, criminal judge pro tem., late on Tuesday. Johnson was found guilty of breaking into the home of Charles Buchanan of 433 Fulton street, July 20. Court records revealed he had served previous burglary sentences.

STILL HOLD “FORT”

City Family Defies Eviction

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Front Row —James Jr.. Mary Ellen; “Nigger,” the pet dog; Clara Lou, and Charles Evans. Back Row—Minnie May, Robert, and Mrs. Etta Evans.

HERE they are, and here they stay, despite protests, constables and police. And so the family of James Evans, in/luding his wife and six children, ranging from 2 to 12, today are holding their castle at 826 Coffee street. Having been evicted more than a half-dozen times in the last year or so, the threats of constables to put them out again for nonpayment of rent has not affected the family this time. “There has been some mixup with the landlord and the rental agent,” Mrs. Evans said. “The offer of a house up the street still stands, but w r e won’t move until there is a definite understanding with the owner of the other house.” a tt it NEIGHBORS said that recently when a constable sought to evict the family, neighbors and several unemployed men replaced the furniture as fast as it was put on the sidewalk. The family's case came to attention of the safety board Tuesday when Chief Mike Morrissey said he would not aid in evictions. “The police have been out here and have been nice to us,” Mrs. Evans said. “There has been no trouble, but we won’t move until we know about that other house. We can’t pay the rent and we have to have a roof over our heads. They can put the furniture in the street if they want to.”

Girl ‘Bum ’ Is Freed; Heads for the ‘Rods

“I started for the coast, and I’m gonna get there. When you turn me’ loose, I’m headin’ fer another box car.” That was the way Geraldine Davis, 21-year-old girl from the West Virginia mountains, explained her plans to a policeman Tuesday,

following her release in municipal court on a vagrancy charge. In her pocket she carried her entire financial outlay—sl given her by Sol C. Bodner, judge pro tem. Geraldine, whose age is estimated by police as nearer 17 than the majority she claims, was arrested July 27 after a railroad

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detective aroused her from slumber on a bed of steel rails in a box car. Appreciation of the hospitality afforded her by the city was expressed when she remarked, "You’ve got a good jail here, I’ve been in worse.” She left police headquarters attired in shirt and overalls, her traveling clothes on “bumming” trips during which she has traveled several times to the coast, she told police.

Sues Parents of Wife for $40,000 Love Balm

Their Advice Broke Up His Home, Collector Charges in Suit. Marriage proved too expensive for Floyd B. Parker, 40. of 1002 North Beville avenue, collector, he charged Tuesday in a suit demanding $40,000 damages from his wife’s parents for breaking up his home. A happy married life with his wife. Eloise. 23, ended, the suit alleges, when Eloise began to *'take advice from her father and mother.” Parker charges Mr. and Mrs. Christian Amacher, 609 North Emerson avenue, his wife's parents, encouraged her to join “sororities, clubs he couldn't afford.” This was done, he declares, de-

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DRIVE GOES ON FOR HOME BANK \ Advantages of City as Site Are Set Out. The new federal home loan bank board today had before it briefs citing advantages of Indianapolis as site for one of the banks to be established to ease the burden on struggling home owners. Statistical information submitted by the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce at the board’s first meeting Tuesday pointed out there are 6,000,COO families in Indiana and adjoining states, more than 50 per cent being home owners; business is well balanced and developed in this territory, and there are approximately 400 building and loan associations, with $288,000,000 assets, in Indiana. “Indiana is outstanding as a state of home owners, and in Indianapolis 42.2 per cent of our people live in homes they own,” Dan W. Legore, Indianapolis Real Estate Board president, wired Senator James E. Watson and Representative Louis Ludlow, pledging local realtors’ support. “If our information is correct, this percentage is equaled by only one other city in the country.”

BICYCLE POLICE OFFICER DEAD Joseph B. Okey on City Force 29 Years. Joseph B. Okey, 74, who during his twenty-nine years service as a police officer witnessed the passing of the bicycle and the advent of the automobile as an aid to law enforcement, is dead at his home, 4060 College avenue. The end came Tuesday after an illness of three months. He leaves his widow • and a son George, th 6 latter a resident of Texas. Funeral services will be held at 10 Friday morning at the home. Police to serve as pallbearers will be Fred Brennan, Harley Jones, Gene Eldgridge, Thomas Harris, George Anderson and John Volderauer. Participating in the services will be the Scottish Rite, Broad Ripple Masonic lodge and the Improved Order of Red Men. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Mr. Okey was one of the first bicycle police officers in Indianapolis, his partner being John Kitchmiller, now retired. For many years they worked from the St. Clair sub-police station. Later Mr. Oxey was a patrolman and also served as a desk officer. He became a member of the department in 1899, was retired on pension in 1928.

! spite his providing many luxuries | for his wife. The suit in superior court two states Parker provided “a fine I home for her,” but when it was necessary for him to move to Cleveland, to take a job, his wife refused to go with him. j Mrs. Parker’s parents are charged with advising their daughter “they would see she enjoyed luxuries if she left her husband.” The couple was married Feb. 27, ; 1931. Parker went to Cleveland and did not learn that he had been sued for divorce in superior court three until ! he returned to this city, his attorney. Sidney Horn, said today. The divorce petition still is pendi ing.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

FRONT PAGE IS BIG ‘ISSUE’ TO OUR STATESMEN Political Dog Days Here Again; Everybody Is in the Squabble. By Scrippi-Hoicard Setctpnpcr Alliance WASHINGTON. Aug. 10.—Republican resentment against Governor Roosevelt’s alleged effort to steal the front pages from President Hoover has convinced the old-timers that political dog days are here. When Roosevelt first set Thursday as the day for hearing Mayor James J. Walker answer charges against him, only a few columnists noted that it might take the spotlight from Hoover's acceptance address. 3ut now, the Republican elders are affronted deeply by the coincidence. If such it was, and Senator L. J. j Dickinson, keynoter at Chicago, spent at least $3 to send a denun- | ciatory telegram to Albany. Hoover's personal friends also take it as deliberate affront. Every spokesman seems to forget that this is ancient procedure. It is recalled that Hoover laid himself open to the same suspicion two years ago.

Tables Turned on Cal Calvin Coolidge came to the capital to attend the signing of the Kellogg pact at noon, and gave a delightful interview to the press later in the day. Hoover, however, supplied even more sensational news with an evening announcement that, pending the outcome of the London disarmament conference, he would suspend construction of several cruisers. As the President's secretary handed out the statement to reporters, he said, wicn a wink: “Well, I guess that will keep Mr. Coolidge from stealing the front page from us.” But there are other episodes indicating the politicians are losing—or forgetting—a sense of humor. Roosevelts Are Active The Republican Roosevelts, for instance, are taking pains to let the country know they still think the Democrats’ candidate a “maverick,” as “Young Teddy” dubbed him in 1920. But some folks in the backwoods section seem to think he is the hero of San Juan. And, lest the Roosevelt name roll up to many Democratic votes, the widow of “the” Roosevelt will attend Hoover’s notification, and the son, governorgeneral of the Philippines, will return to this country to take part in the campaign. That is, provided he does not heed the resolution of Philippine provincial governments tc stay on the job, where he is popular.

SITE CLEARED FOR PARK New Three-Acre Tract to Be Ready for West Side Soon. Anew park will be available for the west side soon with completion of cleaning up a three-acre tract owned by the park board at King avenue and Michigan streets.

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New Navy Head

Admiral Richard H. Leigh WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—Admiral Richard H. Leigh today relieved Admiral Frank H. Schofield as commander-in-chief of the United States fleet. Schofield has been ordered to the navy department - as a member of the general board. Several other shifts were made among ranking officers in the naval forces. SOCIALIST WILL SPEAK Powers Hapgood to Address Meeting at North Side Hall. “Cause and Cure of Unemployment” will be the subject of Pow r ers Hapgood, Socialist candidate for Governor of Indiana, when he speaks tonight at 8 at Clifton and Udell streets. A meeting tonight at Warren avenue and Henry streets will be addressed by Ed Henry and W. H. Richards. Principal speakers at a meeting to be held at 8 Saturday night on the west lawn of the courthouse will be A. M. Tuttle, member of the University of Wisconsin faculty, and John Taylor, Detroit, a national Socialist organizer.

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PENALTY FOR FRIGHT DEATH GOESJNPAID Man Called Responsible by Coroner Has Sentences for Deeds Suspended. Fright death of Robert Brake. 75, of 2524 College avenue, brought no punishment to the man declared responsible by Dr. John A. Salb, deputy coroner. The aged man. said to have been threatened by Benjamin H. Rvnearson, 34. a suitor of his daughter, died Monday night of heart disease. after fleeing to the home of a neighbor. Rynearson. arraigned Tuesday before Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron on four charges, was given suspended sentences on two, and two others were dismissed. The court denied a request of Dr. Salb that Rhynearson be held under SI,OOO bond. On a charge of drunkenness, Ry-

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nearson was fined $lO and costs with a thirty-day jail teilfc, but the judgment was suspended and he was placed on probation. He was fined $1 for resisting an officer, judgment being withheld, and charges of disorderly conduct and vagrancy w’ere dismissed. 1933 TAXES -SHOW’ LOSS Appraisement by Board of Review Kevcails $2,569,590 Drop. Appraisement of domestic corporations in Marion county for taxes to be paid in 1933 is $47,812,870, it was announced today by the board of review. Corporations reporting in 1931 were given an appraisement of $50,382.460. and in 1932 the figure was $46,586,600. a loss of $3,793,860. New corporations reporting this year were appraised at $1,226,270. making a net loss of $2,569,590. The net loss in 1931 was approximately $5,000,000.

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