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HOLD MATE OF SLAIN TEACHER FOR JURY QUIZ Coroner's Investigators at Marshall, 111., Order Moor Probe to Go On. CHARGE ILLICIT LOVE Desire to Collect $5,000 insurance Also May Be Motive. Illicit romance, and a desire to obtain $5,000 insurance on the life of Mrs. Marjorie Moor, 30, is believed by authorities today to have been the motive for her slaying. Her husband. Hubert C. Moor, 32, is held at Marshall. 111, Both are former Indianapolis residents and Robinson (111.) school teachers. Funeral services were held this afternoon at the Downey avenue Christian church in Irvington for Mrs. Moor, with burial in Memorial Park cemetery. A coroner's jury at Marshall Tuesday ordered Moor held to the grand jury on a charge of murder. With two bullet wounds in the heart, Mrs. Moor's body was found early Monday in the family automobile six miles south of Marshall. Moore appeared at the farm home of William Imle nearbv with a story that he and his wife had been robbed. Although he said he had been struck on the head, he bore no wounds, doctors stated. Suspected as Divorce Cause A year ago, it was learned. Moor’s alleged attentions to a Robinson woman caused her husband to obtain a divorce. Miss Lelia Baldwin, living near Grccncastle, reputed to be a close friend of the slain woman, was discharged last spring as a teacher in the Robinson high school, where both Moor and his wile were instructors. Authorities are planning to call Miss Baldwin before the Clark county grand jury at Marshall, possibly at a special session as the jury regularly would not be convened until November. It is planned to arraign Moor within the next few r days, and it is probable that bail will be arraigned at that time. Reports were current J today that 'a bond of $15,000 will be ! required. Under Illinois law, release of a murder defendant on bail is within the discretionary power of the court. The Moors, returning from a week-end visit here with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph D. Moor. 34 South Irvington avnue, visited Miss Baldwin Sunday evening, Moor Maintains Innocence Moor maintains innocence of slaying his wife. He has told two stories. according to authorities. One was that he was struck by a man who leaped from an automobile when he stepped his car to inspect a tire, and another that several men leaped from an automobile after forcing his car to the side of road. Moor declared he was robbed of his watch, but it dropped from his clothing Tuesday in his cell at Marshall. He also had stated his wife's diamond wedding and engagements rings were stolen, but they were found in her purse. Body of the slain wife was found In the front seat of the car. Her head rested on a neatly folded blanket. Graduate of Butler Victor Miller. Clark county state's attorney, said he believed Mrs. Moor was shot at a point distant from the place where the body was found, and explains the absence of a revolver with the theory that it was thrown firm the car. "possibly in the Wabash river near Terre Haute." Moor has said that he and his wile stopped in Terre Haute Sunday n ght after leaving Miss Baldw.n's home. It is said the $5,000 insurance policy on the life of Mrs. Moor lapsed in June, but was renewed a few weeks ago by the husband at a cost of SSO. Mrs. Moor was a daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Alson E. Wrentmore. 227 South Ritter avenue. She was graduated from Butler university in 1922. Moor attended Butler three years, transferring to the University of Illinois from which he was graduated in 1923. SHOWERS TO COOL CITY Rain May Hit Here Tonight. Is Forecast of Armington. Continued high temperatures with thundershowers this afternoon or tonight was forecast today by J. H. Armington. weatherman. Relief is in sight, however, he said, with a cool area from the northwest due to arrive Thursday morning, causing a temperature '•drop of from 5 to 15 degrees.
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Jury Gets Lancaster Death Case
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W. N. Lancaster and Mrs. Jessie M. Keith-Millcr. Ponder Fate of Airman Charged With Killing Love Rival. By 1 nitrd Cress MIAMI, Fla., Aug. 17.—The case of Captain William N. Lancaster, British aviator, charged with the murder of Haden Clarke, young writer, in a love triangle, went to > the jury at 11:45 a. m. today. The state charged Lancaster j killed young Clarke, who had won j the love of Mrs. Jessie M. Keith- ; Miller, diminutive aviatrix. whom Lancaster also loved. In a brief charge. Judge Henry F. : Atkinson told the jury that under the Florida law, "first degree murder j charges include second and third- j degree murder charges,” that the j defendant “is innocent until proved j guilty beyond a reasonable doubt” j and that to convict, it must find "premediated design." The defense contends Clarke committed suicide in remorse over an! illness. WARNS VON PAPEN Hitler Hints of Arms for Brown Shirt Troops. i By United Cress BERLIN. Aug. 17.—Adolph Hit- ! ler stands ready to arm his brownj shirted storm troops as a defense measure, he hinted in an interview ; published as police broke up twen- ; ty-five parades protesting against the “all-monocle" government of Franz Von Papen. The interview in the Westfaelischen Zeitung quoted the German Fascist leader as citing a toll of 300 dead and 8,200 wounded National Socialists in the last seven months, and suggesting that if such terrorism continues he will be forced to arm the brown shirt militia. Once he commands his "party comrades" to adopt this right of self-defense, the would-be Napoleon of Germany said the terrorism would be wiped out as though "by a flash of lightning.” INSURANCE MAN DIES W. E. Barton Is Victim of Heart Disease. W. E. Barton, 69. 4028 Central avenue, president of the Barton Insurance Company, 500 Indiana National bank building, died suddenly at his desk today. Although a vc diet was not given. Dr John A. Salb. deputy coroner, said the cause of death probably was heart disease. Barton was prominent in insurance circles in the city and has been in business here for many years. He is survived by the widow, Mrs. Minnie C. Barton. DEMAND REBELS GIVE UP Brazil Insurgents’ Settlement Plea Is Turned Down. By t nitrd I’ress RIO DE JANEIRO Aug. 17. The absolut and unconditional surrender of the Sao Paulo state rebels was demanded today by the federal government, which rejected insurgent proposals for a settlement.
200,000 HOBO CHILDREN IN U. S. STAND AS MENACE TO SOCIAL FABRIC OF NATION
BY HARRY FERGUSON Vnitfd Trfss Staff CorrpsoondeiU WASHINGTON. Aug. 17.—As 200.000 homeless American children plod their way across the forty-eight states they are beset by every physical danger—hunger. heat. cold. rain, disease and the possibility of being ground to death under a freight train. But there is an even graver danger. according to officials of the children's bureau of the department of labor. It is in the realm of the mind, and it carries the threat of rotting the social fabric of the rising generation. In the hobo jungles from Portland, Me., to Portland, Ore., there
INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1932
HAMMERS AT ‘MYSTERY’ OF WALKER AGENT Roosevelt Delves Into Facts of Hunt for Missing Russell Sherwood. SEABURY VERSION GIVEN Jimmy's Counsel Strives to Show Committee ‘Called Off’ Police. BY FREDERICK A. STORM , United Press Staff Correspondent ALBANY. N. Y., Aug. 17.—Mayor James J. Walker's defense counsel strove vigorously today to show that the Hofstadter investigating committee "called off the New York police in their hunt for Russell T. Sherwood," Walker’s financial agent. John J. Curtin, cross-examining Jacob Gould Schurman Jr., assistant to Samuel Seabury, chief counsel of the committete, prodded him insistently with questions designed to show he had ordered the police to return a subpena for Sherwood. Says Subpena Withdrawn Schurman, called by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt as one of his "own witnesses," insisted that the subpena had been "withdrawn” after the man credited with hating handled thousands of dollars for the mayor had been located in Atlantic City, whence it is alleged, he fled to Mexico. The morning session was dull in comparison with Tuesday's proceedings, although Roosevelt insistently pursued the grimmest phase of the charges against Walker—that he connived in the continued absence of his financial secretary. The man who paid his personal bills, and who _ issued checks and letters of credit for the still officially “unnamed woman,” who has flitted through the evidence for the last five days. For the first time since his trial began, Walker was late—by five minutes. He appeared surprised when he found Governor Roosevelt already in his seat at the big flat-topped desk. Walker had abandoned his snappy green suit in favor of more conservative blue. Actress’ Name in Open The name of Betty Compton, often linked- in Rialto gossip with that of Mayor Walker, and frequently whispered during the Hofstadter committee's investigation of New York City, was mentioned openly Tuesday for the first time by the mayor himself. The mayor was asked, in the corridor, whether Miss Compton was the "unnamed person" who is reputed to have received one check for $7,500 from him, $41,000 worth of other stocks and securities from Sherwood, and a letter of credit for SIO,OOO. “I replied." the mayor told newspaper men, "Well, who do you think it was?" The name of the unidentified person whose indorsement was on the back of checks and stock certificates, had not been disclosed officially in the hearings.
Needy Lad Shot Down, Retrieving Golf Balls
Hearing for Golf Pro, Who Is ‘Ha.ndly With Gun,’ Is Set for Aug. 25. His back and legs riddled with shotgun pellets, Edward Olinskv, 16-year-old boy of a family of seven children, today awaited court action to determine whether he or Charles (Chuck) Garringer. golf professional and his assailant, w’ill be held accountable for the shooting. Olinsky was shot by Garringer Tuesday at the Speedway golf course. The boy was one of a
group retrieving lost ball on the course against Gar r i nger's orders. Several times recently Garringer has fired into the air at the intruders, and Tuesday admitted he decided to "s tin g” one of them. After the shooting Garringer said he heard he "stung" one of the boys. Municipal Judge
William H. Sheaffer today released Olinsky on a vagrancy charge, on the boy's promise to appear in court Aug. 25 for trial. Garringer will
is only one motto that every one accepts—"only saps work.’’ Dr. A. W. McMillen. associate professor of social economies at the University of Chicago, who did field work for the children's bureau, explains this danger. "&lost of these boys have been compelled to leave home because their parents or other relatives can not support them. "Fathers say to their sons: ‘l've lost my job. I started out on my owm when I was lots younger than you are. Good luck.* "But the fathers do not realize that starting out on your own during an agricultural age. when the countryside was friendly and
Lindys Matched By l nitrd Cress EVANSVILLE. Ind., Aug. 17. —Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Winchell, to whom a child was born the same day as the first Lindbergh baby, joined with The Lindbergh family in celebration of the arrival of another child, a daughter, born the same day as the second Lindbergh baby. The Winchell's first child was born the same hour as Charles A. Lindbergh Jr.
HUNDREDS FLEE BEFORE FLOODS Two Perish as Oklahoma Streams Run Wild. By Lnitrd Pres* ENID, Okla., Aug. 17.—Cloudi bursts sent dry bed northwestern Oklahoma streams over their banks today, driving families from their homes and flooding fertile farm lands. Shortly before noon the known death toll was two. The body of Mrs. Sam Cellars was found at , Cherokee. Maggie McFarlane, 42, ; of Marshall, was drowned when she was swept down Boggy creek in the flood. Damage was estimated at i $1,000,000. 1 Cottonwood creek, a flat bed stream, became a raging torrent overnight at Cherokee. In twentyfour hours, almost nine inches of rain fell in its drainage basin. Hundreds of families fled from their homes at Cherokee. Business houses, with water standing neckdeep in first floors, were abandoned. Families sought refuge in churches and at the courthouse. Salt fork of the Arkansas river near Alva spilled over its low banks and livestock were seen floating down the reddish-tinted, swirling waters. Traffic on highways was halted as bridges went out. Railroad traffic near the Texas boundary was demoralized when a flooded creek ripped out a sixty-foot bridge on the Santa Fe Line. DENIES POLITICS QUIZ Federal Jury Not Probing Officials, Is Report. Denial that the federal grand jury is considering evidence on alleged corruption among Indianapolis political leaders and officials, was made today by George R. Jeffrey, district attorney. Jeffrey's assertion was made in the face of rumors that have been rampant since the indictment 6f Claude M. Worley, former police chief, on an income tax evasion charge for which he is serving a sixyear prison sentence. It was reported from various sources that the grand jury was to check evidence, uncovered in the Worley probe, and which might result in several indictments. The federal jury, scheduled to make a partial report Friday, today was reported considering "hip pocket” liquor law violations. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 72 lo a. m 81 7a. m..., 73 11 a. m 82 Ba. m 76 12 (noon).. 83 9 a. m 77 1 p. m 82
appear at the same time to face a count of shooting with intent to kill. Edward, who lives at 735 Concord street, this summer had abandoned his hopes for higher education. Graduated from School 52 in 1931, the boy attended Washington high school for a semester. But with so many in the family, the mother working, and the stepfather jobless, Edward had decided to go to work. At different times this summer he worked on a farm northwest of the Speedway. When he was not naeded at the farm, he found odd jobs to perform and then. Tuesday, went to the golf course with sevei-al other boys. There isn't much money in retrieving golf balls, but Edward tried it and then was shot down. . The mother, of Russian descent, works in a paper company from morning until late afternoon. The children at home were afraid to talk about their brother. Edward was treated Tuesday at the city hospital for the wounds after he ran half a mile from the golf course to near his home, following the shooting. Edward and his family came here from Poland several years ago. Huntington Health Officer Dies HUNTINGTON. Ind., Aug. 17.Dr. George O'Leary, 66. who served as county health officer for several years, died suddenly at his home here. The widow survives.
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times were good, is far different from starting out in a mechanical age when there are no jobs anywhere.” nan THE nomads leave home with the idea of finding work. Times are better in the next town, they hear, so they hop a freight. That is the beginning of a never-ending pilgrimage that leads them across the continent and back again. They sleep in the hobo jungles, and eat watery stew from tin cans. Again and again they hear the hobo philosophy that "only saps work," and they talk and travel
ASSASSINATE ILLINOIS MINE UNION LEADER Thousands of Striking Men Mass for March on Taylorville. GUARDS, PICKETS CLASH Slain Chief Described as ‘Firebrand’ by Officers; Lewis Irked. By l, nited Vretss ORIENT, 111., Aug. 17. The assassination today of Joe Colbert, 38-year-old leader of the southern Illinois coal miners protesting the new $5 a day w'age scale, centered here the turmoil in the state’s coal fields. Meantime, armed civilian guards patrolling Christian county highways had a brush with pickets near Tovey. One picket was arrested near Taylorville. Thousands of angry miners in the Springfield district continued plans to march thursday on Taylorville, armed only with their fists, in defiance of 1,500 armed citizen guards. They have been ordered to leave guns and other weapons at home. Colbert who was recording secretary of Orient local 303, United Mine Workers, was shot down by three men in an automobile while, picking mushrooms. He had been chatting with his father when a volley of shots cut him down. Described as Firebrand “An automobile drove up the road and one of the three men in it called to Joe to come over,” the elder Colbert said. “When Joe got about twenty-five feet from the car, the men fired, one with a shotgun. Then they drove toward Benton.” Colbert, described by authorities as a firebrand in union matters, was chairman of the recent mass meeting of miners at Benld to protest adoption of the new wage scale. He was said to have wielded considerable influence over miners in Franklin county, who comprise onefourth the state membership of the union. Lewis Assails Miners Taylorville citizen guards ran threshers and tractors across highways to block traffic. All automobiles were forced to stop while occupants were questioned. A survey by the Illinois Coal Operators’ Association indicated that despite the tense situation in central and southern Illinois, 14,000 miners were at work in thirty mines in the state. The proposed "march” to Taylorsville was assaulted at Springfield by John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America. "The mine workers of central Illinois may as well recognize that marching expeditions and mass meetings will not destroy the contract which has been executed between the Ilinois Coal Operators Association and the United Mine Workers of America,” he said. BURY R. A. GRAHAM Auto Magnate’s Last Rites Are Held at Washington, Ind. By United Cress WASHINGTON. Ind., Aug. 17. Funeral services were held here Tuesday in St. Simbn church for Ray A. Graham, a member of the auto firm bearing his name, who ended his life by drowning in Chatham, Ontario, Saturday. Burial was in St. John’s cemetery.
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with older men who have beep practicing that philosophy successfully for years. They fall easily into the loosely organized but efficient routine of hobo life. Fifteen of them arrive on a freight train in a town." McMillen said. "They go to the hobo camp and light a fire. “Then they allot the work. Somebody to get water and wood, somebody to go into town and make the rounds of the grocery stores, meat markets and homes. "Grocers often give stale bread and partly decayed vegetables or fruit. Butchers give scraps.
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Vanished Tennessee Man Thought to Be Schroeders Victim
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Upper—The Durant sport coupe which once was owned by John M. Stover, Elizabethton, Tenn.. who. detectives say. may have been the torch car victim of Harold Herbert Schroeder on the High School road in May, 1930. Lower —The 1930 Tennessee license plate. 397-812. on the ear when it was left in a downtown garage by Stover nine days before Schroeder s victim’s body was found.
COIN HARVEY IN SPLIT WITH COX Priest Refuses to Withdraw as President Aspirant. By United Cress, ST. LOUIS, Mo., Aug. 17.—The jobless-Libert.y party, here to nominate candidates for President and Vice-President of the United States, spilt wide open today. Father James Cox, Pittsburgh Catholic priest, called about 800 of his “blue shirt” followers into session at 10 a. m. to nominate candidates for the jobless party. W. H. (Coin) Harvey, 31-year-olds free silver advocate, withdrew two miles dow r n the shore of Creve Coeur lake with 100 of his Liberty party delegates to hold a separate convention. The dispute arose when Harvey intimated Father Cox should withdraw his presidential candidacy because of his religious affiliations. "Father Cox never steps aside and particularly will not step aside if the religious question is raised,” the priest replied. "I’m disgusted,” Harvey retorted. "First Father Cox fails to keep his word to bring 1,000.000 delegates here, and now he wants to spoil our chances of victory by injecting the religious issue.” Ready for Atlantic Hop By United i’ress BARRE. Vt.. Aug. 17.—Clyde A. Lee, Oshkcs, Wis., and Julius Robertson, Nagaunee, Mich., plan to take off Friday morning for Harbor Grace,, starting, point for their proposed flight to Oslo. Norway. Favorable weather was forecast.
Law’s Mercy to Mother Who T ried Suicide T wice
Central Figure of Near Tragedy in Court Is Put on Probation. The law' was merciful to a mother w f ho twice attempted suicide because she feared her arrest on blind tiger charges would cause her to lose custody of her son, B—a sorrow that finally came to her. Fine of SIOO and costs and a six months prison term was imposed on the mother, Mrs. Kate Norris, 1528 Blaine avenue, by Municipal Judge William H. Scheaffer, but Mrs. Norris was placed on probation for six months and. in event of good beha\ior. never will enter the woman's prison. Norman, the son, now is a ward of the juvenile court. Officers raided the home of Mrs. Norris on July 2, obtaining some alcohol which was in a pitcher. Sergeant Wayne Bear, who led the raiders told the mo,her: "You are not fit to be bringing up your boy.” The mother met the accusation by swalowing poison. Folice sent her to city hospital. The raid was made after the son is alleged to have told playmates that ‘ Mother gives me a big shot of alky every day before I go to school.” The second suicide attempt was
‘ Out of such they make mulligan stew.” u n n SUCH an existence leads inevitably to the dwarfing of initiative and the killing of ambition. Give a boy of 18 two years on the open road, according to children’s bureau experts, and it is unlikely that he ever can be reclaimed by society. They prefer to accept the hazards of such a life to going home and living off the bounty of relatives. who. as a rule, already have too many mouths to feed. “They may go for days with nothing to eat but coffee and
Discovery of Car Left in City Garage in May, 1930. Leads to Hunt. BY CHARLES E. CARLE After more than two years’ mystery. authorities in several cities 01 the nation today believed that John M. Stover of Elizabethton. Tenn., was the victim of Haroid Herbert Schroeder in the ghastly torch car murder on High School road the night of May 30. 1930. On completion ot a two months search in cities from Florida to Minnesota, and as far west as Salt Lake City, detectives informed The Times today that Stover has been missing since May 21. 1930, when he parked his car in a downtown Indianapolis garage. Since that day when he walked out of the garage at Georgia and Pennsylvania streets, no record can be found of Stover, unless Schroeder tcok him for that fatal ride the night of May 30, 1930. Schroeder, from the state prison at Michigan City, today maintained the same stoic silence that marked him throughout his arrest, wait for trial, and finally the jury judgment that, he should spend tw'o to twentyone years in prison. Warden Walter H. Daly, in answer to a request of The Times, questioned the prisoner today. Brought from his cell. Schroeder told Daly that "the name doesn't mean a thing to me.” “I'm not guilty of the crime they sent me here for, anyway,” Daly said Schroeder reiterated. Daly said Schroeder still maintains his “poker face.” Schroeder never named his victim before going to prison. He claimed he knew nothing of his identity. He assorted he had picked up the unknown man, a hitchhiker, and the man had been injured w’hen Schroeders Chrysler sedan swerved (Turn to Page 2)
made July 28 in Sheaffer's court room w’here Mrs. Norton w r as called for trial on the blind tiger charge. Bear was on the stand testifying to finding the alcohol when the defendant swallowed poison from a container she had hidden in her purse. In granting probation, Sheaffer pointed out that Mrs. Norris had spent ten days in city hospital as a result of the suicide attempts, and a like period in jail awaiting trial. Defense raised the point today that it is a presumption in law’ that any offense committed in a home by a wife is an offense on the part of the husband, and moved to dismiss the blind tiger charge. The prosecution, however, asserted that at the time of the raid Mrs. Norris’ husband was in bed "dead drunk,” and could not have assented to possession of liquor, and the court overruled the dismissal motion. MRS. M'CORMICK GAINS Marked Improvement Is Shown in Condition. Doctors Report. By United Cress CHICAGO. Aug. 17.—The marked improvement shewn in the condition of Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick in the last forty-eight hours continued today, according to reports from her sick room at the Drake hotel. Friends and members of the family were much cheered.
bread," says the bureau's report. ‘ln winter they suffer from exposure. •Last winter, in one western city, thirty-five young men and boys were removed from box cars, seriously ill, some in advanced stages of pneumonia. "One railroad alone reported fifty boys killed and more than one hundred crippled from hopping freight trains.” It is such conditions that the bureau is trying to remedy before America spawns a permanent army of youthful hoboes that will be a danger spot in the social fabric for five generations to come.
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POCKET VETO FORESEEN FOR BETTING BILL Leslie Opposed to Turning Revenue From Measure to School Fund. HITS “GAMBLERS' MONEY’ Law Repealing State’s School Enumeration System Signed. Pocket veto of the pari-mutuel betting bill by Governor Harry G. Leslie loomed today despite the fact that Attorney-General James M. Ogden has indicated he will hold the measure constitutional. That the pocket veto Is probably indicated in the Governor's statement to friends that he opposes the bill's provision to turn the licensing and tax revenue into the state common school fund. Leslie was quoted as telling a member of the legislature that "our common schols can get along without gamblers’ money." It was learned that Representative Herbert P. Kenney (Dem.), New Albany, author of the bill, attempted today to learn the status of the measure, but failed on inquiries in the offices of both Leslie and Ogden. Person's interested in the fate of the measure pointed to similar laws in other states, where the tax revenue reverts to the board of agririculture. School Count Repeal Signed Members of the Indiana board, are divided, however, on a plan to reintroduce the betting bill at the regular session of the legislature next year, should it die in Leslies office. If re-infrcduced it would be altered to place th° revenue with the agricultural board instead of into the school fund. E. J. Barker, secretary of the board, said a statute prohibiting betting at state fairs would have to be repealed before betting legally could be conducted. Barker said if Leslie vetoes the bill members of the beard, who favor it. might prepare the bill for the regular session. Meanwhile, Leslie teday signed the house bill repca ing the state school enumeration statute. He also signed the senate bill declaring a five-year moratorium on issuance of county three-mile road law bonds. Leslie permitted the 50-cent mortgage filing fee bill to become law without his signature and vetoed the senate municipal utility bill. Both had been declared unconstitutional by Ogden. Utility Bill Signed The 50-cent filing fee on each $lO3 of mortgage property has been predicted by its authors to bring the local governments around $7,000,000 annually It becomes effective Jan. 1, 1933, and is collectible by county auditors. The municipal utility bill provided an easy road to municipal ownership and takes publicly owned plants from public service commission jurisdiction A somewhat similar house bill, with certain features objected to by Ogden removed, also is awaiting executive action. It was passed after the attorney-general had pointed out the flaws in the senate bill. Both were backed by the Indiana Municipal Rights League. CANAL FLOOD GATES OPENED: RIVER DROPS Complaints Answered by Water Cos., Government Tests Are Made. Complaints of Broad Ripple and Ravenswood residents that there is is not "enough water in White river to wash your lace.” was answered today by the Indianapolis Water Company with the announcement that flood gates to the canal were opened to permit government tests. The river started dropping Saturday night with opening of the gates and residents in the northeast section of the city and county reported it three feet below last week's level. Motor boat fans have given up their pastime, the lower waler causing obstacles, formerly submerged, o be above or near the surface. The river snould regain its depth the latter part of the week, water company officials said. Hit by Fire Truck; Killed l!y I nilrd I’ress CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., Aug. 17.—Injuries suffered by Mrs. u! Brewer. 57, when she was struck by a fire truck last Saturday, caused her death late Tuesday. The truck was answering a fire alarm in a residential district.
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