Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 96, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 August 1932 — Page 9

\ AUG. 31, 1932

ATTENDANCE AT CITY PLAY LOTS IN BIG JUMPS Rebound to 61,030 After Slumps to 53,932 in Previous 7 Days. Playground attendances rebounded last week, going to 61.030 following a week in which the attendance was 53.932. Last week was the final complete week of play lot activity. The grou ids wiL be closed Sept. 1. Apparatus on many of the grounds already has been taken down. The totals for last week brought the season's total attendance past the three-quarters of a million mark to 771,859. Average weekly attendance for the eleven weeks was 70,169. Willard, which leads all other playgrounds for numbers of players throughout the season, was the outstanding playlot last week after a two-week period in which it was low in the totals. The East Washington street park had 8,775 in attendance. Brookside, second ranking, numbered 6,410. Brightwood, in third place, 5,779. Swimming pool attendances also took the upgrade last week, although their increase was much smaller than was that of the playgrounds. Splashing in the city pools were 25,824, an increase of 2,392 over the 23,432 attendance of the previous week. Willard pool led the others with more than 7.000 swimmers. McClure bearh, the attendance leader early in the season, was down tp fifth place with fewer than 3,000. Ellenberger and Garfield pools were on the heels of Willard with 4,380 and 4,219, respectively. PIGGLY WIGGLY SUIT ASKS $1,135,000 BALM National Tea Cos. Charged With Contract Breach, Infringement. By 'limes Special CHICAGO, Aug. 31.—Damage in excess of $1,135,000 are asked from the National Tea Company, Chicago, two subsidiary companies, and George Rasmussen, president of the companies, for alleged breach of contract, infringements of patents through use of Piggly Wiggly patented store inventions, and destruction of business good will, in a suit filed today in the United States district court here by the Piggly Wiggly Corporation. The bill of complaint asks treble damages on the ground that the corporation's rights have suffered “deliberate, willful and persistent infringement,” and asks that the defendants be restrained from all future use of the “patented store inventions, agencies and business methods of the Piggly Wiggly system.” The suit is filed on behalf of Piggly Wiggly Corporation by Albert H. Morrill, president of the corporation, which is 99 per cent owned by the Kroger Grocery and Baking Company, with headquarters in Cincinnati. MILLIONS THEFT FEAR PROVES UNFOUNDED Tax Warrants Found in Safe W'hen Time Lock Releases. Bn United Presi CHICAGO, Aug. 31.—Fear that from $5,000,000 to $11,000,000 of tax warrants had been stolen from a vault in the city treasurer's office was dissipated today when a time lock permitted opening of the safe at 9 a. m. It was not until the time lock released that authorities could quiet reports that several millions of dollars’ worth of warrants had been stolen from the safe. The reports originated Tuesday night after the arrest of four men charged with illegally trying to sell city tax warrants. MARYLAND GOVERNOR WORKS FOR ROOSEVELT “My State Will Be for Democratic Nominee,” Says Ritchie. By T irited Press ALBANY, N. Y.. Aug, 31.—Maryland will be for Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt in November, Governor Albert C. Ritchie, one of his opponents for the Democratic presidential nomination at Chicago, declared today after conference with him. The Maryland executive was a dinner guest at the mansion Tuesday night. He discussed the national political situation with Roosevelt and gave him the promise that he stood ready to “go anywhere at any time” in the interest of the ticket. HEN D~RiCKS _ GIVEN~POST Named to Direct Speakers for Democratic Campaign. Dqties of chairman of the speakers’ bureau of the Democratic county committee during the coming campaign will be assumed by Blythe Q. Hendricks, it was announced today. The county committee also has begun its series of radio broadcasts 1 each night with Walter A. Shead. j publicity man for the committee, on the air over. WKBF and WFBM. HURT IN AUTO CRASH Driver Loses Control of Truck, Hits Tarked Machine. Edward Whiteside, 31, of 916 Paca street, incurred a severe cut on the head Tuesday afternoon when a truck he was driving crashed into parked automobile at Fifty-ninth street and Central avenue and then struck a light standard. Whiteside lost control of the truck when the steering gear broke. ASK MELLETT GUARDIAN Anderson Mayor in Critical Condition at Local Hospital. Hearing on a motion for appointment of a guardian for Mayor J. H. Mellett of Anderson, ill in the Meth- ! odist hospital, today was set for Sept. 2, by Special Judge Cleon Mount, Tipton. Tha date was set after denial of a motion for continuance of the case pending the mayor’s recovery. „ Meileu's condition i* serious.

Champions All! They Star at Play Lots

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Upper photo—Front Row (Left to Right)—Russell Mclntire, Elvan Grousecose, Howard Stansberry, James Motsinger (captain), Smiley Schrader, Skeet Mills, and Lawrence Quirk Sr. (manager). Second Row (Left to Right)—John Gandall, George Goerke, Albert Rust, Edwin Hine, James Springer, Donald Pittman, and Veslie McLaughlin. Back Row (Left to Right)—James Clark (coachL Ray Duszan, Robert Johnson, Howard Krick, George Burgess, Lawrence Quirk Jr., Harry Levin, and Jerome Quirk.

Champions all! Shown in the pictures are two groups of title holders in two widely separated activities of the city playgrounds. In that upper photo are the members of the Rhodius 'water polo team which swept through the city recreation league without suffering a defeat. Only two teams beat the Rhodius paddlers during the season, Broad Ripple and the Hoosier Athletic Club. At Kansas and Meridian playground. they’ll tell you that their embroidery club (lower photo) can not be touched in the city for neatness and originality of work. And they can’t be so very badly mistaken, for Mrs. Norjna Koster, supervisor of handicraft for the city recreation department, admits they're pretty good. The club was organized at the beginning of the summer by Mrs. Leona Lucas, matron. BURNS CAUSE DEATH Explosion in Suicide Effort Is Fatal. Burns incurred Monday night when she attempted suicide in her home, 3920 North New Jersey street, caused the death Tuesday afternoon in city hospital of Mrs. Norine Van Deusen, 60. The aged woman, said by police to have been deranged mentally, turned on all gas jets of a stove in the kitchen of the home, after screening windows and doors with blankets and stuffing cracks with papers. The gas was exploded in an undetermined manner and fire followed. Damage to the house was slight. Mrs Van Deusen was the widow of Walter Van Deusen. She has few relatives, none near. Police learned , that a cousin lives in Cincinnati. SIGHT, MILLIONS GONE; BULLET TAKES LIFE Former Carriage Company Owner Prefers Suicide to Blindness. B;i Times Special SARANAC LAKE, N. Y„ Aug. 31. Confronted with total loss of sight, and his millions gone, J. Howard Demarest ended his life in a furdished room here Monday. Coming of the automobile spelled, doom for the great Demarest business years ago. They refused to keep pace with the times. Part of the family fortune vanished. The rest was spent by Demarest in lavish entertaining. He sold his valued possessions. Then he tried to earn his living selling fruit cakes. He failed. He told friends that the sight of one eye was gone. Then the other became affected. '’When it goes, I die,” he told those nearest to him. Monday he wrote his last letter to a nephew, and fired one shot into his head. BEGGAR IS IMPOSTER Obtains Melon on Fraudulent Paper Inscribed "The Times." A begging imposter carrying a letter written in pencil and signed "The Tunes” obtained a musk melon today from Mrs. Ida Pangborn, 438 Norih Gladstone avenue. The letter, which was written on paper not a letterhead of The Times, described the bearer as "worthy,’’ according to Mrs. Pangborn. No persons have authentic letters j from The Times to aid them in begging.

Lower Photo—Front Row (Left to Right)—Flora Helen Winans, 18 West Kansas street; Bonnie Whiltington, 6 West Ray street, Apt. 2; and Alberta Winans, 18 West Kansas street. Back Row (Left to Right)—Kathryn Leffingwell, 1345 South Meridian street; Helen Lawrence, 1343 South Meridian street; Mary Alboher, 1236 Union street; and Ruth Ann Andrews, 35 West Morris street.

INDIANA PRESENTS WILD ANIMAL MOVIE

Frank Buck’s “Bring ’Em Back Alive” Opens Thursday for an Eight-Day Engagement in This City. THE Indiana theater management announces a gala fair week program featuring Frank Buck’s “Bring ’Em Back Alive,” which opens Thursday for an extended run of eight days. A specially selected program of short films, including a Gus Edwards screen song, “School Days,” “Hollywood on Parade,” with Benny Rubin, Tom Mix and a cast of Hollywood celebrities and a two reel comedy, has been added to the bill. “Bring ’Em Back Alive” visualizes the adventures of Frank Buck in fetching the largest and most ferocious wild beasts from the jungle to the zoos of the world.

The picture shows, among other events, a stalking, preying, frothing female tiger cut a tiny baby elephant off from its mother. The baby pachyderm is no higher from the ground than a medium sized police dog. Its miniature trunk trumpets an. S. O. S. for mama. The tiger relentless, tireless, intent on the kill, lopes along. The wee elephant turns to the brush with the tiger on its heels ready for the kill. A well placed shot from the rifle of Frank Buck saves the baby elephant from the tiger. ’ A wild chase then follows which leads to the bare handed capture of the baby pachyderm by Frank Buck. The more dynamic portions of “Bring 'Em Back Alive.” RKORadio picture, show actual combats between tigers and pythons, crocodiles, panther and water buffalo. Clyde E. Elliott directed this production in the Malay jungles for the Van Beuren Corporation. The current Paramount Sound

Winner, Too

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Mynda Zimmerman Myrda Zimmerman. 19 months. 2420 Nicholas street, was just an onlooker at the finals of The Times-City Recreation department Health contest last Saturday at Fall Creek playground, but she could qualify easily as the healthiest spectator. She doesn’t intend to watch health contests all her life, for she believes she can win a few for herself. What do you think?

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

News will round out this gala fair week program. ’ u n INDIANA ROOF TO OPEN SEASON Assuming his duties as manager of the Indiana Roof ballroom for the fifth consecutive year, Tom Devine announces Saturday, Sept. 10, as the date when the Roof will celebrate its fall opening. Devine gives the names of two nationally famous dance orchestras which he has engaged for the event. They are Earl Hines and his Grand Terrace orchestra, and Freddie'Bergin and his Vagabonds, whose only dance appearance in Indianapolis was made in the Roof ballroom during the spring of 1929 when they played for the Butler junior prom. The Vagabonds, who have been engaged for the first two weeks of the fall dance season, will come here from the Steel Pier, Atlantic City, where they have been playing during the summer months. Early Hines, referred to in musical circles as “the world’s premier dance pianist,” comes here for one night only before he returns to the Grand Terrace case, Chicago, where his orchestra has been featured for the past three years. They have been acclaimed one of the National Broadcasting Company’s most popular radio features, despite the fact that most of their broadcasts have been made at midnight. Before joining the NBS network. Hines and his orchestra were a nightly feature from radio station WENR, Chicago. u n u Indianapolis theaters today offer: “Horse Feathers” at the Indiana, -Two Against the World” at the Apollo, ’’The Last Mile” at the Palace, and Eddie Peabody at the Circle. FIREMEN KEPT BUSY Fight Five Blazes; Damage at All Is Only $315. Five fires in two blocks of South Meridian and South Illinois streets kept firemen on the move Tuesday afternoon, but tot*l damage was only $315. First of the fires, origin untermined, was in the hardware store or Robert Conrade, 912 South Meridian street, Damage was $75. This fire spread to the other four places. Two garages at 917 and 919 South Illinois street, owned by M. Abloher, were damaged to the extent of $35. Heaviest damage, amounting to S2OO, was suffered by a store operated by F. Serlmand at 914 South Meridian street. The store and apartment building of F'roymson Bros., at 918 South Meridian street, was damaged to the extent of $5.

RECORD SEASON IN HANDICRAFT WORIULOSES Unusual Popularity Won by Classes at Virtually All Playgrounds. Handicraft has enjoyed a season of unusual popularity, according to Mrs. Norma Koster, supervisor of handicraft for the city recreation department. Classes have been held on practically all grounds. Kansas and Meridian, Highland, and Garfield have been outstanding in their handcraft work, Mrs. Koster said. Among the articles which were made by the classes were bean bags, jack bags, laundry bags, dresser scarfs, lunch cloths, vanity sets, pot holders, pillows, hot plate pads, and doll quilts. Many children helped make their costumes for the pageant, “The Frog Prince." Leading handcrafters at the three outstanding grounds were: Kansas and Meridian—Ruth Andrews, Oretha Nickerbocker. Thelma Pulse. Mildred Bortz, Mary Alborker. Mollie Greenburg, Joan Langiey, Pauline Winans, Helen Lawrence. Bonnie Whittington. Flora Winans. Frances Logsdon, Kathryn Le{fingwell, and Alverta Winans. Highland—Lucy Fenton. Agnes Coffey. Betty Ray, Ruth Bell, Dorothy Hendricks. Helen Spaulding, Teresa Qillespie, Irene Gillespie, Joyce Lanning, Ruth Miller, and Joan Gillespie. Garfield—Marcella Smith. Charlotte Smith, Cecelia Catalier. Shirlev Tennebaum. Edna Shaffer. Fiorina Shaffer, Mitzi Longere, Doris Longere, and Nellie Baer. Instructors at the three grounds are Mrs. Leona Lucas, Kansas and Meridian; Mary Flaherty, Highland, and Virginia Hildebrand, Garfield.

RHODIOS POOL SWIMMERS WIN Amass 105 Points in Annual Life Saving Event. Rhodius pool swimmers copped top honors in the annual Red Cross life-saving contest held Sunday at Rhodius. The west side paddlers amassed 105 l i points. West Lake, the nearest competitor, garnered 30 points and the Hoosier Athletic Club, 12. Rhodius made a clean sweep of the junior boys’ events. Howard Krick, George Burgess and Ed Hine took first, second and third, respectively, in every event. Mary Ridge of West Lake topped junior girl scorers with 18 points. Berry Macy of Hoosier Athletic Club was second, with 12 points. Russell Mclntire of Rhodius won the boys’ program, with Norman Long of West Lake second and John Gandall of Rhodius third. In the senior girls’ events Ruth West of Rhodius took all firsts to make 15 points. Frances O’Niel of West Lake took second honors with 6 points. Fifty contestants, members of ten teams, took part in the meet. CLUB WORKER DIES Mrs. Annie Anderson Clark Demise Is Sudden. Mrs. Annie Anderson Clark, 68. prominent club- worker, died suddenly Tuesday in her home, 624 North New Jersey street. Death was caused by apoplexy. She was former national president of the Daughters of the Union. She also was former president of the Indianapolis Council of Women, the Seventh District Federation of Clubs, and the Monday Club. Mrs. Clark was a member of Caroline Scott Harrison chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, the Woman’s Department Club, the Magazine Club, and the Central Christian church. She was fust secretary of May Wright Sewell council of Indiana Women. The Rev. William A. Shullenberger, pastor, will conduct the funeral services at 2 Friday in Central church. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. ENVOY WARNS AGAINST LIBERIA FRAUD DEALS Negroes in the Country Often Victims, in Promotion Schemes. By Times Special WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.—Charles E. Mitchell, minister to Liberia, and only Negro envoy in the American foreign service, is en route back to the United States with .stories of swindlers and promotion schemes. Negroes in this country are being defrauded in large numbers by persons promoting American emigration to Liberia, says Minister Mitchell. He tells a sad tale about a New York mechanical dentist and shoemaker, who purchased a shoemaking outfit, an£ sailed for Liberia. Then he found that Liberians wear no shoes. Robbed of Car and Watch Two youthful bandits did a thorough job of robbing Homer Smith, 28, McCordsville, on State Road 29, six miles from Indianapolis. Smith reported to police that the robbers flagged him down about 9 Tuesday night, robbed him of a S4O watch and drove away in his automobile, valued at S3OO.

Goodbye, Hello This is 1932's final playground page. The Times’ weekly feature of reporting, with stories and pictures, activities at Indianapolis playlots again has oeen a success, and now The Times takes up the serious business of anew semester in Indianapolis schools. The first school page of the new semester will appear on Wednesday, Sept. 7. to welcome the pupi.i back to thc-ir desks. City officials have lauded the playground page and especially the health contest which called attention to children s healtn. The Times also was given credit for aiding in the new attendance records at the playlots and swimming pools.

Champ and Runner-Up

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The champion, Clarence Dosch, 1451 South Meridian street (left), is taking it easy, while George Lewis, 111 Wisconsin street, the runner-up, does all the work. The two were the finalists in the “come -one - come-all” jackstones tourney held Monday at Kansas and Meridian playlot. They were the “big shots” in the senior division.

Fall Creek Is Ch'ampion in Play Lot Volleyball /

Went Into Finals by Defeating Porter in Two Games. Fall Creek playground won the volleyball championship of the city playlots Monday, defeating the Brightwood vollbyers in the finals at Brookside, 3 games to 2. The champions entered the finals by defeating Porter play center two consecutive games, 15 to 5, and 15 to 3. Ketcham was the victim of Brightwood in the semi-finals in two games, 15 to 12 and 15 to 4^ Brightwood won the first two games in the final contest, but the Fall Creekers rallied to cop the last three games and #he title. The scores were 8 to 15, 3 to 15, 15 to 11, 15 to 6, and 15 to 9. The victory was a measure of consolation to the Fall Creek play-

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The prize? Dosch collected a tin of fifty cigarets for his victory. The tournament sponsors thought of awarding a cash prize, but the contestants wanted to maintain their amateur standing. Dosch won when his opponent couldn’t master the “ ’round the world,” the final event in the championship contest.

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