Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 114, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 September 1932 — Page 5
SEPT. 21, 1932
SOCIAL DARLING BACKED BY AL FOR CONGRESS Sonny Whitney Forgets Great Racing Stable for Stage of Politics. BY OTIS PEABODY SWIFT I'nited Prrn* Staff Cot respondent NEW YORK, Sept. 21.—Blueeyed, six-foot Sonny Whitney, racing enthusiast, all-round sportsman and owner of a personal fortune estimated at $50,000,000, is running for congress these days on a platform that would repeal the eighteenth amendment, tax legalized liquor, and use the proceeds to pay a bonus to deserving veterans of the World war. Darling of society, Sonny Whit-
ney is known to the world of everyday folk as a dashing figure in the rotogravure sections, photographed at this or that race track, sack suit immaculate, snapbrimmed hat cocked at the proper angle, field glasses slung at a rakish slant. The Whitney stables, in three years, earned sl,171,577 for him,
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including the $120,380 won by his filly, Top Flight. But anew Sonny Whitney emerged this year when, as a Democrat and protege of Alfred E. Smith, he is standing for congress from the First district of this state, contesting the seat of rich and affable Republican congressman, Robert L. Bacon. The “Vanderbilt” has been dropped entirely from his full name of Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney for his political campaign. Pleads for Humanity Urging the “claims of humanity,” he pleads for an immediate bonus payment to needy veterans, but favors the creation of boards of citizens to judge and evaluate that need, confirming that 'no prosperous veterans profit at public expense. lie will, “of course,” work and vote for repeal of the eighteenth amendment, but favors the immediate amendment of the Volstead act to legalize light wines and beers, taxing such sales to provide funds for the payment of the bonus proposed. Declaring that “cant and hypocrisy always have surrounded this question of the tariff,” he favors negotiation of reciprocal trade agreements with foreign powers. War debts he would settle on the basis recently outlined by Alfred E. Smith. Stand on War Debts “If these war debts were utilized, in whole or in part, as a pawn in the great game of world commerce, the reviving effects upon us would be prompt and nation-wide,” he declared. Congressional investigation of the evacuation of the B. E. F. from Washington, “with tear bombs and bayonets,” is demanded in his platform. Audiences across the blue stocking districts of Long Island are applauding his utterances, cheering his presence as his SIO,OOO sports phaeton dashes about the locust shaded roads of the social world. EX-COP JAILED FOR ANNOYING CHILDREN Sentenced to Six Months on Penal Farm; School Pupils Testify. James George, 32, of 622 South East street, a former policeman, was sentenced to six months at the penal farm and fined $5 today on a charge of annoying school children by Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer. Eighteen witnesses, including pupils from Manual high school. Holy Rosary parochial school and public schools 8 and 28 appeared as prosecution witnesses. George, appointed to the police force March 29, 1920, was discharged May 4 of the. following year for unbecoming conduct. ASKS BUS LINE PERMIT Gary Operator S?eks Right to Run Cars to Indianapolis. Petition from Floyd Hoover. Gary, for permission to operate a bus line from Gary to Indianapolis was received today by the public service commission. The petition states the proposed route as being through Rensselaer, Lafayette and Lebanon. Two interstate lines, the Greyhound and the Reindeer stages, already cover these points, but the new line will be in-tra-state only, the petition states. CHARGE FILED BY CHIEF Policewoman Faces Neglect of Duty Allegation. Formal charges against Magaret V. Osborn, policewoman under suspension, were on file today with the safety board by Chief Mike Morrissey. She is charged with neglect of duty, unbecoming conduct, and failure to make an arrest or report in an automobile accident.
Gone, but Not Forgotten
Automobiles reported to .police as stolen belong to: William Gillion, 1917 Hovey street. Hudson sedan, from garage in rear of 1917 Hovey street. Joe Frazier, Advance, Ind.. Buiek coach, from Senate avenue and Market street. Paul Collins. 3235 Kenwood avenue. Ford roadster. 129-575, from Capitol avenue and Ohio street. R. G. Nancarrow, 4920 East Tenth street, Chevrolet touring, 632-085, from Illinois and North streets. A Falk Jr.. Louisville, Ky„ Chevrolet coach, from Market street and Capitol avenue.
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Stolen automobiles recovered by police belong to: O. B. Ball, 117 Hoyt avenue. Chevrolet coupe, found at 1000 Edison street. F Craig. 328 East Washington street. Ford coupe, found in front of 18 East Morris street, Elmer Koch. 2260 South Pennsylvania street. Buick coach, found at Georgia and Pennsylvania streets. E P. Mooney. 4818 last Washington street. DeSoto sedan, found at 1100 North Alabama street. Michael ri. Reddtngton. 414 West South street. Ford coupe, found on Girls School road, one mile south of Crawfordsville road, stripped.
Rum Statute ‘Blue Law’ to Otis; Gets 39-Day Term
It’s a Bad Day in Court; ‘Doesn’t Remember,’ but Others Do. No blue Monday could be more blue than Wednesday for Otis Edwards, 1022 North Miley avenue, who had a bad day in the court of Municipal Judge Cameron, with a penal farm term of thirty-nine days as the final blow. Arrested Monday on a drunkenness charge, Edwards was discharged when it was shown he was In his own home, where a man has a right to be drunk, so far as the public intoxication statute is concerned. However, Edwards was advised that It would be well for him to tell a deputy prosecutor where he obtained liquor. He complied to the extent of giving the name of Charles Duncan, a grocer, at 918 North Miley avenue. Duncan was arrested on a blind tiger charge, but acquitted when Edwards testified he could not remember having bought liquor from him. Threatened with having to face a perjury charge, Edwards again said he bought liquor from the grocer, but there was no evidence to support the charge. Duncan said he was acquainted with Edwards, but that his accuser had not been in his store in months. Duncan was discharged again. “Haven’t you been put on probation by this court?” Cameron asked Edwards. He couldn’t remember. But a probation officer did. Several months ago, Edwards, convicted of drunkenness, was placed on probation, with the understanding that he would pay a total of S4O, representing fine and costs. He paid only sl. Edwards was sent to the penal farm to serve the balance at the rate of $1 a day. ED SPAHN ENDS LIFE BY OPENING GAS JET Former Saloon Keeper Is Found Dead in His Room. Body of Ed Spahn, 62, a suicide by inhaling gas, was found today in the bathroom of his home at 2110 North Rural street. The body was slumped in a chair and gas was coming from jets of a water heater. He had lived alone and was for many years the proprietor of a saloon at Twenty-first and Rural streets. No note was left and no theory other than ill health is advanced as a motive for the suicide. An investigation was made by Dr. John E. Wyttenbach, deputy coroner. The body was discovered after Dr. James Hensley, 2194 Southeastern avenue, and Charles Peeroy, 2135 Southeastern avenue, went to the home to call bn Mr. Spahn and found all doors locked. They called William Scott, 2141 North Rural street, who entered the house by breaking a window and the three made a search. VOTE SPOST~TO HU LL Columbus Corn Grower Selected for Farmers’ Contacts. J. D. Hull of Columbus, widely known corn groker of Indiana, has been selected by R. Earl Peters, Democratic state chairman, to represent the Democratic national committee-in contacts with Hoosier farmers. Champion corn grower of the state in 1925 and 1927, Hull has been connected with various departments of the Indiana farm Bureau for several years. He also was president of the Indiana Corn Growers’ Association in 1926.
SIR GUY STANDING EXPLAINS HIS ROLE
Famous Actor Tells of His Part in “Cynara,” Which Comes to English’s Next Week for Three Days. # ALTHOUGH Sir Guy Standing has been pointed out as the Beelzebub of “Cynara,” the play in which Lee Shubert will present Philip Merivale at English’s three days, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 26-28, with a matinee Wednesday afternoon, and has been called almost Mephistophelian in his character, he would much rather be known as the kindly, perfectly good-intentioned gentleman whose only mission in life is an epicurean pursuit of happiness and a philosophic sanity. In the play it is his task to lead Philip Merivale, as Jim Warlock, the uninformed barrister, into the avenues of delight that an amour will
bring. Warlock, through his own distorted ideas about the responsibilities that a casual love affair may incur, is brought to a sad climax, while the woman with whom he has become involved, commits the routine last act by taking her life. Sir Guy Standing plays the part of John Tring and. appanently, is an innocent third party to the proceedings.. Warlock, according to Tring, has brought on his own ruin by misinterpreting the rules of love, liing has had sufficient confidence in Warlock's worldly wisdom to leave him to his own devices. The Play Starts Mrs. Warlock, as the play begins, is preparing for a brief sojourn on the continent and she tells her husband, more in jest, that she supposes he will enjoy himself as other men do, and her sister really taunts him with the suggestion. Upon the conclusion of the amour, Mrs. Warlock blames the consequence of the whole tragedy upon Tring, and he does not shrink at the indictment. He has by no cajolery, persuasion or chicanery ogled his friend into the affair. All he had done was to introduce Warlock to a personable young girl and Warlock had bungled it. Its tragic ending did not lie, argues Tring, (and Standing does this in fine epigrammatic style) in its consequence to Warlock, for the affair has ciued him of his queer inner distortions—the tragedy lady in the suicide —for a life had been sacrificed. But since the woman had not played for the settled stakes of the game, the affair had a satisfactory finale, this according to Tring. for you can't raise a man five pounds on a twelve shilling bet. “No Evil Here” To Sir Guy Standing there is nothing evil about the character he portrays. He has simply invited his friend to a Soho restaurant and there they have shared cocktails together and a most delightful meal.
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John A. Elden, above, is the new national head of the “40 and 8” society of the American Legion, elected at the Portland, (Ore.) convention. Elden, Cleveland lawyer, said he would launch a drive for 50,000 membership and would promote a national boxing program.
BIGAMIST TO . JAIL Given 2-to-5-Year Term by Criminal Judge. While his second wife stood in the rear of the crowded courtroom, Errett M. Ainsworth, 28, self-confessed bigamist, was sentenced today to two to five years in the Indiana state - formatory by Criminal Judge Frans. P. Baker. When arraigned last week on a charge of bigamy, Ainsworth pleaded guilty to marrying , Helen M. Cring, 25, R. R. 1, Box 80, on July 30 in a justice of peace court at Oaklandon, Ind., although not divorced from his first wife, Ramona, whom he married March 27, 1930, in Quebec, Canada. After his marriage to Miss Cring, a childhood sweetheart, Ainsworth took her on a honeymoon trip, during which they were arrested on information supplied by Marquis D. Cring, father of the girl. STREET CAR WORK TO MEAN JOBS FOR MANY $25,000 to Be Spent for Labor on Trackless Trolleys. Employment will be given a large number of Indianapolis men next month by the Indianapolis Railway in construction of overhead lines for the new trackless trolley service, Charles W. Chase, railways president, told Kiwanians today at the Columbia Club. The company will spend SBO,OOO on this work on the Riverside and South Meridian routes, Chase said, more than $25,000 being spent for labor alone. Chase declared increased street car patronage and better business in Indianapolis defintely are on the way, adding that faith in this assertion induced the company to spend nearly a million dollars this year for improvements, despite present economic conditions.
This he did to keep him in good spirits so that the absence of his wife during the evening hours would not weigh upon him. By way of adding to the fun, he invites Warlock to meet two girls, w’ho are occupying an adjoining table. Standing had suggested a little party and if it had stopped there, there would have been no tragedy. ’’lndeed,” as Sir Guy says in the character of Tring, “to offer a man a cocktail isn’t to ask him to get drunk.” Warlock had settled his own fate and no Mephistopholes had thrust upon him his own sad fate. “To every man comes the consequence of his acts.” Warlock had leaned too heavily upon a wise man and the wise man had failed him. But, says Standing, his Tring is the perfect English gentleman and Warlock had mistaken him for the devil. * n u Indianapolis theaters today offer: “Grand Hotel” at the Palace, “A Successful Calamity” at the Circle,” “Chandu, The Magician,” at the Apollo, and “Blessed Event” at the Indiana.
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CAPONE LEAVES CELL TO SEEK LIBERTY WRIT Hearing Based on Grounds Which Failed to Win in Chicago Case. By United Press ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. 21. Alphonse Capone, government guest at the Atlanta federal penitentiary, today left the prison for the first time since his arrival here to appear in federal hourt for a habeas corpus hearing filed by his attorneys. Judge Marvin Underwood called a hearing immediately after the writ was filed. The action is based on grounds similar to those advanced without success by Capone in Chicago before h e was brought here under guard to serve a ten-year sentence on conviction of a charge of income tax evasion. Should the action be successful, Capone could leave thd prison a free man after approximately six months of his term had been served, it was indicated. Assistant District Attorney Hal Linsay will oppose the action. MUSSEL DIGGERS ARE FREED IN CITY COURT Twelve Men, Pinched on Water Cos. Protests, Are Released. Twelve men arrested Monday night by police on trespass charges, based on mussel digging in the canal without a permit from the Indianapolis Wate** Company, were discharged today by Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer and warned against further digging unless they obtain permits. Ten of the defendants reside in or near Noblesville, one at Pendleton and the other here. On behalf of the water company, it was explained in court today that it had issued permits to about fifty men to remove mussels from the canal, the intent being to give permits only to unemployed men of Marion county. Earnings of the mussel diggers are said to range from $2 to $3 a day. Police said that on Sept. 17 they warned the group arrested they must cease work or obtain permits. The Noblesville diggers contend that Marion county residents removed mussels from White river in Hamilton county to such an extent that few remained, which prompted the Noblesville men to begin activities in the canal. DRIVER (BOUND OVER Held to Grand Jury for Fatal Accident. Waiving examination before Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron today after the case previously had been continued four times, Richard Trippett, Cincinnati, was bound to the grand jury on charges of manslaughter and reckless driving, under $3,000 bond. The manslaughter charge was recommended by Dr. W. E. Arbuckle, county coroner, in a written report on investigation of an automobile accident June 28 in which two persons received fatal injuries. Mrs. Mary Munger, 65, and her son, Paul, 27, both of Beech Grove, died the day after from injuries received when their automobile was struck by Trippett’s car. Witnesses said Trippett’s car was traveling at high speed.
STATE WOMAN PASSES - HER 102ND BIRTHDAY Fulton County Resident Paid Honor at Evangelical Church. By United Press AKRON, Ind., Sept. 21.—Farm folk of this community gathered today at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Barnheisel, Fulton county’s oldest resident, as she observed her 102d anniversary. In Akron, services were held at the Emmanuel Evangelical church in Mrs. Barnheisel’s honor, but she was prevented by illness from attending. During the past two years, Mrs. Barnheisel, who is a great-great-grandmother, attended the church celebrations. Mrs. Barnheisel is a native of Germany. Her parents came to this country when she was 5 years old. She has lived on her farm near here for seventy-seven years. NIGHT CLASSES SLATED Extension Registration to Start Today at Butler. Registration for night and extension classes at Butler university will be held from 4 to 9 tonight and from 8 to 12 Saturday morning, according to announcement by Miss Sarah E. Cotton, registrar. First classes will be held next week with seventy-five faculty members headed by Dean Albert E. Bailey. TWO KILLED BY TRAIN Farmers Slain Near Vincennes Under B. & O. Limited’s Wheels. By United Press VINCENNES, Ind., Sept. 21. Charles Westfall and Frank Martin, both about 60, were killed instantly near here when their auto was struck by the National Limited on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. Both were farmers.
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Judge Samuel Seabury seems to be getting a deal of satisfaction out of this cigar, which he was lighting when the camera caught him in a London hotel. The judge, whose relentless investigation led to the resignation of former Mayor Walker of New York, is vacationing in England.
DEATH CLAIMS Y. W, TREASURER Miss Adah Bush Succumbs to Heart Attack. Miss Adah E. Bush, 647 Highland drive, treasurer of the Y. W. C. A., and president of the Indiana unit of the Women's Overseas Service League, died suddenly Tuesday in her office in the Guaranty building. Heart disease was the cause of the death. * Miss Bush was born in Kentland, and spent most of her life there. She came to Indianapolis as secretary of Warren T. McCray, when he was Governor. With two sisters, she saw service with the Y. W. C. A. overseas during the war. One sister, Miss Ruth C. Bush, died as a result of her service in France Miss Bush was active in the League of Women Voters, and was a member of the National Safety Council during the war. For some years prior to her death she was in the insurance business. The body will be returned to Kentland for burial. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. NAME EDITORIAL BOARD Three Chosen as Judges for Newspaper Award. Judges who will select the winner of the silver loving cup awarded annually by the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association for the best written Democratic editorial of the year, were named today. Fred Pickett, clerk of the supreme and appellate courts; Floyd Williamson, state auditor, and Posey Kime, judge of the Indiana appellate court, will form the committee of judges which will select the winner of the award. Editorials will be submitted to this group by Jan. 1. The cup will be presented at the meeting of the association in February. ‘VETERAN DRUNK’ FINED Paul Connor Appears Too Often in Cameron’s Court. Too many return engagements in municipal court on drunkenness charges brought a fine of $25 and a sixty-day penal farm term today to Paul Connor, 532 South Missouri street.
In imposing sentence, Judge Clifton R. Cameron reminded Connor this was the third appearance on an intoxication charge. A blind tiger charge was dismissed. A bottle partly filled with liquor was found on Connor’s person when he was arrested.
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JUDGE'S HOME BOMBEDi TWO BADLYjNJURED Youth Blinded, and Young Mother Hurt in Attack on Chicago Jurist. By United Press CHICAGO, Sept. 21.—Gangster foes, vengeful of the militant campaign for their extermination waged by Judge John P. McGoorty were hunted today as the men who bombed the jurist's home, blinding a youth and injuring a young mother. Gang cases in which McGoorty. former chief justice of the criminal court, was trial iydge were studied for a clew to the attackers, whose bomb seriously injured Lee Wilbur Koeppen, 16, and Mrs. Ada Miller Moyer, 16-year-old mother. The blast shattered windows of
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CLAIMS 0. S. IS RUININGFARMER Federal Board Mere Monopoly, Parley Is Told. By United Press FRENCH LICK, Ind., Sept. 21. A deliberate campaign to destroy farm-owned and farmer-controlled co-operatives was charged against the federal farm board in an address here today by Thomas R. Cain of Bloomington, 111., before the annual convention of the Grain and Feed Dealers National Association. As president of the Farmers’ National Grain Dealers Association, Cain said he represented 4.000 farmer-owned elevators handling 550.000,000 bushels of grain a year with 900.000 farmer patrons and stockholders. Cain said he believed one of the greatest needs of agriculture in the United States was a tariff "which would shut off millions of dollars’ worth of commodities sold in direct competition with the American farmer.”