Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 230, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 February 1933 — Page 2

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INDIANA, CIRCLE ARE RETURNED TO CITY FIRM Paramount-Publix Leases on Local Properties Are Given Up. Circle Theater Company of Indianapolis has regained control of the Indiana and Circle theaters, it has been announced by directors. T’ai amount-Publix Corporation, operator since 1927, has relinquished , lts leases and interests in the properties and returned them to the builders and original owners. It is understood the corporation contract stipulated that the theaters would revert to the original owners in event of default of lease. Seek to Merit Support. In a statement pointing out that the corporation's hold was released at- close of business Jan. 30. directors asserted that most satisfying results for patrons is expected through resumption of local management. “Every effort will be made to so manage the theaters that they will merit, support of the theater-going public. Having heretofore operated them successfully, we feel that we again can operate them to the entire satisfaction of patrons,” directors said. “We will present such entertainment as will meet with public approval. We always will be glad to receive suggestions and criticisms from patrons." Consider Future Management Both theaters are considered to be among the most attractive in the middle west. The Circle, built in 1916 by the local organization, at that time was one of the best in the country. The Indiana was built In 1927. No consideration yet has been given matter of future management, the directors said. Directors are: A. L. Block. JLeo M. Rappaport, Herman Lieoer, Theodore Stempfel. Fred C. Gardner, P. C. Rubush and E. O. Hunter. POLO SUPPORT URGED Mayor Asks City Employes to Patronize Relief Games. Support of the roller polo games in Tomlinson hall was urged by Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan In a letter to all city employes. The mayor pointed out that the 1 per cent salary assessment made last year to finance the city and county relief kitchen will be unnecessary this year if the attendance at the polo games holds up. He urged that every city employe bu3 r a ticket each week. RETURNS FROM MEXICO Robert E. Karns lo Go (o Panama After Visiting Parents in City. Robert E. Karns, son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis K. K,arns, 4164 Park avenue, returned from Mexico Wednesday for a two-months' visit with his parents. He had been in Mexico six months. Karns, a graduate of Shortridge high school and former Butler student, is a supervisor for the circulation department of Pictorial Review magazine. He will return to Panama after his visit, here.

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Wanderwell Ship Murder Mystery Trial Is Opened

‘Confession’ Note Is to Confront Prosecutors in Case. BV VINCENT MAHONEY I mlrd Pres* Stiff Correnoondfnt LONG BEACH, Cal., Feb. 3—A womans "confession note" confronted prosecutors of William James Guy today as they opened the state's case against the debonair Welsh adventurer, charged with the shipboard murder of Captain Walter Wanderwell, Polish glebe trotter and asserted German war spy. Puzzled by the note, which bore the signature of Olga Labrulitz," who described herself as a former sweetheart of Wanderwell, state’s attorneys said they were making a full investigation. The letter shades interest with the scheduled appearance of the murder victim's blonde young widow, Aloha Wanderwell, one of the state's first witnesses. Widow Will Testify She was expected to tell the nine men and three women jurors that Guy once attacked her husband in a Los Angeles hotel room, because j he considered himself ill-treated on j one of Wanderwell's South American expeditions. Thrill-seekers also were to be treated to a "dark of the moon” battle between prosecution and de- j sense counsel. The latter insisted upon taking i the jury tonight to Wanderwell’s battered schooner, Carina, where he was killed in his darkened cabin 1 last Dec. 5. Eugene McGann, defense attor- I ney, argued that in its present position, the moon virtually is as dark as it was the night of the slaying. By this move, McGann hoped to convince the .jurors it would have been impossible for four members of the Carma’s commonwealth i crew to identify Guy as the "mar. at the porthole" who was seen on board a few' minutes before the adventurer was shot in the back. The question was to be decided by 31-year-old Trial Judge Robert W. Kenny, former, newspaper man. Note Admits Killing Wanderwell Although copies previously had been in the possession of both state and defense counsel, existence of the “confession letter" did not become generally know-n until Mrs. Berthe Bergstrom of Long Beach showed it in court. She said she found it in the rest room of a local dance hall. Crudely written, it said in part: “I killed Wanderwell. H e was my sweetheart for eight months. I did not know' he was going to the South seas. He told me he would kill me. I told him, no you’ll go first, and I shot him.” Wandenvcll was outfitting a crew for a South seas junket when he w'as killed. TEACHER LOSES LIFE Struck bv Train; 14-Year-Old Girl Is Seriously Hurt. liy 1 nitrrt Prrxn MADISON, Ind., Feb. 3.—EllsW'orth Bear. 22. physical• education I instructor at North Madison high ! school, was injured .fatally, and I Thelma Banta, 14, pupil at the I school, w'as injured seriously, when I struck by a gas-electric passenger | train near here Thursday. They w'ere struck while walking I w'ith several other teachers and students along the railroad tracks. I

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ASSESSORS ASK LEGISLATIVE AID Correct Listing of Intangible Property Seen Impossible Under Laws. Asserting that under present law's j it is impossible to obtain a correct listing of intangible property in the | state, the convention of county asi sessors, meeting with the state tax board at the Claypool, today passed ! resolutions asking lor legislative aid. The convention expressed itself as being in "absolute accord with Gov- ; ernor Paul McNutt in his present j stand on taxation of intangible i property.” No change in the inheritance tax lav/ w'as recommended at the conference. Assessors were urged to ! make special efforts to list all i pianos, radios, electrical convenij ences and other household goods at j their true value. j Calling attention to the general ; feeling of gloom that has been expressed in various speeches made before the conference, L. O. Chasey, | secretary of the tax board, said, ‘Tax assessors can do more to increase the morale of our state than any other one group.” Listing of omitted property was \ emphasized as an important duty of | county assessors by Philip Zoercher. tax board member. The meeting closed at noon. JUDGES' SALARIES CUT i State Law Applies to New Courts, Attorney-General Rules. NewJy selected judges, exclusive of those on the supreme and appellate courts, come under the salary reduction bill passed by the special session of the "legislature, according Ito a ruling by Attorney-General Philip Lutz Jr. The ruling w'as given Floyd E. Williamson, state auditor, w'ho had given the judges throughout the state a full salary check for January. Deductions will be made in the February checks, Williamson said.

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ENTIRE HOUSE RANSACKED FOR $356 IN LOOT Money Taken From Cedar Chest. Says Report to City Police. Contained in a leather cigaret case and hidden in a cedar chest for safe-keeping, $356.25 in paper money, gold and silver, was reported stolen early today from the home of Luther Hartman, at 3643 Rockville road. Hartman told deputy sheriffs that the entire house had been ransacked, but that nothing was missing except the money. Entrance had been gained through in unlocked back door, and the cover of the chest had been brqken open, Hartman said. The loss was discovered w'hen the Hartmans returned to their home after midnight. Six purses and more than $33 in money was taken from the home of Mrs. John Sharp, 736 North Milev avenue, Friday night, while owners of the purses were attending a party there. Reporting losses were Mrs. Sharp and the Misses Nell Teague, 927 Elm street; Cecil McDonald, 4921 West Fifteenth street; Helen Reid, 2206 South Meridian street; Lois De Weess. 4216 East Washington street, and Helen Brodie, 3495 Limestone avenue. Two crowns used in Masonic initiations, a Bible and a pair of hose were taken from the automobile of Dr. Maude Jones, 1045 West Thirtieth street, while the car was parked in rear of the Claypool, she reported to police. Locker of Ed Habig in the basement of 809 East Thirty-fourth street was entered Thursday afternoon and linen and books valued at $75 stolen, he told police.

‘Trained’ Corn Prove Farmer Can Grow His Crop to Suit Market Demand.

By J'nilrd Press CHICAGO, Feb. 3.—Development of special types of corn, best suited for varying needs of consumers was considered by grain growers and buyers at a parley here today as a means of combatting surplus. Dr. J. R. Holbert of the United States department of agriculture explained that tests have developed corn with high content either in oil, starch, yield, and either a large or small"kernel. “In other w'ords, we can produce a race horse or a draft horse in corn,” Dr. Holbert said. "What w'e seek is the market demand in order that farmers can produce the type of corn that w'ill bring them the greatest return.” Whep the experiments are completed, Dr. Holbert said, farmers will be better equipped to compete with foreign grain both in local and foreign marekts. The great chemist, Lavoisier, victim of a French revolution mob, pleaded for time to finish his notes before going to the guillotine.

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NEW MILLION-00LLAR STATE LIBRARY NEARING COMPLETION

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The new state library. Senate avenue and Ohio street, rapidly is nearing completion and probably will be ready for occupancy within the next few' months. Cost of the structure is approximately $1,000,000.

BALK BANKER'S FLIGHT ABROAD Chicago Head of Failed Banks Arrested: Had Passport, State Charge. By T'nitrd Press CHICAGO, Feb. 3.—The seccnd Chicago man arrested within a week to forestall possible flight to a foreign country was in the county jail today. Disregarding a court order giving him a ten-day stay, officials of the state attorney's office arrested John Bain, head of twehe coK lapsed banks bearing his name. He is under sentence of one to five years in prison on a conspiracy conviction in connection with failure of the institutions. Bain was arrested at his home | while he chatted with his wife after i State Attorney Thomas G. Courtney said he was informed the | banker had a passport, and was ! planning to leave the country. He | was promised release today if he renews the SIO,OOO bond on which | he w'as freed pending appeal. Last week, Ernest Stevens, head of the world’s largest hotel and the Illinois Life Insurance, both in receivership, was seized when officials feared he planned to flee to Europe.

FALL IN BASEMENT FATAL TO CITY MAN Dies at Hospital From Fractured Skull. Skull fracture incurred in a fall in the basement of a vacant house at Tremont avenue and Washington street early today caused death of Charles Stevens, 35, of 673 River avenue. Late Thurso ay afternoon, Stevens also W'as treated at the hospital for bruises sluffered when he walked into the side of an auto at Lee and Morris streets. Joseph West, 28, of 1909 South High School road, driver of the car, was not arrested.

Beware, Fish! Hawes, Out of Senate, Is Bound for Bermuda and Barracuda.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 3.— Senator Harry B. Hawes of Missouri, famous as a devotee of the Ozark houn' dog and black bass, will leave for Bermuda on a deep-sea fishing excursion soon after his resignation from the senate today. Colleagues wish him lots of luck. He has worked hard and they feel he needs the rest.' Speaker Jack Garner, to whom Hawes once gave a fishing rod, was enthusiastic in

his good wishes. "I hope you catch lots of big barracudas,” h e chuckled. Friends bet the denizens of the deep will stand no chance with Hawes. He has caught almost everything from an eel to a sunfish. Sen. Hawes is making a senate vacancy for Bennett Clark, son of Champ Clark, w'ho will con-

tinue the houn’ dog tradition famous since his father Champ Clark's candidacy for the presidency in 1912. Hawes has scent most of the last tv/o years fighting for Philippine independence and the bill of which he was co-author w'as passed by congress over President Hoover’s veto. “His resignation will be a tremendous loss to the Filipino people," said President Commissioner Pedro Guevara. "The whole world regards his unselfish devotion to the cause of Philippine freedom as a positive expression of read Americanism." KICKED BY HORSE: DIES Farmer Meets Instant Death at Kosciusko County Home. By Vnited I’rrris WARSAW, Ind., Feb. 3.—Joseph A. Mast, 57, Kosciusko county farmer, was killed instantly today w'hen he W'as kicked by a horse.

WIFE IS SLAIN; HUNTDETEGTIVE Estranged From Husband, Victim Is Found Dead in Hotel Bed. By T inted Prrf * CHICAGO, Feb. 3.—Search for Robert Raymun, reputed former speakeasy owner and operator of a private detective agency, was started today after police found his pretty wife shot to death in a loop hotel. The victim, Mrs. Leola Raymun, 35, had been dead twelve hours, physicians said, when hotel employes forced their way into the room and found her in bed with a bullet wound in her head. She was dressed only in a pink slip. Her husband, from whom she had been estranged, was seen at the hotel early Thursday, employes said. Police said they believed robbery was a motive in the slaying. A soy bean preparation which can be used to bleach natural wheat flour is being produced.

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DOUBLE TAXES PARLEY OPENED IN WASHINGTON Hoover Tells Delegates That Solution to Problem Would Be Great Work. i till 1 niteil Pres* WASHINGTON. Feb. 3.—A scien- ! tific solution of the problem of conflicting taxation would be "a disi tinct contribution to the efficiency as well as to the economy of our whole governmental system." President Herbert Hoover told the American Legislators’ Association toda> in opening its two-day conference here. The President spoke only briefly, expressing hope that the representatives of twenty-seven state gov- | ernments and legislatures would j "produce fruitful results in this ; most important field of overlapping I federal, state and local taxation j systems. | "The depression naturally has made the nation urgently conscious j of the tax burden, but the problem ! is much older than that." said Mr. Hoover. "The evolution of govj ernmental functions of municipali- | ties, townships, counties and states. ! has led to haphazard developments of sources of taxation to support these functions. "The result has been a perfect maze of overlapping, conflicting tax systems, with inevitable invasions by one authority of tax areas properly belonging to another authority."

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