Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 280, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 April 1933 — Page 3

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BURIAL ALIVE OF UNFAITHFUL WIFE CHARGED Eight Members of Secret Cult Seized After Tale Is Bared. By I nitr'l Prrss MARTINEZ, Cal,, April 3-Eight suspected members of a Filipino secret cult were under arrest here today, accused of decreeing the death of a young woman compatriot m a weird midnight ritual whicn ended when 'he struggling victim was buried alive. Authorities said murder indictments would be sought today against the suspects, both men and women, who were arrested after the body of Mrs. Celine Novarro, 26, was uncovered from a shallow grave on Jersey island in the San Joaquin river. It had lam there j since last November. Admitted Infidelity Officers accused Leon Kantinello, 40, foreman of an island labor camp, of passing sentence on the woman after she had been accused of infidelity to her sirk husband. They said she admitted the charge. Kantinello was named head of the esoteric organization which author- j ities believe exercises a wide influence over Filipinos throughout northern California. As police reconstructed the alleged murder, Mrs. Novarro was ordered to appear before a meeting of the Stockton group of the cult last November. Previously, she had admitted indiscreet, conduct to her husband who . forgave her. Again she confessed. Pushed Into Grave Blindfolded, she was driven to a lonely spot on the island. She was flogged, and then pushed screaming by a woman member of the sect, j into a hastily dug grave. Her purse : contained $l3O was flung after her. I The grave hurriedly was closed, j and a fire ignited to cover traces 01, the newly-turned soil. Authorities said the woman’s husband died a month later of grief. The slaying was not disclosed until Sunday when a Stovkton Filipino told police the story after quarreling with a, fellow' countryman. UNION LABOR LEADERS GET STATE POSITIONS James Donohue, A. .1. Conway Named to Posts by McNutt. Union labor again was recognized I by the McNutt administration in j administration, again was appoint- | merits in the inspection division of j the state industrial board. James Donahue, Indianapolis, j who served as chief boiler inspector j vnder the Ralston and Marshall; administration, agai nv;as appoint- j ed to that post. He succeeds James M. Wood, Re- j publican appointee. A. J. Conway, 1811 North Talbot street, was appointed to a boiler j inspection position held by James A. Hilton. Conw'ay and Donahue are both prominent in the boilermakers’ union. Bert Robinson was dismissed as head of the state employment service, the duties to lie transferred to the unemployment relief commission. REFUSED -HANDOUT.’ THUG KNIFES DRIVER Negro Ruffian Flees After Attack on C ity Autoist. Evidence of prosperity in the form of his automobile resulted in severe knife wounds being incurred early today by Robert Collins, 32, Negro. 318 Puryear street. Collins told police that he was repairing a tire of his car at North and Illinois streets when a Negro, about 35, accosted him and asked for a quarter. Collins replied he did not have the money. •'Ton ought to from (he looks of | the car you are driving.” the other! Negro responded, and attacked Col- j lins with a knife. Collins was cut across the left I eye and also was wounded in the back and both sides. The assailent fled west on foot, Collins told police. CHINESE PIRATES FREE BRITISH SHIP OFFICER Brings Word of Ransom Demand for Liberty of Three Other Captives. ! Bu I nihil Press YINGKOW. Manchuria, April 3. —F. L. Pearce, 30. third engineer of the British steamer Nanchang. returned here safely today after be- 1 ing held with three British officers I by Chinese pirates since last 1 Thursday. Pearce was released by his captors who demanded ransom as the price of liberty for C. Johnson, W. W. Hargrave and A. D. Blue. The four British nationals were seized after the pirates had attacked the vessel, anchored here, i

WEDDING TO BE HELD Ceremony to Be Feature of Old Fiddlers and Band Contest. A public wedding will be one of the features of the state old fiddlers and band contest to be held Saturday afternoon and night at Cadle tabprnacle to select an Indiana champion to compete in a national contest during the Century of Progress fair at Chicago this summer. Harold Bentley, -hill billy announcer for Radio Station WKFB. who will be master of ceremonies for the contest, is ready to receive applications from couples desiring to be wed on the tabernacle stage. PLANT 750.000 TREES Evergreens to Grow on Cut Over Strip Coal Mine Land. Strip coal mine compuanies are planting 750.000 trees from the state forests on their cut-over land, it was announced toady by Director Richaid Lieber of the state conservation department. Three carloads were snipped from the Clark county state nursery at Henryville. under direction of Ralph F. Wilcox, state forester. They are various evergreens, which are amqg| the only trees hardy enough W the soil. Wilcox said. Sixty thousand walnuts also are to be planted by thirteen companies.

Speeding Straight for Checkered Flag

Vpprr—Coming down the straightaway iv “high with Billy Dcmmary, 7, at the wheel and Russell Collier |2 serving as the motor. WfcM Rower — l)r m mary and Collier in a Brookside park pit Egg % ill —a rurU—resting from a practice spin. BS: ||| Tajmugtiffyw

f I ■'UNING up motors, bloodpumping motors and churning pistons of the fleshy kind——muscled legs—the Billy Arnolds of the pusl.mobile world are in training on city boulevards in readiness for the cinder-track, dirt, and pavement grinds of 1933. Brookside park’s curving drives

THEFT SUSPECT UNDER ARREST Alleged Burglar Captured: Confession Is Claimed by Police. One man is under arrest on a burglary charge following a series of thefts during the week-end from business places and homes in which a wide variety of loot was taken. Edward Gross. 31, of 904 1 Ft. Wayne avenue, was arrested on a burlary charge in a Kroger grocery at St. Clair and Alabama streets. Police asert he has made a statement in which he admits breaking into the store by cutting through the floor of an apartment above it. A cash register had been broken open and cigarets piled ready to take away. A companion of Gross, whose identity he did not disclose, is believed to have been the burglar who entered a Standard grocery adjoining the Kroger store, but took no loot. Loot of $132 was obtained by burglars from a safe in the office of the General Electric Supply Corporation. 326 West Georgia street. Nose glasses valued at S6O, five pairs of shoes and $12.50 were taken from a shoe store and opiometrist shop, entered by burglars from the basement of an adjoining doughnut shop at 14 North Pennsylvania street. Burglars who battered the combination from a safe in the office of the Home Coal Company, 1114 East Maryland street, obtained SSO. Home owners reporting burglaries included Benjamin Clifford. 4414 Baltimore avenue, Persian rug valued at S3O: Harold S. Pierce. 3255 Washington boulevard, jewelry worth S9O. and Herman Burris, 2326 North Keystone avenue, meat valued at $2. HERO HONOR TO ACTOR Richard Bennett Made Kentucky Colonel for Averting Panic. li/i I nitnl Pr< n HOLLYWOOD. Cal.. April 3. Richard Bennett, veteran actor and father of Constance and Joan Bennett. was appointed a Kentucky colonel today for his heroism in averting a theater panic ten years ago. Bennett was notified of the honor by Governor A. B. Chandler of Kentucky. The actor was appearing in Eugene O'Neill's "Beyond the Horizon" at Louisville in 1923. An oil can started to smoke, frightening the audience. Stopping the play. Bennett shouted to the throng* to “sit down before you become murderers.”

KIDNAPING IS ADMITTED Bohn Abduction Confessed by Man Caught in Canada. Is Claim. Bu l iiitc'ij’rcss WINNIPEG, Manitoba. April 3. A full confession of the kidnaping last June of Haskell Bohn, son of a wealthy St. Paul (Minn.) manufacturer, lias been made, according to United States authorities, by Ray Robinson, who. late Friday night, was arrested by royal Canadian police at Rokerton. Manitoba. The confession, according to Inspector C. J. Kierney of St. Paul, which is said to be about twenty pages in length, was signed shortly after Robinson's apprehension. Optometrist:. Discuss Clinics Proposed code of ethics and plans for establishment of non-profit clinics were discussed at a meeting Sunday at the Severin of the Indiana Association of Optometrists. ] About thirty persons attended. Next meeting will be held in Terre j Haute, June 18.

is a favorite spot for the De Palmas and Oldfields of the “shove” world. Billy Demmary, 7, 2919 Brookside avenue, and his pusher, Russell Collier, 3021 Shriver avenue, are getting an early start on other champion teams by working out daily at the park.

STAR TO ADOPT SON Polly Moran Goes to Court to Make Boy Her Legal Heir. Bft i iiitnl Piths LOS ANGELES, April 3. —Adoption of a 16-year-old boy for whom she has cared since babyhood was sought in court here by Polly Moran, film comedienne. The boy. John A. Trujillo, will take the name of John Michael Moran. CHURCH PATS PASTOR HONOR Dr. J. Ambrose Dunkel Is Feted at Special Surprise Service. Thirty-five years in the ministry, fifteen of which has been spent in the service of the Tabernacle Presbyterian church, Thrity-fourth street and Central avenue, were observed Sunday morning at the church when a surprise party was given Dr. J. Ambrose Dunkel, pastor. The special service in Dr. Dunkel's honor was given following the regular Sunday morning rites. Dr. Dunkel came to the Tabernacle church in 1918. Fifteen young people born in that year formed a processional down the aisle to the pulpit bearing cards spelling out the letters in his name. Each card bore the membership of each year. Fifteen years ago the church had 743 on its rolls and the present membership is 3,296. Edward W. Harris, representing the church officers, met the youthful procession at the pulpit. * Tire flower girls presented Dr. Dunkel with a basket of roses. Harris related how it was through Dr. Dunkel's vision that the church moved from Eleventh and Meridian streets to its present location. He told of the pastor's efforts in building up the congregation. An engraved poem, bearing Dv. Dunkel's picture, was presented to him. FAILS IN SUICIDE TRY Members of Fire Department Squad Revive Despondent ManAdministering oxygen, members of the fire department first aid squad revived Thomas Hampshire. 37. of 235 Parkview place, after he attempted suicide Saturday night at his home by inhaling gas. Hampshire. according to police, was despondent over ill health and the recent death of his mother.

21 Leisure Hour Clubs to Hold Meetings This Week

Oak Hill Minstrels Will Be Given Tonight at Peoples’ Church. LEISURE HOUR CALENDAR MONDAY People's church, at Alabama and Nineteenth streets. TUESDAY Tomlinson hall. Garfield park community house. WEDNESDAY Rrookside park community house. 3. T. Hill community house. Rhodius park community house. THURSDAY Crispus Attucks hijh school. Christian park community house. Hetcher place community house. Fi. Wayne and Walnut club. Municipal Gardens community house. Michican and Noble club. School <). at <4O East Vermont street. Nebraska Cropsey club. School 22, at *--*l South Illinois street. Oak Hill club. School 38. at *O3O Winter avenue. School 5 at 612 West Washinjton street. School 12 at iIW South West street. School 16 at 140-2 West Market street. Srhool 26 at l:lol East Sixteenth street. School 34 at Kelly and Bovd streets. School 3T at 2425 East Twenty-fifth street. School 63 at 4115 North Traub street.

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Leg-gears are being tuned and Collier, a cross-country runner on the champion Spades Athletic Club team, is one of Billy’s favorite two-legged motors. Track trunks for Collier and sure-enough race driver's goggles for Biily are requisites of the pushmebile world in training spins as well as on the big-time courses.

FOREST LANDS REPORT MADE Wallace Urges U. S. Buy Millions of Acres From Private Owners. BY RI’TH FINNEY Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, April 3.—Purchase by the government of at least half the forest land now' held by private owners is recommended by Agriculture. Secretary Henry A. Wallace and Assistant Secretary R. G. Tugwell in an extensive forestry report just sent to congress. The most extensive program ever proposed for dealing with the country’s major natural resource is contained in the report signed by the two secretaries. It is based on a mammoth study of the present condition of forest lands carried on during the past year by the forestry service. The basic conclusions of Wallace and Tugwell are: Practically all the major problems of American forestry center in, or have grown out of, private ownership. One of the major problems of public ownership is that of unmanaged public lands. The forest problem ranks as one of our major national problems. The main recommendations are: A large extension of public ownership of forest lands. Specifically the heads of the agriculture department ask that 224.000,000 acres of forest land, including part of the abandoned agricultural lands now available, be acquired. ART DAMPIER APPEARS Explains Disappearance After Shooting Affray to Police. Art Dampier. Indianapolis hoodlum shot last Wednesday in a restaurant at 3259 Madison avenue, voluntarily appeared at police headquarters Sunday and explained his disappearance since he was spirited away by two men who were in the restaurant at the time of the shooting. He was not held. Dampier, bartender at the resort, said he was shot three times and that he was treated by a south side physician, who did not report the case to police. Dampier also asserted he did not know who took him away from the restaurant as he was dazed by his wounds and loss of blood. The sheriff's office, which also is conducting an investigation of the mysterious shooting, has no charge against Dampier.

The Oak Hill Minstrels will be given tonight at the People's church, at Nineteenth and Alabama streets. The minstrels are under the direction of E. R. Marriotte. The cast includes George Schuyler interlocutor: Dick French, Jesse Merchant, Norman Flashkamp, Orville Garrity, Harold Schminke, George Durham, Johnny Flashkamp, Albert Yeager, Harold Stevens. Harold Perry. Tommy Speece. Creighton Cole. Wayne Maple, Hays Ogden and John Allen Hay. The WKBF bam dance, under the direction of Harold Bentley, will be given Tuesday as a Leisure Hour Club program at Tomlinson hall. Feaured are the "Hoosier Ramblers," "Red” Dickonson and his Washboard Pickers, the Nightingales. Inland City Four. Connie Eagland. "Cotton” Mayfield. Jesse Hall, whistler. and Harold Bentley. The show is being given under auspices of the Nebraska Cropsey Boys’ Club. Arrangement are in charge of F. W. Ma’ zer, John Kiefer and Francis Lev s.

BITTER REPLY IS HURLED AT FR. COUGHLIN Detroit Paper’s Controversy With Priest Reaches New Heights. i By United Press DETROIT. April 3. —Controversy ! over causes of bank failures here | reached anew high today with the : Detroit Free Press and Father ! Charles E. Coughlin hurling accu- | sations at each other in dramatic i debate. The Free Press countered Father | Coughlin's second attack—directed at the paper in his radio sermon | Sunday—with another Page 1 ediI torial threatening to call upon the I priest to prove his charges in the \ courts. Father Coughlin devoted most of his sermon to the attack upon the newspaper, its publisher. E. D. I Stair, and the Detroit Bankers' j Company, holding company for | one of the closed banks here. I He charged that the paper had | "wasted more headlines, more space in one week in an effort to villify me than was devoted to relief of the poor.” "Morning after morning, my name, my nefarious activities were held up to the hatred of many.” he said, "while some 270.000 fellow-citizens were forced to eat the scanty crumbs which fell from the table of the j Lord, not one paragraph to defend them.” In reply, the paper asserted that Father Coughlin made no defense whatever against the paper's charges that he invested in the stock market. He failed to answer specifically the eight direct charges of falsehood made against him by the paper. the editorial said. Meanwhile, the directorate of the National Bank of Detroit, which includes Alfred P. Sloan and Walter P. Chrysler, will meet here Tuesday j to select permanent officers for the bank. KINGHAN NAMED DRIVE CHAIRMAN 5,000 Volunteer Workers to Aid Modernization Campaign Here. With naming of John R. Kinghan, chairman of Kingan & Company, Ltd., as leader of a special division in the city-wide modernization campaign, April 22 to May 5, plans for interesting property owners in a move to provide jobs for unemployed were near completion today. Louis J. Borinstein. campaign chairman, and his assistants, w’ill spend this week recruiting 5.000 volunteer workers to interest the ! public in improving homes, busij ness properties and industrial sites j while material prices are low. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan is assisting in the drive by urging that “modeyiizing work be done now at considerable savings to property owners.” He again appealed for citizens to take part in the movement which will “stimulate business, employ several thousand jobless men and, thus, turn thousands of dollars into trade channels.” T. M. Overley. director of the Better Business Bureau, as chairman of the speakers’ bureau for the campaign, has appointed several subcommittees to work with him. ASK MONEY VOW BE PUT IN WEDDING RITE Widows and Widowers Demand Change in Old Formula. I By United Press NEW YORK, April 3.—The na- | tional convention of the Widows ; and Widowers’ Club, in session at ! the Hotel Knickerbocker, Sunday | adopted a resolution demanding that | the formula used in wedding cerej monies be changed to provide more j money for women. Will Osborne sang “In the Valley Yoo Hoo” for the widows and widowers while the vote was being taken. The resolution was presented to the convention by Mrs. Nelle B. Stull of Elyria, 0., founder and president of the organization. Five newsreel cameras were whirrj ing as Mrs. Stull intoned: "Be It Resolved, That the people ; of the United States of America de- | mand in such terms that there shall I be no mistake about their meaning, I that the phrase ‘with all my worldly ' goods I thee endow’ in the wedding j ceremony be changed. Be it "Resolved, That hereafter the phrase shall be, ‘with all my worialy j goods and money I thee endow.’ ” FIVE INJURED IN FALLS Two Are Arrested on Drunkenness Charges; Child Is Hurt. Two of five persons irfjured in falls Saturday and Sunday face charges of drunkenness. Those accused are Dennis Lyons, 40, of 123 Linden street, whose nose was broken when he fell in the 200 block East Washington street, and Charles Abell. 51. no address, who ! incurred a cut on the forehead | when he fell in front of .17 West Pearl street. Fracture of the left leg was ini curred by Earl D. Riggens. 38. of 325 Dorman street, when he fell while roller skating at the Riverside park rink. Mrs. Mary Skaggs. 48. of 1806 Spann avenue, suffered a fracture of the right shoulder when she fell on a stairway at 303 Trowbridge street, w-here she was a guest. Cut on the clhn was incurred by Virginia Lovelace. 8, when she fell after tripping over a wire in the I yard of her home at 114 South : Noble street. GUN WOUND IS FATAL Accident Kills Young Peru Man at Home of Friend. By United Press PERU. Ind.. April 3.—Anderson Patton, 21, bled to death at the : home of Harry Teal, near here, i when a revolver carried under his belt discharged accidentally. Patton discharged the weapon i when he tugged at his trousers' belt. The bullet entered the right groin and emerged at the knee.

New Social Playground Being Built on North Side

Private Center Intended as Exclusive Club for City Families. Recreational facilities of all kinds soon will be opened to Indianapolis citizens at a private social center now being erected on White river, near North Illinois and Fifty-sixth streets. The center, to be known as the Riviera Club, will be dedicated on or about May 30. according to James H. Makin. president: who. for several years, had charge of bathing and recreational facilities at Broad Ripple park. Describing the club as ‘‘an exclusive family center,” its founders said today, “it is to be a purely social center and not a night club." Facilities for the exclusive use of members and guests will include a swimming pool, tennis courts, baseball diamond, horseshoe courts, childrens’ playground, picnic grove and a dining, dancing pavilion. Entrance to the club is to be by membership card only, which will admit the family and guests of the members, he explained. Outstanding feature will be the swimming pool. 150 feet by 300 feet, with an arched bridge spanning the deep water . Water wih be supplied from deep well and sent through rapid sand filters with capacity of 2.100 gallons a minute, making a complete change of water every eight hours. Offices of the club are located at 645 East Fifty-eighth street. Other officers are: Randall Willis, vicepresident, and Carlos Deeds, secretary and treasurer. The executive committee includes: N. E. Boyer. Theodore Brown. H. A. Brewer, Carlos Deeds. L. W. Drapier, Curtiss Dunham. Kurt Ehlert, Leo T. Hurley. Francis Joy, Raymond D. Jackson, B. B. Lewis, L. Lewis, Charles Maxwell, Martin Matz, V. A. Niles, A. L. Ottinger, Herman Phillips, A. W. Pedigo, Harry Reibe, Don Snoke, Harry Templeton. E. O. Enethen, Charles G. Walsh, Willis and William Vogel. CITY FOOTPADS ACTIVE Purse Snatchers Rob Three Women: Loot Slightly Over SlO. Purse snatchers w r ere busy over the week-end with three women reporting losses. Mrs. Anna Goldstein, 60, of 3004 North Delaware street, was robbed of a purse containing $9 by a thief who stepped from an alley at Thirtieth street, near Washington boulevard. Mrs. John Melrose, 1603 Central avenue, Apartment 303, was robbed of a small amount of change by a Negro who snatched her purse in the 600 block on North New Jersey street. Third victim to report losses was Mis Fernissia Songer of Anderson. A Negro grabbed her purse containing sl, at New' York street and Capitol avenue.

0 9 South Illinois Jean’s comes to Indian- ||j§| apolis bidding welcome to ' ™ and corner you will see * fresh, smiling merchandise, iSHMSgSpr at prices that are typical of spring 1933. . . . You will tO find the newest ideas in prints, dots, in checks, Cl PT plaids and combinations. SB8& ?j spect these beautiful • when we open TOMORROW MORNING AT 9 s 2=— s 4~ s s s B s 9=

MISSING MAN HUNTED

Willard Thompson SEEK BODY OF ! MISSING AGENT Vacant Houses and Barns Are Searched: Believed Slain by Robbers. Police today are searching vacant j houses and barns near Thirty-first street and Congress avenue for the body of Willard Thompson. Frankfort insurance man, who has been missing since last Tuesday. Theory that Thompson may have been slain to obtain the insurance collections he carried with him gained weight through the report .o police of Ed Eaker, 1502 Comer avenue, milk wagon driver, w r ho was making deliveries early In the morning when Thompson’s car was found parked at Thirtieth street and Northwestern avenue. Baker said two men were standing by the car when he drove up, but they fled down a nearby alley way. Later. Baker was driving through I an alley in the same neighborhood and saw two men running down the j alley, one dragging the other by the arm. Baker believes they were the same two men he saw near Thompson's car, but neither time was close enough to them to get accurate descriptions. Thompson, 23, unmarried and, according to reports, a man of good habits, had approximately SIOO in his possession when he disappeared. Iceland has only 5.500 square miles of glacier; whereas Greenland is green only along a narrow fringe during a few months of the year.

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PARTY LEADERS FEAR FOES OF ‘SKIP-ELECTION’ Bring Pressure to Obtain Candidates’ Withdrawal: Protection Move. Leaders of both political parties are bringing pressure to bear to obtain withdrawal of thirty-four candidates of city officers who filed petition in the belief that the "skipelection’’ law passed by the 1933 Indiana legislature may be held unconstitutional. Saturday was the last day for filing candidacy petitions. None of those mentioned for city offices who were reputed to have organization backing of either party filed petitions. In case no primary is held, central city committees of both parties can fii"' slates of nominees. Thus the political leaders would have full power to choose lists of candidates rated as “right.” Jewett Not Named Should the “skip election” law be held invalid, permitting holding the primary election in May as usual, party organizations would be confronted with the problem of nominees whose status as “regular'* might be wholly unknown. Hence, the pressure to have the petitions withdrawn. No petition was filed for Charles W Jewett-, former mayor, said to be the choice of the Republican organization to hold the office again. Nor was any filed for oft-mentioned Democratic possibilities, including Sheriff Charles (Buck) Sumner, Prosecutor Herbert E Wilson and E. Kirk McKinney, works board president. Anti-Coffin Men Run Republicans who filed for mayor were Elmer L. Gobel and Harper J. Ransburg, both rated as anti-Cof-fin. and Boynton J. Moore, who is attacking the “skip election” law in the courts. Democratic mayoralty seekers who filed were Fred S. Galloway, member of the Indiana house of representatives in the 1932 session; Joseph T. Markey. who announced his candidacy last fall, far ahead of the field, and J. Ed Burke, south j side business man. who is active in civic club work. Others who filed were candidates for city clerk nnd city council posts. FIRE LOSS IS SIO,OOO Frcihofer Bakery Storeroom on South Side Swept bv Blaze. Charles Frcihofer, president of the Frcihofer Bakery Company, today estimated at $19,000 lass to one of bakery storerooms in a fire Sunday afternoon. Through a coincidence, the fire was reported at 3:59 and the bak-y j ery company is located at 359 Easp I Merrill street. /