Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 106, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 September 1933 — Page 2

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BRIBE ATTEMPT IS CHARGED AT DOG POUND QUIZ Superintendent Conger Is Accused at Hearing by Safety Board. Charges of attempted bribery were hurled at Dr. Elizabeth Conger. superintendent of the Indianapolis dog pound, today, by witnesses who appeared before the safety board, demanding removal of the pound from its present site on the Pendleton pike In a petition signed by eighty-six residents of the neighborhood. Dr. Conger was charged specifically with causing a public nuisance and disturbing the peace. Chief witnesses before the board declared that if the safety board refused to take action, the case would be taken to Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan and, if met by rebuff there, abatement action would be taken in the county courts. Chief witnesses at the hearing were Mr. and Mrs. John M. Spangler of 2506 Lancaster street and John E. Stickel. 2605 Phipps street. Mrs. Spangler made the charge of attempted bribery in her evidence. Nuisance Is C harge The witnesses charged that Dr. Conger has caused a nuisance to created by the keeping of more than 450 dogs on the premises, and that tnc city code has been violated. In that dogs are to be kept at the pound five days and tnen killed, if not claimed. Instead, the witnesses charge. Dr. Conger has kept the dogs, in some instances, twelve years, ever since the pound was erected. The bribery attempt accusation came when Mrs. Spangler asserted that a former employe of the pound, Raymond Artis. Negro, who had been discharged by Dr. Conger, was ready to testify before the board. Dr. Conger, charged Mrs. Spangler, approached Artis and offered to re-employ him if he would not testify. Further, Mrs. Spangler claimed, she had been approached by Dr. Conger, who. she said, offered to buy the property owned by the Spanglers, and that payment would be made in cash, if they would not testify. Dr. Conger could not be reached by The Times for a statement. Humor in Proceedings Mrs. Spangler told the board that Dr. Conger had said that the deal would be made in the name of a third party and that the property then would be donated to the city, and that the city would bear the cost. Snatches of humor were injected into the proceedings as Mrs. Spangler objected to her husband's “soft and soothing” manner of presenting his testimony, and interrupted him ' repeatedly to emphasizee certain; points. Donald Morris, safety board member. became interested in the ! charges and questioned the witnesses j closely. Dr. Conger will be ordered j to appear before the safety board next Tuesday. The board members were invited by Mrs. Spangler to live in the neighborhood. “Maybe my husband still believes in Santa Claus,” she said, but I don't.” Dr. Conger, she charged, in addition. ’farmed” dogs out to a woman in the neighborhood. “Something will be done.” said Morris. “I never had any knowledge of anything like this.” It was learned in city hall that dog license fees had dropped from SB,OOO to SI,BOO. due. in part, said officials, to a request by Dr. Conger that no drive be made for licenses. WKBF WILL GO BACK ON THE AIR TONIGHT Radio Station Program Halted Because of Generator. Radio station WKBF will go back on the air waves sometime tonight, probably about 7. it was announced today at offices of Indianapolis Broadcasting. Inc. The station, installing anew generator in connection with a change of equipment necessitated by the joining of the National Broadcasting Company chains, experienced trouble In the work when a wrong type generator band w-as shipped the station. WKBF went off the air at 2 Sunday afternoon. The work will be completed by tonight. The imception of chain programs. LEGION POST INSTALLS Paul E. Beam Made Commander of Bruce Robinson Post. Installation of officers by Harold L. Plummer, assistant national adjutant of the American Legion, featured the meeting of Bruce P. Robinson post. No. 133. held in headquarters in Central Christian church Monday night. Paul E. Beam was installed as commander, and John Paul Ragsdale as adjutant. Don Smith, former treasurer, reported on the financial condition, and Dr. William H. Long, child welfate chairman, reported on the progress of an orphan the post adopted. Mrs. Fred Wolf was elected president of the auxiliary.

McAdoo’s Daughter Will Go to School in France

Senator and Wife Will Go Abroad With Girl This Week. fly rim** Ppr,inl WASHINGTON. Sept. 12— Miss Ellen McAdoo. daughter of Senator and Mrs. William Gibbs McAdoo. will leave for France with her parents this week to enter a French school. Miss McAdoo, who is 18 years old, probably will spend the next two or three years in France.

POLITICAL FUNO SCOPE WIDENED ‘Associate Members’ Now May Contribute to Democrats. Scope of membership in the Hoosier Democratic Club, statehouse political fund collection agency, was extended today to Include “associate members." Regular membership is brought about through a white application and is confined to Democrats only. But “any person can become an associate member” by filling out a blue application. Dues are the same. They have been worked out in six classifications. Class A costs $1 a month; B. $2; C, $3; D. $5; E, 8, and F. sl2. In explaining the associate membership plan. Pleas Greenlee, McNutt secertary and one of the club’s organizers, said they wanted to “give every one a chance to contribute. if they so desired.” The money is to be used for Democratic campaign purposes. Club members have their dues deducted from their monthly pay checks by department heads. The popular name for the £lub was the “Two Per Cent Club." Application blanks provide for name, address, age, precinct, occupation and party, except on the white cards.

OPEN VERDICT DUE IN DEATH MYSTERY Cops Insist Mussel Digger Case an Accident. The puzzling “murder-accident” probe resulting from the death of a mussel digger on the Monon railroad tracks Sunday night, today was at a standstill with an open verdict expected to be returned by Coroner W. E. Arbuckle. 1 Police claimed the death of Charles Salmon, 52-year-old mussel digger, a clear-cut case of accidental death under the wheels of a Monon train, bound for Chicago. Dr. E. R. Wilson, deputy coroner, who declared there were some puzzling aspects to the case, today said there is no new evidence. Salmon was run over at 1:55 and some persons said they had seen him alive at 1 a. m. The body was cold, members of the train crew said, and intimated Salmon had been murdered and his body placed on the tracks. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.t East, northeast wind. 11 miles an hour: ceiling. 1,000 feet: visibility, 2 miles; general conditions, overcast. light fog; temperature, 67; barometric pressure, 29.90 at sea level.

Police Squads Trap Four Men in Store Burglary

Four alleged burglars were trapped and captured early today by four police squads at the A. & P. grocery. Eleventh street and College avenue. Booty from another robbery. valued at SIOO, was recovered, said police. Those under arrest are William Monroe. 18. of 473 South Webster street: Lyle M. Conover. 22. and Horace W. Conover. 18, both of 1914 Bellefontaine street, and Elisha Abbott. alias James Williams. 18, who gave his address as 522 East Twenty-first street. Sent to the store on report of a burglary, the police squads surrounded the store. In the rear of the store, the officers said, they found Monroe and the two Conovers. attempting to break into the store through a door. They had ripped a screen, police said. In front of the store, they found Abbott, seated in Monroes car. In the car. they said, were a can of motor oil. six packages of cigarets, three auto jacks, a pipe wrench, a

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BROTHER OF CITY MEN FOUND SLAIN Lawrence N. Shead Killed by Blows on Head. Victim -of a murder. Lawrence N. Shead, brother of Walter A. and Ralph Shead. 824 North Audubon road, was found Sunday in his apartment in Paterson, N. J. Shead, 35, a theater operator, was killed by blows on the head. The brother, Walter, former publicity director for the Marion County Democratic committee, left today for Paterson. The other brother, an artist, is on a business trip to Florida. Kenneth Neu. said to have been with Shead in New York Saturday night, is being sought. Shead, it is reported, introduced Neu as “a friend from the south.” Paterson police are seeking Shead's automobile, missing from its usual parking place in front of his home, in the belief that it will provide a clew in the slaying. POLICE TO GRILL 2 IN SLAYING OF RECLUSE Suspects in Jasonville Murder Are Held in County Jail. Hiram Amos, 42, of Bedford and Fred Bollinger, 31. of Jasonville, were held in Marion county jail today awaiting questioning by state police in the mystery murder of Mrs. Mary Ellis, 73-year-old recluse at Jasonville last January. Amos and Bollinger are suspected as the killers of the aged woman. Bollinger has been under arrest for some time and Amos was captured Monday near Bedford by a posse headed by Claude Dozer, criminal investigator of the state police. Amos, a woodchopper, predeed a shotgun and hid behind some women as the posse approached, escaping into woods. He was surrounded and was captured without firing a shot. LAUNCH LICENSE DRIVE Morrissey Tells Coppers to Check All Stores on Beats. Drive to enforce the state store license law in Indianapolis was begun today by police under Chief Mike Morrissey, upon request of Clarence A. Jackson, state collector. Jackson said that 1933 store licenses must be held by all places dealing in merchandise. Police were instructed to check off each place on their beats. Jackson announced that eighteen field representatives from his office will attend a school of instruction Monday to prepare for collection of the next installment of the gross income tax.

greasing gun, three pairs of pliers, three screw drivers, a flashlight, and a rim wrench, all stolen, it is charged, from Donald McNulty, 2033 Hillside avenue. At Monroe's home, Investigating officers later reported, they found other equipment stolen from McNulty. Monroe admitted the burglary, police claimed. Abott first gave his name as Williams. but investigation revealed the address he had given as that of his stepfather and mother. His stepfather's name is James Williams. Abbott's mother is said to have told police that the youth was sentenced to serve six months on the state penal farm for vehicle taking and escaped when he had only two weeks to serve. All four are charged with vagrancy, burglary and grand larceny. The police squads participating in the roundup were headed by Lieutenant Edward Shubert, Sergeants Claude Kinder. George Baker and William Purcell.

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NRA LAUNCHES NATIONAL ORIVE ON VIOLATIONS Johnson Calls for Full Compliance to Blue Eagle Pledges. fly United Preag WASHINGTON. Sept. 12. A drive to obtain 100 per cent compliance with the blue eagle re-em-ployment agreement was started today by the National Recovery Administration. Administrator Hugh S. Johnson announced t n a t “compliance boards” are to be created in every city and town in the country to investigate complaints of noncompliance and to handle other details of the re-employment campaign. The drive for full compliance with blue eagle pledges marked a second phase in the re-employment effort and will serve as a checkup both on violators of the agreement and those who are hesitating to inaugurate shorter working hours and increased rate of pay. The compliance drive was announced as the NRA tackled the troublesome coal situation through new hearings on the administra-tion-written code, and opened hearings on proposed codes for the motion picture and boot and shoe industries. The seven-member compliance boards will be charged with duties of education, conciliation and mediation in their respective communities and will be composed of representatives of employers, employes and consumers. The boards will hear: 1. Complaints of noncompliance. 2. Petitions for exceptions where strict compliance would result in undue hardship. 3. Petitions for permission to operate on longer hour schedule of existing union contracts, instead of the maximum hours of the blue eagle agreement. The seventh member of the board would be the chairman who, according to Johnson’s record of instructions to present NRA commit tee chairmen, “should enjoy the respect of the entire community, and must be free from any connections

From Cradle to High School ... Young America Can Depend Upon This Busy Department for Everything It Needs! AYRES’ DOWNSTAIRS Children’s and Infants’ department has a slogan that should be popular with every mother and her youngsters. It’s this: “Fewer spankings, due to rips and tears and frayed-out elbows.” And the spankings WILL be fewer if Mothers will take our tip and buy QUALITY apparel, which so readily withstands the rough and tumble wear of a healthy boy or girl! Thousands of mothers are learning that QUALITY merchandise in the smartest fashions obtainable —at very low prices—is the only kind of merchandise we sell in our up-and-coming Children’s and Infants’ section. It is a COMPLETE department, where you can buy everything your child needs —from the cradle to high school! % NOTE: Our 61st Birthday is approaching. We’ll be celebrating very soon with an Anniversary Sale! We’ll be offering great assortments of seasonable, wanted merchandise—of Ayres standard quality—in complete assortments —at lowest possible prices! Watch for further news! at Ayres &0| B) ... Where Correct Fashion • T ~E • / x^abS^ 7 • w JUess JLsxpensivel

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After giving herself up, Mrs. Millie Prince arrives at Long Island city court for arraignment on a charge of murdering Charles J. Wolfert. 56-year-old jeweler, whom she admitted stabbing to death in a lonely spot in Queens, New York, because, she said, he forced his attention on her. —political, financial or otherwise—which would cast any doubt on the impartiality of his decision.”

SO IT’S WATER IN BOOZE THAT DOES YOU GUUU And How About That Alky, Doc? Doesn't That Help. Too? BY WILLIAM F. SULLIVAN United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO. Sept. 12.—You fellows —and girls—who like wines and beers, just keep on drinking; it’s a pleasant way to- get needed water into the system. “Some people can't take it," Dr. Gustav Egloff said in an interviewtoday, “and that is one of the reasons we had the prohibition amendment. Because their systems could not take alcoholic beverages, they thought it was wrong morally.” Dr. Egloff. president of the Chicago Chemists Club, who is attending the sessions of the American Chemical Society, laid down a few rules for drinkers. It’s a Golden Rule “Drinking in moderation for those w’ho like it,” he said, “is a golden rule. Some people don’t like water. By and large, light wines and beer are beneficial to the body. It is an easy and pleasant way of getting needed water into the system. “Most human beings are moderate and as a matter of fact before the prohibition amendment was enacted, imbibing of alcoholic beverages was dwindling. When the amendment is repealed, we will come back to nonpoisonous beverages, properly fermented under natural conditions, instead of having to rely on bootleggegrs and the criminals who surround them.” On the question of hard liquors and as to the number of drinks one can take safely, Dr. Egloff said that was an individual’s own problem to decide. That Empty Stomach “A man who hasnt had a drink in six months, he explained, “might feel sharply the effects of a couple of drinks. The highest stimulation from alcohol comes by drinking before meals —on an empty stomach. One individual might feel a couple

OFFERS -BUY NOW’ PLAN

Several plans to inject $2,000,000.000 into commerce and trade by a concerted “buy now" campaign are being considered in Washington. Leader among plans submitted was that of Ross Castle (above) of Connersville. Ind. Castle's plan involves signing by all consumers of pledges to spend a certain amount, provided the total quota agreed upon is reached.

of glasses of beer while another could take eight with little effect.” Alcohol, he said, has been with man from time immemorial and the human body has inured itself, grown and developed through countless centuries by the extraordinary vintages which man, through his skill, has made. LEAVE ON PENAL TOUR Greenlee and Fry to Inspect State Institutions. Pleas Greenlee, secretary to Governor Paul V. McNutt, and Paul Fry, state excise director and purchasing agent, left today for an inspection tour of state institutions. First stop will be at the Indiana state farm at Putnamville, conditions at which were exposed recently in a series of articles dealing with alleged cruelty, published by The Times. Wednesday, they will inspect, the state hospital at Madison, Greenlee said.

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SHIPPING MAGNATE'S KILLER FEARED MAD Sanity Hearing to Be Held for Red-Haired Nurse. ft;/ t nitrd Prraa SANTA CRUZ. Cal.. Sept. 12.—A sanity hearing was promised today for Frieda Wilhelmina Weltz, 43-vear-old red-haired nurse, accused of stalking Francis J. M. Grace, retired shipping and mercantile magnate. for eighteen months and murdering him Saturday. Her motive for sending a bullet into the 57-year-old semi-invalid remained obscure after a coroner's jury returned an open verdict and Miss Weltz was formally charged with murder. “I won't tell,” she repeatedly answered.

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