Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 107, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 September 1933 — Page 2

PAGE 2

JUDGE BARS REPORTERS ON TIMES STAFF Sheaffer Orders Two Out of Courtroom, Then Changes Mind. • Continued From Page One I morning and another asked to leave. May I a.-k. your honor, if this situation applies merely today or is it permanently?" “The coyrt has discretion in the matter,” answered SheafTer. “Your honor,” asserted Weiss, “I have no desire to go beyond the jurisdiction of this court, even though I may have the power to do so. May I learn the exact status of Times reporters in this courtroom?” “Reprieve” Is Granted SheafTer replied that he had no objection to The Times publishing facts of events in his courtroom, but did object to incidents occurring outside of the court and affecting the court being handled as The Times handled the case Tuesday, “Times reporters will be allowed in,” he said, “but I don't know how Jong they will be allowed to stay.” The attorney, after a short conference, left the courtroom, assured that Times reporters would be allowed to report all proceedings. Morrissey and Sheaffer long have be a n at daggers' points and Tuesday’s outbreak occurrred when Boyd appeared in court with Matthews. Learning that attaches were unable to locate the warrant, Boyd went to headquarters, obtained the warrant, and brought it to court. Interference Is Charged Morrissey asserted the warrant was received too late for service, but SheafTer took the attitude that Boyd had interfered with court process and the citation followed. SheafTer charged police with failure to sene• approximately 200 rearrest warrants The habeas corpus action was taken before Cox by James A. Collins, former criminal court judge, retained by Morrissey In making his ruling. Cox pointed out that “the courts vanity might have been hurt.” but that was insufficient to sustain the contempt conviction. In response to a subpena issued by Collins. Sheaffer appeared before Cox as soon as the hearing opened. “Your Honor. I am here in answer to a subpena intended to produce the court records in this case.” Sheaffer announced, showing visible signs of emotion. “I am not the custodian of these records, and they are the best evidence. I ask to be excused.” Collins hastened to assure the court and SheafTer that the subpena had been issued in error and that he regretted the occurrence. SheafTer ignored his remarks and continued to address Cox. “They just wanted to make an errand boy of me, and I resent it,” he said, bitterly. As soon as excused by Cox. Sheaffer whirled on his heel and stalked from the room. ROOMERS ROBBED Two Report Loss of $54 in Cash to Sneak Thieves. Sneak thieves obtained s7l in loot from two homes Tuesday. Melvin Shellmeyer and Frank Gilitski, roomers at 133 West Vermont street, reported theft of $54, of which $45 belonged to Shellmeyer. Bed clothing valued at sl7 was reported stolen by Russell Baker, 1328 Central avenue. Apartment 4. CHILD HURT CRITICALLY Fractured Skull Feared in Auto Injury to Richard Koon. A 6-year-old schoolboy was injured critically today when struck by an automobile as he crossed State and Lexington avenues on his way home from school during lunch hour. The child. Richard Koon, 1824 Spann avenue, was struck by a car driven by Robert Alstott. 30. R. R. 10, Box 2658. He suffered a possible fractured skull and was rushed to city hospital in serious condition

School Days Are Music Days OCW BAND INSTRUMENTS Tn f| M D 17 T C The new r ° nn Conqueror Truin- / K 1/ Jfl J J J l>et. completely new in ' design nnd principle. Four entirely new ■SSSSSSSSSZSS feature* distinguish the amusingly heaiitifnl Conqueror. Come In and try this wonderful new trumpet. Trumpet outlits, silver - , n>if n plate. gold hell, beautiful plushCLARINETS *“-*** ■■ Student clarinet outfits— Boehm system—silver plated, *35. .. . A I at n Trombone outfits, silver VIULINO plated. *37.50. n* "i ' 68 Complete with bow, case, chin rest, resin: fully adjusted; one-half, three-fourths or full SAXOPHONES 50 Alto saxophones, silver plated. new, *88.50. Complete with ease. Music Stands, SI Music Bags, 81.89 Its-130 V I'ruu. St. Lincoln 3M3 Fst. 1873

SHE'S VALUED HIGHLY

Flora Todd Mitchell, above, New York playwright, is single again and her two former husbands have withdrawn suits aggregating $1,250,000 that they filed against each other in one of the most unusual cases on record. Msr. Mitchell, a widow', divorced Leon LeonidofT. Russian ballet master, and wed Seymour Wollner, wealthy resident of Peoria, 111., next day. LeonidofT sued Wollner for $500,000 and Wollner countered with a suit against LeonidofT for $750,000. Now she has divorced Wollner at R*no.

TOWNSHIP TAX LEVY IS $3,15 Higher Rate Is Announced for Center by Auditor Charles Grossart. * Levy of $3 15 on each SIOO of taxable property in Center township was announced today by County Auditor Charles A. Grossart, as the 1934 rate required by the new budgets adopted by governmental units. The 1934 rate is 33 cents higher than the 1933 levy of $2.82. and is explained by governmental officials as being caused by a drop in valuation of property, tax delinquencies and mandatory expenses. Units making the total rate in Center township are: City levy, $1.31 schools, 99 cents; county, 58 cents; township, 12 cents and state levy. 15 cents. Levies for other townships will be announced later. Grossart said. The levy for Center township, outside the city limits, has been set tentatively at $2.20. The Marion county tax adjustment board will meet Friday for organization prior to its official session Monday, at which time final action will be taken on the budgets. The board has power to declare an emergency and raise the levy above the $1.50 maximum fixed by law. MISSION GROUP ELECTS Mrs. Ewing Shields to Head Society at Roberts Park Church. New officers elected Tuesday at the semi-annual meeting of the Indianapolis district Foreign Missionary Society in the Roberts Park M. E. church were Mrs. Ewing Shields, president; Mrs. W. C- Hartmger, vice-president; Mrs. C. H. Sedam, corresponding secretary; Mrs. G. P. Miller, recording secretary, and Mrs. C. G. Shriver, treasurer. The new officers, elected In the forenoon meeting, were installed during the afternoon session.

HEAD OF POUND WANTS TO QUIT; BOARD LAUGHS Dr. Conger Is Too Valuable, Myers’ View: Ridicules Complaints. Resignation of Dr. Elizabeth Conger, city dog pound superintendent, as result of complaints presented to the safety board by residents in the vicinity of the pound, on Pendleton pike, w-as threatened today. Dr. Conger said she intended to present her resignation, after sixteen years supervision over the pound. "That’s all right,” said Charles R. Myers, board president, when told of Dr. Conger's decision. “She may think she can resign, but she can’t. We won't let her quit.” Charge Bribery The resignation threat arose w T hen several persons living near the pound told the safety board Tuesday that Dr. Conger was creating a nuisance by "keeping 450 dogs,” failing to kill every dog after it had been there five days, as provided by law; that she had kept some dogs there tw T elve years, and that she “attempted to bribe witnesses to keep them from testifying against her.” “One of the principal complainants has been down to see me several times to get the city to buy his property, but he ivanted too much money,” Myers said. “I think this fuss is just an effort to create a sale for the property.” A reporter who visited the pound today found it remarkably spick, and span, without odors, and with only about 150, or at the most 200, canine inhabitants. Spends Own Money “Yes, I do have a few- dogs here that have been here several years.” she said, in reply to the charges. “There they are. Most of them I bought and paid for, and they all are valuaable dogs. “If the few cents a week it costs to keep them is objected to, then maybe I have been making a mistake in spending my own money to keep this pound running.” City officials explained that Dr. Conger, who is a practicing physician. in her “spare time,” and who operates the pound as a hobby, because of her love for dogs, spends more than her salary of $1,090 a year, on the pound. In addition, it was her money that bought part of the pound site, and she furnishes | an automobile of her own as an emergency car for the pound, they | said. Dr. Conger said she and Mrs. j Nellie Maple, her assitant, buy most of the food used at the pound, with 1 their own funds, because of the shortage in the pound budget. S3O a Month in Budget “We only have about S3O a month j in the budget for food, and that all goes for meat, and it’s not spoiled meat, either—like some people charge—it comes right out of a butcher’s electric cooler,” Dr. Conger said. In addition, she employs with her own funds a woman four days a week to help at the pound, costing her about $lO a week, and feeds and gives spending money from her own purse to a night man. There are three employes of the pound paid by the city. “I’ll admit I don’t kill every dog we get after five days,” she said. “Some of these waifs are valuable dogs and can be sold. We took in SSO last week from the sale of dogs, and the annual receipts are from $1,700 to SI,BOO, which makes up a large part of the $6,800 budget. “There’s ‘Old Man River’,” she said, pointing to an aged beagle. “He's been here seven months and I won't destroy him. I'm going to resign and take him with me. I’ve been trying to trade my home for a country place in order to give some of these waifs a home for life.”

PRE-ELECTION FEUD STIRS BEECH GROVE Party Is Formed to Seize Reins of Town. Beech Grove was in the throes of a political sued today. After formation of a “Democratic party'’ for the town elections. Nov. 7. Present town officials are members of the 'Progressive party," i which, until the other day, was a unified organization. Edward F. Dux, chairman of the new “Democratic” group, was chairman of the “Progressives,” and met with a group of leaders to confer on plans for nominations. [ An agreement was understood to have been reached not to file any petition for nominees. Insurgents however, filed a petition in the name of the Progressives, and Dux resigned. Approximately 250 members of the former party met, and voted to form a “Democratic" party, enough to hold more than the balance of power in the town voting. U. S. JURY TO REPORT Results of Opening Probes to Be Made Known Friday. Report of the first week's proceedings of the federal grand jury will be made on Friday or Saturday, it was learned at the office of Val Nolan, district attorney, today. The grand jury is expected to recess for the remainder o f the week after taking up' cases in the Evansville and Terre Haute divisions. MIXTURE OF SOAP AND CAMPHOR GOOD FOR ACHING FEET Sweaty, blistered, aching feet, corns, callouses an<U bunions are relieved of pain and tenderness by a mixture of liquid soap, camphor and menthol, fse in foot bath. This toughens tender : skin. For a few cents you can pur- : chase this reliable prescription, already prepared, by asking for a bottle of ; “SHOOT” at Hook's. Haag s. WalI green's and other drug stores. Use J “SHOOT'' twice a week and you will never be troubled with foot misery * again.—Advertisement,

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

PRO FOOTBALL OPENER TONIGHT

is®? -> ■PtßagNßr &gggP M *fc;" v; itoggs. <3 ShM ■ '‘V. • ’lff m

Merle Chambers and Miss Emily Dorgan

This pro football apparently isn’t such a bad pastime after all, if the co-ed support of universities keeps the pace it has during practice sessions. Still clinging to the collegiate atmosphere, girl students of several midwest universities nave been in the Perry stadium grandstands these days for practice.

GETS TERM FOR RACKET Tea and Coffee ‘Agent’ Jailed in Jobs Scheme. Harry Johnson, 18. Norfolk, Va., who, passing as the agent of a tea and coffee company, victimized city persons by promising them jobs in return for orders, today was fined $1 and costs and sentenced to sixty days in jail by Municipal Judge Dewey Myers. , Johnson collected $1 on each order, it was charged, and then disappeared. He was arrested by city police after several complaints had been made to the Better Business Bureau.

'l, Jspp LJ: : wsl Who Keeps These 64 Chairs Filled? A YRES’ DOWNSTAIRS Shoe Department is big! Yet ■ZT- you’ll nearly always find it as busy as the proverbial bee..-. filled by the hundreds of men, women and children who know where to come for FASHION and QUALITY in footwear... at the very lowest possible prices! In the past twelve months 70,171 pairs of shoes “walked out’’—and we’re sure they created 70,171 pairs of “happy feet!” Because we insist upon QUALITY, first and foremost, you’ll find that ALL of our shoes are made of good honest leathers, fashioned by skilled craftsmen, in styles made to really fit a human foot. There are sturdy shoes for men and boys—arch support and style shoes for women —and shoes carefully designed to make your children’s feet healthy and strong! yi In a few days we’ll make definite announcement of our 61st Anniver- ~ sary Sale! There will he bargains in apparel for every member of your family! There will be bargains in rugs, in furniture, in cotton and silk yard goods, in domestics, in draperies! Every item will be new and seasonable—in complete color and size assortments —of Ayres standard quality—offered at very lowest possible prices! ® Downstairs at Ayres ... \Chere Correct Fashion ' TV ■ 1 is JLfxpenswei

When Merle Chambers, quarter back of the Indianapolis Indians, caught a spike on his nose the other day, Miss Emily Dorgan, Northwestern university co- ed, was on hand with the adhesive. The Indians play their first game tonight at the stadium against the Portsmouth Spartans.

CORPS CAMPS CHOSEN Four Sites in Indiana Among 129 Selected for Forest Armies. By United Prexx WASHINGTON, Sept. 12. Civilian Conservation Corps Director Fechner today announced the selection of more than 120 new winter camp sites for the corps to replace those which will be made untenable by severe weather. Further selections will be made after Sept. 15. The new camps included, for Indiana, Shakamak, No. 3; McCormick's Creek, No. 4; Dunes, No. 5; Cliffy Falls, No. 6.

RECEIVER SALE OF CEMETERY ASSETSASKED Obligations of Glen Haven Association Given as $240,801. Receiver's sale of real estate and , other assets of the Glen Haven I Cemetery Association, in order to raise funds to meet obligations, was requested today by John J. Roc Ilford, receiver. In a petition filed with Superior Judge Clarence E. Weir, Rochford, who has been receiver of the association for several years, asked for instructions regarding payment of obligations totaling $240,801.84. Weir ordered a hearing on the case for Sept. 28. and granted Rochford's petition to add eight defendants in the receivership. According to Rochford's petition, interests in the association, -which have been held by the parties, now are void. Additional defendants are the Indiana National bank; Oscar and Walter Fox. from whom some of the ground was purchased; the Columbia Construction Company, the Western Machine Works, the New Augusta Lumber Company, Dwight S. Ritter, an officer of the association, and Eli G. Foster, a trustee. The petition set out that income of the association practically has ceased, and that $62,583.03 remains unpaid on lot purchases. LOSES FIREMAN JOB OVER FALSE ALARM Marion Harrison Discharged in Store Teeth Case. Marion Harrison, city fireman, lost his job Tuesday on order of the safety board, after five men tentatively had identified him as a man who turned in a false alarm of firt a few weeks ago. In an effort to settle a dispute as to identity of the man who turned in the alarm, Harrison had appeared before the board with and without his false teeth, and Tuesday was forced to arrange his hair in the manner in which some witnesses said the other man arranged his. The alarm was turned in from a I box at Bloyd avenue and Rural street.

NAMED TO BANK BOARD

fpr isHml

E, G. Bennett, above, of Ogden. Utah, cattleman and vice-presi-dent of a chain of twenty-eight western banks, has been appointed by President Roosevelt to serve with Comptroller of Currency James F. T. O'Connor and Walter P. Cummings of Chicago as director of the new federal department Insurance corporation. It will handle the insuring of bank deposits.

LIQUOR LEAD BY LEGION URGED

Veterans Asked to Assume Direction of Regulation After Repeal. By Timex Special GREENFIELD, Ind., Sept. 13. Proposal that the American Legion assume leadership in creating uniform liquor regulation machinery, to become operative on repeal of the eighteenth amendment, was adopted unanimously by Hancock post in a meeting here Tuesday night. The proposal, contained in a resolution written by Mayor Arthur C. Downing of Greenfield and Waldo C. Ging, local lawyer and former Hancock county prosecuting attorney, will be placed before the national legion convention to open Oct. 2, its backers announced.

_SEPT. 13, 1933

SLUMS PROJECT THORN IN SIDES OF POLITICIANS Resent Being ‘Out in Cold’ in Direction of Huge Housing Drive. With local Democratic leaders fuming and fretting because they have been “left out in the cold'' in direction of the $5,247,058 federal slufn clearance project for Indianapolis, plans were going ahead today for obtaining the $4,600,000 government loan. Joe Rand Beckett. Republican attorney and realtor, in charge of the program, was busy forming a “responsible committee’ to raise an added $787,058. which is 15 per cent of the federal loan. Formal announcement of the project was made by Harold L. Ickes. public works administrator, at Washington Tuesday. Ickes. in outlining plans, asserted a limited dividend corporation would underwrite the raising of the $787,058. Approximately 1,100 men will be employed for a year in direct work on the project, said Ickes, with about the same number employed elsewhere in the production of materials. The deevlopment, here, Ickes revealed. has been planned solely for Negroes. The rebuilding program here will take place in the Negro section in the northwest part of the city DRAIN AGE DITCH ASK E D Wayne Township Seeks Improvement on High School Road Construction of a drainage ditch on the west side of High School road, from the Rockville road to the Big Four tracks, is asked in a petition filed in circuit court by Wayne township residents The petition asks for a tile drainage ditch along the road and lateral ditches to complete the project ‘CLEAN SWEEP’ IS MADE Not a Garment Left by Burglars in Cleaner’s Shop. Shop of the Cozy Cleaners. 4128 East Michigan street, was cleaned thoroughly by burglars Tuesday night. Not a garment was in the shop when opened this morning, according to a report to police by the manager, George Barton, 3055 Ralston avenue. Entrance was gained • through a rear door.