Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 119, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 September 1933 — Page 3

SEPT. 27, 1933

WAR MOTHERS IN THIRD DAT OF CONVENTION Attendance Exceeds 600 as Business Session Gets Under Way. Business activities again were in the spotlight this morning, as the American War Mothers opened the third day of their biennial convention at the Claypool, w hich will continue through Saturday. The registration, which Monday night numbered only about 300, doubled Tuesday, and more than 600 American War Mothers and Gold Star Mothers were on hand this morning. Business sessions were resumed at 930 in the Claypool auditorium. With Mrs. Stone presiding The morning session included the advance of colors, devotional by Mrs. W. H Mackey, national chaplain; a salute to the flag; community singing under direction of Mrs Camille Fleig; report of the credentials committee and reading of national constitution and bylaws by Mrs. Lottie Haase, New Yok. Adjournment was at noon. The session was to re-open at 1 with Mrs. Stone again presiding. This afternoon's program includes acceptance of the by-laws; report of the national treasurer, Mrs. Howard Boone; reports of the national corresponding secretary, Mrs. Mary’ I. Huntington. Washington; music by the Friedens Octet, composed ol four sets of sisters, and retiring of colors. Adjournment will be at 5:30. Legion to Give Dinner A dinner and ball, sponsored bv the Twelfth district, American Legion, for the entire delegation of War Mothers will be held at 7:30 tonight in the rotunda of the statehouse. State and national officers of the legion will be present to greet the mothers The business sessions will continue through Thursday. Features of the days program, however, will be a reception and tea at the home of Governor Paul V. McNutt, from 2 to 4. and the parade of the allied colors to be held at 4:45 at the Indiana War Memorial plaza. The dedication of the grove at Riverside park, scheduled to be held at 7:30 this morning was called off because of inclement weather. Feature of Friday's program w’ill be election of national officers during the morning business session. The officers will be installed Saturday morning, the last day of the convention. Formal opening of the convention was held Tuesday morning at the Claypool, under direction of Mrs. Hahn. Indiana state president and general chairman of the national convention committee. A luncheon was held at noon at the Columbia Club for all Gold Star Mothers. Business sessions were held in the afternoon and a dinner in honor of national officers was held at 6:30 in the Claypool Florentine room through the courtesy of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, with Mr. and Mrs. Otto P. Deluse as host and hostess. Hear Radio Address The NRA program was held at 8:45 in the Claypool Riley room, and the speech of Brigadier-General William I. Westervelt, director of marketing and processing for the agricultural adjustment administration. over Station WKBF. was heard by the War Mothers over the radio. General Westervelt declared that ‘•Today's battle for recovery is being fought on seven distinct major fronts, the reforestation program, agricultural relief, property mortgage relief, the NRA, public works administration, the reconstruction finance corporation and federal relief administration. “To you. the mothers of heroes, there must come again something of the old thrill as you realize that on the outcome of this war hangs the future of our American nation,’’ he said. "For what is happening now will affect the lives of our children’s children for perhaps hundreds of years.’’ He called special attention to the “insidious enemies within our land who are seeking only advantage for themselves, while others around them are sacrificing with gladness j of heart and nobility of purpose.”

SIOO DOG LOSES LIFE IN RENEWAL OF POISONING Law for Registering Sales of Deadly Substances Finding Favor. Movement to obtain enactment of a law requiring registration of all poison sales was given support today by dog owners as result of renewal of activities of dog poisoners. A German shepherd dog. valued at SIOO. died of strychnine poisoning, police were notified Tuesday by Mrs. Josephine Webb. 6315 Central avenue. Mrs. Theodore Allebrandt, Warfleigh Beach, reported her dog was poisoned Several other dogs in the vicinity also have been reported poisoned in the last few days. CITY STUDENTS ON LIST Commissions Granted Eight in R. O. T. C. at Indiana. Eight Indianapolis students have received commissions as cadet officers in the Indiana university ROT C.. Coionel W. R. Standiferd. newly appointed commandant cf the university's military department. announced today. The eight are: Kal Winter, major: Norman E. Parnell and Otto McKeever. captain: Walter H Edwards Jr. and Hey don W. Buchanan. first lieutenant: John Lalu. Herbert G. Ludlow and Dickinson McGaw. second lieutenant. A AI I. | H Wave omplrt*" j n U WITH IKH Rl.t SHAMPOO. U I TRIM. Stl and KIM.LET EM>> II p EXPERT OPERATORS ONLY n I HELENE CURTIS I |j nio.t ip: ;, , -v"i.^ L, LUi.aiio| y

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Contestants in the "Walkathon” as they entered the county courthouse today and Tuesday to testify in the case through which police hope to stop the long trek at the state fairground. Pictured w’ith the walkers is a trained nurse and a trainer who administered to the weary couples

COUNTY OFFICIALS OPEN CONVENTION Local Delegation to Act as Reception Hosts. Annual convention of the Indiana County Commissioners’ Association opened today at the Severin w’ith an expected attendance of five hun- ; dred commissioners, auditors, surveyors, highway supervisors and other county officials. Registration will be held this' afternoon and will be followed by a reception, at which Marion county commissioners and former commissioners, will be hosts. Thomas H. Ellis, Marion county 1 commissioner, is president of the association, and John E. Shearer, former commissioner, will act as toastmaster at a supper and entertainment tonight. LARDNER LAST RITES WILL BE THURSDAY Funeral of Noted Humorist to Be Conducted Privately. By United Press EAST HAMPTON, N. Y„ Sept. 27. —Private funeral services will be held Thursday for Ring W. Lardner, outstanding American short story writer, humorist and playwright, who died at his Long Island home late Monday night. Following the serivees, the body will be taken to a crematory. Only members of the immediate family, including two of the w’riter’s sons, James and David, w’ho arrived Tues- j day, will attend the services. Mrs. Lardner and two other sons, Ring Jr. and John, were at the bedside when the writer, who started i his newspaper career in South Bend, Ind., died of a heart ailment. LINDBERGH LAUDS ANNE AS ABLE FLYING MATE Flier Has Kind Words for Russia for Absence of Prying Reporters. By United Press MOSCOW, Sept. 27. Colonel Charles A. Lindburg’n, talking with correspondents today, paid tribute i to his wife's collaboration on their | trans-Atlantic exploration flight.. Mrs. Lindburgh proved herself a first-class radio operator and did a “full-time job,’’ he said. Colonel Lindburgh praised Russia as “al- | most the first country where a man can wander freely without dodging cameramen and reporters, a game which becomes tiresome and annoying after the first few’ years.” The Lindburghs will remain here until Friday, sight-seeing and studying Soviet aviation.

VETERAN MAIL CARRIER IN CITY DIES AT HOME Gustav Schmedel, 71, Entered Service in Days of Horse Delivery. Gustav Schmedel. 71. retired postal carrier, died in his home in Edgewood Monday night. At one time Mr. Schmedel, who was more than forty years in the postal service. drove a horse in delivering mail in West Indianapolis. Funeral services will be held In the Bert S. Gadd funeral home at 2 Thursday afternoon. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery’. Mr. Schmedel is survived by his widow, Mrs. Winnie B. Schmedel: two daughters. Mrs. Carl B. Moore of Indianapolis and Mrs. Helen Sandefur of Syracuse. N. Y.; a sister. Mrs. Amelia Mayer of this city, and three grandchildren. RULES ON PROCESS”TAX Revenue Office Order Will Affect Tobacco Wholesalers. Two classifications of tobacco process taxes for purposes of the agricultural adjustment act were announced today by Will H. Smith, internal revenue collector. Wholesalers are required to file a return and pay a tax on floor stock held at the beginning of business cn Oct. 1. 1933. Retailers are required to file a return on floor stock held at the close of business. Oct. 30. 1933, less the quantity received during the month of October, on which the wholesaler and manufacturer already have paid a tax. JOY TAKEN FROM RIDE Two Held to Grand Jury Accused of Using Car Left for Repairs. Two men who admitted joyriding. while intoxicated, in a car left with them for repairs and trading two sps.re tires and wheels worth $l5O for gasoline, today were held to the Marion county grand jury by Municipal Judge Dewey Myers. The men were Robert Vandevanter. 19. and Joim Nicholds. 37. both of 308 North Blackford street. The car was owned by Courtland Martindale. empljye of the Van Camp Hardware and Iron Company. The wheels and tires have not been recovered. \

as they circled about the corridors outside superior courtroom four, nearing completion of the 200th hour of walking. Two Indianapolis couples were among the group, which lent a musical comedy atmosphere to the hall of justice.

FORGER GOES TO FARM Says Hunger Drove Him to Sign McNutt's Name to Check. Cashing a check bearing the fraudulent signature of Governor Paul V. McNutt will result in Carl Claytcn, Blias A. J. Bailey, 328 West South street, spending the next seventy-one days on the penal farm. Admitting cashing the $22.50 fraudulent check, Clayton said he w’as hungry and needed money. WOMAN INJURED AS TROLLEY, AUTO CRASH Miss Edith Fletcher, 35, Is Hurt as Brakes Fail. Miss Edith Fletcher. 35. of 1417 North Hamilton avenue, was injured seriously today when the car she was driving was in collision with a street car at Hamilton and Brookside avenues. Miss Fletcher, who is believed to have suffered a skull fracture, said her brakes failed to work. Miss Paula Holt, 17, of 1413 North Hamilton avenue, a passenger in the car, was injured on the shoulder. Both w’ere sent to city hospital. The street car was operated by Clarence Stanley, 35, of 1029 North Keystone avenue.

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POLICE AUTO CRASH RESOLTS IN S5 FINE Driver of Other Car Caused Injury of Three. Harry Geisendanner, 25, of 2140 Carrollton avenue, was fined $5 and costs by Municipal Judge Dewey Myers today as result of a collision in which a police car was struck and three occupants injured July 29. Those injured were Patrolmen Thomas Carter and Clinton Robeson. and Mrs. Phoebe Tingle, 328 North Davidson street, who was being taken to the hospital by the officers. Geisendanner was charged w’ith reckless driving and failure to give a police car right r? way. Frank Payne, 39, of R. R. 3, Box 263, Ben Davis, w’as fined $lO and costs and given thirty days in jail, the days suspended, on a charge of drunken driving. Similar sentence was given to John Sasik, 1015 North Haugh street, on the same charge. Baby Dies of Auto Injuries By United Press LA PORTE, Ind.. Sept. 27.—The 6-month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Shriver, Plymouth, died in a hospital here Tuesday night from a skull fracture received W’hen an automobile her mother was driving skidded on wet pavement near Wanatah.

WOMAN DEAD AS RESULT OF AUTOINJURIES Louisville Resident, 72, Succumbs to Hurts at City Hospital. Injuries sustained in an automo- ' bile accident Aug. 24 at Thirty-first street and Northwestern avenue caused the death of Mrs. Emily Fullilove, 72, of Louisville, at city hospital late Tuesday night. Mrs. Fullilove was injured when she stepped in front of a car driven by Cecil Wisenberg, 22, of 1257 West Thirty-third street, while crossing Northwestern avenue to visit a cousin, Mrs. Clayton H. Bush of 550 West Thirty-first street. Naval Officer’s Wife Hurt Skidding from street car tracks into a pole in the 1600 block of West Washington street Tuesday, Lieut. J. H. Duncan, 37, of the United States navy, Washington, driver, escaped injuries, but his w’ife was hurled out of the car and suffered bruises and cuts of the arms, hips and chest. Their daughter, Jane Duncan, 6, w’as cut by broken glass. Dick Veller. 45. of 7*v North West street, suffered lacerations of the head when he walked against the side of a truck driven by Joseph Cannon. 920 North Alabama street, at West and Washington streets | Tuesday. He w’as treated at city ! hospital. Woman Incurs Injuries When a car driven by her husband, Donald Clark, struck a safety zone guard at Cruse and Washington streets Tuesday, Mrs. Oneida Clark, 32, of 1409 North La Salle street, suffered cuts and bruises of the face. Fred Hays, 67, of 826 College avenue, suffered bruises when he w r as struck by a car driven by Aaron Gibbs, 24, of 1204 Park avenue, who told police that Hays walked against the side of the car.

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‘What Price Life?’ Youth Tells Falsehood to Obtain .$5; Dies as Climax of Blind Ruse for Sympathy.

By United Press NEW YORK. Sept. 27.—Joseph Gregorovic. 19. was dead today, and his chum. Louis Gelenka, was in trouble because Joseph spent $5 that did not belong to him and then tried to hide it from his father. Joseph wanted some money. He went to the neighborhood grocery store and told the grocer his mother needed $5. "Put it on the bill and my ,

father will pay it," he said. Joseph spent the money, but the time approached for his father to j settle the weekly grobery bill. He sought out Louis. “You know what the old man will say when he learns I spent $5.” Joseph said. “Look. I've got a .22 rifle. Let's go up on the roof, and you can shoot me in the arm. not seriously . . .” “Nothing doing," Louis replied. “I don't want to take a chance." “Aw, you don't need to hurt me —just a flesh wound. I'll go to the hospital and tell them that a gangster shot me while I was walking along the street . . .” The boys w’ent to the roof of the apartment house w’here Louis lives. Louis aimed at Joe's arm and pulled the trigger. Joe fell. “It's all right, Louis.” Joe told him, ‘‘l'm not hurt bad. You go on home and I'll go to the hospital." Louis went home but Tuesday he went up on the roof. Joe w’as dead from a wound in his chest. OUSTED AUTO LICENSE DEALER'S SHOES FILLED South Bend Man Who Opposed McNutt Regime Is Replaced. By United Press SOUTH BEND, Ind., Sept. 27 The St. Joseph county automobile license bureau opened today w’ith a new staff of employes headed by B. J. McCaffery, appointee of Governor Paul V. McNutt. Mr. McCaffery succeeds Ralph Wetsel, who was unsuccessful in fighting his removal by the administration. Mr. Wetsel carried his case to federal court, which ruled that Mr. McNutt was empowered to replace him.

BOY ‘ADVENTURERS' NABBED RIDING RODS Frankfort Youths Meet Stumbling Block in Thrill Search. Adventure and the domance of foreign lands called to Leroy Cottengain, 12, and Don Downs. 11. Leaving their comfortable homes in Frankfort, the youths succumbed to wanderlust and set out to be soldiers of fortune. Hopping a freight train at Frankfort Tuesday, the youthful travelers met a stumbling block in the form of Indianapolis police. They were placed in the detention home Tuesday night and held for their parents.

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STAFF MEMBER AT SHORTRIDGE HURT IN CRASH Mrs. Blanche Rawlings Is Injured in Smashup on North Side. Obstruction of view by shrubbcfy at Fifty-seventh and Pennsylvania streets, was blamed for an automobile collision today, injuring two persons. Those injured were Mrs Blanche Rawlings. 6240 Central avenue, Shortridge high school English teacher, driver of one of the cars, and Miss Nora Abel, 6238 Centra? avenue, employed at Legion headquarters. Mrs. Rawlings was injured on the right leg and wrist, while Miss Abel sustained a severe cut on the lip. when their car was overturned. They were taken to their homes and treated by a physician.