Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 122, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 September 1933 Edition 02 — Page 3

SEPT. 30, 1933.

WAR MOTHERS f WILL INSTALL NEW OFFICERS Connersville Woman Named National President at Convention. Installation of new national officers elected Friday was to be the important feature of today’s propram of the eiphth biennial convention of the American War Mothers, meeting in the Claypool. In the election Friday, Mrs. William E. Ochiltree, Connersville, recording secretary of the War Mothers was elected national president. Mrs. Corabelle Francis. Cambridge, Mass. was the only other candidate for the presidency. Other officers elected Friday were Mrs Howard C Boone. Kansas City. Mo. first vice-president; Mrs. Elizabeth Martin. Thiensville, Wis., second vice-president; Mrs. R. E. Ridenhour. Concord. N. C., third vicepresident. and Mrs. ,J. C. Scheider, New York, fourth vice-president. Night Sessions Postponed A night session, at which other officers were to be elected Friday night, was postponed and the election was held at this morning's session. Those elected included: Mrs. Irving Fairweather, Wallace, 0., recording secretary; Mrs. Cora Purcell, Denver, Colo., treasurer; Mrs. Eleanor Wagner, Washington, custodian of records; Mrs. Norman Smith, Clarksville. Tenn . chaplain, and Mrs. J. E. Wilcox, Bancroft, Kan., historian. A sightseeing tour of the city scheduled for this morning through courtesy of the ladies’ auxiliary of tiie Veterans of Forrign Wars was postponed until 1 this afternoon. New business will be discussed during this afternoon's session preceding the installation of the new officers. Last official business before “taps," was to be the placing of the national wreath at the cenotaph of the Indiana War memorial honoring Indiana's hero dead. Membership Shows Gain Much of Friday's sessions was taken up with the reports of national officers and committee chairmen. Mrs. Allie Manning, Los Angeles, membership committee chairman, reported that total membership of the organization now stands at 10.750, a gain of 859 during the last two years. A dinner and entertainment pro- 1 gram was held Friday night in the Claypool Riley room. Mrs. Ochiltree, the new president, has been in active service to the War Mothers sixteen years. She has been engaged in club and socoal work for the last forty years, and for that reason is considered well fitted for the high position she has attained. Two Sons in War Mrs. Ochiltree was born In Williamsburg, 0., but came to Connersville in 1889 with her husband, an attorney, and has resided there since. She helped organize the first free kindergarten and many social clubs there. Two sons. Lieutenant W. N. Ochiltree and Sergeant Bert J. Ochiltree saw service during the World war. i Both were of the Three hundred I and fifty-fifth infantry. The former died several years ago and the lat- I ter still is living. He resides in Connersville. DISPLAY OF SCREENS SHOWN AT INSTITUTE Mayer to Lecture on Egyptian Art Tuesday and Thursday. Special display of Japanese screens Is on view at the John Herron Art Institute, it was announced today by Wilbur D. Peat, director. The in-1 stitute is open week days from 9 to | 5. and in addition, from 7 to 10 Wednesday night. Sunday and holiday hours are 1 to 8 p. m. Subject of Henrik Mayer, art school lecturer, next week will be “The Expressive Phases of Egyptian and Assyrian Art.” He will speak at 11 Tuesday and Thursday. Saturday classes open to the public were to be started today with Forrest Stark. Oakley Richey and Edward Dunlap as the staff. MISSING CITY MAN IS FOUND RESTING IN BARN L. F. Powell Located Near Noblesville; “Tired" Only Explanation. Missing since Wednesday. L. F. Powell. 67, of 648 East Sixteenth street, was found Friday night in a ' barn nine miles south of Noblesville. His only explanation was that he stopped in the barn when he became tired. Mr. Powell came to Indianapolis a week ago from Bedford, his former home, to live at the East Sixteenth street address with his son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. ! Dwight Powell. ANNUAL PARLEY ENDED BY MUNICIPAL LEAGUE Crawfordsville Man Elected as Head at Final Session. it'/ United Press BEDFORD. Ind., Sept. 30.—Mayor Thomas L. Cooksey. Crawfordsville. was re-elected president of the j Municipal League of Indiana at the close of the annual meeting here. New officers are Mayor Henry S. ; Murray. Bedford, first vice-presi-dent: Mary Kennedy. Richmond, second vice-president; Silk Spurgeon. Kokomo, secretary, and Mayor Karl Volland. Columbus treasurer Ft. Wayne was selected as the 1934 convention city. DEAD IN AUTO CRASH Five Companions Hurt. One Critically. in Collision Near Jasper. By United Press JASPER. Ind., Sept. 30.—Gus- 1 tavius Murphy. Battle Creek. Mich., was killed instantly and five companions were injured in an automobile collision near here Friday. Frank Habig. Jasper, passenger in the other automobile, was reported hurt critically. Murphy's passengers, brought to j a local hospital, were Mr. and Mrs. Guy C. Barrett. Eton Roberts, Mich.; Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Loving. Rocky Mountains, N. C, and Miss Hazel Hilton, Winston-Salem, N. C.

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SI 00,000 SPEED PRIZE RETURNS 500-Mile Race Purse Is Put Back to Size of Former Days. The SIOO,OOO pot of gold of predepression days again will dangle at the end of automobile racing's rainbow in the annual 500-mile race here on next May 30. Officials of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway today announced the return to the traditional basic prize purse of $50,000, a sixty-six and two-thirds per cent increase over this year’s award of $30,000. Consolation money always added by the Speedway, cash lap prizes from the automotive industry, accessory and other purses, will swell the amount to approximately the SIOO,OOO total. The announcement is expected to have an immediate effect on race car owners, encouraging them in the construction of new speedsters for the competition. The most important of the new regulations restrict the starting field to thirty-three instead of forty-two cars and limit the cars to forty-five gallons of fuel for the entire race. PHYSICIANS TO MEET Medical Society to Open Season at Session Tuesday. The Indianapolis Medical Society will open its fall activities with a meeting at the Athenaeum Tuesday, at 8:15 P. M. After a talk by Dr. Walter F. KeUy, president of the society, a lecture on “Detachment of the Retina” will be given by Dr. D. Hamilton Row. Dr. W. F. Clevenger also will speak, his subject being “Modern Phases of Sinus Abnormalcy." The program will be concluded with a discussion by Dr. Bernard Larkin, and Dr. John Cunningham.

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strated in the overcrowded conditions of both clubs. Only twenty-four boys were to be given opportunity to be in the “cooking club.” When Mrs. Elizabeth Witt, principal, went on a tour of inspection of the club work, during the first week of school, she found the class was over-crowded, and she had to use her best “sales talk” to persuade a group of the boys to join another type of club. The same situation existed in the manual training department. The girls showed a marked preference for working with pieces of wood, nails and varnish brushes to raising their voices in the chorus club. There was a decided lack of a desire for such a lady-like procedure. “We want them all to be happy in this club work,” Mrs. Witt explains. “After all, it doesn’t make so much difference what you choose to do, just so you get to exert that right to choose once in a while. For that reason, we dislike to influence any of the boys or girls to change their course, unless it is necessary. So far as possible, we shall let them retain their membership in the club of their choice.”

organization reached wartime proportions. More than five hundred delegates attended. Among the speakers at the conference were Miss Mabel T. Boardman, Washington, national secretary of the Red Cross, and a member of the central national committee; William Fortune, chairman of the Indianapolis chapter, and also a member of the central national committee and William H. Book, director of the state unemployment relief commission. State activities closed Friday. Home hygiene instructors were to hold a conference today, under the direction of Miss Margaret E. Dizney, nursing field representative, I and Miss Helen Teal, executive sec- ! retary of the Indiana State Nurses’ Association. BUDDIES CLUB TO DANCE Beauty Contest to Be Held Tonight at Kirshbaum Center. A dance and beauty contest will be held at 9 tonight by the Buddies Club at the Kirshbaum center. Art Rose will be master of ceremonies and Ace Berry, theater manager, and Walter Hickman, Times theater critic, will act as judges in the beauty contest. S. J. Kagan is 1 chairman of the committee in charge.

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MORGAN'S FIRM NAMEDIN SUIT Packing Company Accused in Dispute Over Contracts. Alleging that the Morgan Packing Company, Austin, of which Ivan Morgan, former Republican state chairman is president, is persuading Indiana farmers to break their contracts with the Ladoga Canning Company, the Ladoga concern filed suit in circuit court Friday for an injunction.. W. Lindley, New Albany, a Morgan employe is accused of having an agreement with the Grower’s Finance Corporation of Indianapolis, using that firm's office as headquarters to buy tomatoes for his company and having the tomatoes unloaded and shipped to Morgan from their property. The suit also charges that the Morgan company is violating the canner’s code under the NRA, which now is under consideration in Washington. Besides those already mentioned, the defendants are: Joseph Morgan, partner of Ivan; Chester C.Kearns, a Morgan employe; Ray Howell, operator of the Farmer’s commission compz.ny, 320 east South street, a tomato broker for Morgan; Estal Eggers, an employe of Lindley, and Stewart and Lowell Pritchett, Hendricks county farmers, who are accused of breaking their contracts with the Ladoga company. 18 JEWISH EDUCATORS OUSTED IN GERMANY Veterans’ League Edits Brings Dismissal of Professors. By United Press BERLIN, Sept. 30.—Twenty-two professors were dismissed today from various universities, eighteen because they were Jews and four on political grounds. The action followed an edict by General Horn, president cf the Kuffhauser War Veterans’ League, ordering the exclusion of all Jews who fought under the German flag in the World war.

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M'KEE JUMPS INTO NEW YORK MAYORBATTLE Opens Race by Attacks on Tammany's O'Brien and La Guardia. By United Press NEW YORK. Sept. 30.—After a week of political jockeying, Joseph V. McKee, a young man who dazzled the citizens as acting mayor last year by advocating municipal economy, today was a candidate for mayor. He announced his candidacy with a flourish of anti-Tammany trumpetings Friday and tossed in a phrase or two of choice anathema for Fiorello La Guardia. the liberal Republican, who is running under the fusion banner. His decision to run produces three candidates in the field artd brought consternation and confusion to the amalgamation of Republicans and anti-Tammany Democrats who had hoped to present a united front against Mayor John P. O'Brien, Tammany Hall's heavyjowled nominee. History of Rivals The political lineup for the mayoralty election on Nov. 7 is as follows: John P. O'Brien, regular (Tammany) candidate; has served one year through his special elecion in 1932, following the collapse of the James J. Walker regime; he is a former surrogate, addicted to pleasant speeches and cheerful optimism; he is backed by John F. Curry, boss of the Hall, and Curry's ally, John H. McCooey of Brooklyn. Joseph V. McKee, former president of the board of aldermen, and acting mayor in the interregnum between Walker and O'Brien; his popularity attested by the fact that that nearly 250.000 voters wrote in his name on the 1932 ballot for mayor, although he wasn't running. He is a protege of Edward J. Flynn, Bronx Democratic leader, who is close to Postmaster-General James A. Farley and the national administration. Fiorello La Guardia, fiery ex-con-gressman, is technically a Republican, but friendly to many of President Roosevelt’s measures. He is backed by Republicans, anti-Tam-many Democrats and the powerful group whose leadership brought about the resignation of the humorous Jimmy Walker and his replacement by the humorless John O'Brien. Blames Tammany Corruption “An arrogant leadership of stupidity and corruption, unmatched since the days of Tweed,” McKee called the Tammany regime. “Asa result of their complete control of our municipal government, New York today is on the threshold of bankruptcy . . . and its obligations brought to the point of default and dishonor. . . . Their leadership has been marked by incompetency, stupidity and utter callousness for public opinion and a total disregard of decent standards in political life.” McKee paid his compliments to La Guardia in these phrases: “There is no real fusion in this campaign. The so-called fusion standard bearer is as objectionable to the solid element of our Republican citizenry as he is to the- vast army of Democrats who are disgusted with machine politics. The present fusion candidate is a poor compromise by a faction of wouldbe bosses.” POSTER CLASS TO OPEN W. L. Winning to Begin 25th Year as Instructor at Y. Beginning his twenty-fifth year as teacher of the show-card writing and poster-making class of the Central Y. M. C. A. evening schools, W. L. Winning of the Winning advertising service will hold the first class of the semester Monday night, Oct. 2.

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NEGRO THEFT SUSPECT SHOT Victim of Shotgun Blast in Serious Condition at Hospital. George WiUiams, 20, Negro, living in the 1600 block, Shelton street, is in a serious condition at city hospital as a result of a shotgun wound received early today when he and a companion were said to have been interrupted in an attempt to steal an automobile. The shot was fired by Garnice Eaton, 2124 Bellefontaine street. Full charge from the gun struck Williams in the back and right hand. In a statement to police, Mr. Eaton said that when he came home shortly after midnight, he saw two Negroes in an alley pushing an automobile belonging to William Bowman, 2132 Bellefontaine street. Going into his home, Mr. Eaton obtained a shotgun and watched the Negroes. Leaving the Bowman car, they came into the yaid of Mr. Eaton’s home and as they raised the hood of his automobile, he fired. Companion of Williams escaped.

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MRS. TALMADGE, MOTHER OF 3 STARS, IS DEAD Woman Who Led Norma, Constance and Natalie to Fame Is Taken. By T’nited Pres HOLLYWOOD. Sept. 30— Mrs. Margaret (Peg) Talmadge, who guided three daughters to motion picturp fame, died in Hollywood hospital of pneumonia Friday. The mother of Norma, Constance and Natalie Talmadge was stricken last week at her Santa Monica beach home. Her three daughters were at her bedside. Norma, estranged wife of Joseph Schenck, motion picture producer, arrived Wednesday by plane from the east. Constance, likewise, cut short a Chicago visit to rush to her mother's side. Mrs. Talmadge. while never a professional herself, played a large part in the screen success of her daughters. She started them in motion pictures. Norma in 1914, and Constance and Natalie a year later. From the outset of their careers, she refused to be separated from them. Natalie, the third daughter, is known to screen fans as the former wife of Buster Keaton, the comedian. Constance is married to Townsend Netcher of Chicago. Mrs. Talmadge was a former resident of Niagara Falls, N. Y., and Brooklyn. BOY SHOWS SKILL: FRIEND SHOT IN KNEE Fast Draw Demonstration Results in Bullet Wound. Demonstration by a friend of speed on the “draw” of a pistol, resulted in Jack Clark, 16, of 51 North Oriental street. Apartment 9. receiving a bullet wound in the right knee Friday night. Clark was at the home of Patrolman Roy Reeves, 1337 East Market street, when a son of the officer, Roy Jr., 16, was handling a .22caliber pistol. As Reeves jerked the weapon from a holster, it feel to the floor and discharged. KINDERGARTEN TO OPEN First on South Side Will Accept Children Between 3 and 5. First private kindergarten on the south side will be opened Monday by Mrs. Lucile Griffith Rothermel, in a newly decorated room of the Edwin Ray Methodist church, Woodlawn avenue and Laurel street. Enrollment of twenty is expected to start. Children between the ages of 3 and 5 are accepted.