Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 149, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 November 1933 — Page 3

NOV. 1, 1933.

THREE BANDIT SUSPECTS HELD TO COUNTY JURY Detectives Claim Two Men, Woman Admit Part in Robberies. Arraigned before Municipal Judge Dewey E. Myers this morning, two men and a woman, held in connection with recent holdups, waived examination and were bound over to the grand juryThe fourth man, Albert Birch 2002 North Capitol avenue, has been held since Sunday on Vagrancy charges and will appear in court Friday. William Saunders, 21, of 121 East Twenty-first street, charged with conspiracy, auto banditry and robberv. was bound to the grand Jury under $5,000 bond. Placed Under $2,000 Bond Held on similar charges. Guy Marlette. 1716 North Meridian, and Mrs. Julia .Rodocker Knox, 1734 North Meridian street, likewise waived examination and were bound to the grand Jury under $2,000 bonds. Detectives said they had obtained statements from each of the four, and that Saunders had admitted a previous petit larceny conviction. Ten holdups here and two in Kansas City are said by detectives to have been admitted by Saunders, who implicated Birch in several of the robberies. Denies Getting $2,500 Marlrtte and Mrs Knox confessed to working with Saunders only in the holdup of the restaurant of John Rodocker. Mrs. Knox’s father, at 618 East Walnut street, detectives said Although $2,500 was reported taken from Harry Schubert, who occupied desk space in the restaurant to cash pay checks of factory workers. Saunders said he obtained only $1,300, detectives said. Saunders and Mrs. Knox charge that Marlette planned the restaurant holdup and arranged for Saunders to escape in Marlette’s ear, parked nearby, while Mrs. Knox and Marietta were herded into the basement with customers and restaurant employes. Robberies Listed Saunders was arrested yesterday in an alleged attempt to hold up the Williams hot°l, Washington street and Senate avenue. Other holdups admitted by Saunders, according to detectives, were at: Standard grocery. 709 East Fiftyfourth street. Sept. 3; E M. Dopp pharmacy. 4620 East Michigan street. Sept. 4; Pigglv-Wiggly grocery. Forty-second street and College avenue; Kroger grocery, 2304 Central avenue. Sept. 10; Massey pharmacy, 2401 East Tenth street. Oct. 21; City fruit store. 3522 College avenue, Oct. 26; Lee pharmacy 1058 Fairfield avenue, Oct. 26. Single-handed. Saunders said he held up the Meeker hotel and obtained SBO on Oct. 24.

POLITICS BLAMED BY REMY IN CRIME TALK Universal Club Speaker Pleads for Unhampered Police Force. No hope exists for a cessation of Indiana's crime wave until there is a separation of politics from police affairs, William H. Remv, former Marion county prosecutor, said at the Universal Club luncheon in the Columbia Club yesterday. “We select too many policemen because they have been able to carry precincts, and we never are going to catch criminals with such men," Mr. Remy declared. PEAT TO LECTURE AT HERRON ART INSTITUTE Paintings to Be Analyzed by Director in Address Next Week. Paintings by Leonardo Da Vinci. El Greco. Whistler and Cezanne will be analyzed in a lecture by Wilbur Peat at the John Herron Art Institute. at 8 p m. Wednesday. “The Painter's Point of View,” is the title of Mr. Peat's talk which will be illustrated. The approach of the artists to their work, as well as their relationships to the public, will form the basis of the discussion to follow the talk. PARKED AUTOS ROBBED Thieves Get (oat and Clarinet From Car at Fairground. An overcoat and a clarinet, valued at $75. were stolen from an automobile owned by J. Edward Meier, R. R. 10, Box 241, while he was parked at the state fairground early today. Also stolen from a car parked at the fairground today were two raincoats and 1.000 paper plates valued at $lO. from a car owned by S. R. Sweeney. 421 East Washington street. Automobile Is Looted A merchandise box valued at sl2 and an overcoat valued at Sls were stolen from an automobile owned bv Morris Beck. 1293 North Warman avenue, parked at Washington street and Capitol avenue, last night.

Love for Dog Brings Death to Two at Lake

Man. Wife Fatally Burned Trying to Rescue Pet From Wire. Love for a pet dog caused the death yesterday of Mr. and Mrs. Crest on Paine at Lake Wawasee, according to messages received in Indianapolis by Mrs. Paine's mother, Mrs. Llewellyn Tens. 3210 Ruckle street. The bodies of the couple were found in flames in a marsh near a golf course at Lake Wawasee. Beneath them were the charred bodies of their pet dog and an opossum. They were discovered by William W. Irwin, golf course manager,

VIGILANTE SYSTEM OUTLINED TO CURB CRIME OUTBREAKS

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MONDAY NAMED TAX DEADLINE 75 Per Cent of County Levy Is Due, Says Sexton, County Treasurer. With Monday the deadline for paying the fall installment of taxes, collections today were less than 25 per cent, County Treasurer Timothy P. Sexton said today, warning of a last minute rush. Up to today, only $2,267,284 had been collected, the average fall installment collection being about $11,000,000. Several additional "windows have been provided to speed handling of the inevitable long lines of last minute taxpayers. MRS, FOLSOM DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS Funeral Rites to Be Held at Church. Mrs. Josephine B. Folsom, 84, died yesterday in her home, 2121 Ringgold avenue. She had been ill four years. Funeral services will be held in the Wald funeral home at 8:15 Friday morning and at 9 in St. Catherine’s Catholic church. Burial will be in Holy Cross cemetery. Surviving her are two sister, Mrs. Mary A. Miller and Mrs. Lena K. Koritzer, both of Indianapolis. AUTO LOOTED BY THIEF Two Overcoats Valued at SSO Are Reported Stolen. Breaking the door of an automobile parked at Market and California streets last night, a thief stole two topcoats valued at SSO and two pairs of gloves valued at $4. The car was owned by Eugene Fleece, 428 West Forty-street. Dramatic C’lub Formed Many Cathedral students and alumni are members of "The Barnstormers." a dramatic club, organized by a Cathedral graduate, Robert Maloy, director of the club's productions. Pickpocket Gets S2B O L. W’ebb. 2428 Park avenue, reported to police that, his pocket had been picked of S2B while walking among the Halloween revelers last night between the Claypool and Meridian street.

Arm Citizens to Halt Crime Wave, Advises Shanghai Vigilante Veteran

City Man Recalls Ringing of All Phones to Spread Alarm. BY BASIL GALLAGHER Times Staff Writer Pith-helmeted and dressed m tropical garb, an Englishman and an American stood at the bar in the canteen of the Shanghai special police in the Chinese city. It was a hot summer evening in 1927 and the two volunteer policemen. refreshing themselves after a hard day of helping to suppress Communist riots, were about to go home. Suddenly the shrill scream of a

when he investigated the fire in the marsh. Mr. and Mrs Paine apparently had been killed when they tried to rescue the dog. which, while chasing the opossum, had come in contact with an electric wire carrying 4.000 volts. The wire was a feeder wire from a commercial power plant. For the last month, Mr. and Mrs. Paine had occupied a cottage at Lake Wawasee. They had been playing on the golf course at the lake adjoining the marsh when the accident occurred. Mrs Paine was a former resident of Indianapolis. She is survived by her mother, Mrs. Tevis, and a sister. Mrs. H. L. Sunderland. Mrs. Tevis and Mrs. Sunderland left this morning for Lake Wawasee,

notice in case of a bandit chase. The sheriff of each c... . „n; ed a vigilante composed c. Y. l.m'.ccrs and American Legion members who will funs'ion under this plan.

Nice Riot Mitchells Go Out for the Evening—Land in Jail.

THE Mitchell boys were out for an evening last night and as a result three of them and a friend were arrested following two riot calls early today at the Walkathon in the Manufacturers’ building at the state fairground. Under arrest on charges of inciting a riot, resisting an officer and possession of liquor are Guy Mitchell, 21, of 1355 Marlow avenue; Randall Mitchell, 20, of 1129 East Michigan street; Guy Mitchell, 19, of 242 North Highland avenue, and Paul Wildhaimer, 19, of 510 Dorman street. The arrests were made by a squad of state police under Lieutenant Hinkle after the state police and deputy sheriffs answered riot calls shortly after 3 a. m. and 5 a. m. a a a CALLS to city police headquarters were unavailing with Captain Jess McMurtry scoffing at appeals for help. * ‘‘Why, we can’t go to the Walkathon because there’s a court order against us interfering with it. Why don’t you try the sheriff’s office or the state police?’’ Captain McMurtry answered. Captain McMurtry referred to Chief Mike Morrissey's unsuccessful efforts to stop the Walkathon in which the chief, the police and safety board were restrained from acting on the contention that the fairground is state property and hence city police have no jurisdiction. Walkathon officials said the trouble grew out of drinking by the arrested quartet, one of whom, Guy Mitchell, was slugged and had to be treated at city hospital. a a a YOUNG MITCHELL declared today at police headquarters that twenty stitches were taken in a scalp wound as the result of several blows or the head with an iron pipe in the hands of a Walkathon employe. Mitchell asserted the trouble grew out of altercation in which Jacksoh Mitchell engaged with another Walkathon spectator. The cases will be heard Thursday afternoon in municipal court four. Puppet Show' Scheduled Beech Grove Parent-Teacher Association wall sponsor a puppet show in the school auditorium at 7:30 Thursday. The playlet will be presented by Miss Maxine McKay and Harry Fowler of the John Herron Art institute.

siren pierced the air. The telephone in the canteen and every other telephone in Shanghai rang simultaneously for one minute. “The Communists again," said Gardner Forster of Indianapolis, the American volunteer policeman, laconically. “I suppose so.” said the Englishman, “but here, old chap, finish your drink. One always shoots best after the third drink." In ten minutes, the city of Shanghai was an armed camp. Two thousand five hundred volunteer policemen in the city had heard the alarm, broadcast by the one-minute telephone ring, as had Mr. Forster and his British companion. In addition to the volunteers more than five thousand regular policemen were on their way to the scene of trouble or were telephoning their precinct headquarters, for instructions. Business men—volunteers in the Shanghai special police—were donning uniforms hastily or pulling on arm bands which distinguished them as policemen. All hands raced to a building on the Yangste Poo. in the shipping district, where it was found a band of kidnapers, heavily armed, had barricaded themselves. “We shot it out with them for quite a while," said Mr. Forster today, “and eventually captured them. They had kidnaped a wealthy resident. They were heading for the country outside the city limits when the police surprised them. Had they reached the country, they never would have been caught for the Chinese terrain, honeycombed with ditches, offers a million avenues of escape. Mr. Forster, who lives at the Michigan hotel. 127 East Michigan street, recited the foregoing incident today to illustrate what he thinks should be done in Indian-

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ELECTION HELD BY MINISTERS Broad Ripple Pastor Will Direct M. E. Group in District. The Rev. Norbert G. Talbott, Broad Ripple M. E. church pastor, today headed the Methodist Ministers’ Association of the Indianapolis district. Other officers elected were the Rev. E. G. Boch, vice-president, and the Rev. R. L. Dove, Morris Street M. E. church pastor, secretarytreasurer. Executive committee is composed of the Rev. R. M. Millard, chairman; the Rev. H. J. Kieser, the Rev. E. Arnold Clegg, the Rev. B. Brooks Shake and the Rev. E. J. Weiss. CELTIC FIRM JOINS FEDERAL LOAN BANK Meets Standards Set by U. S. System. The Celtic Savings and Loan Association, 25 West Ohio street, is the latest and ninth of local building and loan associations to join the Federal Home Loan Bank system, it was announced today. Advices from Washington to the Federal Home Loan bank stated that the association has met the standards set for membership in the system and gained the approval of the examiners there as well as the examining department of the Indianapolis regional bank. The Celtic, one of the largest associations in the city, has assets of $11,000,000. John R. Welch is president and Leo F. Welch is secretary. The association was incorporated in .1884. Three State Teams Get Rate Cuts Rate reductions totaling $4,800 in electric bills of three Indiana towns were ordered yesterday by the public service commission. The towns are Dillsboro, served by the Public Service Company of Indiana, and Fulton and Jasonville, both served by the Northern Indiana Power Company. Eastern Star Supper Set Corinthian auxiliary, Order of Eastern Star, will give a penny supper Friday at 6:30, followed by a card party at 8:30 at Evergreen : Masonic Temple, 2515 West WashI ington street.

apolis and other cities to suppress crime effectively. During his stay of four years in the Chinese city, where he carried on his engineering profession, Mr. Forster said he saw predatory crime drop almost to the vanishing point as a result of the activities of the special police. “Before the reorganization of the special police in Shanghai, about 1925,” said Mr. Forster, “crime, especially holdups and kidnapings, ran rampant. Large bands of marauding coolies, recently released from more than a hundred Chinese armies, swarmed into the city and began a series of desperate deeds. “The citizenry, fully aroused, determined that something drastic must be done quickly. The result was the perfection of the Shanghai special police system which had become almost obsolete in the years following the World war. “Business men joined the special police to protect their homes and property and that of their neighbors. The esprit de corps was splendid." said Mr. Foster. “If such an organization were formed in Indianapolis it would pay for itself a hundredfold. While the original cost for uniforms and other equipment would be high, the formation of a permanent army of civilian vigilantes, undoubtedly would bring insurance rates way down and eventually keep bandits and other criminals out of the city entirely. “In addition to the very’ effective method of ringing all the telephones in Shanghai for one minute to broadcast an alarm of trouble, was the method pursued by the police following the commission of a crime. “As soon as police arrived on the scene, all traffic and all pedestrians in the vicinity were ordered to halt. The police then had authority to search every vehicle and every person who might be regarded as : suspicious."

DRAMA SERIES TO OPEN WITH BROADWAY HIT ‘Dinner at Eight' to Play Here on Legitimate Theater Circuit. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN Times Theater Critic Indianapolis today was guaranteed a splendid legitimate road show' season when Arthur M. Oberfelder, well known Denver (Colo.i showman announced the completion of a legitimate circuit. The fear of a lean legitimate season at English's was dispelled when Mr. Oberfelder announced his season at English's would open Sundav night, Nov. 12, with "Dinner at Eight," and continue through Friday with matinees Wednesday and Friday. s James Kirkwood will star in "Dinner at Eight." which has a cast of twenty-six. Miss Jessica Newcomb opens on Sunday, Nov. 19, in "The Double Door,” a Broadway success. Violet Heming will be starred in "There's Always Juliet," Sunday, Nov. 26. Shows will be presented on tour at $1 top at night, with many 75 and 50-cent seats. The matinees at English's on Wednesday will have a top price of 75 cents. Other seats will be at 35 and 50 cents. “I am convinced.” Mr. Oberfelder said as he concluded arrangements with Vincent Burke, manager of English’s, "that the legitimate stage has tremendous values along cultural lines. I am going to give the people of this city $3 road show productions at prices they can afford to pay." Mr. Oberfelder is an experienced showman, and his experience in Denver, Kansas City, and other cities is proof that he knows his business. Assisting Mr. Oberfelder is John McWee, also a well-known theatrical showman.

MASQUERADERS CROWD STREETS Downtown Area Thronged by Celebrants on Halloween. Halloween w r as celebrated in Indianapolis last night with all the fervor appropriate for such an observance. Grotesquely costumed figures swarmed through downtown streets leading into Monument Circle, roped off by police for the evening’s festivities. The steps to the monument were crowded with spectators and participants. Several thousand persons attended the Legion ball in Tomlinson hall under auspices of Robinson post. The dance was preceded by a parade of several musical organizations. led by the uniformed Twelfth district American Legion drum corps. Approximately 7.000 attended the masquerade party held at the state fairgrounds in connection with the Walkathon contest. Fourteen couples participating in the contest entertained the crowd. Parties also were held in private homes, clubs, ballrooms and roadhouses.

LOCAL MAN ENTERS 6 HORSES AT CHICAGO Purebred Percherons to Compete in International Show. First Marion county entry' in the International Live Stock Exposition, to be held in Chicago Dec. 2 to 9, has been received from Dr. Judson D. Moschelle 3233 North Meridian street, exposition officials announced today. Six purebred Percheron draft horses have been entered by Dr. Moschelle from his Golden Dawn farms, it is said. YOUTH INJURED BY CAR Boys’ Arm Hurt Severely When It Is Caugh on Door Handle. Marion Lashman, 14, of 1832 Hoyt avenue, suffered severe injuries of the right arm last night when he caught his arm on the door handle of an automobile owned by Horace Joyner, 29, 1505 East Kelly street, in front of the boy’s home. Wounded by Shotgun John Lee, 46, roomer at 934 South Delaware street, was in city hospital today suffering from shotgun wounds, and John New, 33, another roomer, was under arrest on charges of assault with intent to kill. New said the shotgun was discharged accidentally. Recover Stolen Articles A trumpet and a clarinet valued at $250, and a saxophone of undetermined value, were recovered by police in two Indiana avenue pawn shops today. Police said the instruments were the property of R. W. Sheets, Franklin, stolen several days ago.

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CHANEY’S WIDOW DIES Relict of Actor Taken by Death After Long Illness. By Vnitrd Prr* HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 1. —Death has joined Mrs. Hazel Chaney. 43.

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with her husband. Lon Chaney, once known to screen lovers as “the man of 1.000 faces." The widow of the late character actor died in a hospital after a long illness.

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Radio Stolen From Car Sheridan Payne. 1420 Hoefgen | street, reported to police today that a radio valued at sls was stolen from his car parked in front of ! 1000 North Pennsylvania street, last j night.