Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 176, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 December 1933 — Page 2

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RETIRED CITY ' BUILDER DIES; FUNERAL SET Floribert Michaelis Long Active in Affairs of City. Last rites for Floribert Michaelis, 75. of 2217 North Alabama street, a retired contractor, who died yesterday In St Vincent s hospital after a month's illness, will be held in the home Monday at 8 30 and in SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral at 9. Burial will be in St. Joseph’s cemetery. A contractor here for thirty-five years before his retirement in 1913, Mr. MichaelLs was born in Indianapolis Nov. 25, 1858 a son of Henry and Catherine Michaelis. For the last twenty years, he had spent his summers at Lake Manitou. Mr Michaelis was a charter member of the Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Indianapolis and was a former president of the Progressive Building and Loan Association. Surviving him are the widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Michaelis; a daughter. Sister Mary Ruth. O. S. F, St. Bernard, O.; three sons, George H. Michaelis and Oscar W. Michaelis, Indianapolis, and Louis J. Michaelis. Toledo. O; four brothers, Joseph Michaelis, Indianapolis, Henry Michaelis, Hutchinson. Kas., Nicholas Michaelis. Crofton, Neb., and George Michaelis, Los Angeles; a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth G. Lotzbach, Los Angeles, and eight grandchildren.

Yorger Services Set Heart disease caused the sudden death of Harry C. Yorger, 66, of 139 South Elder street, yesterday afternoon in the garage of his home. When Mr. Yorger failed to return from the garage, his daughter, Mrs. Maurice Byard. with whom he made his home, investigated. The body was lying inside the garage against the door and the daughter was unable to open it without the assistance of a neighbor. Police and Dr John Wvttenbach, deputy coroner, investigated. Last rites will be held in the West Washington Street Presbyterian church, Monday afternoon at 2. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Survivors are the daughter and a son, the Rev. Ernest J. Yorger, Elwood. Pollock Burial Monday Last rites for O. M. Pollock, 65. of 220 East Eleventh street, merchant policeman who was killed in an automobile accident Thursday night, will be held in the Conkle funeral home. 1934 West Michigan street, Monday morning at 10. Burial will be in Floral Park cemetery. Mr. Pollock was born in West Virginia and had been a resident of this city many years. Survivors are a daughter, Mrs. Ruby Duncan, and a son, Chester Pollock, both of 2013 East Michigan street. Former Resident Dies Gilbert K. Perry, former resident, died suddenly in New York Nov. 23. according to word received by friends in this city. Mr. Perry, who was formerly associated with the Holcomb & Hoke Manufacturing Company, went to New York in January to become administrator of his aunt’s estate. Funeral services and burial were held in Lexington. Ky., this morning. Mr. Perry was a member of the First Church of Christ, Scientist. Survivors are the widow, Mrs. Nancy Perry, and a brother living in Bloomington. Ralph Banks Dead Injuries suffered from a fall caused the death of Ralph W. Banks, 43, of 642 South Meridian street. Tuesday in the city hospital. He was born in Frankfort and had lived in this city seventeen years. He was a member of the Order of Railroad Trainmen. Last rites were held yesterday afternoon in the Beanblossom funeral home and burial was at the Greenlawn cemetery' in Franklin. Surviving him are his mother. Mrs. George Tucker; a brother, Roy Banks; four sisters, Mrs. Alice Harper, Mrs. Myrtle Anderson and Miss Mary Banks, all of Indianapolis, and Mrs. Harry Compton. Edinburg. Patterson Rites MondayFollowing an illness of a week. Albert H. Patterson, 62, of 315 Cossell drive, died yesterday in his home. Mr. Patterson was an employe of the Link-Belt Company for twentyyears. Born in Bloomington, he worked in steel and tinplate mills in Anderson and Elwood as a young man. Last rites will be held in the home Monday afternoon at 2. Burial will be in Memorial Park cemetery. Survivors are the widow. Mrs. Lena Patterson; five daughters. Mrs. Myrtle. Gardner, Mrs. Bertha Anderson, Miss Leona Patterson and Miss Frances Patterson, Indianapolis. and Mrs. Jennie Halterman, Detroit. Mich.; a son. Huston Patterson. Indianapolis; a sister. Mrs. Andrew Sanford, Greencastle. and two brothers, J. W. Patterson. Indianapolis, and Harry- Patterson, Terre Haute. MAN ESCAPES DEATH WHEN CAR OVERTURNS Driver Uninjured as Car Rolls Over Three Times. Jesse H. Snokes. 44. of 1736 North Capitol avenue, miraculously escaped death this morning when his auto rolled over three times at Eleventh street and Senate avenue following an auto collision with a car driven by Carl Pagel. 40. of 639 Lockerbie street. Pagel was arrested by police for failure to have a driver’s license. Snokes was ;unhurt. DEGREE WORK ON CARD Junior Order of United Mechanics to Meet Wednesday. Three degrees will be exemplified at a district meeting of Junior Order of United American Mechanics Wednesday night in Maywood, by Indianapolis Council 2. Washington Council 36 and Beech Grove Council 34. Speakers will Include Itha Mc--4 Far land, state secretary; O. P. m Martin, state treasurer, and Paul Ford, state councilor.

RAPID PROGRESS MADE IN BOULDER DAM CONSTRUCTION

Progress of work at Boulder Dam is shown strikingly here, in an aerial view taken downstream from the dam, picturing the dry bed of the Colorado river gorge, where the water has bee:i diverted, the dizzily winding road that leads to the works, and the concrete forms of the gigantic dam at the lower left.

City Studies Steps to Get Market Stand Rent

Fresh Guy Bandit Moo Thorough’; Girl Slaps Him.

ONE of a quartet of bandits who held up a couple parked on a side road near state Road 31, eight miles south of the city, last night got his face slapped when he became too thorough in searching his feminine victim. The incident was reported to police by Leonard Weghoft, 25, of 4021 South Meridian street, Plaza Motor Inn employe, and Miss Aileen Adams, 19, Greenwood. They said four bandits drove up, two getting out of the bandit car and menacing the couple with revolvers. One bandit, about 23, took S4O from Weghoft. The other, about 45, took 75 cents from Miss Adams and was slapped when he searched too eagerly for more money. The bandits kept their promise to leave Weghoft’s car keys in the road a short distance away.

C. OF G. MEMBERS TO VOTE ON DEC. 12 Seven Directors Will Be Chosen for Three Years. Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce members will ballot on fourteen nominees for chamber directors between 11 a. m. and 7 p. m. Dec. 12 on the second floor of the chamber building. Seven directors, for three-year terms, will be chosen, it was announced by Ed Hunter, secretary. Nominees are: Meier S. Block, Louis J. Borinstein, Ted C- Brown, John Burke, H. L. Cantelon, Leslie D. Clancy, Henry L. Dithmer, C. Fred Fitchey, Theodore B. Griffith, Edward W. Harris, A. J. Hueber, Samuel Mueller, Albert S. Pierson and William H. Trimble. BANDIT LOOTS DRUG STORE SAFE OF SSO Employes Bound, Forced Into Basement. The safe of the Haag Drug Company, Udell and Clifton streets, was looted of SSO last night and two employes were bound with picture frame wire while the bandit robbed the safe. The robber compelled Irvin Rice, 3139 Central avenue, store manager, to bind Charles Sellers, clerk, 1136 West Thirty-sixth street, and then open the safe. Then he bound Rice and forced the two men into the store's basement. They freed themselves shortly after the bandit fled. BUREAU ISSUES NEW HISTORICAL LEAFLET Booklet Contains Trogram for State Anniversary. The state historical bureau has issued anew edition of its eightpage leaflet. ‘ Indiana Day, December Eleventh,” containing a program for the observance of the anI niversary of the state's admission in 1816 into the Union. The front t page carries a state banner in colors. The pamphlet also contains the complete words and music of the state song. “On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away,” the music and : first stanza of the “Hymn to Indiana.” poems by Sarah T. Bolton, William Herschell and James Whit- | comb Riley, the “Admission of Indiana into the Union.” and other | historical matter. SENATOR'S WIFE SPEAKS Mrs. Arthur Robinson Tells of Washington's Beauties. The national capitol is sharing with Niagara Falls the honeymoon • goal of newlyweds. Mrs. Arthur R Robinson, wife of the senior senator. told members of the Optimists Club yesterday. More than 100,000 honeymoon i couples visit Washington each year she said, pointing to the capitol's beauty, complexities of its social life and the triumph of municipal planning. -

Eviction of Stand Owners Delinquent Halted by Courts. Members of the city legal staff were in conference today regarding the next step to be taken by the safety board in its fight to collect more than $9,000 in back rentals from scores of standholders on the city market. Many of the standholders are delinquent since the first of 1932, and have ignored attempts of the board of safety and Captain Otto Ray, chief license collector to collect. Stopped in the most direct method ever employed by the city in its attempts to obtain rentals, that of evicting standholders who fail to pay, city officials fear that they have “lost face” in the fight. Pays After Eviction The standholders were removed Friday, but one of them, Henry Greensburg, despite his plea to Captain Ray that he could not pay, rushed to the city controller’s office and made payments amounting to $81.41 before his property could be unloaded from a truck at the storage house. Safety board members, including President Charles Meyers, Donald Morris and Frank Dailey, are of the opinion that the? city has “been too liberal’’ with the standholders and that they in turn have “taken advantage of the present conditions.” After a conference with Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan and safety board members, Captain Ray was instructed to proceed with the evictions. Restrained by Court However, the next standholder on the list was Joseph O’Mahoney, former president of the market association. A check was being made of his stock prior to removal by Captain Ray and three patrolmen, when James E. Deery, city attorney, caused them to stop proceedings. An injunction is pending in the supreme court, it was learned, that specifically enjoins the city of Indianapolis from interfering in Mr. O'Mahoney’s case. However, the city’s action did obtain results. Almost S4OO was taken in at the city controller’s office from twenty-one standholders shortly after removal proceedings started.

ULDINE UTLEY BEGINS FINAL WEEK IN CITY Announces Meeting Schedule at Tabernacle. Uldine Utley, girl evangelist, who is conducting the special evangelistic meetings at the Cadle Tabernacle, will begin her last week tomorrow. Sunday morning at 9:30 she will speak to the Sunday school of the Garfield Park Baptist church. In the afternoon she will preach at the Tabernacle on “A Feature in God’s program.” At 6:15, she will speak to the young people of the Tabernacle. “This Way Out,” will be her subject at the 7:45 service Sunday night.

RED CROSS FIRST AID INSTRUCTIONS TO OPEN Dr. Herbert T. Wagner to Conduct Classes Starting Monday. Advanced course in Red Cross first aid will be given at the World war memorial, 777 North Meridian street, Monday night at 7:30 under the direction of Dr. Herbert T. Wagner. The prerequisite course is the standard first aid lessons. Classes will continue once a week for five weeks. Lewis C. Robbins will be the instructor. Assistants are Charles Clary, Ben Weaver and Ralph Taylor.

EX-CINCINNATI MAYOR WILL ADDRESS C. OF C. Seasongood to Discuss “Local Government” Dec. 13. Principal speaker at the annual dinner of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce Dec. 13 in the Columbia Club will be Murray Seasongood. former Cincinnati mayor. “Local Government in Time of Depression” will be the subject of Mr. Seasongood. University of Cincinnati law professor and National Municipal League president. Pythian Sisters to Dine Myrtle Temple No. 7, Pythian Sisters, will hold a covered dish luncheon Monday night at Castle Hall, 230 East Ohio street. A roll call will be held and new officers will be elected. "

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OINCiNNAT! MAN IS ALUMNI HEAD U. C. A. G. U. Group Officers Elected; Ten Get Diplomas. W. K. Streit, Cincinnati, will continue another year as head of the Alumni Association of the Normal College of American Gymnastic Union, as result of election held yesterday in connection with the annual home-coming. Other officers named were Alvin Romeiser, vice-president; Miss Thelma Armfield, secretary, and Curt Toll, treasurer. George Vonnegut, chairman of the board of trustees, and the oldest male graduate present, presented diplomas to ten graduates of the school at a luncheon. Mrs. Albert Metzger, who was graduated In 1889, was the oldest woman graduate present. Mr. Vonnegut was graduated in 1881. Contests were held in the afternoon and a dance at night.

ENTERTAINMENT TO AID CITY'S NEEDY Proceeds to Be Used for Christmas Baskets. A Christmas entertainment for the benefit of the city’s needy will be staged in the Athenaeum, 401 East Michigan street, from Dec. 18 to 23, under auspices of a committee of citizens. Ticket sales for the programs were started today. Proceeds will be used to distribute Christmas baskets, in co-operation with relief agencies. Matinee and night programs will be given, with eight vaudeville acts offered, headed by E. Paul Lewis, vocalist. The program also will include the Webster Twins, Helen and Clarice, and other acts featuring dancing, singing and instrumental entertainment. Dancing will follow the entertainmet each night. The executive committee is composed of Mrs. L. N. Rugenstein, chairman; Mrs. Alice Reasoner, Helen E. Sheehan and Robert Morris. Entertainment arrangements are being made by Mrs. Ernestine Ewing Carlisle. CAKES, COOKIES TAKEN FROM PARKED AUTO Sample Case Valued at 535 Stolen by Sneak Thief. A sneak thief with a “sweet tooth” broke into the parked car of H. J. Boyer, 835 North Dearborn street, and stole a sample case containing cakes and cookies valued at $35. Other parked car robberies reported last night included William P. Murphy, 831 Lincoln street, typewriter tools and parts, valued at $75; Walter Riley, 1856 North Talbot street, sls blanket; Jack May, Des Moines. la., clothing samples, valued at SSO; Robert Munson, 968 North Meridian street, $lO brief case containing valuable papers. PERSIA IS TALK TOPIC State Highway Engineer to Address City Scientech Club. Experiences in building a railroad in Persia will be related by M. R. Keefe, chief engineer of the Indiana state highway commission, at the noon meeting of Scientech Club of Indianapolis, Monday, in the Columbia Club.

SAVE FOR A PURPOSE We all have certain things we hope to do when we get the money. Not all of us are fixed to take the money and spend it—but no one of us need be denied the pleasure these things bring. Just adopt the plan of saving for a definite purpose. This Strong, Old Company pays interest on savings accounts. THE INDIANA TRUST iTSt sur p plss $2,000,000.00 GROUND FLOOR SAFE DEPOSIT .VAULT

WALKATHON TO BE SHUT TODAY, POUCEJJECLARE Morrissey Makes Plans to Halt Show, Arrest Operators. Last-minute legal subterfuges notwithstanding. Police Chief Mike Morrissey was preparing at noon today to arrest the operators and close the Walkathon at the state fairground at 3:30 p. m. So advised by Herbert Spencer, assistant city attorney, Chief Morrissey’s decision followed denial by Superior Judge Clarence E. Weir of a restraining order directed at the city police. Petition for the restraining order was filed by Jacob Weiss, attorney for the Walkathon operators, and was designed to prevent enforcement of anew city ordinance which became effective at noon today. The ordinance defined marathon exhibitions as those lasting mofe than twelve hours. The ordinance would have permitted an arrest at noon, but Chief Morrissey decided to add on the rest periods time so there would be no question about legality of the closing. Would Impair Contracts Senator Weiss had charged in his petition for a restraining order that the council ordinance was an ex post facto proceeding, and would impair contracts into which the Walkathon operators had entered in good faith. He revealed that the Walkathon was expected to last at lea.v two months more if allowed to continue without molestation by the city authorities. Judge Weir today declared in denying the petition for a restraining order that the ex post facto question was not involved and that the city council has a right to limit such exhibitions. The question of health is involved, the court held, by reason of the Walkathon’s action in having a physician in attendance. That fact alone indicates that the health problem is involved, the court ruled. Will Give “Exhibitions” Operators of the Walkathon have no right to conduct an exhibition of “exhaustion,” the court held. Operators and counsel of the Walkathon had decided on a plan to circumvent the council ordinance, if Judge Weir denied the restraining order petition. They had decided to stage a series of “exhibitions” in which the contestants would be limited to those who have been participating. The “exhibitions” would have run less than the twelve-hour ordinance definitions. Spectators would have been given passout checks, the contestants taken off the floor for a half-hour and a “new” exhibition started. The winner of the SI,OOO prize money would have been the contestant who entered the most exhibitions. This plan was to be followed this afternoon, in spite of Chief Morrissey’s arrest threat, it was reported.

TELLS OF RED CROSS WORK HERE IN 1884 William Fortune Tells Group of Organization’s Activities. Active - part in Red Cross relief work has been maintained by Indianapolis citizens since 1884, when a local group aided during the Ohio river flood, Exchange Club members were told yesterday by William Fortune, Indianapolis Red Cross chapter chairman. Mr. Fortune reviewed work of the organization, including the giving to needy families in the last year of more than 100,000,000 barrels of flour and millions of garments, THIEVES LOOT GROCERY Two Robbers Enter Store by Breaking Glass in Door. Flour and groceries were stolen early today when the Standard Grocery Company’s store, 3215 East Twenty-fifth street, was ransacked by two robbers. Albert Kelly, 4235 North Dearborn street, was driving past the store and said he saw two men carrying groceries and flour to a sedan parked nearby. The store had been entered by breaking a glass from the front door.

I Krause Bros ff Going Out of Business M Auto Gloves j 57c—97c—51.29 f Real Bargains gs “Court House Is Opposite”

ouTtrW yU'y* SHOE STORE! RELIABLE SHOES AT LOWEST NOW 259 E. IVasntnrnm St. —3— 803 W. Washington St. STORES 109-U1 8. Illinois St.

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STORY OF ASSAULT UPHELD

A central figure in the Scottsboro case, Victoria Price, is shown at Decatur, Ala., with Orville Gilley, who corroborated her charge that a band of Negroes attacked her on a Southern railway freight train nearly three years ago. Gilley, a roving young hobo poet, gave his testimony at the trial of Heywood Patterson, one of the seven accused Negroes.

DEMOCRATIC CLUB IN MEMBER DRIVE Intensive Campaign Waged by Southsiders. An intensive membership campaign is being waged by the new South Side Democratic Civic Club, organized to obtain recognition for the south side. New officers elected are L. V. Carson, president; T. C. Clayton, vicepresident; Mrs. C. Griffin, secretary; I. Summers, treasurer, and Mrs. R. Carson, assistant secretary. Directors are George Walton and George Royston. Meetings are held at the home of Mr. Carson, 1511 Tabor street, pending choice of a permanent headquarters, at 8 each second and fourth Wednesday night. Cut Pastors’ Fares Reduction in railroad fares for clergymen was announced today by the Chicago and Northwestern Railway, as part of a program to stimulate railway pasensger travel. Fares for holder of clergy certificates in the future will be one and onehalf cents a mile in sleeping cars and one cent a mile in coaches.

Santa s Christmas Contest Starts Monday ij6Z2 PRIZES | TT’S going to be easy . , . interesting and A fascinating. Over §2OO in merchandise prizes will be given. They will be in the form of certificates which can be cashed at any of the stores who are participating in the contest. 28 Daily prizes and 168 grand prizes, so let’s get ready Monday. Full details of the contest, include - ing rules, etc., will be published \>\r Monday. The contest will run daily V a f until December 25th —18 days, it is being offered under the sponsorship of The Times and Loew's Palace Theater. It is called — ! SANTA'S JJkw QUESTION BOX

POPULAR VOTE WILL DECIDE ART WINNER Ballots to Be Cast by Spectators at Junior League Exhibit. A popular vote contest will be an added feature of the Second Downtown Exhibit of Indiana Artists presented by the Junior League in the eighth floor auditorium of L. S. Ayres & Cos., beginning Monday afternoon at 4. Spectators will be asked to cast their ballots for the picture they think best in the display. Mrs. Sylvester Johnson Jr. is chairman of the exhibit which will continue through Dec. 19. Members of the committee in charge are Misses Rosamond Van Camp, Edna Levey and Mesdames Ward Hackleman, Elza Pantzer Haerle, Charles Latham, Robert Winslow, Noble Dean, John Gold, George Ziegler, Stanley Shipness, Charles Greathouse, Evans Woollen Jr., Kurt Pantzer and T. Harvey Cox.

Fletcher Ave. Savings & Loan Assn. Mail Account. Ift C Ql Ha. Paid Dividend. Safely Handled I U Cl nldfllcl Oil on for 41 4 ear.

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RAIL BLOCKADES ARE FLAYED BY SOUTHSIDERS Enforcement of 3-Minute Limit Is Requested by Club. Long blockades of city rail crossings were flayed last night at a meeting of the central committee of the South Side Civic Clubs as the organization demanded strict enforcement of the three-minute blocking ordinance. The demand will be presented at the city council meeting Monday night in the form a resolution. The resolution will urge that the ordinance be amended to forbid trains of more than fifty cars inside the city limits. Disappc ntment was expressed at the meeting at the failure of the city ar.d the railroads to get together for approval of a $6,000,000 loan to elevate tracks on the south side. INVESTIGATOR IS NAMED Lafayette Representative Given State Institutional Job. Robert J. Mohlman, Lafayette, state representative, has been named by Governor Paul V. McNutt to succeed Alvin Johnson as institutional investigator. Mr. Johnson has taken the position as deputy attorney-general in charge of corporation work, succeeding Walter E. Stanton, Lake county, who resigned to accept a federal post.

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