Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 209, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 January 1934 — Page 4

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FURNITURE CO. AFFILIATE DIES AFTER ILLNESS Philip A. Landman Passes at' Home of Mother: Burial Here. Funeral services for Philip A. Landman, 33. who died last night at the home of his mother, Mrs. Victoria Landman. 3360 North Meridian street, will be held in the Hisey Ac Titus funeral home at 10:30 tomorrow- morning. Burial will be In the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation cemetery, with Rabbi M. M. Feuerlich of the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation, officiating. Mr. Landman had been ill for some time. He had been associated with the Colonial Furniture Company. Surviving him are his mother and a brother, Bernard Landman. Hartford, Conn. Pioneer Family Member Dies The funeral of Mrs. Mollie Kessler, 67, former resident of Marion county, who died in Columbus yesterday, will be held at 10 tomorrowin Cclumbus. Short services will be held at the grave. Mrs. Kessler was a member of a pioneer family of Marion county. She was born on ground now occupied by Ft. Benjamin Harrison, and will be buried in Spring Valley cemetery-, on the army reservation. Surviving her are the widower, Charles Kessler; a son, Charles Kessler Jr., Columbus; a brother, J. S. Thomas, and two sisters, Mrs. David Cossell and Mrs. Esta Martin, Indianapolis. Native of Ireland Succumbs Final services for Bartholomew Shanahan, 68, who was found dead in bed at his home, 227 North Summit street yesterday moiming, will be held at 8:30 in the home, and at 9 in Holy Cross Catholic church. Burial will be in Holy Cross cemetery. Mr. Shanahan w-as a native of Ireland. and came to this country when he was 18. He was an employe of E. C. Atkins & Cos. Surviving him are the widow. Mrs. j Bridget Shanahan; two daughters, Mrs. M. J. O'Connor, Indianapolis, and Mrs. George C. Rosenfeld, Philadelphia, and two sons, John Shanahan and Joseph Shanahan, j Indianapolis. Former Resident’s Burial Here j The body of Thomas Elihu Potter, ! former resident of Indianapolis, who died Sunday at his home in Ft. Wayne, was to be brought to Indianapolis today- Funeral services were to be held at 2 this afternoon in the Flanner & Buchanan mortuary- with burial in Crown Hill j cemetery. Mr. Potter lived at Crow’s Nest j while in Indianapolis, and was con- i nected with the Pinex company. Surviving him are the widow, Mrs. Marion Sudlow Potter, and a daughter, Mrs. Phyllis Potter Merrill, Ft. Wayne. Railway Employe Drops Dead Funeral services for Charles Brown. 65. 613 Home place, will be held in the Wald funeral home at 10 tomorrow. Burial will be at Fisher’s station. Mr. Brown fell dead yesterday while walking to his work at the Big Four freight depot. He was found by George Campbell. R. R. 1, Box 155-A, Bridgeport. The body was sent to the city morgue by Dr. E. R. Wilson, deputy coroner. Surviving Mr. Brown is his widow, Mrs. Etta Brown. Doctor Dies Suddenly Funeral services for Dr. Irving C. Barnes. 49. who died suddenly Monday in his office. 432 Bankers Trust building, will be held in the Harry W. Moore funeral home at 10 tomorrow. Cremation will follow. Dr. Barnes had no immediate relatives. Octogenarian Passes at Home Firal services for Philander C. Lumley. 81. 2349 Carrollton avenue, will be held at 2 tomorrow afternoon in the Broadway Baptist church, with burial in Crown Hill cemetery. Mr. Lumley died yesterday at his home. He had lived in Indianapolis, twenty-eight years. He was a member of the Broadway Baptist church and Pentalpha lodge. F. & A. M. Surviving him are the widow; two sons. Edgar H. Lumley, Attica, and Ernest C. Lumley. Detroit; a daughter. Mrs. Wilbur J. Smith, North Manchester, and three brothers. Ernest Lumley, New Jersey; Charles Lumley, Saskatchewan. Canada, and Robert Lumley. Merlin. Ontario. Canada. Succumbs Visiting Mother Mrs. Louise Pittman Bilsborough, 1 East Thirty-sixth street, died yesterday at the home of her mother, Mrs. C. E. Pittman. 3029 College avenue, where she was spending the night during the absence from the city of her husband. Herbert Bilsborough. Mrs. Bilsborough was found dead in bed yesterday morning. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma at Butler university, and of the Tabernacle Presbyterian church. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 tomorrow afternoon at the home of hex* mother. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Mrs. Bilsborough is survived by the widower and her mother and stepfather. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Pittman.

RESTRAINT ORDER IS WON BY GALLOWAY Court Prohibits Suit Plaintiff From Interfering. Mrs. Pearl Kennett, who last week filed suit against Fred Galloway, labor leader, for $5,000 judgment, was prohibited from interfering with his activities by a restraining order issued yesterday by Superior Judge John W. Kern. Judge Kern will hear evidence Saturday in the injunction suit to determine whether the court order should be made permanent. The petition charged that Mrs. Kennett made slanderous statements against the character of Galloway to members of unions for which he is business agent. In her suit, Mrs. Kennett alleged that she advanced about $4,500 to Galloway after he had assured her that he was unmarried.

INSANITY MAY BE DEFENSE IN DR. WYNEKOOP’S MURDER TRIAL

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Defense based on insanity is forecast for Dr. AliC3 Wynekoop when she is tried this week on the charge of murdering her daughter-in-law. Mrs Rheta Wynekoop. Weight is given this belief by retaining of 1 Dr. James Whitney Hall, famed alientist, to direct the medical defense. Dr. Hall is shown, left, with Attorney W. W. Smith, center, conferring with Dr. Wynekoop in the Chicago jail hospital.

Gov. McNutt to Address National Guard Officers

BUTLER IS PLANNING FOR NEW SEMESTER Day Class Work to Open on Feb. 6. Butler university will open the second semester of the 1933-34 school year Feb. 5, according to announcement by Dean James W. Putnam, acting president. Evening and extension division, supervised by Dean Albert E. Bailey, w-ill open Feb. 8. Instruction in the day division will begin Feb. 6 and classwork in the evening division, the week of Feb. 12. Members of the university curricula and schedule committees are preparing offerings for the new semester. On the curricula committee are Dr. Gino Ratti, chairman, Dean Bailey, Dr. E. L. Bowman, Dr. M. G. Bridenstine, Miss Emma Colbert, Dr. Elijah Jordan and Dr. Bruce L. Kershner. Schedule committee includes Dr. Ray C. Friesner, chairman, Dr. Bowman, Mrs. Maria Woollen Hyde, Miss Juna Lutz and Dr. Toyozo Nakarai. Several new courses have been planned for in addition to usual changes which the second semester necessitates. Class work in both divisions will close June 8 to be followed by a week of final examinations. The seventy-ninth annual commencement on June 18 officially will end the school year.

Anyway, He Resigned! Frederick Hansing Worked Without Pay, but Having No Desk Is Another Story.

THE fate of the man without a country was nothing compared to the plight of a job without a budget or a willing worker without a desk. Frederick E. Hansing decided yesterday.

The simple little saga of Mr. Hansing’s enthusiasm for his job as clerk in the city building department was spun yesterday in the city hall to illustrate the heights to which a public servant can be inspired when he becomes wrapped up in his work. Budget Eliminated Job So enthused about his work was Mr. Hansing that he refused to quit even though the city budget for 1934 failed to provide a place for him in the building, or any other department. Undaunted and eager to serve the people as of yore, Mr. Hansing reported for work as usual on Jan. 2. This visit was attributed to be due to the sentimental feeling that the former employe had for his old position. But when Mr. Hansing showed up again on Jan. 3. William F. Hurd, building commissioner, advised him that he might as well give up - the ghost because Hansing's job was there no more, nor was it likely ever to be. Cleaned Out Desk When the visit from Mr. Hansing on the third consecutive day loomed likely, Mr. Hurd cleaned out the desk of the irrepressible ex-public servant and removed the belongings to a huge box. Finding himself without a desk on the morning of the third day, Mr. Hansing decided that if he could not serve the public with a he would not serve at all. So he quit! N. Y. MAYOR SEEKS GOVERNOR'S SUPPORT La Guardia opes for Power to Push Financial Reforms. By United Press NEW YORK. Jan. 10.—Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia, armed with detailed reports of the New York’s financial crisis, went to Albany today to plead with Governor Herbert H. Lehman to support the emergency economy bill designed to place the metropolis upon its financial feet. Mayor La Guardia hoped to emerge with unqualified gubernatorial support for his measure to give him wide administrative powers. Indications were that the state executive might cffer a compromise measure placing what he termed the requested ‘dictatorial powers." not in Mayor La Guardia alone, but in the city’s board of estimate. Mayor La Guardia evinced little disposition to compromise. Rainbows do not always occur in the daytime. *

Will Be Chief Speaker at Annual Mid-Winter Dinner Jan. 20. Governor Paul V. McNutt will be principal speaker at the annual mid-winter dinner-meeting of the Indiana National Guard Officers’ Association Saturday night, Jan. 20, in the Columbia Club. Colonel Albert H. Whitcomb, One hundred fifty-first infantry, is chairman of the arrangements committee. Other committee members are Major Forest H. Spencer, Thirtyeighth division staff; Major Oliver H. Stout, One hundred thirteenth observation squadron; Major Norman E. Thompson, One hundred fifty-first infantry, and Captain Leonard E. Webster, adjutant of the One hundred fifty-second infantry. Major-General Robert H. Tyndall, commanding officer of the Thirtyeighty division, is chairman of the reception committee. Guests will include Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, Major-General George E. Leach, national guard bureau chief. Major-General George Van Horn Moseley, formerly in command of the Fifth corps area; Major-General William K. Naylor, Ft. Benjamin Harrison commandant; A. E. Hayes, American Legion national commander; V. M. Armstrong, American Legion state commander, and reserve officers of the army and navy residing in the state in addition to regular army officers on duty in the Indiana area and with the R. O. T- C. at De Pauw r , Purdue, Indiana and Culver.

DIRECTORS ELECTED BY CITY CIVIC LEAGUE Officers of Sherman-Emerson Group to Be Chosen. Members of the Sherman-Emer-son Civic League last night elected new directors at the annual business meeting held in the home of Francis Muehlbacher, 811 North Wallace street. Directors named were Albert Neuerburg. Arch D. Hinch, Mr. Muehlbacher, Floyd E. Baber, William E. Heyer, Fred Sanders and Cecil McConahay. Officers will be named by the board. The group discussed plans for the eighth annual old-fashioned spelling bee Feb. 13 at School 62. M’NUTT NO ROOSEVELT, LAWYER TELLS G. 0. P. Attorney Alleges Unprecedented State Spoils System. Governor Paul V. McNutt is no Roosevelt and “espouses no cause save a personal political machine,” Attorney Taylor E. Groninger told members of the McKinley Club last night at 2217 East Michigan street. Mr. Groninger contended that under the McNutt administration, the so-called “spoils system" has entered state institutions in a manner unprecedented. “Deserving Democrats” have taken everything in sight he charged. He also attacked the tax program and challenged the administration claims of reductions. Southern Publisher Dead By United Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Jan. 10.— Franklin P. Glass, 75, publisher of the Montgomery Advertiser and member of the federal board of mediation, died here early today after an illness of several days.

Krause Bros Going Out of Business $2.95 Blouses , $1.76 $1.50 Blouses, $2.96 “Courthouse Is Opposite Cs”

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WELLS URGES ‘WORLD NRA’ Famed British Novelist and Prophet Lauds Goal of Roosevelt. By United Press LONDON, Jan. 10.—A world plan of economc reconsruction, with the United States, Great Britain and Russia as leaders, was offered to statesmen today by H. G. Wells, novelist and prophet. Mr. Wells, in a speech, suggested a great planning board, which he called “the trade and money board,” formed along the lines of the NRA and co-ordinating the work of improving the lot of the ordinary man. “Although the failure of Mr. Roosevelt’s heroic effort to rally American economic life would mean disaster for the world, there is not the slightest sign of any real attempt on the part of responsible leaders to co-operate with him or understand his methods,” he said. Mr. Wells proposed that America and Britain first, as an Englishspeaking system, and then a few other great economic systems such as Russia’s, merge control of economic reconstruction under a great “planning board.” VALLEE PREPARES TO ANSWER WIFE’S SUIT Coroner Will Fight Charges of Estranged Fay Webb. By United Press HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 10— Battlelines were to be drawn today in a “finish fight” which Rudy Vallee announced will be his answer to the separate maintenance suit of his estranged wife, Fay Webb Vallee. Mr. Vallee prepared a formal answ’er to the suit which charges the crooner with improper conduct with Alice Faye, blond radio singer, and two unnamed women. The answer will be filed later this week, he said.

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NEW OFFICIALS OF SALVATION ARMYELECTED Frederick Schortemeier Is Chosen Again to Head Board. Frederick Schortemeier was reelected president of the board of the Salvation Army yesterday at the annual meeting in the Columbia Club. Harry E. Yockey and Frank B. Flanner were re-elected vicepresident and secretary, respectively. The yearly report showed that 2,312 families had been registered With the Salvation Army during the year ending Dec. 31. Os these. 220 were active family cases. 1.183 families were given emergency relief, 3.688 garments were supplied, and 595,450 pounds of coal were provided. Beds were given to a total of 16.438 transients with a total of 49,768 meals donated. Members elected to the Salvation Army board for the year include: One-year term, L. J. Borinstein, Arthur V. Brown, Fred Dickson, Joseph C. Gardner, Edgar Hart, Edward Jackson and Mrs. Samuel B. Sutphin. Two-year term, John Kinghan, Mrs. Edward L. McKee, the Rev. W. A. Shullenberger, Mrs. Charles B. Sommers, Dr. H. T. Wagner, Harry Yockey and Curtis H. Rottger. Three-year terms, E. F. Shortemeier, F. B. Flanner, Charles Chase, Mrs. W. H. Coburn, Henry L. Dithmer, Mrs. John T. Martindale and Grover Van Duyn. POSTAL CLERKS WILL SEAT NEW OFFICERS Organization Installation Will Be Held Saturday. Members of Local 130, National Federation of Postoffl.ee Clerks, will install new officers at an open meeting Saturday night at the English hotel. Principal speaker will be Alex Gordon, railroad brotherhood secretary. The postoffice band will play. Officers to be seated are Reuben B. Barnes, president; Louis Decker and Guy Tracy, vice-presidents; Edward Grimes, recording secretary; George Haught, financial secretary; Albert Russell, treasurer; Hannibal Peabody, guard, and N. E. Thompson, Albert Greatbatch, Emil Dorrah, Arthur Callahan and Bert Persell.

B’NAI B'RITH LODGE TO INSTALL OFFICERS Louis Kranitz to Talk at Session Tonight. Louis Kranitz, of St. Joseph, Mo., first vice-president of District No. 2. B'nai B'rith, will address the Indianapolis B’nai B’rith tonight when it meets at Kirshbaum Center to install officers. The meeting will start at 8:15. Mr. Kranitz’ talk will follow the installation. Richard K. Munter, recently re-elected president, will be seated along with the other renamed officers. Operate On King's Cousin By United Press LONDON, Jan. 10.—Princess Arthur of Connaught, cousin by marriage of King George, underwent a successful abdominal operation today. Her condition was pronounced satisfactory.

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Inland Waterways Not Useless, Editor Insists

Donald T. Wright Takes

Issue with Creel Article. Asserting that the inland waterways have proved both economical and feasible, Donald T. Wright, editor of the Watenvays Journal, yesterday refuted the statements in the article “Get Out of the Ditches,” by George Creel in the current issue of Collier’s. This article is based on the assumption that the railroads are entitled to a monopoly of the transportation business of the country, Mr. Wright said. Through prohibitive rates, the railroads have betrayed the confidence of the people and stifled commerce and industry, the editor maintains. “Creel stresses the point that inland water transportation is outmoded. This observation applies so aptly to the railroads with their obsolete equipment and methods that it is tragic,” Mr. Wright said. “While they have been standing still or going backward, other forms of haulage have been advancing by leaps and bounds.”

BARBARA HUTTON TO HONEYMOON ALONE Subpena-Dodging Prince to Sail for Japan on Another Ship. By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 10.—The wealthy Barbara Hutton, the “poor little princess” whose honeymoon a Los Angeles process server interrupted, was reconciled today to the fate which decreed that she and her husband, Prince Alexis Mdivani, would cross the Pacific ocean separately to meet again in Yokohoma, Japan. “Naturally, I’m terribly disappointed,” said the heiress of the Woolworth millions when informed that her husband, dodging a subpena, had booked accommodations on the Japanese liner Hikawa Maru, sailing today from Seattle direct to Yokohoma. She herself will follow one day later, in the lonesome splendor of the “royal suite” she and the prince had booked on the Tatsuta Maru.

One of the Leading roles in the Young Men’s Christian Association Socialite program at 7:45 tongiht will be played by Miss Marjorie Williams. The tlvee-act play, “Here Comes Charlie,” will be given by the Garfield Dramatic Club, of which Arthur Barnet is director. Besides Miss Williams, the cast includes Merle Williams, Helen Malloy, William Weaver. Robert Davis. Mabelle Hohn, Everett Hays, Kenneth Click and Rudolph Klinge. Socialite programs presented by the social department of the Y. M. C. A., are open to the public, without charge.

Sunk by Sink Police Watch Struggle Before Arrest.

'T'WO men arrested early today on petit larceny charges were nursing a grudge against police who arrested them, not because of the arrest, but because it was not made sooner. Seeing two men carrying a heavy kitchen sink from a vacant house at 323 Trowbridge street, the officers remained in their car while the men tugged and strained, carrying the heavy sink some distance. Then the officers pounced on their perspiring prey. The men gave their names as John H. Swiger, 37, of 44 North Hamilton avenue, and Joseph Massina, 16, of 19 North Oriental street. “Looks like you might have stopped us when we were leaving the house, instead of letting us carry that sink so far,” the prisoners complained, according to the officers statement. REPORTS ALCOHOLISM CAUSED MAN’S DEATH Coroner’s Verdict Clears Four Held for Questioning. Alcoholism caused the death of Herbert King, 21, of 23014 East Wyoming street, whose body was found in an outbuilding in rear of 831 South Senate avenue Monday night, Dr. W. E. Arbuckle, coroner, reported last night. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Keisey of the South Senate avenue address; Orlando King, the dead man’s father, and Charles Bell, 1349 Silver avenue, arrested on vagrancy charges in connection with the case, were dismissed in municipal court yesterday. Oregon provided a market for more than 12,000 trellis poles when she increased her hop lands by 2,000 acres. -

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MASS MEETING TO FIGHT RATES WINSSUPPORT Rockville Civic Association Invites Others for Giant Protest. A mass meeting of electric consumers of the city to protest against the present light rates was panned for the night of Jan. 23 at a meeting of the Rockville Road Civic Association at the Garden City school last night. Tentative plans call for invitations to be sent to the West Washington Street Civic Association and other allied groups to co-operate in the meeting. An invitation will be extended to Sherman Minton, public counselor to speak. Times Support Commended Indignation at the methods of the light company and praise of The Times campaign for lower rates and the editorial support given the movement by the Indianapolis News and the Indianapolis Star were voiced at the meeting. * C. E. Oldham, president of the association, plans to adopt a formal resolution indorsing the efforts of the public service commission at the next meeting. He said that if the crowd is too big for the school hall, arrangements might be made to hold the meeting in a large hall downtown. Mr. Oldham explained the light rate situation, telling of a conference he had with Mr. Minton during which he pledged the support of his association. Reviews Minton Charges He reviewed the charges made by Mr. Minton including allegations of a “$24,000,000 write-up” of property values; the “unkept promises following the merger” and the inclusion of alleged “useless and obsolete plants for rate-making purposes.” At the end of his speech a member asked about the “demand” charge made by the Indianapolis Power and Light Company on their bills to some “suburban” consumers. “There seems to be considerable mystery about that item.” Mr. Oldham said. “I have investigated this charge and to date have found no satisfactory explanation of it. It seems that the company has been making a charge of about 65 cents on the bills of some of our members. It is called a “demand chaige.” Demand Charge Vague “Utility experts I consulted did not seem very clear on the point—just what the charge was based on —so I conducted a little investigation of my own. I went to an engineer employed by the light company and asked him what this “demand charge” was. “He told me it was the charge assessed by the company for wiring suburban residences. I told him that I lived in the so-called suburbs and was not assessed for a “demand charge” but many of my neighbors were. When I made that assertion he could not give me a satisfactory explanation. I left him more puzzled than I had been before.” Will Show Demand Bills “This “demand charge” sometimes is called a “service charge,” one of the members explained. “All consumers who failed to sign a card they sent around after April 15 got “socked.” I make a motion that all the members bring their disputed bills to the mass meeting and show them to Mr. Minton.” The motion was carried. “What do they call that charge?” yelled a member. “A demand charge,” said Mr. Oldham. “They demand’t, alright,” laughed another member of the audience.