Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 251, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1934 — Page 3

FEB. 28, 1934

OLDEST ARMY A!RMAN FACES COURT MARTIAL Major Ocker, 58, Accused of Insulting Superior at Kelly Field. By United Press FT. SAM HOUSTON. Tpx . Feb. 28.—Erect in his air corps uniform, Major William C. Ocker. 58, the army's oldest flier ir point of service, faced a general court martial here today on charges that he spoke disparagingly and profanely of a superior officer. The trial promised to become a cause celebre in army annals. The charges were preferred against Major Ocker by LieutenantColonel Henry A. Clagett, commandant of Kelly field. Major Ocker. inventor of the instruments which made blind flying possible, was ordered by his superior to submit to a physical examination. His sight declared poor, he was ordered grounded. Later, he passed another examination, and was permitted to become an observer. Then, according to LieutenantColonel Clagetts charges, he unbosomed his feelings to Major C. C. Johnston, flight surgeon He is alleged to have said: “If other pilots on this field, namely such as Colonel Clagett, were given more than a cursory examination they, too. would be off flying status. There was collusion between the commanding officer of this station and you relative to my examination.” In addition. Colonel Clagett charges. Major Ocker applied to his superior officer an unprintable epithet, prefixed bv the adjective “dumb.” MARTHA GIBSON TO BE SPEAKER AT AFFAIR Missionary Society to Hold Family Night at Ripple Church. Miss Martha Gibson. Akita. Japan, will be the guest speaker tomorrow night at the family night celebration of the Women's Christian Missionary Society of the Broad Ripple Christian church A covered dish supper will be served at 6:30, followed at 7:15 by the program, directed by Mrs. Carl Gakstetter. The program will include a review of the opera, Madame Butterfly, with selections sung by Mrs. C. F. Dillenbeck. in costume. Mrs. Lloyd Herrin is the society president.

$1,627,661.36 IS TOTAL LOW ON HIGHWAY BIDS Proposals Embrace 31 Projects in 25 Counties. Bids on thirty-one state highway construction projects in twenty-five I counties, totaling a low of $1,627.- j 661.36, have been opened by the j state highway commission. Projects in Marion county in- i included paving 1.455 miles on Road 52, West Sixteenth street, with William D. Vogel. Indianapolis, low bidder at $103,606.06. and structure widening on 4.5 miles on Road 13, Indianapolis to the Hamilton county line, with R. H. Ellis, Alexandra, low bidder at $21,821. Another project was in Marion and Hamilton counties, widening structures on 6.55 miles on new Road 31, Eighty-sixth street to Carmel. Low bidder was Edward F. Smith. Indianapolis. $7,529.60. MAYOR SULLIVAN IS NOW A GREAT-UNCLE! City Executive's Nephew Becomes Father of Son. As he attended to official duties j today, Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan was wearing a broader smile because of his newly acquired status. The birth of Thomas Sullivan Hollett yesterday made Mayor Sullivan a great-uncle. The baby, born in the Methodist | hospital, is a son of Mr. and Mrs. j John E. Hollett Jr., 3965 Central i avenue. Mr. Hollett is a nephew of Mayor Sullivan.

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Dickens, at Great Sacrifice, Spared His 9 Children the Injustices and Misery of His Own Boyhood

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Here are some statuettes from Dickens’ books made by the Royal Doulton pottery of England. In the back row, left to right, are: Mr. Pickwick, Micawber, Pecksniff, Uriah Heep. In the front row, left to right, are: Fagin, Sairy Gamp, Sam Weller, Little Nell, Jingle.

TAXICAB BANDIT SUSPECT HELD Flying Brooms and Pokers Greet Police Search Party, They Say. A broom and several pokers were brandished at police yesterday as they entered a house at 1604 North Sheldon street in search of an alleged bandit, they claim. Police say they were greeted by River Whitney, 17, Negro, who began striking them with a broom as they sought Vernon Austin, 23, Negro, who is alleged to have held up Alfonzo Wright, 22, Negro, 2258 Arsenal avenue, taxicab driver, Friday. As the policemen scattered throughout the house a battle royal began. The Whitney girl, William Austin, 19, Negro; Burlace Merrill, 14, Negro, and Sam Austin. 14. Negro, each armed with a poker or broom struck at the officers. Austin was found hiding in a closet. Vernon Austin was charged with robbery, resisting arrest and vagrancy, and William Austin was charged with vagrancy and interference. The three minors were sent to the Marion county juvenile detention home. THREE-ACT COMEDY TO FEATURE PURIM DINNER Affair to Be Held Tonight at Beth-El Temple. A three-act comedy. “Purim HiJmx,” will be presented as a feature of entertainment at the annual Purim dinner to be held at Beth El-Zedeck Temple at 8 tonight in the vestry rooms. Morris Strauss is director, assisted by Constance Berman. Others having leading roles include Sol Blumenthal, Adrian Reiter, Diane Kline and Irene Sinulyan. The supporting cast includes Dave Herman, Lester Strauss, Joe Rosenberg and Dan Posnosky. Mrs. Daniel Stauber has charge of costumees and Mr. Stauber has charge of stage decorations and dinner reservations. NATIONAL DEFENSE RALLY IS DISCUSSED Marion County Women's Democratic Club Meets in Claypool. Report of the national defense rally featured the meeting of the Marion County Woman's Democratic Club last night in the Claypool. Mrs. John Bingham, president, announced that Appellate Judge Ralph N. Smith will speak at the next meeting, March 27.

CHARLES DICKENS had pronounced ideas about the bringing up of children. He once said: “The greater part of my observation of parents and children has shown selfishness in the first, almost invariably.” He himself was never selfish. His own early struggle had never been erased from memory, and he was determined that his own children should never encounter the misery and hardship and injustice and misunderstanding that had tortured his own childhood.

Justice was what he hoped to give his children. He said: “In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice. It may be only a small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its rocking-horse stands as many hands high, according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter.” Therefore he was invariably willing to act as arbiter. His daughter, Kate Macready Perugini, wrote of him: “He would leave his work in the middle of a sentence, and without protest, if a slight domestic difficulty of any kind hurried him into acting as judge or advisor.” So selfless was Dickens in his treatment of his children that they were astonished to learn, after the publication of “David Coperfield” and the resulting comparison of the novel to Dickens’ own life, that their father’s childhood had been ghastly in its misery. He had never told the story of his own youthful hardships. But he had thought it very much worth the terrific effort he must have made to give his children “The Life of Our Lord,” so that they might “know something about the history of Jesus Christ.” a a a npHE Dickens household was a well-knit family circle. The children were dominated by Georgina Hogarth, Mrs. Dickens’ sister, who had come to live with them when she was only 17. ffhe had taken the place of Mary, another sister of whom Dickens had been extremely fond, and who had died very suddenly at the age of 17 in 1837, shortly after the author’s marriage to Catherine Hogarth. They were the daughters of the head of the London Morning Chronicle, publisher of the “Sketches by Boz,” which had first made Dickens famous. Mamie, the eldest daughter, was the chief among the children themselves. Although in 1849 she was only 11 years old, she was already showing that aptitude for managing household affairs that made her in later years the “Miss Dickens" upon whom her father leaned most heavily. She never did marry, and remained with her father, at home and sometimes abroad on his reading tours, until his death in 1870. Mr. Dickens was, to his intimates “a good fellow.” He had an infectious laugh, and would romp gayly with his youngsters in sheer high spirits. The house was always full of company, at which gatherings the author’s absorbing conversation and joyous, although

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abstemious, good fellowship, made a visit a delight. Nevertheless, although noted for his hospitality, Charles Dickens was simple, modest and unaffected. He had an abounding sympathy for the troubles of others, yet he was rarely confidential even to his children. As he had never related to them the story of his early life, so did he keep to himself his sufferings from fatigue and insomnia brought on by his prodigious literary labors. a tt a IN his own way, Dickens maintained strict discipline among his children. Himself extremely tidy, and given to neat and dapper but somewhat brilliantly colored clothes, he insisted upon tidiness in the little crowd of his offspring. His son Henry recounts that their father’s methods of impressing neatness upon the boys did not meet with their complete approval. In 1856, when Dickens moved his family to the country estate, Gadshill, Kent (the old Gad's Hill, famed as the scene of Falstaff's adventures), where he spent the rest of his life, the family had been increased to nine—seven boys and two girls. The girls were already of marriageable age, and Charles was a 3'oung man of 19, but the other six youngsters were a miniature gang of English small boys whose vociferousness must have sometimes tried their father’s patience. Dickens was always inventing games and entertainments for his family, and he made use of a game to maintain their tidy habits. It was called “Pegs, Parade and Gustos.” Each of the six boys was assigned a peg for his hat and coat, and every week they would hold a parade for the purpose of overhauling their clothes to remove the stains of a week’s wear. Each boy in turn would be assigned the office of custodian for the implements used in this parade of cleanliness. And they didn't like it—but they obeyed. Henry said of this game: “Our resentment took the form of whispered mutterings among ourselves on the subjects of ‘slavery,’ ‘degradation’ and so forth, which served as a kind of safey valve and helped to soothe our ruffled feelings.” tt tt a DICKENS not only invented entertainments, sometimes writing plays for his children to take part in as actors, but took part in them himself. In 1849, at the time “The Life of Our Lord” was written, Kate and Mamie prepared their father for their brother’s birthday party by teaching him to dance the polka. He studied assiduously but the night before the party he awoke in the middle of the night almost overcome by the fear that he would cut a poor figure in the dance next day, and to make sure he had not forgotten his steps he ran downstairs and practiced them over and over again, all by himself. Dickens had a fondness for giving humorous nicknames to his children, dryly humorous like the names he gave his fictional characters. Charley, the eldest, was called Flaster Floby, a childish way of twisting abodt Dickens’ original “Master Toby.” Demure, motherly Mamie was Mild Gyo'ster, while the fiery tempered Kate was affectionately referred to as “Lucifer Box.” Walter, the second son. was “Young Skull” for his high cheekbones. and little Sydney, the 2-year-old and the smallest of all the Dickens children, was immediately nicknamed “Ocean Spectre” because of the somewhat weird look in his large, wondering eyes. And for the rest of his life the other children called him “Hoshen Peck.” Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens, who was born in 1852, became “Plorn.” In his letters Dickens sometimes confessed comically that he could not recall all his children by name, and in later years that he was not always sure of their whereabouts. Mamie tells us that “he had a peculiar tone of voice and a way of speaking for each of his children who could tell, without being called by name, which was the one addressed.”

MEMBER DRIVE OPENED BY 101 MEN'S CLASS City - Wide Easter Campaign Is Launched by Group. The 101 men's class of the Broadway Baptist church has launched a city-wide Easter drive for membership, it was announced today by Rae Powell, drive manager. The Rev. R. M. Dodrill is teacher and leader of the class and Ray Higdon is president.

CITY HEBREWS OBSERVEMRIM Orthodox Synagogs to Hold Services Tomorrow Morning. The Feast of Purim, celebrating the deliverance of the Jews from imminent destruction, will be observed tonight by members of the eight Hebrew congregations in Indianapolis. The story of this fete day is told in the Book of Esther. Services will also be held tomorrow morning in orthodox synagogs. At the Indianapolis Hebrew congregation, Tenth and Delaware streets, reformed synagog, services will be confined to Purim eve tonight. The Parent-Teacher Association of the temple religious school will serve supper for parents and children at 5:45 tonight. Purim eve services will be conducted by Rabbi Morris M. Feuerlicht at 7:30. The traditional “Scroll of Esther” will be chanted. An entertainment program in the vestry will follow the service.

ALLEGE 10-YEAR-OLD STARTED ARMORY FIRE Illinois Governor Hears Story From Boy’s Lips. By United Press SPRINGFIELD, 111., Feb. 28.—The fate of a 10-year-old boy who started the $750,000 Illinois national guard armory fire ten days ago posed a problem for officials today. The boy, Cecil Kiper, revealed he lit and threw a paper bag of wood shavings against the curtain on the armory stage and ran home. Flames destroyed the huge, historic structure. The story was given Governor Henry Horner after the boy made sullen denials to other officials. The kindly bachelor Governor won the boy’s confidence immediately. “I don’t want my mother to know about it,” Cecil told Governor Horner. “I don't want to go to reform school.” ‘NARROW NATIONALISM’ FLAYED BY EDUCATOR Hostile to American Tradition, Columbia Professor Finds. By United Press CLEVELAND, 0., Feb. 28. Changes in the American educational program to preserve American tradition and to prevent rise of “selfish nationalistic attitudes” were suggested today by Dr. Harold Rugg, Columbia professor of education at New York Teachers college. He spoke at the annual convention of the National Education Association. “Since narrow nationalism, economic imperialism and racial ascendancy is an increasing menace to the peace of the world, education must develop new 7 understandings in school curricula,” Dr. Rugg said.

WEIRTON VICTORY FOR WORKERS PREDICTED Wagner Decision in Steel Case May Be Made Late Today. By United Prrsx WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—Decision in the Weirton Steel case, “favorable to the workers,” was foreoast today by a responsible NRA official. The United Press was informed that the national labor board had reached its long-awaited decision and chairman Robert F. Wagner may announce it before night. EARLHAM PROFESSOR WILL SPEAK IN CITY Dr. Thomas R. Kelly to Address Church Institute. Dr. Thomas R. Kelly, Earlham college philosophy professor, will speak at the church institute of the First Friends church at 7 Friday night. Dr. Kelly’s subject will be “The Philosophy of Religion.” The church institute will be held also on the two following Fridays. MARCH 12 IS LIMIT ON STREET MATERIAL BIDS Tenders Now Being Received by City for Repair Work. Bids for materials for the repairing of all city streets in Indianapolis for 1934 will be accepted by the city purchasing department until March 12, Albert H. Losche, city purchasing agent, announced today The city is advertising this week for contracts for cement, emulsified asphalt, washed gravel and road oil to be used in the maintenance of the streets. The city purchasing department may reject any bid that does not tions, Mr. Losche said. Any bid in meet the requirements and speciflcaexcess of $2,000 must be approved by the city council before accepted.

ILL VETERAN’S FUNDS VANISH, RECORDS SHOW Lists Reveal Investments Not Made, Yet Estate Loses Value. (Continued From Page One) of today would not be worth more than $12,000, and that in 1930 the appraised value set was high. Listed at Face Value In the final report of George W. Rauch, conservator and receiver of the First National of Marion (the bank succeeding as trustee of the veteran’s estate) the securities are listed at face value. The Cosmopolitan bonds are listed by the veterans’ bureau as being in default. Robert P. Kiley, now beer importer of Marion and an appointee of the administration of Governor Paul V. McNutt, was treasurer of the Citizens Trust and Savings Company when Case 1976 became a ward of the bank. Mr. Kiley requested the insanity hearing in a petition on file, accepted the guardianship of Case 1976 for the bank, and on Jan. 25, 1925, signed the first report of the handling of the funds of the insane ward. Mr. Kiley was president of the Marion Title and Loan Company which assigned mortgage loans to the Grant Trust, which invested the same in the trust funds of veterans. Shown as Treasurer In the 1930 Marion directory Mr. Kiley is shovra as the treasurer of the Grant Trust, succeeding guardian of veterans’ funds after the merger with the Citizens Trust. Then up to the time that the First National of Marion (the old bank) into receivership, Mr. Kiley is shown as director of that institution. Request for the stockholders’ list of the First National in Marion (the new institution) was refused The Times by Mr. Rauch, candidate for senatorial nomination on the Democratic ticket, on the premise that he “did not desire to embarrass stockholders.” Mr. Rauch is receiver for the old First National. Mr. Kiley is not shown as director or officer of the new First National in Marion. A Peacock Who Strutted The guardianship case history of No. 2347 is that of a peacock who strutted and got away with it. Case 2347—let’s call him Johnliked good clothing, and got them. He's in Poland now, being the big frog in the little Polish puddle of a town. As far as the United States is concerned, he's still of unsound mind and his estate is held in trust by the Marion National bank of Marion. But while he was under guardianship to the old Marion’ National bank, he was able to get $45 overcoats, S4O suits, $11.35 shoes, $1 hose, $2 ties. Then he was discharged from the veterans’ hospital at Marion to go back to Poland. Expenditures Approved John had it in his mind to return to Poland, or at least he may be credited with it, for the old Marion National bank’s trust department approved the following expenditures in September and October: $lO oxfords, two pajamas, $3.50; three handkerchiefs, $1; four men’s hose, $4; one suit, S4O; one hat, $5; two ties, $3.50. Then on April 20, 1931, Case 2347 bought his “going-away” garb. The total came to $311.60 at PriceHutchins Clothing Company, by the time he finished buying in May, 1931. Itemized the bill runs like this: One suit, $29.50; extra pants, $5.50; one topcoat, S3O; one Gladstone, $25; one trunk, S4O; one traveler’s set, $5; one overcoat, $35; one suit and extra pants, $25; one hat, $10; one cap, $2; three suits of pajamas, one $5, one $9.75; four

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ACTRESS SEEKS DIVORCE

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Esther Ralston By United Press LOS ANGELES. Feb. 26.—Esther Ralston, motion picture actress, filed suit for divorce today against George Webb, who was her manager before they eloped to Riverside, Cal., on Christmas day, 1925. The actress charged mental cruelty. The couple have one child, a girl. 2.

$4,500 CLAIM TO BEWAIVED Cemetery to Release Hold on Right of Way for Certain Terms. Efforts to obtain a south entrance to Butler university through construction of Conser avenue from Thirty-eighth street to Forty-fourth street appears to have produced results yesterday. A $4,500 claim which the Crown Hill Cemetery Association holds for the right of way will be waived under certain conditions, Hugh McK. Landon, president, advised the park board. Mr. Landon’s proposal will be submitted to the park board tomorrow for approval, A. C. Sallee, parks superintendent, said. Crown Hill Cemetery Association will insist upon a boulevard of sufficiently permanent nature to assure the cemetery it will not face assessment for anew boulevard in the next few years. The park board and works board have formulated plans for construction of a 100-foot roadway with a treated surface, Mr. Sallee said. By using CWA labor, the city administration hopes to build the boulevard at a cost of less than $3,000. The new thoroughfare will eliminate traffic hazards along Forty-sixth and Forty-ninth streets at Capitol avenue, Illinois and Meridian streets, it was pointed out. suits of underwear, $10.50; one belt, $1; one buckle, $1; suspenders, $1; three collars, $1; garters, 50 cents; four ties, $6; four hose, $2; house slippers, $3.50; shoes, $5.85; lounging robe, sls; shoes, $7; two traveling tags, 50 cents; and then, as a concluding item, he bought his third suit at S4O, on May 11. While John was in Poland he must have got the North American blues for in February, 1932, a United States road map was bought for him for 75 cents and only a 25-cent American flag. Records in the circuit court guardianship files show that with an income of $1,400 he spent $2,030.18 from May 2, 1931, to March 19, 1932. Next—He drives a car, yet legally he’s insane.

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BANDITS SLAY BANK’S AGENT; STEALS2OO,OOO Three Suspects Arrested for Downtown Killing in Kansas City. By United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 28. Underworld characters were routed from their haunts here today by police seeking the slayers of a bank messenger who was robbed of cash and bonds worth more than $200,000. Two men and a woman are under arrest. Police said one of the men has been identified as one of the gang wnich shot down Webster Kemner. Commerce Trust Company messenger, on a downtown street late yesterday. Those under arrest were Sam Decaro, his wife, and Joe Martino. Mr. Kemner was walking to the postoffice to mail the cash and securities. One block from the bank three armed men leaped from a small sedan to the sidewalk. One wrenched the satchel from Mr. Kemner. then fired a single bullet into his heart. Though armed, Mr. Kemner had made no attempt at resistance. SENATE SCANS MOVIE CHIEF'S LARGE SALARIES Zukor Got $130,000 Pay and $757,000 Bonus in 1929. By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—Federal trade commission reports to the senate show large salaries and bonuses paid to motion picture executives. Adolph Zukor, as president of Paramount Fublix Corporation, received $130,000 salary and $757,000 bonus in 1929, and $96,031 salary with no bonus in 1932. Fox Film listed a 1929 salary of $129,727 for Vice-President F. P. Sheehan and S2O bonus. His 1932 salary was $162,014 with no bonus. AUTO FACTORY PAY TO EQUAL 1929, IS BELIEF Knudsen Makes Prediction on Basis of Output So Far. By United Press FLINT, Mich., /eb. 28.—Total earnings of automobile factory workers this year will equal those of 1929 if the present demand for cars continues, William S. Knudsen, executive vice-president of General Motors, predicted today. Maximum working hours under the automotive code equal those of 1929, Mr. Knudsen pointed out. Low Round Trip Coach Fares Next Saturday CLEVELAND $4.50 Leave 10:00 p. m. or 10:50 p. m. Return on any train until 3:00 a. m, Monday. DETROIT .........,$4.50 TOLEDO... $4.00 Leave 10:00 p. m. Return on any train Sunday. Next Sunday ST. LOUIS .. $4.50 Leave 12:35 a. in., 2:45 a. m. or 8:15 a. m. Return on any train same day. CINCINNATI $2.50 Greensburp, 81.25; Shelbyville, $0.75 Leave 7:45 a. m. Return on any train same day. Week-End Trips CHICAGO $5.50 Leave on any train from 10:45 a. m. Fridays until 1:55 a. m. Mondays. Return Mondays. Reduced round trip Pullman fares. RIG FOUR ROUTE