Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 255, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 March 1934 — Page 3

MARCH 5. 1934

MENTALLY AFFLICTED WAR VETERAN PERMITTED TO BUY 8 WATCHES IN 10 YEARS Officials at Marion Sanitarium Say that Had They Known They Would Have Remonstrated. BY ARCH STEINEL Ti-ie. Staff Writer MARION, Ind., March —“Two-Gun Pete” has been li ed for years as a blanket jocularity in addressing the neighborhood gangs of youngsters that dodge between houses blasting away at each other with cap pistols in the game of cowboy and Indian.

Kut if any appellation is jriven Case 2,031 in the guardianship records of Grant county then it should he “Eight-Watch Pete,” For Case 2.034. who for convenience will be known by a rightful portion of his name as "Peter G shows a purchase of eight watches and five watch-chains in ten years, with the approval of his guardian, the old Marion National bank. Peter G , a World war veteran and patient in the National sanitarium for veterans up to his discharge several years ago, began his penchant for watches ranging in value. $3.50 to $lO. on Dec. 6.1922, nr cording to his guardianship records. H<- purchased a watch, chain, and cuff links for S2O from a Marion jewelry store. 11. next desire for having Father T line keep him company was Jan. 19, 1924, a (3.75 watch and chain. Purchases Come Yearly Purchases after that came yearly. On Nov. 10, 1924, watch, $3 50; March 2, 1925, watch chain. $1.50; Feb. 10. 1927, watch, $9.25; May 20, 1927, repair watch, $3.50; Nov. 14, 1928. watch, $10; July6,l929,watch, S10; Feb. 11, 1930, watch and chain, sll Jan. 13, 1932, watch and chain, sl4 50. But m February, 1933. the desire to want a watch changed to rings and a $7.20 ring was purchased for the bank’s ward. Officials of the veterans’ sanitarium say that Peter G's records show no jewelry and that if he had purchased that many watches and they had known it that they would have remonstrated. Discrepancies Shown Officers of the old Marion National bank do not recall the occasions of the purchase of watches lor Peter G . Oddly Peter G’s vouchers for funds expmdcd on file in the Grant court clerk's files show discrepancies m the signing of the vouchers As an example on two vouchers on Dec. 16. 1922. the veteran's approval of t lie expenditure is made in two ways. On one voucher his name is signed in a scrawl that is legible; on the second voucher on the same day for a different amount he could only make "his mark.” The mark, an "X,” is not witnessed. Checks corresponding to the j vouchers in the files of the old j Marion National bank show no in- | dorsements on the back of the j checks. It is said to be good banking j practice as well as the custom in j the signing of legal documents to insure proper signature where a mark is made that witnesses attest to the mark. Explanation Is Made It also is good practice for checks to carry indorsements. It is explained, however, by former officials of the old Marion National bank that small irregularities of little consequence appear in the best i of banks. Clothing expenditures of $291.83 | were made for Peter G from May 1. 1929 to Jan. 31, 1931. On another voucher in Peter G's estate is a $5 expenditure which shows that his name was begun in his own handwriting and the “Peter” and the “G” of his last name written as signature to the voucher and then added to that in obviously different handwriting, the remainder of his name. It is disclosed in the guardianship of Case 2.015, now restored to san- j ity, that the old Marion National ! bank mow in liquidation) permitted j the ward to spend $426.45 from May 11. 1929. to Dec. 10. 1930. for clothing. * The court records show that Case 2.015 bought razors during his sojourn at the veterans’ hospital Hospital rules do not permit patients to own razors. The records also show that Case

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2.015 was permitted to buy $6 bathing suits, $45 and SSO suits. It is disclosed that Case 2,015 also had a watch complex and that timepieces valued at $18.50, $33.75, $25, S4O, $12.50, were purchased by him between 1922 and 1932. Bills as high as SB3 for clothing were purchased at one time by Case 2,015. Paying for being jailed is another queer turn taken by guardianships records of veterans in Grant county as shown in Case 1,967 probed by The Times. Case 1.967 was a ward of the old Marion National bank. He is still legally insane, but has been discharged from the veterans sanitarium at Marion. In September, 1927, he went on a furlough from the hospital to visit relatives in Coalport, Pa. While there he was arrested for carrying deadly weapons and disorderly conductThe guardian, the old Marion National bank, sent Patrolman Chaney Boles, of the Marion police department, to Pennsylvania to return Case 1,967 to Indiana. According to a statement of expenses for that trip and for which Boles collected he paid $8.25 to Patrick ’Nelson, chief of police of Coalport, Pa., for the safekeeping of Case 1,967 while in jail. Itemized Account Made Boles’ itemized account, receipted by the Pennsylvania police chief runs as follows: Lockup $2.00 Turnkey 50 Meals, 75c per meal $3.75 Services $2.00 Case 1,967 gained considerable notoriety in that in 1931 the United States veterans bureau denied him compensation after ten years of paying hinl SIOO for total disability with the exception of the last two years when his compensation was reduced to S2O monthly. The government’s excuse was that although Case 1,967 had served in the United States army March 26, 1914. to April 25, 1918. he was a selfadmitted alien enemy at the time of that servitude. Case 1,967 is said to have declared that he was a subject of Germany at the time he served in the army. Rules of the veterans’ administration prevent payment of compensation under those conditions. Former officials of the Marion National bank, now’ in liquidation, explain the excessive clothing expenditures in guardianships held in their trust with “we desired the boys to have everything possible to make them happy and contented.” Officials of the veterans’ sanitarium also expressed the opinion that the old Marion National desired at all times to permit the war veterans to get as much enjoyment as pos- | sible out of their estates during ! their life. Not one suit has been brought against that bank, now in liquidation, for depreciated securities or bad investmentsOfficers of the former institution who are now in the new Marion National bank of Marion point out that it is their belief that the main ■ liability of a guardian is the in- ! vestments of funds of the estate 1 and that in every case they sought j to protect their wards with proper , securities. (Next: What the Law Says on Veterans' Guardianships). PISTOL SHOOTING FATAL Negro Admis Pistol Slaying, Police Allege. Howard Graves, 34. a Negro, 1139 East Fifteenth street, was wounded fatally in a pistol battle yesterday, j Eary Kay, a Negro, same address. | admitted the shooting, according to police, and was arrested, charged with murder, after Graves died in I city hospital. Police said the argu- ; ment was about Grave’s wife.

‘CAN’T BLAME ME,’ LAUGHS MARY KINDER AFTER JAIL BREAK

‘This is one jail break they can't hang on me,” was the laughing comment of Mrs. Mary Kinder 'left, above) as she visited the office of her attorney, Miss Jessie Levy <right) Saturday, following news of John Dillinger’s escape at Crown Point. Mary was accompanied to the

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Bis Timex Special NEWCASTLE, March 5. —A telephone number is a business asset of such high value that it merits protection by law'. Judge John H. Morris of Henry Circuit court ruled in the case of Jesse Baker against the Farmers’ Chemical Corporation. The ruling was the same as made by Judge G. H. Hoelscher of Wayne circuit court, w’here the case w r as heard originally. Hearing in Newcastle was on a change of venue. Mr. Baker sold a fertilizer business to the corporation and resumed possession W'hen the concern failed to carry out a sales contract. Later the corporation resumed business in another location in Hagerstown, but used the phone number of the other location. Temporary restraining order against use of the number by the corporation was issued by Judge Hoelscher and Judge Morris made the order permanent.

Bedford Man Chosen By l niled Brega VINCENNES, March s.—Selection of E. Y. Guernsey, Bedford, to supervise the restoration of Indiana’s oldest town is announced here. The undertaking is sponsored by the Old Cathedral Association and has as its objective the restoration of the old French quarter, including St. Francis Xavier cathedral, the old seminary which w'as the first college of Vincennes; the early library, the old French cemetery and other buildings and grounds which formed the nucleus of the present city of Vincennes. “I believe that Hoosiers have not appreciated the fact that the older portion of Vincennes is as interesting and as historically important as the French quarter at New Orleans,” Mr. Guernsey said. "But with the interest being shown now by Vincennes people, I am sure that the city will become one of the most interesting shrines in America.” St St tt Tells ‘Tall’ Tale By Times Special TIPTON. March s. —Ten-year-old Russell Culley is back at his home in Frankfort following an encounter with Tipton police to whom he related a story of having been kidnaped from his home in Lafayette and that his name was Russell Watson. Officers who finally drew from the boy an admission of his real identity described him as having “an imagination we’ll back against the world.” ana Plant Expanded By 1 lines Special LEBANON. March s. —Warehouse 180 feet long and eighty feet wide has been completed for the Ladoga Canning Company to care for a rapidly expanding business. Sheds and other structures in the immediate vicinity of the plant had been filled with canned goods, b"t room still was lacking, and the new building was erected to relieve the situation. Canned foods sufficient to feed 7.000 persons for a year already is stored in the new warehouse, according to A. D. Sturm, company manager. Shipments are made to all parts of continental United States and to Honolulu, T. H.

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conference by her blond sister, Mrs. Margaret Behrens, who has been her constant companion since Mrs. Kinder was freed last week In Marion criminal court on charges of aiding her sweetheart, Harry Pierpont, and other members of the terror mob, to escape from the Indiana state prison Sept. 26.

Club Leader Dies By Times Special BEDFORD, March s. —Mrs. Miranda R. Avery, 76, former city probation officer of Bedford and active in several organizations, is dead. She was a member of the Ladies of the Round Table; Woman's Department Club; charter member of the Sorosis Club, and one of the founders of Bedford Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star. During the World war, she was a member of the Council for Defense and a speaker in Liberty Loan campaigns. aa a > Illness Closes School By Times Special SHELBYVILLE, March s. —With seventy-four of its 242 pupils ill, the Addison township consolidated school has been closed to check spread of diseases, chief of which is measles.

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ALIENISTS NAMED TO EXAMINEMATHERS Alleged $lO Slayer Pleads Insanity. Dr. E. Rogers Smith and Dr. Murray DeArmond, alienists, were appointed Saturday by Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker to make a sanity examination of Theodore Mathers, alleged slayer in the $lO murder of the Rev. Gaylord V. Saunders, former Wabash Methodist minister Judson L. Stark. Mathers 1 attorney, has entered an insanity plea for his client, who, with Mrs. Neoma- Saunders, the minister’s widow, and Masil Roe. alleged accomplice, are charged with murder. Six Hurt in Auto Crash LOGANSPORT, Ind., March 5. Six persons were injured, one seriously, here last night when two automobiles collided head-on in a fog. Most seriously hurt was Miss Eileen Long, 19, who suffered a skull fracture.

ANCIENT POSTER ORDINANCE MAY HAONTPOLITICS Safety Board Permission Necessary to Display Candidates. BY WILLIAM H. M’GAL’GHEY, Times Staff Writer From the musty law archives in the city attorney's office there emerged today the ghost of an ancient city ordinance that threatens to haunt political candidates in the coming primary. Though the ordinance had been lying dormant on the books for years, James E. Deery, city attorney, asserted that it might become a powerful political weapon in the hands of future and less scrupulous, city administrations. Even under the present administration. it appears ax a potential legal threat. Mr. Deery admitted. For under the ordinance, it will be possible to deprive political candidates of one of their favorite devices—the political poster. In all political campaigns, space on every available shanty, hitching post gnd telephone pole is utilized by politicians who tack up signs proclaiming their virtues to the voters, Mr. Deery explained. And all the while, the city attorney continued, most of these candidates have been violating a city ordinance that makes them liable to a fine of SIOO, if prosecuted. Under provisions of the longforgotten ordinance, the person who tacks up his poster must have obtained beforehand the permission of the property ow'ner, and of the safety board. Mr. Deery explained. The city attorney speculated at length on the possibility of ruthless safety boards granting permission to some candidates to hang their posters for the voters to see, and prosecuting those w ? ho failed to obtain the board’s sanction. “Don’t be surprised,” said Mr. Deery, “if at some future date you see upon the telephone poles of our fair city the cognizances of candidates all of one political faith.” “And, he added, “we may live to see all the candidates of the opposite political faith flung into jail for lack of SIOO to pay their fines.” It has been estimated by radio broadcasting companies that the average radio set is used about four hours a day.

ANNOUNCES ■ LOWER \ DELIVERED PRICES Effective immediately, delivered prices on Ford V-8 passenger cars, trucks, and commercial cars in this district have been substantially reduced. Standard equipment on all cars remains the same as in the past, and, at no extra cost, includes on De Luxe models: • Safety Glass throughout. • Twin Mirrors. • Colored Fenders to match Bodies. • Twin Tail Lamps • • Two swivel-type Sun Visors. ® Cowl Lights . % Ash Trays and Lighter. Ask the nearest Ford dealer for the new low delivered price on the Ford V-8 car of your choice. Bear in mind that the new Ford V-8 is admitted universally to be the greatest motor car value ever offered. It is the fastest selling car on the market. It is the only car with V-8 engine selling for less than $2300. It has features found only in cars selling for many hundred dollars more. ASSOCIATED FORD DEALERS

NOLAN ON PROGRAM

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Val C. Nolan. United States district attorney, will be one of the speakers at the annual St. Patrick's day breakfast of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, it was announced today. The breakfast will be at the Claypool, following 7:30 a. m. mass and communion at St. John's church. The Rev. Monsignor Maurice O'Connor, pastor of St. Joan of Arc church, and James E. Deery, city attorney and national A. O. H. president, also are on the program. A St. Patrick's day dance will be given by the A. O. H. at Tomlinson hall March 17. There w ill be a program of Irish songs end dances. George Rice is chairman of the breakfast arrangements- and Eugene O'Sullivan of the dance.

INSULL ORDERED TO LEAVE TOMORROW Greece Again Tells Utilities Magnate to Move. By United Press ATHENS, March s.—Police today notified Samuel Insull, Chicago utilities magnate, that he must leave the country tomorrow'. Insull, whom the United States government seeks to extradite in order that he may be tried on charges concerning the collapse of his utilities interests, was isolated at his hotel and said he was gravely ill.

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’BRAHMS SONATA TOPS PROGRAM BY MYRA HESS Academy of Music Hears Program by Noted Pianist. Myra Hess, pianist, returned to ffijthe Academy of Music yesterday afternoon and presented a program i which should strengthen the popularity which she already enjoys with members of the Maenncrchor. Miss Hess is at all times the ! technician—the master of her inj strument. If she were but more j honestly familiar with the farther reaches of the emotional spectrum, j that very sincerity might bring her performance more closely to brilli:..ce. Opening her program with Bach's “French Suite. No. 5,” Miss Hess masterfully built up a climax from ; the first despairing Allemande movement to the final Gigue movement. For purity of tone, the second movement, Courante. of the Bach opus, was unsurpassed during the afternoon, save, perhaps, for the Andante of Brahms’ “Sonata, Opus , 5.” the piece de resistance of the program. With the Grahms’ "Sonata,” Miss Hess was at her best, passing fluently and intelligently from the stormy petulance of the opening movement through the delicate passivity of the Andante and to the fiery pyrotechnical Scherzo and finale, bringing to the latter verve and heroic stature. The final group included Ravel’s “Pavane pour nue Infante Defunte,” "Oiseaux Tristes,” and “Alborada del Graeioso.” The last of these, | with its syncopated rhythm and | dissonances peculier to the composer of the well-known “Bolero,” was played splendidly by Hiss Hess. Miss Hess acknowledged a prolonged ovation with three encores. (By the Observer). TOBACCO TRUCK LOOTED S3OO Cargo Taken From Stolen Vehicle Here. A truck containing S3OO worth of cigars and cigarets owned by the Hamilton-Harris Company, 384 South Senate avenue, was stolen from in front of 590 East drive, Woodruff Place Friday night. The truck was found later, with its cargo missing.