Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 260, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 March 1934 — Page 1

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PIERPONT ALIBI IS GIVEN BY PARENTS

DILLINGER OPENS FIRE ON POLICE CHIEFS CAR

Indiana Outlaw Believed to Have Recruited New Gang of Thugs. ACCUSED IN KILLING Hoosier Gunman Is Linked to Murder of West Side Desperado. By I nil.-I ( lIK AGO, March 10.— John hillinjfcr, quick-shoot-rt£ I i!'iiana outlaw, today was KHii-vod to have recruited a new hand of gunmen from Chicago gangland following the riddling of a police automohile with machine gun slugs. Ti 10 shootino episode occurred as ti i' ult of another appearance o! lia lathlr:-- desperado on fashi ~u). Lake Shore drive yester- <■ r to oal a powerful automobile. I > limner had been identified through pictures as the gunman v ho forced .James Gaskin, a chauffeur. from the Lincoln sedan of his employer, Herman Stern, investment broker. The outlaw was aided by three other men in stealing the automobile. Gaskin said. The outlaw carried a machine gun similar to the weapon taken from t lie Crown Point Ind. jail during a jail break a week ago. Warned to lie on \Vat< h After Ciaskin reported the automobile theft, police were warned to be on the watch for this automobile and for a gray sedan in which Dillingcrs companions accompanied him. Police Chief Robert Chiistian last night sighted two automobiles speeding northwest on Irving Paik boulevard The automobiles answered the description of the Lincoln and its escort. Christian followed the automobile westward into the northwest environs of the city. At a busy through street he drew up to within a dozen feet of the second automobile. He apparently was sighted then for the first time. One of the occupants of this automobile leaned out of a window with a machine gun and opened fire. Auto Is ( rippled Bullets crashed into the Christian police car. smashing the windshield, puncturing a tire and breaking motor connections and radiator. Chief Christian remainded unhurt, lint his automobile was crippled. The gunmen sped away. Chief Christian was reariiiy recognizable in his police uniform. Chief Christian said that he was unable to identify any of the occupants of the two automobiles. He watched them turn into a northwest suburb, which was once the stamping grounds for the tenable Touhy gang. Since only John Hamilton, alleged killer, of the original Dillinger gang of Indiana outlaws was still at large, it was believed Dillinger had found allies among Chicago gunmen. Linked to Slaying This belief also led to conjectures linking Dillinger with the shooting to death of West Side Frankie Pope, two days ago. Pope v is found to have been seeking the release lrom prison of the husband of i woman said to have aided Dillingers escape from the Crown Point jail. Pope was a onetime Capone gangster. Meanwhile at Crown Point. Judge William A. Murray summoned a new grand jury to meet Monday. He appointed former Circuit Judge Martin J. Smith to act as special prosecutor in the investigation of Dillinger s jail break. Two guards are at liberty on bond on charges of aiding the outlaw's escape. One of them. Ernest Blunk. fingerprint export at the jail and driver for Dillingers dash for frerom in a stolen automobile, was suspended yesterday. FRATERNITY TO MEET Initiation Ceremony at Noblesville Set by Delta Sigma Xu. Initiation ceremonies for pledges of Delta Sigma Nu fraternity will be held in Forest Park in Nobles\il!e tonight. Ritual ceremonies will be held Sunday night at 8 in the Lincoln. Members of ;he initiation committee are R. hard Foutz. Carl James and Kenneth Wood. CLEMENCY IS DENIED 17 Five Framed Paroles, but Ray Palmer Request si Refused. Seventeen petitions for clemency were denied at the present session of the state clemency commission. Five paroles were granted Ray Palmer, sentenced in Marion county Sept. 3. 1930. to serve ten years on a charge of participating in the holdup of a street car conductor. was denied a parole yesterday. KOIRIA TEMPERATURES ""6 a. m 9 Ba. m.... 12 7 a.m. ..9 9a. m..... 14 7; 15 a. m.. 7.8

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BUCK SUMNER FOR •THE LITTLE WOMAN’ AT CROWN POINT

Sympathetic understanding of ‘the little woman,” as he designated Sheriff Lillian Holley, opened the political campaign of Charles L. 'Buck* Sumner. Marion county sheriff, who filed his candidacy for mayor yesterday. “The Lake county commissioners erred when they failed to surround her with real men to advise and counsel her in time of emergency.” he said, speaking before members of the Council of Indiana Democrats in the Washington last night. “This little woman had the right to feel that she was surrounded by men of courage and integrity. If these deputy sheriffs are real men, every one of them would walk up to Mrs. Holley and turn in his badge. And let me say that if the criminal court judge had kept his nose out of the jail, I believe Dillinger still would be there today.”

MERCURY AGAIN STARTS CLIMB Heavy Snowfall Brings 16Degree Drop Here and Slippery Streets. Accompanied by a 2.6 inches snowfall, the mercury slumped to 7.8 degrees above zero early today, a drop of more than 16 degrees under the same time yesterday. The snow was not expected to remain long on the ground, with the weather bureau forecast being for fair and rising temperature tonight and tomorrow. Temperature tonight was not expected to drop below 16 degrees, and today’s temperature was expected to near 30. under the influence of the northward-bound sun. The snow, which began falling yesterday afternoon, glazed streets last night, forcing motorists to drive cautiously to avoid skidding through intersections. The snowfall brought total snow this month to 4.3 inches, which is more than the average. 3.7 inches for the month, since 1884. INTOXICATION WANING. SOCIETY GIRLS ASSERT Kcjmml Has Contributed to Sobriety, Debutantes Say. By I nited Pn .* PHILADELPHIA. March 10.—Sordid scenes of drunkenness at social functions have vanished since the advent of repeal, according to Philadelphia debutantes and league members. “There is not half as much drinking as there was when we had prohibition.” said Virginia Newbold. “You don't see aynbody rolling all over the floor any more," with Edith Roland's comment about the new era in social drinking. Mrs. Edward J MacMullan of Rosemont, who arranges and chaperons many debutante affairs, is of the samp opinion. “Hostesses never knew what might happen at their parties in the bootleg era when carrying flasks was fashionable and boys thought nothing of spiking the puneh. Now flasks are much out of favor,” she remarked. 15 KILLED IN BATTLE Mexicans Riot at Inauguration of New Officials. By l n ited Pregg MEXICO cm'. March 10.—Fifteen persons were killed in rioting at inauguration of new municipal officials at Zirahuato, in Michoacan state, the newspaper Universal's correspondent wired today. Several hundred persons attacked the officials as the inaugural ceremony was ending, the correspondent said, and fled to the countryside. Troops are searching for the assailants HIT BY STRAY BULLET Motorist Not Seriously Hurt; Lead Was Nearly Spent. By f nited Pregg CHEHALIS. Wash., March 10 George Kangas was struck in the head by a nearly spent bullet as he drove his automobile along a highway near here. It was beiieved to nave been a stray shot of a hunter. Kangas was not seriously injured. NOVICE WINS TOURNEY Woman Captures Rifle Honors After Six Months. By l nited Pregg CADIZ. 0., March 10.—Mrs. Mildred Cessna, who fired a rifle for the first tune in her life only six months ago. carried off first honors from a field of forty competitors in a rifle shoot here.

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NEW AIR MAIL CRASHES STIR G. 0. P. RANKS President Responsible for Army Fliers’ Deaths, Says Fess. By I nited Brega WASHINGTON, March 10.—The air mail controversy was at its greatest height of bitterness today with Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, America's greatest air hero, a silent and mysterious figure in the background. The deaths of four more military pilots added new fuel to congressional debate which has raged sporadically since the army took over the air mail Feb. 18. The new deaths brought the army’s air mail toll to ten. The fatalities occurred a„s an administration bill to restore the mail service to private hands was introduced for speedy congressional action. An early vote was expected, but Republican critics grew more vociferous in their attacks on the administration's cancellation of the air mail contracts, characterizing it a<? “legalized murder.” Colonel Lindbergh arrived by plane last night accompanied by Mrs. Lindbergh. He immediately went into seclusion, refusing to talk to any one. Reports and rumors flooded the capital and it was generally accepted that his unexpected visit was connected in some way with the air mail situation. Government officials and offices, including the White House, expressed ignorance of the purpos eof his visit. Four Fliers Killed The army deaths yesterday: Sergeant Ernest B. Sell. Indiana. Pa., was killed when a plane cracked up at Daytona Beach, Fla., with a mail cargo. Lieutentant Otto Wienecke was killed with a mail cargo in a snowstorm near Burton, o. Lieutenants F. L. Howard and A. R. Kerwin were killed shortly after taking off from Cheyenne. Wyo., on a night practice flight preparatory to entering the mail service. Fess Attacks Roosevelt Meantime administration leaders made it plain they expected to waste no time in passing the Mc-Keller-Black bill. However, it was pointed out. private mail flying could not. be resumed before June at the earliest due to strict provisions of the new act. The first two of the four new army fatalities was the direct cause of the bitterest congressional debate the issue has yet prodouced. Senator Simeon O. P’ess (Rep., O.) ! arising to call attention to the j fatalities, became embroiled in a debate which lasted for hours. He charged that the President was re- | sponsible for the deaths. Previous- j ly an effort by Representative Edith Nourse Rogers ißep., Mass.- to in- , troduce a resolution in the house | calling for immediate termination j of army air mail flying forced the I house to adjourn when she objected to all matters brought up after Democratic objections had blocked her resolutions. Charges Wire-Tapping Wire-tapping charges were made by Senator Fess, coupled with a defense of his son, Lehr, who %as named in testimony before the senate air mail committee as having received several thousand dollars from the United Aircraft and Transport Company in 1930 to "expedite” passage of the McNaryWatres air mail act. Senator Fess said there was “interefernce” during a long-distance telephone conversation he had with former Postmaster-General Walter F. Brown. He charged also that a letter he sent to Mr. Brown in New York recently, was "tampered with.” Black Denies Acts Chariman Hugo L. Black of the air mail committee denied knowledge or sanction of the alleged acts, and told Mr. Fess he would "wholly disapprove” such practices by his investigators. Mr. Black said hearings on the new air mail bill probably would start Monday. The postoffice committee hopes to report the measure to the senate by the end of next week. LONG BEACH JARRED BY MILD EARTHQUAKE Slight Shock Frightens Residents; X’o Damage Done. By United Pregg LONG BEACH. Cal.. March 10.— An earthquake of mild intensity jarred sections of Long Beach last night, recalling in realistic fashion the horror of the 1933 temblor which occurred just a year ago today. Hundreds of frightened residents fled their homes as the disturbance rattled window panes. The downtown district was unaware of the temblor which lasted only a few seconds. It was reported at 9:30 p. m. No damage as reported.

Fair and not so cold tonight, with lowest temperature alxiut 10; tomorrow, fair and warmer.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1934

Pierpont’s Scheme to Kidnap Indiana Cops, Wear Uniforms in Bank Holdup, Bared by Eddie Shouse

By United Pregg LIMA. 0... March 10.—Harry Pierpont, instead of John Dillinger, should be considered America’s public enemy No. 1, in the opinion of Edward Shouse. a former member of the notorious outlaw gang. Shouse was brought here from the Indiana state prison to testify for the state during Piierpont’s trial on charges of murdering Sheriff Jess Sarber of Lima. The sheriff was slain when he resisted efforts of the gang to free Dillinger from the Lima jail. Prompted by fear of electrocution, Shouse agreed to testify, against Pierpont and other members of the gang in return for a promise of immunity from the electric chair. He named Pierpont as the one who killed Sheriff Sarber and the one who plotted the jail delivery. Shouse also took part in the delivery. He and Pierpont were among ten convicts who escaped from the Indiana state prison last September with the aid of guns smuggled in by Dillinger. “I did not want to take part in the Dillinger delivery, but I felt I owed a debt to Johnny for his part in engineering our escape from the prison,” Shouse said. “I consented to aid after being threatened by Pierpont.” Pierpont, or “Pete” as he was called by Shouse, planned the bank robberies which the gang staged and several others which were not carried out, the latter said. "The Racine bank job was planned by Pierpont on his retyrn frfom Milwaukee, where he had attempted to dispose of some of the bonds stolen in the Greencastle bank robbery,” Shouse declared. “The Peru and Auburn police station raids were conducted by Pierpont and Dillinger merely to get some publicity. “Cooler heads Pierpoint frfom carrying out one of his most fantastic schemes. He wanted to kidnap five or six Indiana state policemen and wear their uniforms during a bank robbery. The plan was dropped only after a violent discussion. “Pete ruled the gang with an iron hand and death was the penalty for any disobedience of

City Woman Racket, Four Others in Nation Lose $45,000, Detectives Here Claim. An alleged matrimonial racket in which an Indianapolis woman was swindled of SB,OOO in Liberty bonds, and four other women of $45,000, was charged today by city detectives. Joseph B. Weintraut, 58. Shelby - ville, arrested Feb. 26 at Shelbyville on a Marion county grand jury indictment charging grand larceny bytrick and embezzlement, is said by officers to have been identified by a Chicago woman late yesterday as the man who obtained $3,000 from her by a similar method. Police said Weintraut is suspected of fleecing a woman in Philadelphia of $26,000, another in Pittsburgh of $12,000 and still another in Reading, Pa., of $4,000. The indictment filed in criminal court reveals the Indianapolis woman to be Mabel Gentry of the Spink-Arms hotel. Criminal court

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At the top is the Lima jail, where Pierpont and two oals, Charles Makley and Russell Clark, are held. The jail is surrounded by national guardsmen, state police and deputies, manning machine guns. Also at the top is John Dillinger, America's No. 1 public enemy, whom the trio are alleged to have freed from the Lima jail at the time Sheriff Sarber was killed. At the bottom, left to right, are Deputy Sheriff Wilbur Sharp, witness to the Sarber slaying, who identified Pierpont as the killer; Pierpont, whom Eddie Shouse, a former pal, called “kill-crazy,” and the slain sheriff.

his orders. His hate for police officers caused him to reach a mental state which enabled him

Swindled of SB,OOO in Matrimonial Police Charge; Shelbyville Man Is Held

records reveal that Weintraut pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of embezzlement and grand larceny. Detectives said Weintraut used several aliases, including oJhn B. Worland, John B. Wilson and John B. Watson. The Indianapolis victim said she met Weintraut, under the alias John B. Worland, in a hotel here last September, their friendship resulting in his proposing marriage. She accepted, she said. Posing as a diretcor in the International Board of Trade, and as a social friend of former President Harding and President Roosevelt, he told her he had “inside tips” on market conditions, she charged, and obtained from her SB,OOO in Liberty bonds for investment. She said that before they took a trip to the Chicago world's fair, she intrusted a SI,OOO bond to him, and he returned the bond and $52 “profit” the same day. The next day, she asserted, she gave him four bonds and he returned $250 “profit,” but said he

4. Our Mae, Poet Prince, Black Anna. 5. Hickory Lad, Peedeeque, Legality. , 6. Mavco. Reverberate, Skirl. 7. Lazy' Mary, Mary McCarthy, Deetees. 8. Blast, Bourbon Prince, Seth’s Ballot. 9. Bolinty, Alcove. Dark Seeker. At Agua Caliente — One Best—Mild. 1. True Blue Pal, Sabina H., Plenty French. 2. Morale, Bill Andy, Carissa. 3. Chief's Warbler. Manors. Country Tom. 4. Mild. Lady Seth, Belgian Lass. 5. Little Heel. Ono, Anapola. 6. Kieva, North Shadow. Brains. 7. Kislav, Voyage, Bright Sun. 8. Timbus, Chuno, Dare Devil. At Hialeah Park — One Best—Flaghorn. 1. Zorana. Sky Haven. Pat C. 2. The Pelican, Bubbler, Fancy Flight. 3. Flaghorn, Davoc, Appomattox. 4. Angelic, Foreign Lady, Below Zero. 5. Blessed Event. Springsteel. Mad Frump. 6. Cathop, Crowning Glory> Golden Fate. 7. Bright Beauty, Renewed, Attribute.

I to shoot on the slightest provocation.” The hate Pierpont now bears

left the bonds overnight in a bank. The same procedure was obtained with the remaining bonds, she said, after which he left the city to attend a meeting of the "board of trade directors.” olice traced three of the missing bonds, they said, and recovered them. One was cashed at an Indianapolis bank and two in New York. Detective Chief Fred Simon said he understood another Indianapolis woman had been duped similarly, but police had no record of the case. According to detectives, Weintraut is an old-time gambler, and formerly worked the “card salesm? ” racket on trains. /eintraut has been held in the J irion county jail under $25,000 bond, which he was unable to provide. 3 HELD JN ROBBERIES Seven Burglaries Solved by Arrests, Police Claim. With the arrest of three city men last night, police today claimed the solution of seven burglaries in drug and grocery stores in the city, committedf during the last two months, in which articles valued at $l6O were stolen. The men arrested were Albert Ruff, 25. 1715 La Grande avenue: George Alberts, 32, 1327 St. Paul street, and Harry Schick, 29, 1605 Bates street. All three were charged with vagrancy. Police alleged that Huff made a purported statement in which he implicated himself and the others. Business Cancels Estill Speech By Times Special VALPARAISO. Ind„ March 10.— Pressing business caused by the investigation of John Dillinger’s break from the Lake county jail prevented Prosecuting Attorney Robert G. Estill from filling a speaking engagement here Thursday night. Prosecutor Estill was to have spoken on “Good, Bad and Indifferent Citizens.”

Paul Rhoadarmer Seeks Superior Court Judgeship

Announces His Candidacy on Republican Ticket; Served in World War. Paul F. Rhoadarmer announced his candidacy for superior court judge, room one, on the Republican ticket today. He formerly served as chief deputy prosecuting attorney of Marion county and has served as special judge and judge pro tern, in this county, Mr. Rhoadarmer was born May l 20, 1898, and has been a resident and lawyer in Indianapolis ten j years. He is a graduate of De Pauw i university and Indiana university law school. 9

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for his former companions was I evidenced in the sneer on his face when Shouse testified yesterday. In explaining Dillingers part / | in the state prison break, Shouse said that the desperado stood with his back against the prison wall for two hours while attempting to throw three guns over the twenty-foot wall. Dillinger finally succeeded, but guards discovered the weapons before Pierpont could recover them. Guns which were used in the escape later were smuggled in through the prison shirt factory. Shouse expressed the belief that Dillinger either is in hiding at Chicago or is near St. Paul, where he had powerful gang connections. He said the outlaw is too smart to attempt a jail delivery of his pals at Lima, but has not given up plans to aid the former members of his gang. CONFERENCE HELD HERE ON TRUCKING. PROBLEMS Shippers and Traffic Men Will Meet Regularly in Future. Representatives of trucking and shipping interests will meet twice monthly in the Washington, it was decided yesterday by truck line operators and traffic managers, guests of Tom Snyder and the Central Union Truck Terminal, Inc., meeting in the Washington. The purpose of the conferences will be to co-ordinate the interests of shipper and trucker in matters of common interest. Those present were Harry McNeeley. Chamber of Commerce traffic commissioner; H. A. Hollopoter, Terre Haute Chamber of Commerce traffic manager, and R. B.Coopstick. state Chamber of Commerce traffic manager. The second meeting will be held March 21. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: Northwest wind, 11 miles an hour; temperature, 11; barometric pressure, 30.37 at sea level; general conditions, clear, hazy; ceiling, unlimited; visibility, 3 miles.

POLICE MEASURE BARS POLITICS Senator Schricker Would Put State Force on Merit Basis. A bill placing the state police force on the merit basis and abolishing politics on the part of members is being prepared for introduction in the state senate when the general assembly meets next January. The bill is sponsored by Senator Henry F. Schricker of Knox, a Democrat. Senator Schricker’s bill would provide a state police force modeled after the state board of acounts. The force would be bipartisan. For each Democrat a Republican would be appointed. Members of the force would be put through a "rookie” school and given training in police work. The force would be patterned after the Pennsylvania state police department. The senator said he also was preparing a bill which would remove the state’s judiciary from partisan politics. He proposed the election of judges on a bipartisan ballot with each judicial term fixed at six years. Judges would be eligible for re-elec-tion but once. FORUM TO HEAR DOCTOR I)r. John C. Benson Will Address Church Group. ** Dr. John G. Benson, Methodist hospital superintendent, will speak on “Christian Hospitalization” tomorrow night at the open forum of the Friends and Methodist churches of Plainfield. The two churches have united their Sunday night services as open forums.

He was wounded twice in action while serving with the Rainbow division overseas in the World war. He is married, has two children and resides with his family at 5020 Kenwood avenue. Mr. Rhoadarmer is a member of the North Methodist church, Oriental Masonic lodge, Ozric Mills Watkins post No. 162 of the American Legion, board of directors of the Indianapolis Lawyers Association, admissions committee chairman of the Indianapolis Bar Association. and Delta Tau Delta fraternity. While serving as deputy prosecuting attorney, Mr. Rhoadarmer actively participated in the tnal of more than seventy-five ritses.

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‘HE WAS HOME AT RAID TIME,’ MOTHER SAYS Desperate Defense Started After Sensational Shouse Testimony. TRIAL NEARING JURY Indianapolis Woman Lawyer Leads Defense: Mobster May Take Stand. By l nited Pregg LIMA, 0., March 10.—A desperate defense to save Harry Pierpont from the electric chair was renewed at his : murder trial today in the face i of a sensational identification by Edward Shouse, his former companion in the notori- ! ous John Pilling-er ffaii£. Rushed here from the Indiana {state prison in an armored car to j turn .state's evidence. Shou.se draI matically tXiinted out Pierpont as ! the man who killed Sheriff Jesse L. 1 Sarber in a raid on the jail last fall. Taking of testimony was expected to be completed today and the case given to the jury of ten men and two women tonight. The state rested last night, completing its case against Pierpont with testimony of Shouse and Mrs. Lucy Sarber, widow of the slain official. Led by Miss Jessie Levy, Indianapolis. brilliant co-counsel for Pierpont, the ande s ense immediately called the gangster’s elderly mother to the witness stand. She and her hus- ! hand, who live on a. farm north of ' Lima, have been in constant attendance at the trial. ( lings to Her Story Mrs. Pierpont repeated over ahet over that “my son could not have killed the sheriff—he was home with me.” She clung to her story through I gruelling cross-examination by | Prosecutor Ernest Botkin. Her hus- | band. John Pierpont, who followed | her on the stand, gave virtually the I same testimony. j Pierpont. who with Russel Clark ; and Charles Makley, both of whom ! are awaiting similar trials on charges of murdering Sheriff Sarber, escaped from the Indiana prisj on a few weeks before the jail here was raided to free Dillinger. Mrs. Pierpont explained the officers who searched her house a few hours after the murder did not find Pierpont because “he was upstairs sleeping.” The defense had not revealed whether Pierpont would testify in his own behalf today. Shouse’s appearance in the packed courtroom presented one of the most dramatic moment's of the trial. Shouse Takes Stand As the two gangsters came face to face, Pierpont was tight-lipped and grim. Shrouse glanced occasionally at his former ally. Pierpont stared aimost constantly at Shouse as, from the witness chair, he told of the jail raid and named Pierpont as the man who killed Sheriff Sarber. “Who killed the sheriff?” Prosecutor Botkin asked. “That's the guy.” Shouse replied, pointing at Pierpont. He said that when the gang met in Hamilton, after the raid. Pierpont bragged that he had fired the fatal shots. Mrs. Sarber, the last of the state’s star witnesses, related her version of the killing. She said she was seated by her husband when the men entered, unexpectedly whipped out revolvers and opened fire. Her husband, she said, reached in a desk drawer for his revolver, but was mortally wounded before he could get it. She pointed to Pierpont and specifically named him as the slayer. RENOMINATION SOUGHT BY TOWNSHIP TRUSTEE Democratic Candidacy Announced by Mrs. Maxwell. Candidacy of Mrs. Maggie Maxwell for renomination as Washington township trustee on the Democratic ticket in the May primary was announced today. In announcing her candidacy, Mrs. Maxwell pointed out that the total tax rate in the township has been below $1.50 and she pledged herself to continue her former policies. She is a formpr secretary of the Indiana State Congress of Parent.', and Teachers, and now is fifth vice-president of the department cf education. SEEKS COUNTY POSITION Herbert C. Wadsworth Announces Candidacy for Commission. Herbert C. Wadsworth. Castleton, announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination as Marion county commissioner of the first district today. He is a member of the Methodist church, Masonic lodge, American Legion and thß Indiana Democratic Club.