Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 267, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 March 1934 — Page 3

MARCH 19, 1934

JUDGE KERN TO 8E SPEAKER AT RIVERSIDE CLUB Mayor Candidate to Give Address for Democrats Tomorrow Night. Superior court Judge John W. Kern, candidate for mayor, subject to the Democratic primaries, will be principal speaker at a meeting of the Riverside Democratic Club tomorrow night. Thus is the. first of a series of meetings to be conducted by the club. Mayor Reginald Sullivan will be a special guest. William A. Brown, Sixth Ward district chairman, will preside. Committeemen in charge of the meetings are Mrs. Joseph Whitely, Arthur Wesson, Mrs. Wilmoth T. Monihan, Mrs. Vance, William McClain, Mrs. Clea Adair, Mrs. Hazel McCutcheon, Mrs. Jessie Jett, Mrs. Charlene Ray, Marion Bluestein, Mrs. Rose Wise, Hal Farr, William Sherer, Chris Iverson, Paul Markun, Harry Schopp, Mrs. James ThompMarry Schoop, Mrs. James Thompson and Dr. S. M. Caraway. Committees Are Picked Ccmmittee appointments for the Marion County Women's Democratic Club have been announced by Mrs. John Bingham, president. Chairmen are Miss Julia Landers, advisory; Mrs. Leland Davis, membership; Mrs. P. C. Kelly, publicity; Mrs. Le Grande Marvin, program; Mrs. R. S- Records, finance; Mrs. Thomas Marshall, social; Mrs. Anna Owen, luncheon, and Mrs. Clyde Karrer. telephone. Markun on Program Louis R. Markun. Republican candidate for mayor, will address the recently organized Fourth Ward Republican Club at 8 tonight in Red Men's all. Twenty-ninth and Clifton streets. William Davidson, president of the club, will preside, and ; Gilbert Curtis, chairman of the ex- ; ecutive committee, is chairman of , arrangements. Candidates Lacking Three major county offices still 1 are without candidates as the ninth | day passed since the opening of i election headquarters in the court- ; house for filing declarations of candidacy for cc uty, city and township offices. No candidate of either the Democratic or Republican party thus far has filed for county auditor, county recorder or for any of the seven county council posts. A total of 519 men and women representing each of the two political parties have appeared at the bureau to file, but of that number, 402 of them seek the office of precinct committeeman, while 117 filed for major offices, Glenn B. Ralston, county clerk and county board of election commissioner member, announced. Sixteen Republicans and fifteen Democrats have filed for the various city offices. Os this number, two Democrats and five Republicans have announced for mayor, two Democrats and one Republican for city clerk and eleven Democrats and ten Republicans for membership on the city council. Os the 519 persons who have filed,

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KERN FILES CANDIDACY FOR MAYOR

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John W. Kern, judge of superior court, rocm one fright) files his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for mayor with Glenn B. Ralston, county clerk.

283 are Democrats and 236 are Republicans. Prospective candidates have until April 8 to file declarations of candidacy. Seeking Judgeship Lloyd D. Claycombe, local attorney, will seek the Republican nomination for probate judge, he announced today. Mr. Claycombe has served as city councilman and as state representative. While a member of the assembly, he sponsored the Indiana State Bar Association's reform program in the house and was co-author of bills to make possible municipal ownership of the Citizens Gas Company. He was counsel for the state crime bureau and prosecuted cases in which convictions for bank robbery were obtained. Mr. Claycombe is grand president of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity and a member of the Meridian Heights Presbyterian church. Masonic order and the Indiana University Club. Mr. Claycombe is married, lives at 4301 Park avenue and has three children. Announces Candidacy Walter L. Carey today announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for superior court judge, room five. He has been a lawyer here thirty-two years. Mr. Carey is married, lives at 146 South Ritter avenue and has three children. He is a member of Irvington lodge, F. & A. M.; the Scottish Rite, Republican Club and Friends church. Assessor Aspirant George W. McDaniels today announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for county assessor. He has been employed as an appraisal engineer for various companies and the state during the past three years. He studied engineering at Purdue and Washington universities. He is married, member of the Masonic order and the Methodist church. Bonifield to Speak Fred Bonifield, candidate for the Republican nomination for criminal court judge, will be the principal speaker at a meeting of the McKinley Club Wednesday night. Wilmeth Honored Presentation of a steel overseas helmet to Delbert O. Wilmeth,

candidate for the Republican nomination for congressman from the Twelfth Indiana district, will be made at a meeting of the Marion County Republican Veterans tomorrow night at 125 West Market street. Club to Hear Markun Louis R. Markun, candidate for the Republican nomination for mayor, will speak at the Fourth ward Republican club, Twentyninth and Clifton streets, tomorrow night at 8. Judgeship Candidate Archie N. Bobbitt, former auditor of state and now a practicing attorney here, will seek the Republican nomination for appellate court judge, First district, he announced today. * He was born in Craw r ford county, Sept. 3, 1895, was graduated from high school and attended Central Normal college. He is a graduate of the Benjamin Harrison Law school. He was admitted to the bar in 1924. Mr. Bobbitt is married and a member of the f Methodist church, the Masonic lodge, the Lawyers’ Association of Indianapolis, the Indianapolis and Indiana State Bar Associations, Columbia Club and Sigma Delta Kappa legal fraternity. 6 PARKED CARS LOOTED HERE OVER WEEK-END Owners Report Losses of Clothing and Other Valuables. Clothing, brief cases and insurance papers constituted the loot in thefts from six parked cars over the week-end. Owners of cars and their losses: C. O. Pickins, 512 North Chester avenue, brief case and insurance papers; Roy Curry, 603 Jackson street, Munce, Ind., clothing, $100; Lester Hughbanks, Scottsburg, Ind., clothing, $65. and bag valued at sls; Donald Beck, Brownsburg, coat, sls; Elizabeth Banta, 1103 East Market street, closing valued at S4O; H. M. Hall, 1131 North Delaware street, sweeper equipment, sls.

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GREENLEE FOE BACKS PETERS’ SENATEJOPES Shelby County Publisher Gives Newspaper Aid to Ft. Wayne Man. Echo of the bitter feud in the Democratic ranks in Shelby county, whe4e Pleas Greenlee, McNutt patronage secretary, is fighting the “old guard” leader, John Day De Prez, was seen today in the latter’s ringing indorsement of the candidacy of R. Earl Peters, Ft. Wayne, for the Democratic nomination for the United States senate. Mr. Greenlee has led the fight against Mr. Peters’ nomination. Mr. De Prez is editor and publisher of the Shelbyvville Democrat. He demands that the party back Mr. Peters, in an editorial, now being sent out from the Peters’ headquarters here. The editorial reads, in part, as follows: “Mr. Peters served the Democratic party for seven and one-half years as state chairman. During that period he worked unceasingly for the interests of Democratic principles and Democratic candidates. “He became state chairman when it seemed the Deemocratic party was demoralized. Many thought, at that time, that the Democratic party would cease to be a major political party. “Earl Peters gave unstintedly of his time in effecting a militant organization. He kept alive the spirit of enthusiasm for the self-govern-ing institutions as taught by the founder of the Democratic party, Thomas Jefferson. . . “What is of much importance in the corAing campaign is the fact that Earl Peters is close to the Roosevelt administration. As far back as 1929 Mr. Peters suggested Roosevelt as the hope of the Democratic party in 1932. . . “To carry Indiana in November, the Democratic party must have a candidate for United States senator whose confidence and belf in President Roosevelt has been thoroughly tested. R. Earl Peters fits the picture. He is the logical candidate of the Indiana Democracy for United States senator.’’ STREET CAR OPERATOR IS ROBBED OF $18.50 Two Bandits Hold Up Motorman on Mars Hill Line. Roy Lund, 52, of 1427 Broadway, operator of a West Indianapolis street car, was robbed of $18.50 yesterday by two bandits at the end of the Mars Hill line. Three employes of Ted's Lunch, 1345 North Illinois street, were held up and robbed of $6 by two bandits early yesterday. Cigarets, razor blades, and whisky valued at $lO4 was stolen by burglars who broke into the Haag drug store, 2202 North Meridian street, early yesterday.

SEEKS SHERIFF POST

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Howard 11. Maxwell Republican nomination for sheriff of Marion county will be sought in the May primary by Howard H. Maxwell, 36, of 6800 Westfield road. Mr. Maxwell, who was manager of the Maxwell Gravel Company until 1931, since has been vicepresident of Central Aeronautical Corporation at municipal airport. He -served overseas with the Rainbow division during the war, and now holds a commission as first lieutenant in the Thirtyeighth division, Indiana national guard, aviation unit.

ROBBERIES NET THIEVES $440 Holdup Men, House Burglars and Pickpockets Busy During Week-End. Holdups, residence burglaries, and pick pockets netted thieves $440 in loot over the w T eek-end. Edmond Thompson, 21, of 52 South Tremont avenue, was held up Saturday night and robbed of 53 cents and a $29 ring by a Negro at Belle Vieu place and Washington street. Call Mitchell, Clayton, reported to police that a billfold containing $25 was taken from his pocket at Butler fieldhouse, Saturday night. A thief prowling among the congregation of the Meridian .. Street Methodist church stole an overcoat valued at S2O from Dr. E. E. Voyles, 4342 Park avenue. Jewelry valued at $135 was stolen from the home of Charles O. Lamb, 313 East Twenty-fourth street. House burglaries in the residences of Henry Davis, 1037 South Capitol avenue, Bruce Ruark, 3301 East Washington street, and William F. Wright, 5132 North New Jersey street, netted approximately S3OO. Patriotic Societies to Meet Federated Patriotic Societies will be entertained by T. W. Bennett circle, Ladies of the G. A. R„ at 8 tomorrow night at Ft. Friendly.

WEALTHY OHIO LAWYER SLAYS WIFEAND SELF Wealthy Cleveland Attorney Kills Mate With Ax Blows. By United Press CLEVELAND, March 19.—Robert B. Newcomb. 52, wealthy and prominent Cleveland attorney, killed his wife. Faith, 56, with an ax today, ! and then committed suicide by slashing his throat with a razor, a preliminary coroner’s report indi- ! cated. Mr. Newcomb’s body, lying in the basement of their spacious Cleveland Heights home, was found by a laundress when she appeared for work today. A razor lay near his outstretched hand. Mr. Newcomb recently suffered a nervous breakdown. The body of Mrs. Newcomb, her head crushed by repeated blows from an ax, lay in her bed in an upstairs room. It was apparent she had been slain while sleeping. Mr. Newcomb was associated with his brother, Adrian G. Newcomb, and Herman J. Nord, in the law firm of Newcomb, Newcomb and Nord, which had been prominent in Ohio bar circles for nearly twenty years.

V. OF F. W. POST TO SPONSOR CARD PARTY Public Event to Be Held at Dearborn Next Saturday. A public card party will be sponsored by the Burns-West-Strei-beck Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, at 8 Saturday night in the Dearborn. Members of the committee in charge are Mr. and Mrs. William L. Nease; Mr. and Mrs. Hugh H. Meyer, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie E. Ashby and Mr. and Mrs. Archie J. Everett. METALLURGIST TO TALK Youngstown (O.) Man to Speak at City Society Session. Principal speaker at a meeting of the Indianapolis chapter of the American Society for Metals at 6:30 Thursday in the Columbia Club will be John Mitchell, metallurgist of the Republic Steel Corporation, Youngstown (O.). “Some of the Causes and Effects of Movement of Gears and Gear Steel” will be his subject. LOSES SSOO U. S. BOND Diamond Ring, Several Checks and Jewelry Disappear. A purse containing a negotiable SSOO government bond, SIOO diamond ring, some antique jewelry and several checks was lost Saturday night in vicinity of Thirtyfourth street and Capitol avenue, police were notified by Tillie Mae Todd, 3245 Graceland avenue.

ASSESSOR CANDIDATE

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William M. Gruner Candidate for the Republican nomination for Center township assessor is William M. Gruner. tax accountant and former deputy assessor and chief clerk of the assessors.

ANNOUNCES NEW INVENTORY PLAN Public Service Commission Adopts Perpetual System. For the first time since the public service commission was created, a perpetual inventory plan is to be inaugurated, it was announced today by Chaiiman Perry McCart. Although used and useful property has been the basis for utility rate making, no inventories were available as having been kept up to date, and in many cases none ever were made, he said. The new plan will give a “fingertip” appraisal of all properties to be kept up to date when completed, he explained. Appraisals costing more than $100,090 were mads by commission engineers and accountants in 1933, and work on the Indianapolis Power and Light Company is now under way. A year has been consumed in making a complete checkup on the $100,030,000 properties of the Northern Indiana Public Service Company. Cost of this appraisal will be around $75,000. Because of the falling off of payments for securities issue approvals, it has been found necessary by the commission to collect from companies for appraisals as the work is in progress. Appraisals now on file include properties at Gary, Rockport, Owensville, Greentown, Ft. Wayne, Plymouth, Culver City, South Bend, Mishawaka, Elkhart and several smaller towns.

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‘BOND STEERING’ PRACTICE AGAIN DRAWSJiEBUKE Any Licensed Firm Can Go Surety on Beer Permit, Says McCiain. In order to prevent "bond steering” when the beer licenses must be renewed in April. Commissioner Harry E. McClain of the state insurance department has issued a statement setting out that any licensed company can write the bonds and there are no favorites. The statement was issued following a conference with Paul Fry, state excise director, in whose office the "bond steering” was exposed by The Times last year. Mr. McClain's statement follows: “It has come to the attention of the insurance commissioner, Harry E. McClain, that various insurance agents and companies are making the statement that their company or agency has been designated as | the medium through which beer, wine or other excise department bonds must be written. "To dispel this erroneous impresj sion, the insurance department j states that a complete list of comi panics entitled by charter and licensed to do business in the state of Indiana of this particular character was upon request iurnished the excise department. “The excise department has in the past and will continue to do so ; in the future, accept the bond of j any licensed company. The excise department further states that no discrimination is made of any nature against any company so licensed by the insurance departi ment to execute bonds of the char- | acter required by the statute. CONGRESS READY FOR PHILIPPINES FREEDOM New Bill Requires Removal of Military Reservations. By UnitethPrcas WASHINGTON, March 19.—Congress stands ready today to grant speedy fulfillment to appeals of 13,000.000 Filipinos for freedom, repeated insistently since the United States occupation of the islands in 1898. T#e house, and possibly the senate also, may reach a vote on the McDuffie-Tydings bill, indorsed by President Roosevelt and the Philippines legislative mission now in Washington, which will permanently define relations between the United States and the Philippine islands. The new bill authorizes independence for the Philippines after about twelve years. All military reservations will be withdrawn by the United States from the proclamation of Philippine independence, although the right to retain naval bases and fueling stations is reserved.