Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 168, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 November 1934 — Page 3

XOV. 23, 1934

LAWYER’S SLIP BRINGS END TO RACKET TRIAL Mistrial Called as State's Attorney Hurls Charge of Graft. By r n<’.4 rr'H CHICAGO. Nov. 23—1 think It was graft." Fixe words and they cost the state •>f Illinois ana fifteen defendants in tne T-N-T conspiracy trial approximately $6 000 a word, oesldes nullifying much of the value of two years of investigation which cost the state an estimated 1125.000. The remark was made by Assistant State's Attorney Donald Thompson. prosecuting a group of labor leaders and business men accused of using the Trucking and Transpor* Echange, an association of trucking firms, to extort money from contractors and other users of truck services. Judge William Brothers declared a mistrial as a result. Mr. Thompson's error came while F J. Herlihy. contractor, was telling as a witness of a S2OOO payment made to John Bransfteld. principal defendant and organizer of a contractors’ association. A defense lawyer interrupted to say his client admitted the payment was made, but was legitimate Judge Brothers agreed there was no evidence the payment had connection with the ease and instructed the Jury to disregard the prosecutor's question. "I object to the court expressing such an oprmnn.’” interrupted Mr. Thompson. "I think it was a graft payment.” A whole army of defense lawyers leaped forward to move declaration of a mistrial, judge Brothers, after reprimanding Mr. Thompson and calling a recess "so we all can cool off ' returned to the courtroom and declared the trial ended

WAR VETERANS CALL BONUS MASS MEETING Legion Post Seeks Concerted Action for Immediate Payment. A meeting looking toward organized action by all Indianapolis World war veterans to obtain immediate payment of the bonus has been railed lor 8 tonight by East Indianapolis Post No. 13. American Legion. in its hall at Michigan street and Sherman drive. The invitation to all veterans to meet with the post was extended by Sam J. O'Connell, post commander, who has arranged to have petitions calling for the bonus payment ready for signatures. These will be circulated further throughout the city and forwarded to congress when it opens in January. A reception committee to welcome non-Legionnaires will be composed of James Mendenhall. Dr. Simon Reider. Schuyler C. Mowrer. Dr. H. C Percival. Harry B. Perkins. Glenn Bertels. John Nusbaum. John B. Collins, Grover Cross. J. P. Smith and Arthur V. Robinson. BADGER CASE SUSPECTS PLACE FAITH IN DIARY Woman Kept Record of Trips With Rich Merchant. Is C laim. B>i <I Prrxx CHICAGO. Nov. 23—A dairy in which Mrs. Mary Coates is reported to have kept a record of many hours spent with Charles P. Morton, wealthy 65-year-old Cincinnati merchant. assumed a prominent part today in the trial in which the blond manicurist, her husband. Lloyd Coates, and a "friend'' of the couple. Edward Gladstone, are accused of a SIOO,OOO "badger game.'* Attorneys for Mrs. Coates planned to introduce the diary, with entries telling of trips she took with Mr. Morton from Cincinnati to Columbus and other Ohio points, in an attempt to prove that when her husband burst into a Chicago hotel and found the two together he was a genuinely aggrieved spouse. •FAKE AGENT' SUSPECT FACES TRIAL RENEWAL Half-Breed's Hearing Resumes Tomorrow in IT. S. Court The federal court trial of Charles A Calopolis. half-breed Indian of Indianapolis and Salem. Ind., on charges of impersonating an officer will be resumed tomorrow. Calopolis is alleged to have confided to several persons in Indianapolis and Salem that he was "Secret Service Agent No. 19.” The trial began Nov. 14. but hearings were postponed by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell until District Attorney Val Nolan could obtain additional evidence. • Rank Bandits Get SlO.rtOO Bf Umit,.l Pr, .. SUPERIOR Neb. Nov. 23—Peace officers today hunted a bandit gang that late yesterday looted the Security National bank of SIO,OOO. It was the sixth bank raid in two months in Nebraska.

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FRATERNITY TO CONVENE HERE State Phi Gamma Deltas to Hear Mayor-Elect lohn Kern. Mayor-elect John W. Kern will j deliver the welcoming address at i the Phi Gamma Delta state fraj ternity banquet to be held under the auspices of the Indianapolis graduate chapter Wednesday night at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Other speakers were to be Louis jE. Leverone, Chicago, interfrai ternity Club president there, and i Nathaniel Leverone, Chicago, Dartj mouth College Alumni Association president. Frank H. Hatfield, ; Evansville, Indiana Sta’e Bar AsI sociation past president, will be j toastmaster. Guests of honor, besides the j speakers, will be the alumni advisers of the five undergraduate | chapters in the state and Omer S. Jackson. Democratic state committee chairman; Val Nolan, United States district attorney; Will j Smith, collector of internal revenues, j and Walter Pritchard, defeated Re- ! publican mayoral nominee. The arrangements committee inI eludes George H. Dirks, chairman; ! J. Kendall Pierson, Rober.. H. Mohlman. William Conner and Walter Reed. John Scott is president of the local graduate chapter.

SLAYING CASE WITNESS JAILED ASJSHOPLIFTER Mrs. Mabel Ralke, Nurse, Is Given Sixty-Day Term. fiy United Prc*x LOGANSPORT. Ind.. Nov. 23. Mrs. Mabel Balke. 32. Wabash, ex- | pected to be one of the state's chief witnesses in the murder trial of the The Rev. Mr Saunders was found was to start a sixty-day jail sentence today on a charge of shoplifting. Mrs. Balke. a former nurse of the Saunders family at Wabash is expected to testify when Mrs. Saunders and Theodore Mathers, Indianapolis, are tried for the minster’s death. The Rev. Mr. Sanuders was found dead in his parked automobile in north Indianapolis several months ago. THIEF GETS TOWELS. BATH VIATS. MIRRORS Owners Claim Belongings After Police Make Arrest. With a collector's zeal, an intruder yesterday was going through apartments at 404 East Louisiana street, taking bath mats, towels and mirrors. Porter Thomas, apartment 7. and William Mulrein. apartment *B. caught him but he broke away. Police later arrested Harry Bell. 43. of 407'- East Louisiana street, and apartment residents claimed their belongings. Two towels and a bath mat were | left over. He was charged with petit larceny. Barber Dies Suddenly Alva A. Strange. 42. of 4616 East Michigan street, died today in his barber shop at that address. Physicians believe the death was caused bv acute indigestion. He is survived bv his wife. Mrs. Grace Strange.

WORK ON NEW BRIDGE OVER CANAL PROGRESSING RAPIDLY

Under supervision of the state nighway department, work on the West street bridge over the canal at Sixteenth street is progressing rapidly. When completed the bridge will provide motorists with

Hen Travels 35 Miles, Lays Egg for Officer Adventurous ‘Biddy’ Rides on Auto Fender to Hospital; Provides Lunch for Patient.

An adventurous Martinsville hen today traveled thirty-five miles to deliver personally to Police Sergeant John Eisenhut in Methodist hospital his luncheon —her own egg. The hen belongs to Mr. and Mrs. William M. Avery, who also are friends of Sergeant Eisenhut. When

MISS NOONE FILES $513 EXPENSE LIST Other Candidates Give Expenditures for Campaign. Miss Hannah Noone, successful Democratic nominee for re-election as Center township trustee, spent $513 in her campaign, it was disclosed at Marion county election bureau with the filing of her expense statement. Other Democratic expenses filed included those of Edward F. Hofstatter, treasurer of the Otto Ray j for Sheriff Club, who reported $976.65 of which Mr. Ray contributed $539.15. Prosecutor Herbert E. Wilson, superior court judge-elect, Room 5, expended $989.50. of which $740 was given to the county committee. Daniel O'Neill, city clerk-elect. spent $315, including a $240 contribution to the county committee. Paul F. Rhoadarmer, Republican candidate for judge of superior court. Room 1. listed expenditures of S9O. Albert J. Beveridge Jr., unsuccessful Republican nominee for representative in congress, reported that he had expended $85.89. Conrad Ruckelshaus spent $12.50 and the Marion County Committee of Re--1 publican Veterans, $60.76 out of | $66.41 received. STATE GETS $6697000 CHRISTMAS PRESENT Oil Firm's Store Tax Released to Treasurer After Ruling. The state of Indiana today held a premature Christmas present in | the form of $669,000 representing ! state store license fees and interest which had been paid into an escrow' fund by forty-seven oil firms. Action of the Indiana supreme court several months ago in deciding in favor of the state a suit filed 1 by the oil companies contesting the state's right to tax filling stations under the law, resulted in the money being released to the state treasurer. Petroleum Administrator Retires fill United Prrfifi WASHINGTON. Nov. 23.—0il Administrator Harold L. Ickes today announced the retirement of Nathan R. Margold. New York, as chairman of the petroleum administrative board.

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a direct route from West street to Northwestern avenue over the canal. The work is being done by Federal Emergency Relief Administration labor with 'ederal funds under the National Recovery Municipal program.

they started from their home, the hen was on a fender and Mr. Avery shooed it off. Passing a downtown Indianapolis corner, Mr. Avery noticed a traffic officer pointing to his car and he stopped to look around. The hen was on the running board. He put the hen in the rear seat, proceeded to Methodist hospital, where the sergeant is convalescing from an operation, and he and his wife visited with the sergeant and his wife. Mrs. Eisenhut accompanied the visitors to their car at the end of the visit, and they found the hen had laid an egg. Obviously it was a gesture of good will and happy recovery from the hen to the sergeant, so it was cooked in the hospital and served to the ailing officer.

BRITISH NOW BACK U. S. NAVAL VIEWS Japan's Claims for Full Equality Opposed. By United Press LONDON, Nov. 23.—Great Britain and the United States moved into closer co-operation in the naval discussions today, apparently both opposed to Japan's claims to full naval equality. Britain and the United States were understood to have agreed at today's meeting to continue naval negotiations until Japan notifies the United States of abrogation of the Washington treaty, expected on Dec. 20. < Prolongation of the talks would enable Britain and the United States to address various questions to Japan, designed to reveal the political considerations prompting Japan to insist on parity. CITY WOMAN KIDNAPED, ROBBED OF $lO, PURSE Forced Into Car by Neatly-Dressed Man, She Says. Miss Ruth Clemons, 23, of 652 North Oakland avenue, was robbed of a black leather purse containing $10.75 early last night after being forced into a car and being driven some distance by a man w'hom she described as neatly dressed. Miss Clemons told police that she was walking on St. Clair street near Massachusetts avenue when a man drove by and forced her into his automobile. She struggled, she said, but he drove her as far as Brookside parkway and Keystone avenue, where he forced her from the car after taking the purse.

FERA REPORTS ONEJATALITY High Safety Record Shown During Seven IVlonths’ Period. During the seven months in which the federal emergency relief administration has been operating, only one fatality has occurred in relief work accidents in Indiana, according to Neal H. Dow, state safety director of the Governor’s commission on unemployment relief. All FERA relief work projects in the state, including activities in the twelve transient service bureau centers, are under supervision of the commission's safety organization. The division also co-operates with the United States conservation department in looking after the 5.000 young men in the state Civilian Conservation Corps camps. As the result of warnings and instructions to work directors, foremen and workers, preventive measures taken on all FERA projects have held accidents to a minimum, Mr. Dow said. In 288 accidents, workers suffered injuries resulting in loss of time, and 1,470 minor injuries were reported in which no time was lost. The accident frequency cycle, or determining factor average, for the state is 17.7 for the period from April 1 to Nov. 8. Accidents which resulted in lost time were clasified as follows: Machinery, 5; vehicles, 25; burns, 4; poison ivy, etc., 36; falls, 35; stepping on or striking against objects, 37; falling objects, 32; handling objects, 25; hand tools, 26, and miscellaneous, 63. The sole fatality occurred recently in Marion county, when a relief worker who was trimming trees was caught by a falling limb and suffered a fracture of the skull. He died later in a hospital. TWO YOUTHS EXECUTED Ohio Farmers Pay Penalty for §23 Holdup Slaying. By United Press COLUMBUS, 0., Nov. 23.—Silently and swiftly, two youthful Jackson county farmers last night were electrocuted at Ohio penitentiary here on convictions of murdering Stephen bery last July 4. The youths, Herbert Thaker. 21, and Raymond Freeman, 25, obtained $23 in the robbery.

The LINEN COATS Regular Values Drasticallg Reduced jjgjgpf Others from $16.99 to $49.50 A special selling of much high- sw**’ lt er priced coats. Newest ma- & l^ 00 terials and fur trimmed of French Beaver, Genuine Wolf, / \ Y* Marmink and Manchurian II M Pointed Wolf. ' SIZES a> _ it _ “ SSIS STREET

SULLIVAN DUE FOR TRIBUTE AT G. OFJjTEAST Mayor to Hear His Record Extolled at Banquet on Dec. 13. The services which Mayor Reginald H. Suinvan has rendered the city during his term of office, which will expire Jan. 6, will be marked by the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce at a diryrer Dec. 13. Preliminary plans for the dinner were announced yesterday by Louis J. Borinstein, chamber president, after a meeting of the chamber's directors. That such an honor had been contemplated for Mayor Sullivan had been known for some time. The dinner probably will be held in the Indianapolis Athletic Club, and it is presumed that Governor Paul V. McNutt and other state and city leaders will participate. The committee in charge will be composed of W. D. Hamerstadt. Henry L. Dithmer, John E. Smith, Arthur V. Brown. A. Kief?r Mayer. Nicholas H. Noyes. James P. Carroll. Dr. Carlton B. McCulloch and Mr. Borinstein. The directors also voted yesterday afternoon to present to the chamber membership a referendum on continuance of the national industrial recovery act which has been presented to member chambers by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. In connection with this and because of the importance to business of the NRA and its future, Virgil Sheppard. govermental research bureau director for the chamber, has prepared a digest of the fourteen points submitted by the United States chamber in dealing with the future of the NRA. The directors also laid plans for establishing a permanent chamber bureau on government purchases, designed to aid Indianapolis firms in obtaining federal orders, and for an industrial survey, which will include th£ availability of now idle buildings. At the same time, future membership meetings were discussed along with the names of distinguished men who might be brought here to address such meetings and the chamber staff was instructed to cooperate in all possible ways with civic organizations working on the railroad track elevation problem here.

MEN FLEE FROM CAR WHEN OWNER RETURNS Unidentified Youths Tear Handle From Door. J. A. Berdenkicker, 404 North Gray street, reported to police late yesterday that on returning to his automobile, which he had parked at Madison avenue and Raymond street, he discovered two men in the car who fled at his approach. The left door handle had been broken off by the men in entering the machine. Mr. Berdenkicker. a salesman for a cigar company, said he had had S3OO worth of cigars in the car but he w r as unable to tell police if any had been stolen. He was unable to give an accurate description of the men but said they were white and apparently about 18 years old. GOLD PRICE INCREASE REQUESTED BY GRANGE Inflationary Action Sought by Farm Organization. By United Press HARTFORD. Conn., Nov. 23.—The National Grange today asked President Roosevelt to increase the price of gold to ‘‘restore and maintain a normal balance between the prices of basic commodities and the prices of inflexible items in the national price schedule.” Bringing to a close its nine-day convention, the Grange adopted a resolution recommending the gold price increase, but avoided specifying the amount. Previously, a resolution had been submitted requesting the price be raised to the legal limit of $41.34 an ounce.

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16 DETOURS IN STATELISTED Highway Heads Speed Up Repair Work as Winter Nears. Only sixteen detours on Indiana's highway system, involving less than fifty miles, were reported today by the state highway department in announcing progress of its drive to complete present construction programs before the advent of winter weather. Only additions to the list of detours during the last week were on Roads 14 and 24 at the edge cf Ft. Wayne, where anew entrance to the city is being developed. Detours due to construction are: Road B—Detour west of Crown Point Is 6.9 miles over paved countv road. Road 13—Detour over city streets In Wabash. Road 14—Detour from South Whitney east is eight miles over Road 5 and countv gravel road. Detour at west edge of Ft. Wavne is one and one-fourth miles Road 18—Detour six miles east of Fowler is seven miles over gravel. Detour north and west of junction with Road 39 is two and one-half miles over Road 39 and county gravel road. Road 20—Detour west of Chesterton account N. Y. C. railroad crossing is 1.4 miles for west-bound and 2.2 miles for east-bound traffic. Road 24—Detour at west edge of Ft Wayne is one and one-half miles over good pavement. • Road 27—Detour from one-half mile north of Winchester north is four miles. Road 37—Detour in Martinsville over citv streets. Road 41—Detour In Hammond over citv streets. Road 44—Bridge construction in Connersville. detour one-fourth mile Road 45—Three-ton limit on bridge onehalf mile east of Helmsburg. Road 56 Drive slowly from Paoli eight miles east account unfinished shoulders Road 58—Four-ton load limit on bridge two and one-half miles west of Heltonville. Road 62—Short detour in Jeffersonville over city streets. Road 67—Detour from Worthington to Spencer, account grading. Road 121—Drive slowlv from Road 52 to Laurel, account stabilization.

$100,000,000 IN HOME REPAIR IS UNDER WAY Federal Housing Leader Announces Progress of Program. By United Presß NEW YORK, Nov. 23—More than $100,000,000 worth of renovation and repair work is under way as a result of the federal housing program. Ward M. Canaday of the federal housing administration informed New York financial advertisers in a speech today. He broke down the $100,000,000 expenditures into $31,0vJ.000 for lumber, $25,000,000 for paint, sll,500.000 for heating equipment, $15,000,000 for plumbing, $10,000,000 for roofing, $4,500,000 for cement and $3,000,000 for electrical equipment work. Real Estate Man Killed By United Press ST. CLOUD, Fla., Nov. 23.—R. M. Scranton, prominent real estate man, formerly of Alliance, 0., was killed late yesterday when struck by an automobile while walking on a highway near here.

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DR. ELLIOTT TO * SPEAK SUNDAY ON TPROGRAM Noted Lecturer Is Invited to City for Return Engagement. Dr. A. J. >Dad) Elliott, Wilmette,) 111., selected by voting people's • groups of Marion county, will ad- ■ dress the Youth Sunday audience of the Young Men’s Christian Association Big Meeting in Keith's at 3 Sunday. Known here from a week spent in conference with high school and college groups last April. Dr. Elliott has a large following in the county. His subject will be "I Want to Make My Life Count Now.” Nearly 1.000 persons are expected to hear Dr. Elliott who, when he attended Northwestern university, ' was an all-Western football star and a member of Delta Tau Delta social fraternity. He also was track team captain. Since his Northwestern days he has been connected with student work of the Y. M. C. A. throughout the midwestern states. He served , with the student army training corps during the World war. The Butler university band, directed by J. B. Vandaworker. will present a twenty-minute concert,' and J. R. Paxton and the Boys' Glee Club of Technical high school will have parts on the program. F. S. Cannon, Y. M. C. A. president. will have general charge of the program, and Miss Mildred Overbeck, Bernard White, Jack Jones, Miss Genevieve Smith and George Dalton, representing young people's groups, will take part. The meeting is a climax to a sixweek's program led by M. R. Tibbs of the Allied Youth Council. New members of the Y. M. C. A. will be guests at a dinner and open house in their honor Friday. The dinner will be at 6:30 in the Y. M. C. A. dining room and the remainder of the program will take place in , the gymnasium. C. O. Mogg is in charge of the program, to which the public is invited.

BOY, 3, BITTEN BY DOG, IS ‘PERFECTLY WELL’ Period for Development of Rabies Will End Shortly. With only a little more than a week left of the twenty-eight-day danger period, during which time it is possible for him to develop rabies, 3-year-old Jimmie Hart', 618 Beecher street, today was reported by his mother, Mrs. Chester Hart, to be “perfectly well.” The boy was believed to have been bitten by his pet dog a day or so before the animal was killed, Nov. 4. The dog was found to have had rabies. Mr. and Mrs. Hart, Christian Scientists, refused medical aid for the child, putting his treatment in the hands of John C. Dean, 926 North East street, Christian Science practitioner SCAFFOLD COLLAPSES: FOUR PAINTERS HURT Evansville Men Fall Twenty Feet to Concrete Floor. By United Press EVANSVILLE, Ind., Nov. 23. Four Evansville painters were in a hospital here today with injuries suffered when a scaffold on which they were working broke, throwing them twenty feet to a concrete floor. The injured were Raleigh Gaines, 48; Robert Howell, 29; Sidney Nelson, 46. and Leslie Pharr. Gaines, with a fractured pelvis, was the most seriously injured. The men were painting the wall of a local factory when the cable support to the scaffold gave way.