Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 189, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 December 1934 — Page 12

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HEATED STAND GIVEN 'NEWSIE' GY CUSTOMERS Aged Man, 76, Receives Gift From Fountain Square Friends. Today is the tomorrow for which Loula Geiger has waited for 76 calendar years which have been centuries to him. He is partially paralyzed. His one arm was mutilated a few years ago by a hit-and-run driver. He tries to buy back the health of his invalid wife and keep them both alive on earnings of about $1 a day. And, after cold weather came, even that slender income was threatened when his punished body couldn't stand it any more and Louis fainted three times at his comer on Fountain Square, stubbornly coaxing sales of newspapers out of the hurrying crowds, until he fell and couldn't revive himself. Then, he was taken home by people who knew him, people who have called him “Dad" for years, a live corpse with a dead hope. But a few days in bed brought hack his strength and his hope. He would, he determined, have his paper stand box enclosed with a glass window, and he would put a heater in it. Money? Ah, yes! Never since the day years ago when he lost his arm in a saw mill and was rendered unfitted for the trade he knew had anything happened to him that-was not preceded by a staggering dollar sign or followed by a clamoring bill.

Awaited Holiday Tips He got estimates. Five dollars would give him his stand. Then he thought if he could manage until Christmas he would use those tips that people gave him. He usually got about SB. So this time Christmas was to be tomorrow. But tomorrow came today and Louis was warmly comfortable in a brand new box, heated, that cost far more than SB, but him nothing —either in money or in added ravages to his body. Those people of Fountain Square, his customers, became his neighbors. They bought the shed. They installed the heater. They gave it to him yesterday afternoon. And they gave him a cash balance from the funds they had collected. Today, Louis Geiger. Fountain Square, newspaper salesman who has never applied for the old-age pension he’s entitled to, smiled and called his customers by name and wondered which ones had been kind. Doners Are Listed Firms and individuals contributing included: Ed Bruc~, Ted Barker, Frank Feestr. John Hoffacker, John E. Loftus, Vonncgut’s, O. H. Sickbert, H. H. Bridewell, Dr. W. O. Hill. G. D. Warnock, Budweiser Buffet, Shelby Furniture Cos., Pete Thoman, Joe Wade, N. C. Cramer, Bob Hertz, Fountain Square Furniture Store and Mueller Brothers. Hoosier Optical Cos.. Hedrick Hat Shop. Mr. Clyborn, T. A. Flaherty, J. Ed Burk. Perry Bakemeyer, Red Small, John Kestler, Spanish Gardens, Dr. E. A. Brown, Dr. M. J. Healey, Heller Coal Cos., Dr. E. M Ryan, D. & D. Auto Shop, Walter Rottler and Gene Gohman. Herman Kasper, Val Schneider, Indianapolis Star, Premier Furniture <te Rug Cos.. The Alps. Fountain Square Barber & Beauty Shop, the Schnitzelbank Tavern. Emerald Tavern, W. E. Williams. J. O. Maritey, George Waugh and The Indianapolis Times. LIONS CLUB TO HEAR DR. CHARLES EMERSON Experiences on Recent Trip to Orient to Be Topic. Dr. Charles P. Emerson, 3177 N. Pennsyivania-st. will address members of the Lions Club at their luncheon at the Washington tomorrow on his experiences in a recent trin to the Orient.

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Indiana, in Brief

Kp Timrt Special NEWCASTLE. Dec. 18 —Distribution of $40,000 on Thursday—in time for use in buying Christmas gilts—represents a 10 per cent dividend to be paid by the Henry County Bank of Spiceland. With this dividend, the receiver of the bank. Claud Stanley, has paid $120,000 to depc r.ore. The dividend just declared is the third, the first having been paid about one year ago. Mr. Stanley said it could not be determined now whether there will be more payments.

m m m Bans Walkathons Bp Tim ft Special LAFAYETTE, Dec. 18.—Walkathons and all similar contests, whether mental or physfeal, are forbidden in an ordinance adopted at a special session of the Lafayette City Council. Penalties are fines of SSO to S2OO. mam Estate Sued Bp Tim ft Special MUNCIE, Dec. 18—Mrs. Emma Postel, who was divorced from the late Lewis Postel, has filed a $15,000 claim against his estate. Wed in 1887, the couple was divorced in 1931. Mrs, Postel contends in her suit that an agreement by which she was to receive onehalf of the couple's property was not executed, and asserts that $lO,000 in cash and $5,000 in Liberty bonds were secreted by her husband and she did not obtain a share of them. a a a Father of 12 Dies i By Timrt Special SHELBYVILLE, Dec. 18.-Fu-neral services were held today fo]r James H. Weintraut, father of 12 children, who died of heart disease. He was 87. All of the children are living as are four brothers and four sisters. WIFE MURDERER GETS 2-21 YEARS IN PRISON Pleads Guilty to Crime Committed Five Years Ago. Ernest Washington, 57-year-oid Negro, who shot and killed his wife, Mrs. Julia May Washington, five years ago, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter yesterday before Special Judge L. Ert Slack in Criminal Court and was sentenced to serve from two to 21 years in Indidna State Prison. The five years’ delay was accofinted for this way: Three of the five years Washington was a fugitive; one year, he spent in a Washington (D. C.) jail while extradition procedings lagged; the I fifth, Washington spent in jail here while Marion County officials sought fruitlessly the prosecution’s star witness. They never found the witness. Washington finally pleaded guilty. MAKE A SMILE—-CLOTHE-A-CHILD.

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DIRECTORS NAMED BY BROOKSIDE CIVIC-CLUB League Group to Select Officers Within Two Weeks. New officers of the Brookside Civic League will be named within the next two weekr by directors elected last night at the league meeting in the Brookside Community House. Those elected directors were Mrs. George Shepherd, Mrs. William Hayes, S. E. Litteral, H. G. Blume, George Payne, M. B, Beier and Simon Lashbrook.

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POSTAL FORCES AUGMENTED BY EXTRA WORKERS * . Large Crew for Duty; 45 More Trucks Put Into Service. Local postal forces were being augmented today as officials reported a daily increase in the preholiday mail volume. A large crew of extra employes, part of the 600 to be added before Christmas, reported for work this morning, and a fleet of 45 trucks was being brought into service. Reporting postal receipts for December considerably in excess of those for the same period in 1933, Adolph Seidensticker, postmaster, said the mounting mail volume in-

dicates more spending than has 1 been evidenced since depression years. Lengthened hours for a majority of sub-stations will become effective at once, John F. Roberts, superintendent of mails, announced. The main and Illinols-st offices will remain open Saturday night until 10:45. to handle registered mail and parcel post, and will be open from 8 a. m. until 10 p. m., Sunday. Classified stations will remain open until 5:30 instead of 2, Saturday afternoon. Both officials, while renewing the “mail early" plea, added that packages on a whole are better wrapped this year and urged shoppers to

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