Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 257, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 March 1935 — Page 3

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BRITAIN TAKES STEPS TO CURE HITLER'S 'COLD' Anthony Eden to Pay Visit to Moscow, London Calmly Reveals. By United M LONDON. March 7—The government offered Adolf Hitler today what diplomats believed might be a cold cure. It was announced that Capt. Anthony Eden, lord privy seal, will go to Moscow and Warsaw to discuss the Europe in situation. Originally it had been planned for Sir John Simon, foreign minister, rr. ike th*- trip, going first to Berlin but he was asked to postpone it because R* ichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler had a “cold.” Hitler caught his cold coincident with news of a British white paper criticising German military spirit in sharp terms. It was believed that anger over the white paper was the real reason For a cabinet minister to go to Moscow, however, is calculated to worry Germany, for fear that some agreement inimical to Germany's interests might result. Hence, it was sugge.-Ted that Hitler’s cold might improve soon. POLICE SUSPECT HOAX !N -KIDNAPING’ OF GIRL Assert Extortion Note Was Written on Virtim's Typewriter. r.V ftnt. I Pri *n GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., March 7 —Police investigators today abandoned the theory’ that Helen Jean Bannov a. !8. had been kidnaped. They branded a purported extortion note a hoax. • The girl unquestionably is ; missing voluntarily.” Chief In-1 spector Frank O Malley said. “The I extortion note found in the Ban- j ninga mail box was written on her own stationery and on her own typewriter. 55421 IN BACK PAY GIVEN 367 WORKERS 21 State Firms Affected, NRA Officer Asserts. Restitution of $5421.58 in back wages to 367 employes of 21 Indiana firms has been made in the past two weeks. Francis Wells, acting state NRA compliance officer, announced today. Four employes of four Indiannpolls firms received $205, and one worker m Ft. Wayne received S4OO in back wages. The largest sum collected was in Bloomington, where 307 workers received $2194 81. following adjustment of two cases., Thirty-two employes of a South Bend firm were paid $1387.99. COMMITTEE SEEKS TO AROUSE FHA INTEREST Group Will Boost Modernization and Building Program. The appointment of an executive committee to aid in arousing local interest in the modernization and building program of the Federal Housing Administration was announced today by R. S. Foster. The committee members are Carl C. Weiland. Central Supply Cos., president; Otto N. Mueller architect: P. G. King. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Cos. general manager, and C. Harvey Bradley. W. J. Holliday Cos., president. ANDREWS SETS NEW AIR TRANSPORT MARK Los Angeles to Mexico City Flight Made in 8 Hours. Bft United Press MEXICO CITY. March 7.—Lets nd S. Andrews, holder of two transport plane records, today was acclaimed for setting a Los AngelesMexico City speed mark of 8 hours 9 minutes. The veteran pilot, who flics a regular passenger route out of Los Anceles. set the record in his Vultee transport. The previous best mark for the 1670-mile hop was 10 hours 15 minutes. LEGION AUXILIARY TO OBSERVE ANNIVERSARY Federal Group Will Hold Bridge Party at 2 Tomorrow. First anniversary of the Federal Auxiliary. No. 62. American Legion, will be celebrated with a bridge partv the Banner-Whitehill recreation room at 2 tomorrow. Mrs. George Karl is chairman of the arrangements committee and will be assisted by Mrs. Ernest Knox. Mrs Albert Condon. Mrs. Martin Towey end Mrs. Mary E Russell. DRUG STORE OPERATOR ATTACKED BY THUGS Gang Fires as Two .Are Knocked Down in Garage Brawl. Six thugs jumped on Ivan Chaplin. operator of a drug store at 317 W. 30th-st. last night when he was in a garage at the rear of the store, and fled when he knocked two of them down. Mr. Chaplm told police. Mr Chaplain received cuts and bruises on his head and face. No reason was given police for the attack. HUNT WINDOW VANDALS Police Get Complaint From irate Owner of Building. H B Marks. 517 S. Delaware-st. is tired of having the windows in Ins building at, 915 Madison-av broken, he reported to police late yesterday. Mr. Marks said 100 windows had been smashed and that he wanted the police to do something about it. Arkansas Bans Dog Racing B* Unit'd Pn n LITTLE ROCK. Ark . March 7 Amid shouts of ’Keep our state from going to the dogs.” the Arkansas House yesterday defeated a bill to legalize dog racing by a VOi* Os 73 U> IZ.

lUVENILE HOME" V jl OFFER STUDIED r; ' 'old Spring-Rd Property % Available for $34,000. } V.4” ‘wMlf % Committee Told. T. n, ' S*7". Con-ideration of the purchase of f v he Cold Spring-rd property, for- , * . ,V* -^' vv “ '*. ‘ nerly owner by Henry Campbell, ; ■***? / '>' .> ” . ' •' ', ' jjp’ lutomobile magnate, which has been (< '• • ’* - ' -t” ' ‘ '< A .ffered to Marion County for a site V. v ‘ - V . , or a Juvenile Detention Home at * • >.. V |J* .yt* 4 *"-! 34.000. was to be given today by a £<*, - ' * v ; X ' ommittee appointed bv the Marion |. *.. ' 4 . " J .♦*• < " ***? ' ' ~ bounty Commissioners. Commis- - “v / *?;.■*<.'L. .. * v loner John Newhou.se is chairman ,' , v * . .• y f: \ ■*?'' ■■''•••- • if tho rnirmiittoo mmk^

JUVENILE HOME OFFER STUDIED Cold Spring-Rd Property Available for $34,000, Committee Told. Consideration of the purchase of the Cold Spring-rd property, formerly owner by Henry Campbell, automobile magnate, which has been offered to Marion County for a site for a Juvenile Detention Home at $34,000. was to be given today by a committee appointed by the Marion County Commissioners. Commissioner John Newhouse is chairman of the committee. John Curry, engineer for the Governor's Unemployment Relief Commission, speaking unofficially yesterday, said he believed FERA funds could be used in completing the project, if the site is purchased. The property is located across from the Veterans' Hospital and the Coffin Golf Course, and contains a large fire-proof two and a halfstory house, unfinished inside. In addition there is a six-car fireproof garage, containing a modern power plant in the basement; a frame seven-room attendants’ house and a modern barn. YEGGS GRAB SIO,OOO IN POSTOFFICE LOOT Wreck Huge Cement Vault Then Dynamite Safe. B;/ United Press PARK RIDGE. 111.. March 7. The Park Ridge post office was robbed today by thieves who dug their way through a cement vault and dynamited a safe believed to have contained more than SIO,OOO. Tlie interior of the building was littered with concrete and the portion where the safe was located was wrecked. The robbery was discovered by a janitor when he opened the building this morning. Postal authorities said no check had been made of the amount stolen but police said it was more than SIO,OOO. The thieves burrowed through the top of the cement vault and then planted the dynamite on top of the safe, police said. GLEAN-UP CAMPAIGN TO BE APRIL 13-27 Co-Operation in Drive Is Pledged at Dinner. The opening announcement of the Indianapolis Junior Chamber of Commerce “clean up. paint up and fix up” campaign April 13 to 27 was made last night by Fred E. Shick. chamber president, at the organization's dinner at the Washington. Mayor John VV. Kern. Fire Chief Fred C. Kennedy. Bernard A. Lynch, Fire Prevention Bureau chief, and Daniel J. O'Neill, representing Chief Mike Morrissey, pledged the co-op-eration of the city departments in the beautification drive. In his address Mayor Kern predicted that the police and fire departments’ merit system would extend into other municipal departments. and that Indianapolis might be governed by a trained city manager in the future. CHESS PLAYERS HOLD ELIMINATION CONTEST Personnel of Tournament Team to Be Announced Soon. A match to determine what players will represent the Centred Indiana Chess Association, a local organization. in a contest Sunday, March 24. with the Northern Indiana Chess Association. Ft. Wayne, was held last night with members of the Woodpushers and Indainapolis Y. M. C. A. chess teams participating. The definite personnel of the lo* cal team will be announced in the near future. WOW s' s;Tc ,^C sTfcAKi im Only iti* choicest gIKLOIX steak Thick, juicy. tender . . the finest in the city. Serve,l with Fr< neh fried potatoes and salad. 85*

SAFETY MEASURES STRESSED IN TIMES-EM-ROE SHOOTING SCHOOL

Safety and precision in the art of gun handling, as w r ell as “tricks of the trade,” are being stressed by Charles E. Adams, instructor in The Times -Em - Roe Shooting School being held daily at the Indianapolis Gun Club, 1340 S. Lyndhurst-dr. Upper Left—Left to right, Louis

Little Red Schoolhouses to Be Homes for Needy State Relief Board Announces Plan for Leasing Unused Buildings to Jobless Rural Families. The little red schoolhouse, which provided their only alma mater for countless Hoosiers, may enter into anew field of usefulness, according to plans announced today by Dr. E. H. Shideler, rural rehabilitation director of the Governor’s Unemployment Relief Commission.

The commission plan calls for the leasing of these buildings, most of which have been abandoned and allowed to fall into a stage of disrepair, to the commission, w’hich in turn‘will sub-lease them to rural families on the roles of the rehabilitation division. A recent survey made by the division has shown that most of the 1115 such buildings are of substantial construction and can easily be restored to a habitable condition. In leasing the old schoolhouse, the land owners will be expected to accept the repairs and improvements made on the buildings and surrounding land as payment of rent for the old buildings and enough productive acreage to make a subsistence or profitable farm. In cases w’here he is qualified, the incl'pent person who sub-leases the property will be employed to do the remodeling and thus will be able at

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Schubert, ‘‘skeet emitter”; Charles E. Adams, Times-Em-Roe shooting instructor; Miss Mary Bradley, Charles Schubert, Earl Taylor, Fred J. Roberts, Albert Fahrbach, A. H. Ehrensperger, Harold Lackey and R. A. Ferguson, members of one class in The Times-Em-Roe Shooting School at the Indianapolis Gun Club.

least partially, to repay the loan made to him under the rehabilitation program. Materials will be furnished by the state relief organization. Commission officials expect the plan to relieve much distress among Indiana farm families forced to seek refuge in towns and to go on relief rolls. CAFE EMPLOYE NABBED Faces Charge of Selling Beer After Legal Closing Hour. When a police squad arrived at the Falls City Casino, 3547 E. Wash-ington-st, early today after participants in a reported brawl had dispersed, they arrested Herschell Geyer, 34, of 651 E. 12th-st, bartender. on charges of selling beer after the legal closing hour.

Upper Right—Here is Mr. Roberts aiming at an imaginary duck on the first day of his instruction in the school. Lower —Decidedly “on the fence” is Miss Bradley, who is here showing the correct method of climbing a fence w’hen carrying a shotgun. The gun is pointed away from the hunter.

GIRL IS FOUND DEAD AFTER LOVE TRYST Sweetheart Returns Body; Shot in Head. By United Press CINCINNATI, 0., March 7. Helen Milner, 21-year-old maid, kept an all-day tryst with her sweetheart yesterday, and was brought home dead by him last midnight. The man knocked at the door of the home where Miss Milner was employed. “Helen is outside, she has fainted,” he told Mrs. Albert Malenfant, her employer. “Please help me carry her inside.” After the girl was brought inside, the man left, saying he was going for a doctor. Mrs. Malenfant then discovered the girl had been shot through the head. The man did not return. Later, Coroner Frank Coppock announced she also had been attacked. Luncheon Club to Dine Members of the Scottish Rite Ladies Luncheon Club will be entertained at noon Tuesday with a luncheon and program in the Scottish Rite Cathedral. The program has been arranged by Horace Mitchell.

FEENEY FORCES IN HOUSE LOSE FIRST SKIRMISH

Fail to Oust Committee From Study of Police Merit Bill. Fearing the amended state police bill will be mangled by the House of Representatives’ Judiciary B Committee, supporters of A1 G. Feeney, state safety director, today waged an unsuccessful battle to take the Senate-approved bill away from the committee. The backers of Mr. Feeney, however, drew from the debate an assurance that the bill will be reported out this afternoon following an executive committee session. Meanwhile members of the lower house, suspecting that important bills a. - e slated to be smothered in comm.ttee pigeon holes, launched the expected drive to discharge House committees from further consideration of certain favorite bills. Rep. Edward Barry (D.. Indianapolis) succeeded in forcing the lower House's Judiciary B Committee to report out the Senateapproved bill which would abolish the state central duplicating department. Andrews Motion Tabled Rep. H. H. Evans (R., Newcastle) failed in an effort to bring out his bill providing for a flat $4 annual auto license fee. The House also forced its Elections Committee to report out a measure which would repeal the 1915 primary law and revive the 1907 act. Under the 1907 law primaries were compulsory only in counties having one or more cities with more than 30,000 population. Rep. Joseph Andrew (R., Lafayette) and Rep. William J. Black (D„ Anderson), committee chairman, entered a heated debate over bringing the state police bill to the floor. However, the members approved, 4439, a motion to table Rep. Andrew's plea for immediate action. Five Democrats, Reps. Fred Barrett (D.. Indianapolis). Edward P. Barry (D., Indianapolis), Dennis J. Colbert (D., Indianapolis), Don O. Gettinger (D., Sullivan) and David H. Byers <D., Vincennes), voted with the Republican minority in the first House test on the police bill. Andrews Demands Action Rumors were circulated that the state police bill would be amended to place the police superintendent under the control of a bi-partisan board instead of the Governor. “They’ve had this bill several days. I understood that satisfactory arrangements on the bill had been made in the Senate which pleased all interested parties,” Rep. Andrews

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George R. Popp Jr. Classes in the proper firing and operating of boilers and furnaces are now being conducted by the Indianapolis Combustion Institute, which, in turn, is sponsored by the Indianapolis Smoke Abatement League. George R. Popp Jr., city combustion engineer, is directing the instruction with the assistance of A. E, Klingensmith, chief engineer of the Indianapolis Power and Light Co.’s Kentucky-av plant, and Henry L. Peters, chief engineer of the Indiana University Medical Center. Classes are held at 1:30 each Monday, Wednesday and Friday in the Cropsey Auditorium of the Public Library. Candidates must attend at least eight classes if they wish to compete in the final examination March 29. The course is open to all w T ho may wish to attend, but students who wish to fulfill the entrance requirements must enroll not later than Monday.

declared. “Now I understand some amendments are considered. These amendments can be considered on the House floor.” Rep. Black, angered, defended his committee's action in holding up the bill. “I don’t know who made arrangements that were satisfactory on this bill unless it was the man who has beer, head of the state police for the past two years and the man wiio spent his time on the floor of both houses during the past 30 or 60 days,” Rep. Black charged. Rep. Barry and Chairman Black clashed on taking immediate action on the bill abolishing the duplicating department. “The House should have a right to act on thic measure. The bill w r as sent to this ‘graveyard’ committee and I have not been able to have a hearing,” Rep. Barry said. Rep. Black declared the bill was being studied so that needed amendments could be added. “I have played fair with every one in this House,” shouted Rep. Black. “I told him the bill would come out when it was amended.”

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FUMES CAUSED HEIRESS' DEAIH, PHYSICIAN SAYS Statler Girl Subject to Fainting Spells. Grand Jury Is Told. By United rres* PINEHURST. N. C.. March 7 Carbon monoxide poisoning alone caused the death of Mrs. H Bradley Davidson, a coroner's jury was informed today by the autopsy physician. Dr. C. C. Carpenter, who added that bruises incurred by the Statler heiress shortly before her death could have resulted from “blows struck by a human hand.” Dr. Carpenter, first witness at the third day of the inquest, said his opinion was that none of the bruises could have been caused by impact of a tennis ball as testified by her husband. The physician’s testimony was to the effect that an unconscious person placed in the position in which the heiress' body was found on an automobile in her gas-choked garage would have been subject to carbon monoxide and that a person could have escaped from the garage before being overcome by the fumes if conscious and desirous of escaping. Solicitor Rowland Pruette concluded presentation of testimony at the inquest and M. G. Doyette, counsel for H. Bradley Davidson, recalled Mrs. Herbert Vail. Mrs. Vail, a long-time friend of Mrs. Davidson, said Mrs. Davidson w-as “moody and temperamental'* both before and after her marriage. “Was she subject to fainting spells?” asked Mr. Boyette. “Yes,” Mrs. Vail replied. “Did she have a silver plate in her head?” “She told me she did. She said she had a head injury and might crack or die at any time. She meant that sometimes she wasn't herself, I suppose.” MRS. DEWOLF HOPPER TO SPEAK AT AYRES Actor’s Wife to Appear in Support of Shakespeare Plays Mrs. DeWolf Hopper, w r ife of the actor, will speak at 11:30 tomorrow in the L. S. Ayres & Cos. auditorium in the interests of the presentation Wednesday and Thursday of three performances of Shakespeare by the Old Globe Theater Players. At the matinee on Wednesday “Julius Caesar" and “Midsummer Night's Dream” will be given, each abridged to 45 minutes. The curtain will rise at 3:30 p. m. Wednesday night. “Twelfth Night” and “The Taming of the Shrew” will be given and Thursday night there will be “Macbeth” and “Comedy of Errors.”