Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 16, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 March 1935 — Page 3

MARCH 29, 1935

52.000.000 TO BE RAISED FOR COUNTY RELIEF Bond Issue Will Permit Payments in Cash to Stores. Marlon County ill have 12 000.000 cash in its fist to pay for Its poor relief this year when it goes into store* to pay its bills instead of telling the county's business men to -Charge it!" and then making them *-ait months for court action to coiA bond isue of $1 250 000 will be offered within 30 days to take care of poor relief costs, and a second bond issue of $l5O 000 is planned for later in the year. Money from the bond sale will be apportioned*among townships to pay for poor relief with the result that business men selling relief supplies will no longer be compelled to wait montns. and sometimes years, for payment of their bills. Enabling Act Passed The action of the county commiS'ioners is marie possible by an •c* passed by the 1935 Legislature which ended for all time the necessity of long judgment suits to collect legal bills incurred by the county for poor relief. The bends will mature in five years. The county auditor will advance money to the nine townships out of the bond sale to meet relief j claims as they fall due and the townships in turn will levy taxes to pay off the bonds as they mature. The new law makes the county j direr ible for all poor re- j lief bills. In pa id Bills 5975.90 K In a conference with Charles Marshall, finance director of the s Governor s Commission on Unem- j plovment Relief, and township trus- | tees ye-terday the commissioners j were told that poor relief costs for j the next six months m the county would be $1 695.450. Unpaid poor relief obligations form $719 542 of the relief rost while I the remainder. $975,908. is the actual estimated cost of relief. The county pays 75 per cent if the direct poor relief while the United States government pays the I remaining 25 per cent. Work relief, j in its entirety is a burden and ob- I ligation of the national government and is not paid by the county. C. OF C. TO SPONSOR SECOND MEXICAN TOUR Good Will Trip Will Start April 14, Officials Reveal. A second good-will tour to Mexico will be sponsored bv the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce. Wil- 1 ham H Arnett, managing director, announced yesterday. The party will leave Indianapolis Ar ril 14. and a large delegation of bu: me i and professional men is rx-p-r. °ri to make the trip. The first good-will tour to Mexico was made in January.

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Chuck’s $25 Horse Knew He Liked Beer, So She Stopped at Every ‘Speakeasy*

Fdttnrx Nut*—ThU * th* xerend f x*ri* .f irtirlti on th* lit* and deed* •f (hark Wlrrlnx. hauler and Hooairr nla.hoT extraordinary. BY JOE COLEIER Timex Staff Writer CHUCK WIGGINS never had a notable capacity for remembering detail. Take, for example, his last automotive error. He turned of! Cap-itol-av at complete variance with plans of the Indianapolis Street Department and wound up in a spacious front lawn. Police picked him up and charged him with informal navigation They said Chuck, whose real name is Charles Frederick Wiggins, had been drinking so much his judgment was a bit hasty. But Chuck, for the life of him. cant remember anything about the case except that he intended to turn around and that when he got in the front lawn the rear axle of his car broke. Thus, there may be many details mis*ng in this story of the time Chuck bought a horse. To him it’s a nag or a clip-clop or a turtle, and he'll bell you he lost S2BB on the beast. Chuck had just won a fight here in Indianapolis and had his money with him. He and a party went to a beer spot outside the city limits. It was in a day when beer spots lived precariously in fear of the officials who were supposed to see that no one drank beer. They sold home brew. n a a MERRILY, the Wiggins party arrived at this pastoral beer Chuck saw a horse in the pasture. One thing led to another and Chuck and the owner made a deal. They would toss a coin. Heads Chuck had the horse for *25. Tails, he had him for SSO. Chuck won, nad a few more beers, and forgot about the incident. Several months later, the beer spot man called Chuck. He was moving, he said, and what did Chuck want done with the horse? The purchase of the horse was another detail that had. until then, escaped Chuck, but he recovered admirably and said he'd be after the horse. Then he remembered that he had never been fond of riding horses, that he scarcely knew' how to ride one. and that, in fact, to get the horse back into the city personally he would almost need a blue print. So he called on a friend who liked to ride and together they set out for the farm after having previously reserved space for the horse in the city’s best livery stable. Asa matter of precaution against the chill autumn winds. Chuck had a couple of bottles of home brew’ and then the party set out for the pasture for the horse. It was saddled and bridled and Chuck s volunteer jockey mounted. tt U B THE spectacle of his jockey on tfie horse so exhilarated Chuck that he hauled off and gave the critter a resounding slap on

WE BOUGHT TWO CARLOADS TO MAKE POSSIBLE THIS EVENT!

Chuck Wiggins his horse knew he liked beer.

the shanks, and the horse, actively resenting, pitched off the jockey. The entire party retired to the beer room for more beer and a chance to think seriously about the situation. Then, back in the pasture again, Chuck laid no hand to shank, and the horse trotted cityward. Chuck had agreed to drive into the city to meet his jockey and the horse, but he had a few more beers, and when he did arrive the jockey was being thrown out of the stable by tw r o burly stablemen from whom he had demanded a receipt: "Received payment, one horse." The stablemen asked whether Wiggins had a blanket for his horse. Wiggins said ‘‘No.’’ "But give him anything the rest of the horses have.” he added, and indicated that included a name plate. "What’s the name?” they asked.

5 OF FAMILY PERISH AS FIRE LEVELS HOME Mother, Daughter and grandson Are Victims of Blaze. By United Press WOBURN. Mass., March 29.—Three persons, representing as many generations, were burned to death to-

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Chuck turned to the recently unhappy jockey. "What’s the name of that Bulgarian prince that died last week?” "Prince Ferdinand.” "That’s his name,” Chuck said. "How 7 do you spell it?” "F-e-r-d—the hell with it. Call him Mr. X.” BUB IT later developed that the horse was Mrs. X. Still later it developed that Chuck learn -d to ride. Frequently, he trained by jogging over the countryside. It is perhaps apocryphal that' Mrs. X had, before her association with Chuck, been a beer wagon horse. But it is freely bruited about that Mrs. X utterly refused to pass a beer spot until Chuck had dismounted and had a beer. Chuck doesn’t remember that detail. Next—Love Sends Chuck a Little Gift of Roses.

day despite heroic rescue attempts when fire destroyed a dwelling in the isolated Share’s Glen section. The dead: Mrs. Catherine Mercon, 49; Virginia, 10. her daughter: Francis Jr., 6 months old, a grandson. The woman’s husband John, 54, and four sons, including the 24-year-old father of the baby, barely escaped a similar fate.

U. S. DECLINES TO TAKE OVER CITYUGHT CO, RFC Stands by Decision Not to Foreclose on Note. The Federal government reiterated today, through the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, that it would not move in the immediate future to foreclose on the $2,000,000 note of the Public Utility Securities Corp., though foreclosure would give : it an active voice in the utilities field. The Public Utility Securities Corp. is the Harley Clarke Holding Company, and controls a large number of operating units, among them the Indianapolis Power and Light Cos. The government came into possession of the note when it loaned $90,000,000 to the Central Public Trust Cos., a Dawes institution in Chicago, from which the Clarke holding company had borrowed the $2,000,000. The note was put up as collateral by the Chicago firm. Recently Mr. Clarke asked for an i extension of time on his note. It was in announcing that the govern- | ment preferred to keep the note in a past-due condition, for better control of collateral, that Jesse Jones, RFC chairman, revealed there would be no immediate foreclosure. FATHER OF ‘CAPTIVE' GIRL DENIED PAROLE i State Board Refuses Commutation of 180-Day Term. Commutation of his 180-day State Farm sentence has been denied Harry Mack, 38, of 1302 W. Market - st, who kept his 16-year-old daughter a virtual prisoner in a locked room for two years. Mrs. Ora Mack, his wife and the girl’s stepmother, with whom he jointly was accused in Marion County Juvenile Court, appeared before the State Clemency Commission in his behalf. The stepmother was given a suspended sentence in Juvenile Court as the result of testimony of the girl, Helen Mack. Helen now is in the custody of her grandmother. ROOSEVELT’S FISHING LUCK REPORTED GOOD President Hooks Some Big Ones Off Coast of Cuba. By United Press MIAMI, Fla., March 29.—President Roosevelt fished for barracuda today under a blazing tropical sun off the northern coast of Cuba. Mr. Roosevelt, according to latest radio advices from the Astor yacht, Nourmahal, is in the vicinity of Great Inagua Island, off the Bahamas. There, with a party of close friends, he was having exceps tional luck at hooking big ones. The President late yesterday was joined ! by his eldest son, James, who flew to the side of the yacht from San I, Juan, Puerto Rico.

GETTING RELIEF—FROM PRESIDENTIAL WORRIES

Off to meet the yacht Nourmahal, on which he will fish and rest in Florida waters for 10 days. President Roosevelt waves goodbye from the deck of the Destroyer Farragut at Jacksonville. Fla. With him are Commander Buckmaster of the Farragut and Captain Wilson Brown, White House Naval aid.

RELIEF OFFICIALS TO MEET EVERY WEEK Informal Sessions Called by State Chiefs. Informal meetings will be held each Monday noon at the Indianapolis Athletic Club to co-ordinate problems and activities of Federal relief agencies in Indiana. All-day meetings also will be called at stated intervals. Clarence E. Manion, state director of the National Emergency Council, was in charge of the first conference of the series yesterday at the Athletic Club. Speakers included Fred Hoke, chairman of Gov. Paul V. McNutt's Commission on Unemployment Relief; James D. Adams, chairman of the State Highway Commission; John W. Wheeler, member of the commission; R. F. Wilcox, director of emergency conservation work, and Carl Ferguson, director of the housing division of the Public Works Administration. RACE LOTTERY SMASHED Alleged “Racket” on Kentucky Derby Uncovered, Is Claim. By United Press TROY, N. Y., March 29.—Federal authorities said this afternoon they had broken up a sweepstakes lottery racket which was to be based on the running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, May 4.

COL. MILLER REFUSES TO LEAVE 101 RANCH: JUST STARTING FIGHT

By United Press OKLAHOMA CITY, March 29. —Col. Zack T. Miller has just started to fight and he “sure as hell ain't going to leave’’ the celebrated 101 ranch until he has to. United States Judge Edgar S. Vaught ruled the other day that Col. Miller's creditors, to whom he owes approximately $600,000, had just title to the 17,000 acres that remains of the cattle domain that once covered 101,000 acres near Ponca City. But "hell,” said the booted, white-haired old cattle and circus man, "I ain't lost the ranch; I've just started to fight. And as the man said when the bear jumped on him ‘You’re going to see one of the dangedest fights ever fit in these parts.’ ” CHIEF ISSUES SUNDAY LIQUOR SALE WARNING General Orders Given Police by Mike Morrissey. Chief Mike Morrissey issued a general order today calling the attention of the Indianapolis Police Department to the fact that drug stores were not allowed to sell intoxicating liquor on Sundays under the new beverage control act.

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EX-DEMOCRATIC STATE LEADER DIES AT HOME Bernard Korbly, Former Light Cos. Official, Passes Here. Bernard Korbly, former state chairman of the Democratic committee and general counsel and vice president of the Indianapolis Power and Light Cos., died early today ac his home, 425 N. Audubon-rd. Mr. Korbly, who was 58, was born in Madison. He was a law partner of Gilbert McNutt, cousin of Gov. Paul V. McNutt. Mr. Korbly was graduated from St. Joseph's College. Effingham, 111. He was admitted to the bar in 1896 and was associated with his father, Charles A. Korbly Sr., and Alonzo Greene, a former Attorney General. He later formed a partnership with Willard New, former Appellate Judge. In 1919 Mr. Korbly became associated with Mr. McNutt. Surviving Mr. Korbly are the widow, Mrs. Margaret Crini Korbly; two sons. Bernard Jr. and John Paul Korbly, both pupils at Shortridge High School; a sister, Mrs. Mary B. McNutt, and a brother, Charles Korbly. He was a member of the Indianapolis Bar Association, the Indiana State Bar Association, the American Bar Association and the Indiana Democratic Club. Funeral services are being arranged. BID FOR SENATE SEEN IN JOHNSON COMMENT Reserves Right to Change Mind, General Says. By United Press OKMULGEE, Okla.. March 29. Gen. Hugh S. Johnson’s version of the "Coolidge answer” today had Oklahoma political observers convinced he would seek a seat in the United States Senate. The question was put to Gen. Johnson when he announced he would “settle down” somewhere in Oklahoma. Asked about his political intentions, former President Coolidge said. "I do not choose to run.” Said Gen Johnson: "I have utterly no plans for running for the United States Senate —but I still reserve the right to change my mind whenever I damn please.” IDEAL FURNITURE 00. TO REDECORATE STORE Colo" Schemes Will Be Designed to Introduce More Light. L. D. Foster, manager of the Ideal Furniture Cos., 227 W. Washingtonst, announced today that the entire building will be painted and redecorated. The contract for painting has been awarded to Barrete, Inc., decorators, 117 E. Michigan-st. Color schemes will be designed to introduce 25 per cent more light into the building.