Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 47, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 May 1935 — Page 3

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BAKER ORDERS AIDS NOT TO HELP TIMES Reporters Must Get No Assistance in Looking at Records. K'ontinupd From Pagi* One) Times’ reporters, and that he wanted the reporter to understand that. He made clear that hLs stand would not prevent Times reporters Irom looking at records, but that the reporters would receive no assistance from court attaches. A bailiff, who had been asked for a record after Judge Baker issued his instructors, refused to produce it. * Where do you find the appeal cases?” the reporter asked. ‘ You heard the judge's instructions,” the bailiff responded. Refuses to Watch Him The reporter started looking through the files. “I am not very familiar with where you keep the records,” the reporter commented. "We will not be responsible for any records that are missing," said a bailiff. The reporter asked Judge Baker's stenographer. Miss Hazel Meadows, to watch him while he examined the files to find the papers. Miss Meadows refused. None of the reproductions of papers in connection with the Barker case which were printed in The Times yesterday was obtained in Judge Baker's court. Attachment Found in Basement During the investigation of the case a Times reporter had asked to see the documents in the rase. He was permitted to examine such papers as were available. Thp contempt of court attachment issued out of Judge Baker's court upon which Lee Barker was arrested and held for 26 days was found in the basement of the Marion County Jail, as was the release bearing the name ‘Frank P. Baker” and initialed “J. A. B.” Charles Steger, Judge Baker's court clerk, examined the court order book, at the request of a Times reporter, and said no orders were entered therein directing the arrest or release of Lee Barker. . As he emerged yesterday from a conference with Detective Chief Fred Simon at police headquarters, Judge Baker was asked by another Times reporter for details of the conference. “You are all right and so are some of the other boys on The Times, but if The Times wants any news from me, they’ll have to got it from the newspapers,’’ Judge Baker said. Probe ‘Fixing' Charges Meanwhile city detectives and Criminal court investigators are investigating charges of the payment of money to “fix'' the charges against Miss Polsgrove. Harry E. Trimble. 421 East 9th-st, a profession bondsman, was arrested by Detectives Emmett McCormick and Edward Glenn in connection with the investigation of the Polsgrove case. Judge Baker will conduct a hearing Monday on the case of Miss Polsgrove and Mr. Trimble. Mr. Trimble was taken into custody on a vagrancy charge. Miss Folsgrove also was charged with vagrancy. Manslaughter Is Charge Miss Polsgrove was on trial on charges of involuntary manslaiighte. in connection with the fatal auto injuries of Walter Geisendorf on the National road near Ben Davis July 28. 1934. Miss Polsgrove said her sister, Mrs. Helen Ross, gave S2OO to Mr. Trimble. According to Miss Polsgrove. Guy Smerage gave Mr. Trimble $295 in weekly payments. Meanwhile The Times learned (hat Lee P. Barker, who had been sought by Criminal Court investigators for commitment under the 1926 liquor law conviction, had operated a liquor store in the building 844 Ft. Wayne-av. Persons in the neighborhood said his name had been painted in large letters on the door of the store. Further evidence indicating that Dell Barker was in Indianapolis in 1933. while Criminal Court investigators were looking for him, was found in Indianapolis police records. He was complaining witness following a brawl in a rooming house. ' Municipal Judge Dewey Myers this morning overruled an application by Lawrence A. Shaw, attorney for Mr. Trimble, to reduce his $5009 bail. “I do not want my court used as a clearing house for other people's troubles." Judge Myers declared, “but. in the circumstances. I will not reduce the bail.” The case was continued until May 8 at the request of police. Mr. Shaw said the vagrancy charge was lodged against his client only to permit him to be questioned. which, he said, had been done by eight policemen.

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LEAD FIELD IN OLYMPIC EQUESTRIAN TRIALS AT COLISEUM

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NEW GOLD STRIKE IS REPORTED ON COAST Fortune Seekers Parade to Mojave Desert Region in California. Hu I nih il Pr< ss LOS ANGELES, May 4.—Reports of a new' gold strike in the Middle Buttes mining country, back of the Mojave Desert, tooay had started a parade of fortune seekers to the area. Reports of rich gold bearing ore wlvch was said to have assayed at from SSO to SIOO a ton filtered into Los Angeles. News of the strike w'as | said to have leaked out when a jubij lant miner told friends of his rich ! assay report. Another group of prospectors were reported to have shipped 11 carloads of rich gold bearing ore from the region. WHEELER MISSION TO OBSERVE ANNIVERSARY Forty-Second Birthday Will Be Celebrated TuesdayThe forty-second anniversary of the wheeler city Rescue Mission will be celebrated at 7:30 Tuesday night, when services will be held m the First Baptist Church, Meridian and Vormont-sts. The anniversary address will be delivered by the Rev. Pat B. Wilhow. Charleston, w. Va., superintendent of one of the largest rescue missions in America. INDIANA PIONEERS TO HOLD ANNUAL PARLEY Meeting Will Take Place at Historic William Conner Farm. The Society of Indiana Pioneers will hold its annual spring meeting May 18 in the historical William Conner farm home on the Nobles-ville-rd. Charles N. Fultz, chairman of the arrangements committee, announced that a basket dinner and a series of pageants will feature the program. ROUNDUP IS SCHEDULED Free Kindergarten Society to Hold Annual Health Meeting. Annual health round-up of the Indianapolis Free Kindergarten So- : ciety, covering health work of 23 kindergartens for the year, will be held May 16 and 17 in Brookside Park Community House, Miss Grace Brown, kindergarten society superintendent, announced today. Winners of blue and red ribbons must have had immunization against diphtheria. There were 14 deaths from the disease in Indianapolis in 1934. STORE HEAD VISITS CITY Moskin’s President at Branch Here on Good-Will Tour. Richard Moskin. Moskin’s Cloth ing Stores president, visited the InI dianapolis store of the chain, located at 131 W. Washington-st, this week as a part of a good-w’ill tour on the twenty-sixth anniversary of the chain organization's founding. S. A. Maltz is manager of the local store, which led the entire chain in business done during the last year. AN UPSIDE DOWN BOY! Turning Cartwheels Proves Disastrous to 11-Year-Old. The unexpected happened to Ben Snipe. 11. of 2520 E. llth-st, last night when he cut his head while turning cartwheels in the grass at Brookside Park. Some thoughtless person had thrown some broken glass on the spot Ben chose for his tumbling.

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Upper. Left to Right—(.apt. I. L. Kitts, Capt. N. J. McMahon, Lieut. H. S. Isaacson and Lieut. J, M. Willems Center—Lieut. Ray Curtis. Lower—Capt. Kitts. Most of the skilled riders who will participate in the American Olympic Equestrian team trials and exhibition, to be held at the Indiana State Fairground Coliseum at 3 tomorrow afternoon, will be officers of the United States cavalry and field artillery. The trials are open to all amateur riders, but few persons other than those who have received the strenuous training given in the famous cavalry school at Ft. Riley, Kan., are practiced enough to compete. Among Army officers who will take part in the trials are Capt. I. L. Kitts, Capt. N. J. McMahon, Lieut. H. S. Isaacson, Lieut. J. M. Willems and Lieut. Ray Curtis. Lieut. Com. O. F. Hesiar is president of the Indiana Saddle Hor.se Association, w'hich is -sponsoring the trials here. M. L. Mendenhall is a former association president. Mrs. A. C. Bohlen is reserved seat ticket chairman. William Ross will drive one of the Olympic Red Cabs furnished by the transportation committee, of w’hich Thomas Ruckelshaus is chairman. Many low-priced seats for the exhibition are still available and may be obtained at the English Theater box office.

CCC to Be Increased By Thousands, Bowley Told Recruiting for Enlarged Corps to Start June 15, General Says: New Camps to Be Built. Machinery has already been set in motion, according to Maj. Gen. Albert J. Bowlev. Fifth Corps Area commander, to build the Civilian Conservation Corps from 353.000 men to 600,000 men by Aug. 31.

Enrollment for the increase will j begin June 15 and the new men will be in camps by the end of August. j Approximately 250.000 recruits and I 100.000 replacements will be needed I to fill the quota set by Robert Fechner, Emergency Conservation Director. To house the new men. the War Department will build 1276 new forest camps costing approximately j $25,000,000. Work has already been started on these. In some instances tents will be used until wooden barracks can be constructed. The quotas to be filled will be based, in each state, 50 per cent on population and 50 per cent on the i number of families actually on re- | lief. One important change made is I in the increase of age limit for juniors in the camps, from a 25year limit to 28. The time which j a junior may spend in the camps has been lengthened from 12 to 18 months. The army officials immediately will begin the tremendous task of purchasing the needed supplies and equipment for the 350.000 new men. Some 58,000 enrollees will be transported from the East and Mid-West-ern states to the Far West.

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Os the new projects to be handled by the extra contingent of workers. 2106 projects will be supervised by the Department of Agriculture. 698 by the Department of the Interior and 112 by the War Department. More oaks are planted along streets and roadsides of the United States than any other variety of tree. Maples rank second.

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U. S. NEGRO NOT TRUE AFRICAN, SCIENTIST SAYS Have Too Much Caucasian and Indian Blood, Survey Shows. By Science fieri ice PHILADELPHIA, May 4.—Negroes in America are hardly entitled to call themselves “Africans”; they have too much Caucasian and Indian blood in them. This idea, long popular held in a rather vague fashion, has received scientific support in studies on American Negro anatomy carried on by Dr, Robert J. Terry at Washington University in St. Louis. Speaking before the meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists here, Dr.' Terry stated his conclusions: “The type is unstable and in ; transition. It offers therefore op- j portunity for studies in race mix- : ture. American laboratories of anatomy and physical authropology can perform an important service by fostering research in the physical constitution of the type as it now' presents itself.” The well-known facts that 75 or 80 per cent of us have right hands larger than our left, and that about the same proportion of people are right-handed, have no essential connection with each other, Richard H. Post of Smith College told the Association. The common assumption that our right hands are bigger because we use them more he proved by statistical studies on a company of soldiers to be unsupported by fact. Plenty of “southpaw's” still had bigger right than lefts, and also longer right than left arms. At the same session Prof. William K. Gregory of Columbia University and the American Museum of Natural History, offered a clarification of the problem of human evolutionary origin by pointing out two kinds of evolutionary development. In one mode, called “undeviating evolution,” a tendency will be early established and followed through to the end, even to an extreme. The undeviating evolution of the horse’s single hoof from the middle toenail of a once five-toed foot, he cited as a case in point. In the other evolutionary mode, called “transformation,” a given part or organ in the original ancestor may give rise to something quite different in the ultimate offspring. Both kinds of evolution have been operative in man, he said. Some skulls of long-departed Texas cave-dwellers, of an extremely “long-headed” racial type, were described by Dr. T. D. Stewart of the U. S. National Museum. This people was apparently related to the better known Basket-Maker race of the Southwest, but as yet very little has been worked out concerning their history and culture. Studies on their remains at the National Museum are still in progress. DIRECTORS ARE NAMED BY CO-OPERATIVE CLUB Auditing Committee Is Also Chosen by Consumers’ Group. Directors and an auditing committee w'ere elected Thursday night at a meeting of the Consumers’ Cooperative Club in the Farm Bureau Building. Those elected to the directorial positions were Rabbi Elias Charry, the Rev. Jasper H. Cox, the Rev James A. Crain, M. J. Drach, Miss Hazel Funk, Anthony Lehner, the Rev. Franklin A. McDaniel, W. S. Palmer, Prof E. C. Payne, Daniel Stauber and Miss Helen Swoyer. Dr. V. D. Keiser, Lewis Levy and the Rev. Charles R. Lizenby were elected to the auditing committee. RITE CHOIR TO PERFORM Sacred Concert to Be Given at Noblesville Sunday. The Scottish Rite Consistory Choir will present a program of sacred music at the Noblesville Methodist Church at 7:45 Sunday. The choir will be directed by Arnold Spencer. Mrs. Dorothy Sunderland will be the accompanist. Convicted Man Is Acquitted William Rolles. 1302 N. Tacomaav, w'ho was fined $66 and sentenced to 75 days on the Indiana State i Farm April 2 in Muncipal court on drunken and reckless driving charges, was acquitted, on appeal, by Special Judge Clyde Karrer in ! Criminal Court.

PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD $35.00 PERSONALLY CONDUCTED ALL-EXPENSE TOUR TO WASHINGTON, D. G. May 19, 1935 Includes Round Trip Railroad Tick-et-all Meals —Hotel—Sightseeing, Principal Public Buildings, Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial and Residential Section in Washington—National Cemetery— Alexandria, Va.—Mount Vernon — Annapolis—U. S. Naval Academy. —5 Thrilling Days— Secure complete itinerary and make j reservations early. Ticket Office 108 East Washington St., Riley 9331

U. S . Olympic Equestrian Trials C oliseum. State Fairground Sunday, May 5 One Performance Only Box Seats, $2.00 Reserved Seats, SI.OO General Admission, 50c ricket sale limited to seating capacity. Tickets on sale English Theatre Box Office.

OLD WORLD COSTUMES TO FEATURE CLASS PLAY

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Costumes for “The Siege,” one of three one-act plays to be given May 10 by the senior class at Washington High School, came from the Old World. Pearl Kretheotis and Cecilia George, members of the cast, will wear the dresses they are modeling in this picture.

News Survey of Indiana

By Times Special SPICELAND. May 4.— This town will be host to hundreds of former -students and friends of the old Spiceland Academy when an all-dav home-coming celebration is staged here Wednesday. Spiceland enjoys the distinction of having been a leader among early Indiana educational centers, it having been more than a hundred years since the establishment of the school which became Spiceland Academy. The academy was among the first founded by Quakers in the Mid-West and probably the last institution of its kind to give rp its identity to become a township high school. A field day program is to start at 9 and continue until night. Features will include band concerts, children's drills, tennis and horseshoe games, and a balloon parachute jump.

Two Win Honors By United Press LAFAYETTE, May 4.—John L. Wood, 16, Martin County, and Elmira Armstrong, 17, Lagrange County, have been cho-sen as the healthiest boy and girl in Indiana. The health contest was part of the annual 4-H Club roundup at Purdue University. Young Wood and Miss Armstrong, competing against 42 county health champions, each scored 97.5 points. Ruth Buckthal, Edwardsport, representing Knox County, and Forlestine Miller, Spiceland, representing Henry County, tied for first in the girls’ demonstration team contest. Maurice Strahl. Hancock County, won the individual egg judging contest. Fred H. Merkel, Batesville. and Lowell Painter, Spiceland, tied for first in the tree and shrub identification contest. Given Rudolph, Jasper, was third. tt tt a 17,000 Given Aid By Times Special MARION. May 4.—A total of 17.045 persons were benefited by activities of the Grant County Recreational Committee during April, according to the report of L. B. Moore, director. Designed primarily to serve the unemployed, the recreational program is sponsored by the Kiwanis Club in conjunction with the Governor’s Commission on Unemployment Relief.

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Hero Shows Modesty By United Press SOUTH BEND. May 4. An 8-year-old girl was saved from death or serious injury by the heroism of Philbert Fry, 12, member of the student traffic control. On regular duty at a street intersection before school opened, Philbert saw a car careening down the street out of control. The machine hurtled a sidewalk and headed straight for the girl. Philbert made a leap and pulled her to safety. Philbert completed his traffic assignment and went to class without telling any one of his heroism. Other pupils told their teacher what he had done. Asked if he knew' the girl's name, the boy replied: “No, I didn't bother. What do you want her name for, anyway? She wasn’t hurt.” Later the girl was identified as Betty Marie Evans. a tt tt Marriage Fails Twice By Times Si>ecial GREENFIELD, May 4. Their second marital adventure no more successful than the first. Paul Tucker, Warrington, has filed suit for divorce from Mrs. Cecil M. Tucker, charging cruelty. The couple was married April 3, 1915, and divorced in September, 1921. They remarried in August, 1922, but separated April 27, 1935. A. E. Hopkins on the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries has discovered that oysters have three hearts.

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CIRCUS TO GIVE PARADE; ANIMAL ACTS FEATURED Clyde Beatty. Allen King Headline Performers Here Tuesday. Two of the world's most famous animal trainers living will appear in Indianapolis Tuesday and Wednesday, when Clyde Beatty and Allen King come here with the Cole Bros. —Clyde Beatty Circus. Matinee and night performances will be given, and an old-fashioned street parade will be held at 11 Tuesday. In addition to bands, floats and cages of animals, and hundreds of mounted performers, including clowns, there will be the Shrine band and the uniformed units of the Shrine in the parade. Clyde Beatty, who has been injured numerous times in his animal training act. will perform in a 50foot iron encircled arena, with lions and tigers. Allen King who performed at the World's Fair, will present an animal act in which lions, tigers, pumas. leopards and panthers will be grouped. BIRD DOG TRIALS ARE HELD AT FORT FIELD Championship at Stakr in Wrek* Lnd Contests Here. Championship stakes for bird dogs, which were opened today on the goiernment game preserve at Ft. Be ljamin Harrison by the recently organized Indianapolis Field Trial Club, will be continued tomorrow. Both registered and nonregistered dogs may be entered and they may be handled by amateurs or professionals. Trials will be held for dogs of all ages. Many prominent dog owners have entered animals in the event. Trophies will be awarded by the Em-Roe Sporting Goods Store and j the Hoffman Sporting Goods Cos. Judges will be Harry Abbott, Aurora, ; and Dr. J. F. Boyd, Cincinnati. Club officers are Dr. W. C. Roland. president: G. E Maxwell, vice president, and F. M. Cox. secretary j treasurer. ATHERTON HITS TAXES ON SCHOOL PROPERTY Butler Secretary Voices Protest at Meeting of^Officials. Taxing of income-producing property of private -schools of Indiana was held as detrimental to taxpayers bv John W. Atherton, financial secretary of Butler University, before members of the Association of Business officers of the institution yesterday. He told how' the non-tax supported schools enrolled more students than do the four state institutions. “It would be necessary for the taxpayer to pay out additional i amounts for education were it not ; for the private schools,” Mr. AtherI ton said. C. M. T. C. DUTY FOR CAPT. CALAIS ORDERED Local School Instructor to Report at Ft. Harrison. Capt. Charles H. Cailais, Indianapolis high school instructor of military science and tactics, w'ill be ordered to duty with the Citizens’ Military Training at Ft. Benjamin Harrison this year, it was announced today at the Fifth Corps ; Area headquarters. Two camps will be established at ; the fort this year, which is the 11th C. M T. C. session there. One will | open July 2 and continue to July 31. I The second will open Aug. 2 and I close Aug. 31. Burglar Takes Ring and Cash

A burglar who pried open an apartment lock last night stole $35 in cash and a sls Delta Sigma sorority pin. Miss Bessie Miller, 703 E. llth-st, told police today.