Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 212, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 November 1935 — Page 3

NOV. 13, 1933

STATE AWAITS TESTIMONY OF KENTUCKY MEN Louisville Police Officers Will Take Stand at Mason-Dean Trial. Thr Mason-Dean trial in Criminal Court laeer.fl today while the state awaited testimony of Louisville officers who returned Willie Mason from Kentucky after his escape from Noblesville jail. The officers probably will testify late todav. Mason and Edward fFoggy) Dean are charged with inflicting physical injury during a robbery. They are alleged to have held up the Peoples Motor Coach Cos, resulting in the machine gun slaying of Police Sergt. Lester Jones. Detective Faye Davis testified that he returned Mason and thi°e other suspects from Kentucky in the original arrests that followed the slaying. He testified that an automobile found in possession of the quartet had stolen here. Weapons found with Mason and 7,>can at the time of their arrest in Kentucky have been admitted in evidence. Sergt. Jones was slain by bandits during the holdup of the Peoples Motor Coach Cos. garage here Feb. 7. 1933. Charles Seidell, Clifton police chief, testified yesterday that Mason, Fred Adams, George Schwartz, Ernest (Red) Giberson and F.d Miller were arrested during a raid on a luxurious Erlanger (Ky.) home. 3 Serving Life Terms Adams, Schwartz and Giberson now are serving life terms in the Indiana State Prison in connection with the holdup. Dean and Richard Keller, alleged slayer of a Cincinnati laundry operator, were captured together in a Louisville apartment, George V. Barrett, Glasgow (Ky.) police chief and former Louisville detective sergeant, testified. Keller is expected to testify in the trial. Defense attorneys objected bitterly to the admission of a Thompson submachine gun found in Giberson's auto when he was arrested. Deputy Prosecutor Oscar C.Hagenieir said that the gun was among those stolen from a Franklin (O.) police station, and that another of the stolen weapons was abandoned at the garage. A rifle found in Dean's apartment also was among the stolen guns, Mr. Hagemier explained. SWEITZER VINDICATED IN CHICAGO COURT Former Cook County Treasurer Is Free of $414,129 Charge. By lit itcd I'rcm CHICAGO, Nov. 13.—Found not guilty of withholding $414,129 of public funds, Robert M. Sweitzer, ousted Cook County treasurer, today contended his 24-year regime as county clerk had been vindicated. A Criminal Court jury which deliberated six hours returned its verdict, just before midnight. Almost hysterically happy, the 67-year-old genial politician grasped the hands of jurors and newspapermen and expresed his thanks. Alter serving 24 years as county clrrk, Sweitzer was elected treasurer last December. His successor, Michael Flynn, discovered a shortage in the county clerk's accounts and Sweitzer was ousted from the treasurer's office. INLAND WATERWAYS IS TO BE EXPANDED Rescind Order to Abandon Barge l ine Office Here. 1 inn * Sfirrinl WASHINGTON. Nov. 13.—Inland Waterways Corp. has rescinded the order to abandon the Federal barge line office at Indianapolis, Rep. Lotus Ludlow was informed todav. Rep. Ludlow protested the removal on behalf of Hoosier shipping interests and the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. Instead of being shifted to Chicago, as originally ordered, the Indianapolis office is to be maintained and its business expanded to include western Ohio and southern Indiana. SMOKER BURNED IN BED Elkhart Cripple Suffers Injuries; Rescued by Firemen. By l nited Press ELKHART. Ind , Nov. 13.—Rov Thompson, 60. a cripple, suffered severe leg burns yesterday when his bed caught fire from a lighted cigaret. A neighbor heard Thompson's cries for help and called firemen who carried him to safety.

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Man’s efforts to conquer the stratosphere send him on to greater and greater heights, the latest, mark, yet to be officially checked, being that of 74.187 feet, more than 14 miles, reached Monday by Capts. A. W T . Stevens and O. A. Anderson in the Explorer 11. Present official record is that of Settle and Fordney—--61.237 feet, set in 1933. The above chart shows the most notable flights made in balloons with gondolas. in open baskets, and in airplanes, with altitudes compared with that of Mt. Everest. INDIANA UNIVERSITY CONTRACTS AWARDED Projects Estimated to Cost $515,548 Approved. (A story on Indiana University’s building program appears on Page 13.) Contracts for two new Indiana University buildings at an estimated cost of $515,548 were awarded by university trustees meeting yesterday at the Claypool. A Public Works Administration grant will cover part of the cost. Jacobson Brothers & Cos., Chicago, won the administration building contract on a bid of $256,700, and E. A. Carson, Indianapolis, will build a women's dormitory at a cost ot $139,323. Contracts for wiring, plumbing, heating, ventilating and elevator service also were awarded. Robert Frost Daggett, Indianapolis architect, was commissioned to draw plans for a proposed school of music building. Charles A. Ammerman, Indianapolis, is to be the engineer.

Pigs Is Pigs By United Press ST. PAUL. Nov. 13.—Floyd of Rosendale. a sleek Hampshire hog dispatched to Minnesota by Gov. Clyde Herring of low'a in payment of a football wager w'ith Gov. Floyd Olson of Minnesota, arrived in style and a couple of supercilious grunts today. The pig was put in the railroad baggage room to await the arrival of Gov. Herring, who w'ill make the presentation personally at the state capitol.

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UNION LEADERS SEEK PEACE IN FHA WALKOUT 200 Quit Work on Project as General Strike Appears Gaining. Conferences of union officials were held today in an effort to settle a walkout and general strike on the $2,000,000 Federal housing project in the vicinity of the City Hospital. Two hundred workers on the project quit at noon yesterday and with exception of a few laborers did not return for work today. Truck drivers and hod carriers sought higher wages while the jurisdictional dispute was between carpenters and iron workers over installation of sashes in the apartment buildings now under construction. Other skilled workers and common laborers were forced to quit work when the artisans, complaining against wages and jurisdiction, left their jobs. The N. P. Severin Cos., Chicago, is general contractor on the project. Carl Ferguson, supervising project manager for FHA, said the contractor was living up to Federal wage specifications, paying the minimum or more as required, but understood it was the contention of truck drivers and hod carriers that higher rates are being paid on WPA projects here. Mr. Ferguson said there was nothing the government could do and looked for an early settlement. $163,078 GAIN SHOWN BY BUILDING PERMITS Increase Over Corresponding Week of Last Year. Building permits issued for the week ending Nov. 9 show r ed an increase of $163,073 over those issued in the corresponding week of 1934, William F. Hurd, Building Commissioner. reported to the Safety Board yesterday. Last week the permits amounted to $217,364 as compared to only $54,286 for the week a year ago. Total value of permits from Jan. 1 to the present time is $4,369,405, while permits for the same period in 1934 were $3,093,853, an increase of $1,275,552. TRIAL OF MUSGROVE WILLJSTART MONDAY Discharged Policeman Charged With Assault on Chief. Herschell H. Musgrove, discharged policeman, is to go on trial Monday before a jury on charges of assault and battery against Chief Morrissey. Trial is scheduled before a Municipal Court juryv Musgrove is accused of an attack on Chief Morrissey in the latter's office following his dismissal from the force. The safety Board dismissed Musgrove after a hearing on charges he was connected with the operation of slot machines. Bar Group Honors Walker Indianapolis Bar Association held memorial services in Probate Court today in honor of the late Merle N. A. Walker, one time probate judge, who Saturday.

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Lee Barker Sentence Parole Deferred by State Clemency Board Ex-Bootlegger's Wife Describes Alleged ‘Arrangement' to Commission Concerning $750 Placed in Escrow for Suspended Sentence After Conviction. An alleged arrangement whereby Lee Barker, former Indianapolis bootlegger, was to receive a suspended sentence after his Marion Criminal Court conviction was affirmd by the Indiana Supreme Court, was described to the State Clemency Commission yesterday by his wife. In taking the pleas under advisement. Commissioners expressed incredulity as to the alleged arrangement. Also appearing before the commission with a clemency plea was Mrs. Dell Barker. The Barker brothers are serving 2 to 14 years in the State Prison for illegal Lransporttaior of liquor.

Mrs. Lee Barker told the commission she placed $750 in escrow in 1934 with an Indianapolis physician, for Herbert M. Spencer, defense lawyer, with assurance that a suspended sentence could be obtained for Lee Barker on the 1926 conviction. Spencer Declines Comment Mr. Spencer, who is now prosecutor said today, “I did not know of the hearing yesterday and I have nothing further to say.” When the case oriel By was brought to lighh Mr. Spencer said he had acted as .Barker's attorney but that he had ceased to function in that capacity when he took public office. ‘‘l don't see how in the world a court could suspend sentence after it had been pronounced and the conviction affirmed by the Supreme Court,” Commissioner J. T. Arbuckle commented yesterday. No Word Until Arrest Mi's. Lee Barker said her husband heard nothing more about the case from his bondsmen until he was arrested in October, 1934. She said she went to Criminal Court the day after his arrest and was told there was no record for his appearance. He was held in jail 26 days, she said, and was released after she had placed the money in escroiv. He was rearrested in April, 1935, and committed to the state prison on the 1926 conviction, she said. The $750 placed in escrow' w'as returned to her. according to Mrs. Barker. FACSIMILE SERVICE BY RADIO PROMISED High-Speed Transmission of Written Material Coming. By Science Service PRINCETON, N. J„ Nov. 13. High-speed radio transmission of complete facsimiles of any written, typed or printed material will be inaugurated on an experimental, non-commercial service between New York and Philadelphia before the end of the year, Gen. James G. Harbord, board chairman of the Radio Corporation of America, indicated in an address at Princeton University last night. The facsimile service and television are linked hand in hand, he said, for research in one aids the other. Junior Republicans to Meet Board of directors of the newly organized Junior Republicans of Marion County is to meet Friday night at the home of Fay Langdon, county chairman, at 1503 N. Penn-sylvania-st.

TAXI HEARINGS DUE NEXT WEEK Proposed Regulation Ordinance Now Before Council to Be Aired. Public hearings on the proposed taxicab regulation ordinance now' before the City Council are to open next week, Mayor Kern announced today. The ordinance, introduced at the last Council session, was drafted by the City Legal Department at the request of Walter C. Boetcher, City Controller. Preceding a conference with Dr. Silas J. Carr, chairman of the Council safety committee, the Mayor announced that this w'as not an administration measure. “When the ordinance is passed it should be for the best interests of the public, and I am sure it is not intended to favor one group of transportation operatives over another,” Mayor Kern said. In a survey conducted last week by The Indianapolis Times, many taxicab ow'ners said if the ordinance was enforced the identity of thair companies would be destroyed and they would be driven out of business. As now' drafted the measure provides a closer license check on cabs and puts them under monthly inspection. It would prohibit cruising on streets that had street car or bus service. Insurance Agency Moved Smith Bros., have moved their insurance agency from the Insurance Building to 746 Consolidated Building, 115 N. Pennsylvania-st. Charles E. Smith is president.

Five Questions Can you answer four of these test questions? Turn to Page 17 for the answers, 1. What and w'here is the Old Spanish Trail? 2. Where is the Champ de Mars? 3. What is the hydrosphere of the earth? 4. Do both male and female mosquitoes bite? 5. Name the strait that connects the Sea of Marmoa with the Aegean.

CITY PLAN HEAD MAY PICK GOLF RIGHT-OF-WAY Proposed Boulevard Extension Problem About to Be Tossed in His Lap. Val McLeay, City Plan Commission secretary-engineer, who has been opposed to the proposed extension of Pleasant Run-blvd through Pleasant Run golf course, may get a chance to choose the right-of-way, A. C. Sallee, park superintendent, hinted today. “According to one interpretation of the new state law, final approval on projects of this sort rests with the plan commission,” Mr. Sallee said. "If that is true, Mr. McLeay mav get this job, but I doubt if he will like the 'heat.’” Golfers Wage Battle A fight against the plan, as nowdrafted, has been conducted by public links golfers for the last two weeks. In a mass meeting at the Pleasant Run clubhouse last night, they claimed the roadway would run through the southern section of the course and shorten several holes. Anew plan for the extension was presented by Paul Frane, a member of the boulevard committee appointed by Dr. Dale Lentz, club president. It proposes that the city follow' a survey south of the course, approved several yea r s ago as a part of the original boulevard system. Telford Orbison, Irvington attorney; John Niblack, Indianapolis Public Links Association president; Arthur Lockwood, former golf course supervisor for the park board, and J. D. McClure, of the Pleasant Run Club, spoke. Might Shorten Holes Despite statements of Dr. Silas J. Carr, City Council vice president, that the routing would not disturb the course materially. Mr. Niblack said a golfer's investigating committee agreed it would shorten holes 8. 9. 10, 12, 13 and 14. Mr. Orbison said the earning pow'er of the East Side links would be nullified if the present layout was shortened. The present course has an area of only 102 acres, whereas the normal golf course should contain at least 150 acres, he claimed. Approximately 200 golfers from public courses attended the meeting. Buckshot Enters Face Arthur Logsdon, 18. cf 839 Taft-st is recovering today from shotgun wounds received yesterday w'hen he was hunting. Buckshot fired apparently at a great distance entered his face and w r ere removed by a physician.

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HUNT SLAYER OF ‘BRIDE’ AT BURIAL RITES Maryland Police Hope to Trap Killer: Fiance and Suitor Freed. By V nited Press MT RAINIER, Md. Nov. 13 Corinna Lorir.g's body, dressed in the bridal gown she was to have worn a week ago. will be buried today. and police hoped to trap her killer at the funeral services in the ivy-covered church where she taught Sunday school. Psychiatrists were instructed to watch for any unusual behavior n the throng expected to attend ! the rites for the pretty 26-year-old i girl who was found strangled to death two days before her scheduled marriage to Richard Tear, 29. \ hospital attendant. Tear and Aubrey Hampton. 30. a disappointed suitor, who had been in police custody since a few hours after Corinna's body was discovered last Saturday beside a lovers’ j lane on Saddleback Ridge, were rei leased yesterday. Both had invulnerable alibis to account for iheir whereabouts on the night of the brutal slaying. Lieut. Joseph H. Itzel. are Balti- | more detective assigned to take | charge of the case, predicted a j break” was coming. “I now feel.” he said, “we will definitely reach a I solution of the case.” He said Mrs. George Loring. mother of the girl and the last known person to see her alive, would be questioned with other members of the family as soon as the funeral services have been completed. FEDERAL UNIT PLANS STATE THEATER HERE Employment to Be Given Jobless Stage Hands and Artors. The formation of a state theater, to be located in Indianapolis for the employment of jobless stage hands and actors, has been announced by Dr. Lee R. Norvelle. newly appointed director of the Federal theater , projects in Indiana. Dr Norvelle, speech and drama ; department head. Indiana University, is to come here Monday to supervise the state project, sponj sored by WPA. A theater here will be leased for I the presentation of plays. A com--1 cany of 150 persons, 90 per cent of j which must be on Federal relief, are to be selected. Dr. Norvelle has b°en granted a leave of absence by InI diana University.