Indianapolis Times, Volume 48, Number 31, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 April 1936 — Page 3

'APRIL 16, 1036

INDIANA WHEAT CROP ESTIMATE LESS THAN '35 28,000,000* Bushel Yield Is Predicted by U. S. Statistician. Ttmtt Sprrinl LAFAYETTE. Ind.. April 16.—Although wheat in Indiana was hard hit. by the sub-zero weather and ice of the past winter, production will be nearly 28.000,000 bushels this year, against the five-year average of 26,400,000 and a figure of 28,458,000 last year. This was the estimate made today b,v M. M. .Justin, crop statistician for the United States Department of Agriculture and the Agricultural Experiment Station of Purdue University. The yield is predicted despite winter wheat lass which ranged from 10 per cent in southern Indiana counties to 50 per cent in the northern part of the state. The increased production is attributed to the larger acreage seeded last fall. Some Change Crops The loss was so heavy in parts of northern Indiana that many farmers have plowed their fields for corn or disced them for oats to take the place of the winter-killed wheat. Recently, Purdue agronomists recommended the use of nitrogenous fertilizers as a top dressing on the wheat fields that remain. Tests have shown that the yields will be increased from five to seven bushels per acre by the top dressing with nitrate of soda, ammonium sulphate or cyanamid. Where these materials ran not be purchased, a light, top dressing with manure is recommended. Although farmers are behind with their usual spring work, due to the had weather, they expect to plant 4,280,000 acres of corn against the average acreage of 4,546,000. The new soil conservation program may reduce this acreage somewhat because of the encouragement given farmers to grow soil conserving and building crops, a majority of Indiana farmers are expected to take part in the program. Prospects are that the Indiana oats acreage will be below that of previous years, and also that the soybean acreage of 720,000 reported last, year will be much lower this year. Prospects for Hoosier peaches are poor, due to the extreme cold weather which killed fruit buds and trees. Apples apparently were no; damaged badly.

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Souris# 5:05 | Stin#< 6:24 TBMPEPATURF —April J 6. 19.3.5 7 *. m 29 1 p. 34 —Tod** — • a. m 40 10 . m 13 7 a. m 41 11 a. m 40 t. m 43 12 (Noon) 4* 4 i. M '..44 1 p. m 50 BAROMETER 7 a. m....... .30.0* 1 p. m 30.03 Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 a. m TO Total precipitation since Jan. 1 . . . S.IT Deficiency since Jan. 1 3 33 WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES AT 7 A. M. Station. Weather Bar. Temp. Amarillo. Tex Cloudy 30.29 48 Bismarck. N. D.- Clear 30.48 28 Boston Cloudy 29.44 40 Chlcafto Clear To no 40 Cincinnati Clear ii Denver PtCldv 30.22 44 Dodtre City. Kas Cloudy 30.38 46 Helena. Mont Clear 30.22 40 Jacksonville. Fla Clear 30.06 68 Kansas City. Mo Clear 30.34 42 Tittle Rock. Ark Cloudy 30.16 60 Its Angeles Cloudy 30.06 52 Miami, Pla PtCldy 30.08 76 Minneapolis Clear 30.22 36 Mobile. Ala Cloudy 30.08 64 New Orleans Cloudy 30.08 66 New York Clear 29.52 46 Okla. Citv. Okla Cloudy 30.22 54 Omaha. Neb Clear 30 40 .78 Pittsburgh Cloudy 29.80 38 Portland, Ore Cloudy 30.00 50 San Antonio, Tex PtCldy 29.90 68 San Francisco Cloudy 30.06 54 St. I.OUis Clear 30.24 46 Tampa. Pla. Clear 30.08 68 Washington. D. C.. . Clear 29 74 56 BLURRED PRINTS FOUND IN TUB MURDER PROBE Taken hy Special Process From Red Where Writer Was Stain. By United Pres* NEW YORK. April 16.—A set of blurred fingerprints, developed by nitrate of silver from the footbo* rd of the bed on which Nancy Evans Titterton was attacked before she was strangled to death, were studied today by police experts attempting to solve her murder. Auhorities, who have sought vainly for a clew since her almost nude body was found Good Friday in the bathroom of her Beekman Place apartment, held no great trust in the value of the smudged prints. Since they lacked other leads, however, they had photographs of the prints enlarged and began an attempt to classify them.

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By f titled Press BEAUMONT, Tex., April 16.—The "A., 8.. C. and D.” Perricones, the ‘Beaumont Exporter infield of 1948,” donned bright red uniforms today to show thousands of home folk their idea of a workout on the first home bill of the Texas League season. The Perricones, christened Anthony, Bernard, Carl and Donaldo, are only 6 and are the only male quadruplets in the world. They were born on Oct. 31, 1929, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Perricone. Mr§. Perricone, herself a baseball fan, set her heart on the sport as a career for her sons. ‘‘l want them to stay together,” she said. ‘There'll be jobs for them, I know. Baseball teams make money.”

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So A., 8.. C. and D. will show their prowess today before Manager Dutch L.orbeer of the Beaumont j Exporters—with eyes turned toward infield berths in a dozen years. The Perricones plan to show the customers how theythave progressed | toward their ambition. They have been practicing on their own dia- | mond at home, so they know what they are about. Fans will see how the quads ‘‘serve ’em up. slug ’em out, and scoop ’em off the ground”—all the niceties of the ‘‘A, 8., C. and D.” of baseball. Rube Stuart, president of the Exporters, says the quads expect to leave nothing undone in their first public workout. “And who knows,” Stuart said. I “but what they will be the Detroit

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Tigers $1,000,000 infield in 1950. I’ve already signed them.” Last Christmas. Stuart gave the quads miniature baseballs and bats, then had them fitted in regulation Exporter uniforms with their names on them.

Robin Hood The usual procedure was reversed in a burglary report made to police today. Mrs. Catherine Pettigrew, 505 E. llth-st, told police a rug had been left on her front porch. To whom it belonged she did not know. The rug now is in ihe property room at police headquarters.

M'NIITT PROBES ALIBI OF NEGRO TO DIETONIGHT Slaughter’s Life Hangs on Result of Executive Investigation. Investigators assigned by Gov. McNutt today were checking the alibi defense of Gaston Slaughter, Texas Negro, who is to be electrocuted shortly after midnight tonight, unless the Governor intervenes with an executive order commuting the death sentence to life imprisonment. , Investigators were assigned to the case by Gov. McNutt after a hearing yesterday at which Thomas Gallagner and Donald Baker, Terre Haute attorneys, told him that Slaughter's story that the latter was in Chattanooga, Tenn., the night he was alleged to have slain Walter Lanfair. a Terre Haute policeman, never has been fully checked. The attorneys also told the Governor the identification of Slaughter as- the Negro who killed Officer Lanfair Aug. 2, 1934, wnen a squad of Terre Haute police trapped a burglar, should not have been sufficient for conviction. Admits Possessing Stolen Gems Slaughter, who had approximately $4200 worth of admittedly stolen diamonds in his possession when he was arrested in Texas, claims he was in a Chattanooga rooming house when Officer Lanfair was slain. Charles Whitlock, former Vigo County prosecutor, who conducted the trial against Slaughter, appeared yesterday at the hearing to oppose executive clemency. Defense counsel agreed with him that Slaughter received an impartial trial. Slaughter has been saved from the chair several times by stays of execution from the Indiana Supreme Court during its consideration of his appeal and eventual affirmation of his conviction.

WARSAW PUTS BAN ON SCANTIES AND SHORTS City Hall, Fire Station Visitors Must Be Dressed Now. By United Pres* WARSAW, Ind., April 16.—Summer scanties, bathing suits, and shorts were banned from Warsaw streets today on order of Mayor Clifford De Bois. Probation Officer Nellie Arnold declared “favorite haunts of near-nude female” were the city hall and fire station. Partcularly obnoxious on the streets, she said, were shorts and bandana handkerchiefs for girls.

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Method Used in Taking Treasury Notes Is Not Revealed. (Continued From Page Onei Wall Street. Dec. 14, 1934. Police refused at first to believe a theft had been committed, so incredible were the circumstances. Two messengers for the first Boston corporation delivered the notes BISHOP PRAISES BID FOR PEACE M. E. Cleric Lauds Monroe Doctrine Invitation by Roosevelt. 7'fmc# Sprcial KOKOMO. Ind.. April 16.—Invitations to South American countries by President Roosevelt to reconsider the Monroe Doctrine is an important step toward the preservation of world peace, Bishop George Miller of Chile told Delegates to the North Indiana Methodist Episcopal conference today. Relations between South American nations and the United States are the friendliest in 20 years and will solidify the American movement for peace and settlement of international disputes by arbitration, he said. Bishop Miller is a member of the South American good will commission which is visiting 25 important cities, and religious conventions in this country in observance of the hundredth anniversary of the first Methodist church on the South American continent. “Secretary of State Cordell Hull exerted a good influence on these relations at the Pan-American Congress in 1933. and this gesture was followed by a still more important one—the recent invitations to South American pountries by President Roosevelt to reconsider the Monroe Doctrine.” he said. Laymen and ministers met in separate meetings to transact business of the conference.

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to a trust company teller at 11:45 a. m. The teller placed them on a counter in his barred cage, two feet or more from his window, and went for a check and other securities to be delivered in return. Six othei tellers were in the same cage. At 11:55 the teller came back. The notes were gone. The two messengers said they Upd been sitting on a bench opposite the teller's window’ all the time. They had seen no one approach it. Neither had the other tellers. Neither had a uniformed guard in the lobby. Agents arrested Melvin B. Smith in Topeka, Kas.; William R. Evans, Theodore Crowley, Gabriel Marosi and Charles Hartman in New York; Rocco J. De Grassi and his brother George De Grassi. in West Palm Beach, and Paul Alexander in Washington. RILEY MARKER PLACED TODAY Many Notables Participate in Tribute to Poet at Cemetery. First of the 1000 markers being constructed by the Works Progress Administration to designate sites of state historical interest was to be set up here this afternoon. The marker’s site is at Northwest-ern-av and Golden Hill-dr, where it will point out the grave of James Whitcomb Riley, beloved Hoosier poet, in Crown Hill Cemetery. Ceremonies were scheduled to include addresses by Gov. McNutt and Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch. Sixth District WPA director. They were to be introduced by Dr. Christopher B. Coleman, state historical bureau director, chairman of the project committee. Among thase expected to participate in thp ceremony were Mrs. Katie Kindell, Riley's housekeeper; Edmund Eitel. Chicago, a nephew; Mrs. Harry Meisse, a niece; Booth Tarkington and George Ade. both friends of the late, poet; Riley's biographer. Marcus Dickey of Brown County: D. Laurence Chambers, Bobbs-Merrill Cos.

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$200,000 BLAZE HITS DEMOTE, INDIANA TOWN 15 Buildings Destroyed in Business Area: Phone Girl Is Heroine. (Continued From Page One) long distance outlet and two wire* open in town.” Before the fire trucks arrived, residents formed bucket brtdgades. Heat and smoke forced them to flee from the business district, and they dispersed to try to save their homes. Men. women and children mounted roofs and soaked them with water. Some, believing the entire community was doomed, removed valuables and household furniture. Two residences, those owned by John Bunning and Sam McGinnis, were destroyed and 21 establishments caught fire. 15 buildings, including the postofflee being destroyed. The blaze was at its height for three hours yesterday evening, and small fires still were breaking out in scattered sections of the city this morning. Some Looting Reported In an effort to halt looting, Gary firemen strung lanterns through the community last night. Although many merchants kept watch all night, some merchandise was reported stolen from partially destroyed stores. Business establishments destroyed include the Konovsky Lumber Cos. (three buildings); William Swart As Cos., groceries and hardware; the DeMotte Mercantile Cos., dry goods; the Mary Bunning restaurant; Burke’s barber and beauty shop: Henry DeLock <fc Sons, grocery (two buildings); Herman Costing, dry goods; Otto DeYoung, farm implements and hardware; the DeMotte postofflee; Roy Crew, barber and beauty shop: Jake Bonsta, shoe repair shop, and Orville Rowen, bakery’ and restaurant. Peopled largely by Americans of Dutch lineage. DeMotte was considered one of the most prosperous small cnmrqunities of this area.