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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1937

BANGS’ UTILITY | TOEND SERVICE, USERS ADVISED

Board Accepts Suggestion

Hussar Chief

Of Mayor; Fight Not Yet |

Ended, He Says.

United Press HUNTINGTON, Ind, March 15. — Customers of the tiny Huntington Municipal electric plant were | notified today that their service—which sent Mayor Clare W. H. Bangs to jail- going to be discontinued Withdrawal of city from its unofficial utility business was voted late Satur bv the Works Board on the Mayor. Mavor \ 211th day the end

ol thern In-

the

recommendation of

Bang his fight Power

“This is not

aiana of the fight to establish a cipal utils itv for the city of Huntington,” said the editor-lawver-mavor from the jail cell in which he has conducted city business for nearly half of his 26 months in office.

Rehearing to Be Sought

“We are going to press for rehearing of my injunction appeal to the State Supreme Court,” he said. Defeat of his appeal to the Supreme Court and the prospect that some more of his official family would have to join him in jail this week was given by Mayor Bangs as the reason for the disconnection order. James B. Vernon, City Engineer, and Arthur D. Sayler, City At- | torney, members of the Works Board, are scheduled to appear in Huntington Circuit Court tomorrow and explain to Special Judge Huber M. Devoss of Decatur why they | should not go to jail on contempt | charges.

Preserves Organization

They were excused from accom- | panving Mayor Banks to jail last July 6 bv resigning from their city posts Both accepted reappointment later “I would CONSUMES

the plant city orMayor

disconnect from the city lines than break up my ganization at this time,” Bangs explained. Mavor Bangs had no idea when he would be released. The order committing him to jail cn contempt charges—for continuing to sell powser from the “toy” plant despite an injunction obtained by the power company read “until city plant consumers are disconnected.” Disconnection of 580 residential customers and 92 commercial users may string out over 20 days, under Mayor Bangs’' instruction to the board.

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Concession His First It marks the first actual concession by the one-time professor of international law in his five-year fight with the power company, launched in editorial columns short | after he obtained a local news- | paper, The Huntington News. | When power was cut off from his | newspaper, he had the type set by | hand and jacked up an old auto- | mobile to provide power for the press { Elected in 1934 on a platform pledaing a municipal electric utility, | Mr. Bangs had workmen stringing | lines within two hours after he took office Jan. 1, 1935.

POLICE TO RESCUE! | NEIGHBORS RELIEVED

| |

A police radio squad cruising leisurely near the 1800 block Columbia Ave. yesterday, heard a Vvollev of shots. Speeding there, the officers said they found a man in the middie of the street emptying an automatic pistol into the air while the neighbors scampered for cover, The police arrested Joe Robinson, of 1927 Alvord St, on charges of drunkenness, shooting in the city | limits and having a pistol without a permit,

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WORKER SHOCKED AS HE TESTS FUSE BOX

Fred Mayer, 28, of 3350 N. Arsenal Ave. was recovering in Methodist Hospital today from electrical shock received while testing a fuse box in the basement of a candy store at 8 E. Washington St. yesterday. Physicians described his condition

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DOCTORS ARE TO MEET

The Indianapolis Medical Society is te hear case reports at 8:15 o'clock tonight in the Antlers Hotel Speakers are to be Drs. William H. | Norman, Glenn Conway, J. L. Fich- | man. Herbert F. Call, C. Basill Fausset, N. C. Davidson, Robert D. | Howell and John Little Jr

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| violation charges | week-end raids by City police and

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SCOUT COUNCIL (OUTLINES PLANS FOR JAMBOREE

Boys Attend Event in Washington.

Further plans were | special committee of the Indianapolis Boy Scout Council yesterday

[for an Indianapolis delegation to at- |

| tend the annual Scout Jamboree in

A | Washington next June.

Herbert Petrie and his White Hussars are to present two mu= ical programs at Caleb Mills Hall, Shortridge High School, Thursday. A matinee for children is to be presented at 3 p. m. and another program at $:15 p. m. The famous musical organization is being brought here by the Bruce P. Robison Post 133 and Auxiliary, Amerjcan Legion. Mrs. Eleanor Eversole Philpott, concert coach and soloist. is here to complete are rangements for the concerts.

17 FACE CHARGES OF

IGNORING LIQUOR LAW

‘City Police and Excise Offi-

cers Make Raids.

Seventeen persons faced liquor law today following

State Excise officers.

Large quantities of beer, whisky, | | gin and alcohol were confiscated, | police said.

Persons arrested were: Mrs. Eve Millions, 45 of 1127 N Capitol Lee Price, 54, of 835 E. Georgia St Beard, 50, of 315 Indiana Fleming, 39, of 415 Cleveland St.; 8. of 415 Cleveland St.; John vaughn. 37. of 2238 Masachusetts Ave.: Mrs. Marie Stricker, 1816 8S. Emerson Ave. James Buchanan, 218 McClain Place: Mrs Anna Roe. 5000 Southeastern Ave. Mrs Mary Bendette, 39, of 29 W, 29th St Mrs Mary Marco, 43, of 531 W. Pearl St. Mrs Ada Lancaster, 2014 Madison Ave: Mrs Bessie Pruess. 2017 Ave... William Parks, 22, of Pennsylvania St © Mrs. Garnet Goodall, 17, of 1961 Cor. Robert Johnson, 24, of 517 WilKine and Mrs. Lola Kinder, 1445 Southeastern Ave

Frank Gordon Rov Ennis, 4

Madison 1126 8

nell Ave

DOCTORS TO EXAMINE BOY SLAYER SUSPECT

By United Press

ANDERSON, March 15.—Doctors | [| D. T. Lamey and W, L. Sharpe were

appointed today by Judge Charles E. Smith of Juvenile Court to examine Claude Allen Small, 11-year-old Elwood boy ing his father, Thomas R. Small, on Feb. 7. The examination is being held to determine the boy's mental

the father, an Elwood tinplate worker, had whipped him for playing in the muddy yard.

DR. HALL TO SPEAK TO UNIVERSAL CLUB

Dr. Logan Hall, Meridian Street

| Methodist Episcopal Church pastor, will address the Universal Club on

“The History of Protestantism” tomorrow noon in the Columbia Club. His address will be the third of a series by religious leaders, arranged by the Rev. R. M. Dodrill, program

{ chairman.

JOTHER HELPED BY

Ave; |

accused of shoot |

| The committee reported that sev- | eral business firms had announced |

they would provide means for one

|or more boys to attend the Jam-

boree

‘to parents interested in | boys to the World Jamboree in Hol-

land, July 20 to Aug. 13. Participa- i

jamboree in Washington is necessary for boys planning to attend the Holland event, the committee pointed out.

Band to Mobilize

The Indianapolis Boy Scout Res[ervation has been selected as a mo- { bilizing center for the 144-piece | Scout band which will be recruited

tion in the national

{from troops of the region compris | ling Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and |

Wisconsin,

The Indianapolis delegation has |

| chartered a special Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad train for the trip. Members of the committee who attended the meeting were: H. L. | Craig, L. J. Badollet, Mr. Janus, A. |p. Holt, J. W. Knowles, F. O. Belzer {and S. L. Norton.

TIBETAN ADVISER TO SPEAK IN STATE

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imes Special

LAFAYETTE, B. Enders, authority folklore land adventure, 1s [to speak at the | All-Science Dinner tomorrow night. Mr. Enders, fore eign adviser 10 the Grand Lama lof Tibet, is the | first foreigner to {hold a cabinet post in the Hermit Kingdom. He alse is the first for- NS ecigner to be given Mr. Enders | a Tibetan nobility title with a seal {in the upper house of the Tibetan Assembly.

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Gordon | Tibetan

CHILDREN INJURED IN WEEK-END ACCIDENTS

Eleven-vear-old Esther Sentney, 537 8, Bast St, misunderstood her mother when she told her to put some coal in the stove, thought she said coal oil. She was treated at City Hospital for burns on the face. She is a pupil at School 25. Earl Blanchard, 6, was recover= ing at home today from a fractured arm he received while sliding

| on the ice in front of his home,

| 2022 N. Pennsylvania St., yesterday. |

| Barl attends Cathedral School, PODIATRISTS TO MEET More than 250 persons are expected to attend the annual convention of the Indiana Association of Podiatrists to be held April 3, 4 and 5 in the Hotel Lincoln.

Several Firms Offer to Help.

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C. O. Janus was hamed adviser | sending |

A | Auxiliary are to hold Mother's Day |

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Judge Protested RECEIPTS FROM “AUTO LICENSES

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| Collections $935,778 Above Last Year's tor Quarter,

Finney Reports.

the State Motor Vehicle Bureau, from the time the new licenses were placed on sale in December until March 1, totaled $7.681.149, an increase of $935,778 | more than the corresponding period last vear, Frank Finney, commis sioner, reported today. The sale of plates, the largest sine gle item, crease of $839372. There were 69.189 more licenses issued as coms= pared with last year. This year's and liconge total was 683,889. | State Auditor Laurence F. livan reported a gasoline tax col= lection increase of $69.574 for Feb- | ruary of this year as compared with February last year collection, the largest in was $1,514501 on 37,862,160 gallons.

RALLY IS SPONSORED 52 ARE INITIATED BY BY 6.0. P. EDITORS

Senator Bridges (R. N. H.) ' To Speak at Event April 10. | TE Ths Me

ert Anderson, Martha Baker, Robert a ————— Baumgardt Helen Bernhardt, Roberta . . 4 | Bland, Gerard BPiue, Mary Coplea, Beatrice The Republican Editorial Associa- | Garemely Vom Lurtiss roach Curry, : bis h J 2 . | James Danie etty Joy Dickerson, Louise tion is to Sponsor a state-wide G. O. | E. Doty, Marinell Fear Harold Fosgate, P. rally in the Butler University | Thelma Fuller, Gosvayne Pulvider Mari. M4 : Y | lyn Jo Gardner, Eileen Goettling Jorn Fieldhouse Saturday night, April | Hansing, Albertha Harkema Margaret 10. it was announced today. | Harold, Kathryn Hays, Katherine Herman, U. 8. Senator Bridges (R. N. H)

Betty Irvin, Eugene Jackson, Norma JJ. Kaizer, Julia Kincaid, Jack Kirchhoff, is to speak. Fifteen hundred are expected to attend.

Collections in

Judge Roscoe C. O'Byrne, who wept as he sentenced four men to death for Brookville's “head and hands” murder recently, has been selected tentatively as special judge to try the alleged slayers of William H. Bright, Indianapolis pharmacist. vurtis Neal, 21, Madison, Hugh Marshall, 19, Indianapolis, under indictment for the slaving, are awaiting trial in Shelbyville, Their attorneys plan to continue their protest against Judge O'Byvme's selection.

Fifty-two members have been initiated into the Latin Club of Arses nal Technical High School, under

| Marion Kirchhoff, Betty Lemen, Frieda Lichtenberg, Edward Magdinger. Marcella | Manis, Carolyn Moore, Murray Morgan, | Jane Mattern, Janet Murphy, Louise Pous los, Gayl Pope, Jean Richardson, Clara Roark Marshall] Sears, Emma_ Coretta | ShafTstall, Alice Spaulding, John E, Thoms as, Betty Marie Twente, Bob Tyndall, Helen Jean Voss and Carlizle Walton,

"HOOSIER ARTIST, 27, IS KILLED IN WRECK

LEGION PARLEYS SET FOR MOTHER'S DAY

The American Legion and its

meeting throughout the country as part of a campaign to reduce mater nal death rates, The reduction in death rate can | be accomplished by “providing every [expectant mother with the care of a competent doctor from the be- | ginning of pregnancy until after the baby comes,” said Roland B, Howell, Thibodeaux, La. chairman of the Legion's Child Welfare Committee.

BATTLE STUBBORN FIRE

A fire in a waste-paper chute at | the William H. Block Co. store early today burned for an hour before | firemen from four companies could extinguish it, Firemen said | slight,

l'imes Special BEDFORD, Ind., March 15.--A 27 vear=old Hoosier artist, Howard Parker Fields, was Killed by a train in Yuma, Ariz, yesterday, according | to word received by hiz parents, Mr, and Mrs, Campbell Fields, here, Mr, Fields, brother of Virginia

cident last November, has lived in San Diego, Cal, for the last four Years,

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DANCE SLATED BY HIBERNIANS

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