Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 May 1937 — Page 3

go MONDAY. MAY. 17-1007 —

MONDAY, MAY 17, 1937

15 AUTO DEAD LIST EIGHT IN TWO FAMILIES

Week-End Traffic: Toll Is Heavy as Sunshine Lures Drivers.

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and one-half miles west of Celina, O. on State Road 32.

Conditions Serious

Two persons were in serious conditions in City Hospital foday from injured received in week-end traffic accidents. : Meanwhile, arrested 30 motorists on charges of running preferential streets and 11 alleged drunken drivers. Forty-five others were charged with miscellaneous offenses. . Mrs. Edna Agen, 30, of 2234 Miller St., suffered a brain concussion and possible skull fracture last night when the car driven by her husband, John Agen, 36, collided with a truck at White Rirver Blvd. and Michigan St. Mr. Agen and three others were

police

injured slightly. All were taken to|&

City Hospital. Driver Arrested

Police charged Mr. failure to stop at a street, drunkenness while drunk. Eight-year-old Ralph Doty, 705 Joseph St., was in critical condition at City Hospital with injuries received yesterday when struck by a truck at Lyndhurst Drive and Rockville Road. : Raymond Bendler, 23, Brownsburg, truck driver, told deputy sheriffs the boy ran from behind . a parked car into the path of his machine, they said. : Lawrence J. Reinecker, 36, died of injuries suffered May 9 in a collision two miles west of the IndianaIllinois line on U. S. Road 40. His wife remains in a serious condition.

Agen with preferential and driving

at 3 p. m. at the Butler Field right, the ~three girls shown are 735 Middle Drive, Woodruff Place

909 East Drive, Woodruff Place. The three

Camp Fire Girls, is to be one of the features in the “Youth On Review” pageant to be given Sunday

Parcellis, 831 N. Tacoma Ave. and Susie Schlueter,

youngsters are pictured with the parasols they are to carry in a parade before aiding

House. Left to Carolyn Tucker, ;: Ruth Margaret

Fund.

direct the

The trio shown above, together with 530 other | in the formation of a huge “living” American flag which is to “wave” as a 250-piece band plays the national anthem. . The pageant is being sponsored by the Community

Frederic A. Barker, head of the instrumental music department of Technical High School, is to band, which. will musicians from Tech, Shortridge, Lawrence Township and Warren Central High Schools.

be composed of

‘Hot Spots’ of ‘Bloody Harlan’ Ring With Free Speech as Miners Rejoice in

HOLLYWOOD-RENO | New Liberties Gained Under Labor Act

RESORT DESTROYED!

Fire Razes Play Center of ~ Stars, Divorce-Seekers.

By United Press : TAHOE CITY, Cal, May 17—

15,000 Attend Two Mass Meetings Unmolsted By Thugs.

(Editorial, Page 10)

Times Special

Calneva Lodge, luxurious summer resort where Hollywood movie stars | and Reno divorce seekers mingled without crossing their state boundaries, was reduced to smoldering ruins today at an. estimated loss of $250,000. The California-Nevada boundary line ran through the center of the dance floor. ‘angers rushed into help the /ffire fighters. The lodge ‘was inspired by the " stage play “Lightnin’,” which had ndary line resort where law evaders=skipped from one side of the building to the other to evade process servers.

ILLINOIS-MARYLAND IS JINX FOR SUSPECT

A man whom police are holding for investigation is going to be very wary of coincidences and the corner of Illinois and Maryland Sts. from now on. A burglary warrant was issued for him about eight months ago. A

KNOXVILLE, May 17.—Thousands of ccal miners in . “Bloody Harlan” County strode to their jobs with a firmer step today. Harlan County may no longer be bloody. Coal diggers, and children discovered yesterday the rights of free speech and assembly are real. They were reassured that these liberties had been reaffirmed under the Wagner Act. They held mass meetings yesterday in two “hot spots” in Harlan County. And there“ was hardly a gun thug in sight. The meetings, under auspices of United Mine Workers of America, drew nearly 10,000 persons to Benham, and another 5000 later in the day at Wallins. Men, women and children assembled from the far reaches of the county, and ranged along the steep hillsides that formed natural amphitheaters for both meetings.

Hear Union Speakers They heard William Turnblazer,

United Mine Workers District 19 president, tell of the La Folleite

few days later, Detective Sergeant Clifford Beeker found him about 8 | p. m. at that corner. But the man escaped. | Saturday night, the same scene, same time, same place, same. dra‘matis personae. Only this time Sergt. Beeker caught him. He is held today.

committee inquiry in Washington. They heard Sam Caddy, District 30

| president of the same union, recount | the struggle of the union'to get a

foothold in Kentucky. They cheered the news that Turnblazer and &

| scale committee will meet agents of |.

lthe Harlan County Coal Operators’

IN INDIANAPOLIS

MEETINGS TODAY

Indiana State Dental Association, vention, Claypool Hotel, all 3 i Republican Club, 5446!, E. Washington St.. 8 p. m. Salesmen Club, luncheon, Hotel Washington, noon. Cervus Club, meeting, Claypool Hotel, 2 p.m

con-

meeting.

P- ndiana University Club, luncheon, Co-

Jumbia Club, noon. : Scientech Club, Juncheon, Board of Trade,

noon. Service Club, luncheon, Hotel

Lincoln, noon. Building Owners and Managers, luncheon. Columbia Club. noon. Delta Upsilon, luncheon, Board of Tradez,

oon. R North Side Realtors, luncheon, Hotel Washington, noon.

MEETINGS TOMORROW

Indiana State Dental’ Association, convention, Claypool Hotel, ail day. Indianapolis Medical Society, Hotel Antlers. 8 p. m. oe Indiana Funeral Directors Association, convention, Indiana State Fairgrounds, all

meeting,

“Ai ha Tau Omega, luncheon, Board of Trade. no Gyro

"Mercator Club, luncheon, Columbia Club,

noon. Club. luncheon, Spink-Arms Hotel,

noon. : . Construction League of Indianapolis. luncheon, Architects and Builders Building, noon. : . University of Michigan Club, luncheon, Board of Trads2, no : Universal Club,

"Association, Hotel Washington, noon. Sigma Delta Kappa, Hotel shington, noon. ; We Psi, dinner, Hotel Washington, 6:30 p. m.

on. : . luncheon, Columbia

iuncheon,

luncheon,

BIRTHS

Girls : Eugene, Dorothea Wallace, at 149 S. De-

troit. bert, Maxine Abney. at 1264 Naomi. Romnd, Kathryn O'Haver, at St. Vin-

Lloyd. Ada Carter, at Coleman. Harold, Gladys Koehler, at Coleman, Boys . Gladys Davis, at 1517 Montana. Sire 2 Ella Mayes. at 1254 W, 26th. Lona, Clara Boling. at 1301 Lexington. Edward, Mary McGovern, at St. Vin-

ent’s. : , Ruth Farley, at St. Vincent's. Tou Margaret Skelley. at St. Vincent's. Chester, Dorothy Alfrey, at Coleman. William, Florence Bohanan, at Coleman Clinton, Evelyn Ginn. at Coleman: Isadore, Jess Silverman, at Coleman. Frie, Vada Sonnich, at Coleman.

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7 DEATHS

Jesse Tarleton Mooreman, . ment Circle, carcinoma. Kathryn Bryant, 19, at

eM 3:bert Ring. 41. at Long, uremia Martha G. Brown. 99, at 802 N. P % vania, cardiovascular renal disease. John Glenn, 53, at City, appendicitis. . Christopher tS Cherry, 69, at 820 S. : i carcinoma. : Shere - Ford, 58, at 404 W. 16th, Influenza

George J. Meyer, 64, at 4339 Winthrop. coronary thrombosis. : Robert Soutter Sinclair, 64, at 237 Spring Hollow Road, mitral insufficiency. Lula P. Carney, 71, at Cit chronic nephritis.

67, 121 Monu-

Coleman, tox-

nnsyl-

ity, i onrad Hittle, 72, at City, pyonephrosis. s v J . h

: Hubert Rumsey Burnett, 66, at Methodist. coronary occlusion. Harry B. Turner, 43, at Veterans’, cerebral hemorrhage. Helen S. Folkening. 62, at 5136 N. Capitol. lobar pneumonia. Martha Anna Taylor, 40, at City, acute myocarditis. Osta Parker Wilson. 74, at 5327 English

apoplexy. : Lena Wood. 44. af 2437 Rader,

| acute uremia. William L. Keethler. 67. at 957 S. Delaware, cerebral hemorrhage. Ralph Menke, 1, at Riley. pancreatic insufficiency. Frank Harding. 58, at 1508 Everett, carcinoma. Gertrude A. Wachstetter,- 40, at City, skull fracture. Jessie G. Reynolds. 51. at 279 N. Tremont, cerebral hemorrhage. Richard Spurlock, 49, at City, pneumonia,

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OFFICIAL WEATHER

United States Weather Bureau

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST—Fair today followed by increasing cloudiness tomorrow; not much: change in temperature.

Sunrise 4:28 | Sunset TEMPERATURE —May 17, 1936— Tom. 5... 82 BAROMETER . 30.09 p.m. .... 30.00

Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 a. m... Total precipitation since Jan. 1 Excess since Jan. 1

Indiana — Fair tonight; tomorrow fair, northeast increasing cloudiness west and south, followed by showers west portion by afternoon or night, not much change in temperature,

I¥inois — Generally fair north, cloudy south. showers southwest portion; cooler extreme northeast tonight; tomorrow showers. Lower Michigan—Fair tonight and tomorrow; somewhat cooler north: portion tonight. : Ohio—Fair tonight; tomorrow increasing cloudiness, possibly showers in extreme southwest portion in afternoon; not much change in temperature. Kentucky—Increasing cloudiness tonizht, probably followed by showers tomorrow and in extreme west portion late tonight; not much change in temperature. WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES AT 3 A. M. Station. Weather. Bar. Amarillo, Tex. ...:... Clear 29.92 Bismarck. N. D ...Cloudy Boston ss PICIdy Chicago ..Clear Cincinnati Cleveland, O. ... Denver iia Dodge City. Kas. Helena. Mont. Jagksonville, Kansas City, ve Little Rock. Ark. Los Angeles Miami, Fla. .......... Minneapolis Mobile, Ala. .. New Orleans ... New York ...... Okla, City. Okla, Omaha, Neb. Pittshurgh Portland, Ore. .. San Antonio, Tex San Francisco St. ouis

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lear 30.08 68 D.C. «s:..Clear = 20.92 64

their wives’

| Association here Thursday to nego- | tiate a contract. | The celebration was an “Emanci- | pation Day.” The scenes were in | sharp contrast to those a year ago. | Such assemblies would have brought | on pitched battles with coal com- | pany deputies. The leaders probably would have been arrested for “criminal syndicalism.” There | might have been kidnapings, bombings, house-raiding without warrants.

But yesterday the throng cheered union organizers, signed membership cards by the hundreds, drank beer, ate sandwiches, laughed at memories of nights of terror.

Sheriff Theodore Middleton, who

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$100,000, but stopped there because the “income tax man might be after me,” was not to be seen yesterday. Nor were any of his own or company deputies. Governor Chandler Saturday announced that State police would take the place of campany paid deputy sheriffs as peace officers in Harlan from now on. A squad of 25 was on hand, and there was no trouble. “Those deputies will have to put rocks in .their hip pockets to balance themselves, and they had better grab a pick and shovel, join the union and earn an honest living,” shouted Organizer Turnblazer. The crowds howled with glee. A year ago one Harlan operator

ran a union mine. Today there are

before the La Follette Committee | 26 locals with a membership of could remember an income up to 8000, according to Turnblazer.

Coatsville Farmer Conducts His Own Funeral and Awaits Death

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of his own plans. It also was responsible, he said, for the fact that he couldn’t find a collar to wear on the occasion of his sermon.

The Crowd apparently was larger than he expected. He had planned to be carried from the church to the cemetery in his coffin, but the

THREE SAMARITANS NIPPED BY SICK DOG

Seven Persons Bitten in City Over Week-End. .

Seven persons were bitten by dogs here over the week-end. Mrs. Anna Mullin, 38; of 1149 S. West St.,, took her dog to Engine House 4, telling firemen it was ill. Three firemen were bitten while attempting to give it medicine. They were James Kennington, 428 W. Morris St. bitten on both hands; George Gaughan, 246 W. Morris St., bitten on the right hand, and Emil Windmoller, 960 S. West St., bitten on the right hand. The dog, died shortly afterward. Dr. C. F. Stout, 1430 N. Capitol Ave., veterinarian, said if examination proved the dog. rabid, the firemen and Mrs. Mullins’ three children would be given the Pasteur treat- ! ment. The children, none of whom was bitten, are Arthur, 17; John, 14, and Joseph, 11. Others who were bitten yesterday included Elmer McNeely, 43, of 1454 Hiatt St., bitten on the right hand; George Patterson, 39, 678 E. St. Clair St., bitten on the right hand; Henry Keene, 36, of 129 S. West St., bitten on the right hip and treater at City Hospital, and Catherine Reed, 5, of 2133 Beecher St. bitten on the left leg and treated at City Hospital.

RAND TRIAL CONTINUED By United Press HARTFORD, Conn. May 17.— Trial of James H. Rand Jr, and Pearl Berghoff on charges of transporting strike-breakers across state lines in violation of the Byrnes act was continued today by Federal Judge Edwin S. Thomas until June 2.

Smoke and Fire

like new.

House 27. had made a wreck of the freshlylaundered curtains, had badly damaged the new stove and that flames had destroyed the furniture. They said it was one of the worst smoke fires they ever had seen. It had started between the walls from

press of the crowd prevented it. He compromised by posing for photographers with his hand on the hand-hewn coffin which rested beside him on the altar. The tombstone, imported from Switzerland, he had exhibited proudly in the church cemetery while he waited impatiently for his audience to arrive. Only the insistence of the pastor, the Rev. L. P. Sample, kept him from starting his sermon early. The Rev. Mr. Sample and the audience co-operated with an 88-minute prayer and the hymn, “When They Call the Roll Up Yonder I'll Be There.” Millman’s voice was too feeble to carry to those outside. He became aware of this toward the end, and finished hurriedly with a quotation; = “Let me die unremembered, “Let me lie in my grave unmolested.” : .

STRIPS GYPSY ROSE OF SPOTLIGHT NAME

By United I’ress HOLLYWOOD, May 17.—Gypsy

Pose Lee has been stripped of her name. She will be billed in the movies as Louise Hovick, the name with which she was born, and she will be henceforth “exploited as g dramatic actress.” The announcement was made by Darryl F. Zanuck, production chief at 20th Century-Fox Studio, who braved severe criticism from reform elements by signing the New York strip-tease artist of New York's burlesque houses to a movie contract.

6713 HERE PETITION FOR COURT CHANGE

Times Special WASHINGTON, May 17.—Printed petitions, two feet long and carrying 6713 signatures of Marion County voters, have been mailed here from the Indianapolis City Hall in support of the President's court plan. They were addressed to Senators VanNuys and Minton and Reps.

Louis Ludlow and William H. Larrabee.. 2 7

Make Mose of

~ Week's Housecleaning Efforts

Mrs. M. O. Roberts surveyed the ruin of her spring house-cleaning today and decided she'd have to do it all over again. She went to a movie Saturday night to relax after a strenuous week of having curtains laundered, buying a new stove, having furniture redecorated, and otherwise making her home at 1219 Parker Ave., look

Returning shortly after midnight, she met fire engines from Engine

Firemen found smoke?

defective -wiring, they said, and had been smouldering a long time in the

house Mrs. Roberts had locked up pit tightly against the dust of the city. tn : Damage was ‘estimgted at - $2000.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES. _

rio to Take Part in Youth Pageant

PROPOSED NEW MUSEUM SITE IS PROTESTED

60 Property Owners Sign Petition Presented to Zoning -Board.

Property owners between 38th and 34th Sts, on both sides of Washington Blvd., today presented a petition to the Zoning Board requesting that the proposed site for the Children’s Museum at 3619-37 Washington Blvd. be refused.

The petition, signed by more than 60, objected to the location on the grounds that it would depreciate the value of the surrounding property. Mrs. Genevieve K. Wells, 3620 Washington Blvd., and Faderick Terry, 3612 Washington Blvd, were originators of the plea in behalf of the property owners. Mrs. Wells said she did not think it reasonable in view of “the many other locations for the museum in the city which would not interfere with the value of the property of others.” The proposed museum site was donated by William Rockwood several weeks ago. William F. Fox Jr. now" lives in the former Rockwood residence which adjoins the property. He said today, ‘Residents and property owners in the heighborhood of the proposed site are objecting strenuously to the location:

| of the museum for several reasons.

Urges Central Location

“In the first place, it is hardly an ideal location inasmuch as the museum is to minister to the cultural wants of children living in the east, west and south sides of the city. A more - central location certainly would be of greater value to all children of the community. “Naturally the property owners are concerned too with the depreciation in the value of-their real estate which would be created by the location of any institution of a public character. For that reason more than 60 property owners have signed a petition asking that the Zoning Board refuse the plea of the museum’s executives for a variance from existing zoning restrictions.” A hearing was to be held by the Zoning Board in City Hall at 3:30 p. m. today.

Object to Leasing of Municipal Gardens

Approximately 100 persons representing 35 civic organizations met in L. S. Ayres’ Auditorium this morning to protest the leasing of Municipal Gardens to Louie Lowe,

local band leader and attorney. The basis of the complaint against the lease is that liquor will be sold on the premises, the protesters said. “Our women will not go in there and sit on beer kegs to hold our meetings,” said Mrs. W. H. Hodgson, vice chairman of the group. Petitions protesting the lease were signed by 505 persons, leaders said. Today’s meeting was sponsored by the Municipal Gardens Women's Department Club. . The group voted to call on the Park Board at its regular meeting Thursday. : Roscoe Conkle of the West Michigan Street Business and Professional Men’s Club was elected permanent chairman.

DUKE, WALLIS READY T0 ANNOUNCE DATE

Wedding Set for First Week In June, Is Belief.

By United Press MONTS, France, May 17.—The Duke of Windsor and Mrs. Wallis Warfield intend to announce their wedding plans tomorrow afternoon, and it was believed certain they had sclected a day during the first week of June for the ceremony. Herman L. Rogers, who with his wife entertained Mrs. Warfield at Cannes after her flight from London during the abdication crisis, is to make the announcement as their spokesman at the Chateu de Cande here. The Duke, Mrs. Warfield, Mr. and Mrs. Rogers and Lieut. Dudley Forwood, the Duke's equerry, were dinner guests last night of Mr. and Mrs. Grafton Winthrop Minot of France and New York at their Chateau d'Azay, d'Azay-sur-Indre near here.

Wallis Renounces Name of ‘Bessie’

By United I’ress LONDON, May 17.—Mrs. Wallis Warfield announced in The Daily Telegraph today that she has dropped the “Bessie” as well as the “Simpson” from her name. ™ Said the notice in the Telegraph: “Notice is hereby given that by deed poll dated the 7th May 1937, Wallis Warfield, formerly of 5, Bryanston Court, in the County of London, now residing at the Chateau de Cande at Monts in the Province of Indres et Loire, France, formerly Bessie Wallis Simpson, have renounced and abandoned my Christian name Bessie and have also renounced and abandoned by surname of Simpson, and, in lieu of such surname have assumed the surname Warfield. Dated this 14th

May 1937. : y (Signed) “Wallis Warfield.”

Substitute for Old AAA Evolved by Farm Leaders, Agriculture Department

Six-Point Program Would Employ Flexible Tariff On Imports, Guarantee Stabilized Prices, by EverNormal Granary; Provide Control of Production.

By United Press

WASHINGTON, May 17.—Farm leaders and

the Department of Agri-

culture today completed a six-point farm legislative program to take the

place of the old AAA.

Department of Agriculture officials and officers of the American Farm Bureau Federation were reported in “substantial agreement” on the program and the only point of difference was the cost. The program would employ the principle of the flexible tariff on agricultural imports, guarantee farmers and consumers stabilized prices

through an ever-normal granary,

and provide a positive control of production. Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace and AAA Administrator H. R. Tolley insisted that the program be held to the approximate annual cost of the present Soil Conserservation Act, $550,000,000. Other estimates of the cost ranged from $500,000,000 to $800,000,000 a year. Secretary Wallace told the conferees that the Administration would not agree to such a figure in view of President Roosevelt's economy - program. The program which the ferees placed before the House Agriculture Committee today included: 1. A declaration of policy to the effect that elimination of wide variations in farm prices would be in the interests of producers, consumers and processors. 2. Continuation of the soil conservation program with benefit payments reduced by 35 to 50 per cent. 3. Commodity. loans on corn, wheat, cotton, rice and tobacco when surpluses threaten to lower prices. : 4. Additional soil conservation payments similar to the old AAA payments when production exceeds demand to encourage further crop reductions. : 5. Compulsory production control through a prohibitive tax on noncomplying farmers in case heavy production threatens to swamp markets. 6. Authority for the automatic heightening or lowering of import duties on farm products to prevent domestic farm prices from going too far above or below the “parity” prices to be established by the Secretary of Agriculture. =

Crop Insurance Omngitted

The bill would not include the crop insurance program, already approved by the Senate and now before the House Agriculture Committee. Agriculture officials said, however, that the insurance program would be “dove-tailed in with the new program.” The House Agriculture Committee first called Edward A. O'Neal. president of the American Farm Bureau Federation. : Others from farm organizations included R. E. Short, Arkansas rice growers; J. E. Winslow, North Carolina, tobacco; O. D. Wolf, Kansas, on wheat, and Earl C..Smith, president of the Illinois Agriculture Association.

Urges Favorable Action

Mr. Smith urged the committee to take favorable action on the measure in the interests of national economy, pointing out that estimates showed the new program would cost between $287,000,000 and $776,000,000. He said that the Agriculture Department estimated average payments at $372,000,000 which would be less than the $500,000.000 cost of the soil conservation program. ? Mr. Smith explained that the new parity program would not eliminate the Soil Conservation Act except as to Class 1 benerit payments to farmers on the principal commodities, which are cotton, wheat, corn. rice and tobacco. He said the farmer's participation in the new program would b= entirely voluntary and “not a bribe.” : “The bill would keep prices ron being depressed when farmers proEh a soma Mr. Smith exlained. p Dairy Industry Left Out Mr. Smith and Rep. J. Boileau (P. Wis.) engaged in a sharp question and answer interchange over why the dairy industry is not included in the program. “I never knew dairy farmers to agree ‘to any kind of control program,” Mr. Smith said. “I don’t think dairying is geared to this kind of a program. : “If you stabilize feed and grain prices, you will eventually stabilize hogs, cattle and dairy products anyhow.” : Mr. Smith conceded that production control - could be authorized under the program when necessary. “If the program is effectively administered, the cost would not be in excess of what Congress is now spending,” he said. Mr. O'Neal, after the hearing recessed until tomorrow, asserted that he would attempt to have Secretary Wailace appear before the group to explain the bill. : Mr. O’Neal said that Frederic P. Lee, his group's attorney, would discuss legal phases of the program. Mr. Lee told reporters he felt the program was constitutional since it was based on control of commodities moving in interstate commerce. But he added laughingly, “Nobody knows what is constitutional until a decision is made.” CLUB TO HEAR ENG'NEER Nels E. Hehner, Prest-O-Lite Co. engineer is to describe the manufacture and development oi storage batteries before the Universal Club tomorrow noon in the Columbia Club.

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STATE WORKERS WILL BE ‘RATED

Governor Asks Tabulation Showing Individual Efficiency.

Governor Townsend today established a system of “efficiency rating” as a basis for employment for the State. He asked all division heads to make a thorough study of

the functions and performances of each employee and to establish an efficiency rating list. The Governor said he started conferences with executives of the efficiency rating system and that some changes in personnel would be expected soon. Under the system, each division head will draw up a list of his employees and establish an efficiency rating for each one. The Governor also announced that he told division heads that employees addicted to habitual drinking would not be retained by the State. “We want to establish consistent, efficient standards for employment with the State,” the Governor said. - en

CHURCHES OF CHRIST START CONVENTION

Leaders to Speak at 98th Meeting in Ft. Wayne.

By United Press FT. WAYNE, Ind, May 17.—Addresses by two church leaders are to feature the 98th annual state

convention of Churches of Christ;

which opens here tonight. Dr. Edgar Dewitt Jones, pastor of Central Woodward Christian

[Church in Detroit and president of the Federal Council of Churches

of CHrist in America, is to speak tomorrow morning and evening. Dr. Hugh Thompson Kerr, Pittsburgh, formerly moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly, is to speak at the closing session Wednesday night. Seven hundred, ministers and laymen are expected to attend conferences and general sessions. The Rev. W. E. Carroll, Indianapolis, state president, is to preside. Many Indiana ministers will speak. The Butler University chorus will sing.

20,000 PAY TRIBUTE TO HOSPITAL'S WORK

By United Press : MARION, May 17.—Approximately 20,000 persons yesterday paid tribute to the work of caring for veterans wounded in the World War at the fifth annual Hospital Day ‘obseryance held at the United States Veterans Hospital here. The principal address .was delivered. by Governor Townsend, who lauded the hosiptal faculty and re-

viewed the benefits of Federal hospitals. !

GIRL SHOT TO DEATH Miss Gertrude Mae Pdlmer, 18, Negro, 1234 W. 26th St., was found shot dead at her home today. Mrs. Bessie Holley, 34, a stepsister, told police Miss Palmer evidently had shot herself. The coroner was investigating.

GIRL FUGITIVE SOUGHT

Police today were seeking a girl giving her name as Mary Lou Collins, 17, Knoxville, Tenn., who, they were told, escaped from the Guardians’ Home for the second time since she was taken there last week,

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HOLD MOTHER OF 8-YEAR-OLD SLAIN IN EAST

Authorities Arrest Woman At Nursery Where She Kept Children.

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burned while conscious. The boy was found 135 feet from where hig sister’s body lay. Mrs. Tiernan first said that a strange man attacked her while she and the children were picnicking in the woods. Police doubted the story and continued questioning her until she confessed, they said.

Youths Shot as Deaf Father Reads Paper

By United Press CHICAGO, May 17.—William J. Callahan explained to police today how he sat in his parlor reading his newspaper while in the room above him bullets from a 22-caliber target pistol ended the lives of his two ‘teen-aged sons. He knew nothing of their deaths until after a third son, Robert, 9, discovered the bodies of Thomas, 18, ang William, 16, sprawled on the ed. Police Capt. Chester Crosby said he was investigating four theories: 1. That William and Thomas were murdered. 2. That they died in a suicide pact. 3. That one of the youths murdered his brother and then come mitted suicide. 3 : 4. That one accidentally killed the other, then tcok his own life in fright or grief. Motives were lacking. William and Thomas were honor students in Riverside High School of Brooke field, Chicago suburb, where they lived. : William apparently had died first, and was laid out on the bed. His spectacies - were spattered with blood, apparently because he was wearing them when he died. When his body was found, the spectacles had been placed carefully on the top of his dresser. Thomas was still wearing his spectacles when he was found. : The elder Callahan said he went inte the parlor early in the evening, before William and Thomas. went to their room.- His deafness is so complete he could not have heard the shots, he said. .

Confession Claimed in Deaths of Three.

By United Press CHICAGO, May 17.—Emanuel Anderson, 35-year-old Negro, today confessed the murders of three women in Memphis, Tenn. police announced. : Anderson signed a waiver of exe tradition. He told how he had assaulted and killed the women, one of whom was white, police said. The slayings occurred more than a year ago, police said. Seven detectives, clad in bulletproof vests, crashed into Anderson's South Side apartment and took him without a struggle. They reported there were no weapons in the room. He had been identified through Engerprints taken in connection with a minor offense.

Extradition of Slayer Suspect Sought

By United Press POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y.. May 17. —Efforts of three states to obtain

| custody of 23-year-old Lester Brock- | elhurst, confessed triple slayer, were | carried directly to Governor Lehman today. An extradition hearing was scheduled for: this afternoon. The hearing will follow a confer ence with representatives of Arkansas, Illinois and Texas, Ww. seek the youth on murder charges. Araignment of Brockelhurst a his 18-year-old companion, Bernic Felton, was adjourned indefinitely pending action on extradition. Boy and Girl Face Death as Slayers By United Press ? JERSEY CITY, N. J.. May 17.— Prosecutor Daniel T. O'Regan today demanded the death penalty for Gladys MacKnight, 17, and Donald Wightman, 18, charged with hacking the girl's mother to death. with a hatchet. Mrs. Helen MacKnight, 48, was killed in her Bayonne, N. J., home last July after a quarrel with her caughter and the girl's sweetheart. In her confession, signed by the girl and Wightman, Miss MacKnight said she struck her mother while the youth held her arms.

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