Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 January 1938 — Page 7

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 19, 1938

CRIME WAVE IN CITY MARKED BY THEFT, HOLDUPS

Police Launch Drive to Curb Night Depredations; Stores Robbed.

Night shift policemen today planned means to stop a small crime wave which gathered momentum last night with reports of several minor thefts. Breaking out the front door glass,

thieves entered a poolroom in the 1600 block E. Washington St. and took about $22 in cash and some cigarets value at $13, Woodrow Skirvin, 249 S. State Ave. propri‘etor, told police. Hubert Sanders, 46, R. R. 6, Box 73, manager of a grocery at 606 N. Illinois St, was robbed of $20 by an armed bandit yesterday.

Pharmacist Held Up After ordermg some notebook paper, a Negro customer drew a gun on Gustay Grahn, 63, owner of a drug store at 1249 Cornell Ave., and took $10, he reported. An undetermined amount of

money was taken from the cash drawer of a liquor store at 402 Indiana Ave, by an armed thug, Mel Mock, 37, of 3724 Graceland Ave, store manager, told police. Mrs. Vera Ellsbury, 47, of 2906 Manlove Ave, victim of a purse snatcher who siugged her last night, today was recovering from head inJuries, The thief hit her and grabbed her purse containing $13 as she was walking through Douglas Park, she told police. Two young men, slipped up behind her last night and grabbed her purse as she walked along Pennsylvania St. near St. Clair St.,, Miss Avanelle Clark, 32, of 1005 N. Pennsylvania St, told police.

Empty Purse Returned

A repenting thief who recently stole a purse belonging to Mrs. Maybelle Troutman, 1910 Broadway, returned it to her yesterday and put it on the mail box. The money was missing however, About half a quart of milk was the only thing William Kettner, 47, of 1551 Carrollton Ave, could find missing from his home, which had been ransacked by intruders. He said entrance had been gained by breaking the glass in the bathroom window. Investigating a noise in the front room of her apartment, Mrs. Carl Kern, 1404 Broadway, saw & clothes prop dangling close to her purse on the davenport. Someone from the outside was trying to hook it. Her screams scared the thief away, she told police.

Liquor Store Robbed

Police today sought two armed men who held up a liquor store at 3014 W. 10th St., and took $21 and a pint of whisky. Alvin Luzar, 23, of 216 N. Haugh St., told officers he was alone in the store last night when two men en- | tered. While one bandit covered | him with & gun, the other took the | money from & cash drawer, he said. The store is owned by Frank Lugar, 1238 N. Holmes Ave. father of Alvin Luzar.

I. U. PSYCHOLOGIST TO ADDRESS COUNCIL

Dr. C. M. Louttit, Indiana University psychologist clinics director, is to address the Community Club Leaders Council at 6:30 p. m, tomorrow at Izba Inn, 2133 N. Meridian St. His subject is to be “The Infiuence of Club Work on Individual Personality.” The council is sponsored by the Jewish Community Center.

RITE CHOIR TO SING

The Scottish Rite Choir, directed by Oliver W. Pickhardt, is to give a concert at Southport Presbyterian Church Jan. 26, it was announced today.

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Preparing Posters for Birthday Bal l

LEGION WOMEN HEADS TO MEET

Executive Committee Is to Draft Program of 1938 Activities.

The national executive committee of the American Legion Auxiliary is to meet here at national headquarters Saturday and Sunday to arrange the organization's 1938 activities program, it was announced today. Committee members from every state and insular possession and national officers, are to attend. Mrs. Malcolm Douglas, Seattle, national president, is to preside, Preliminary meetings will begin Thursday with the national executive committee meeting scheduled for Saturday morning in the Indiana War Memorial main auditorium. Opening addresses will be made by Mrs, Douglas, Daniel J. Doherty, American Legion National Commander, and Frank E. Samuel, the Legion's National Adjutant. The committee members and national officers will be guests at a dinner at the Indianapolis Athletic Club Saturday night.

sion today announced open competitive examinations for the following positions: Fire co-operation specialist, U, S. Forest Service, $3800 a year and principal plant physiologist, Bureau of Plant Industry, $5600 a year. Information may be obtained from C. P. Bernhart, local secretary, 421 Federal Bldg.

EXAMINATIONS ARE OPEN |

The U. 8S. Civil Service Commis- |

Art students are shown preparing posters for coms= petition in the President's Birthday Ball poster contest. They are (left to right): Donald Haines, Joan Eccles, Albert Herrmann and Virginia Mills. young Marion County artists are entering the competition, which is to be judged by Mrs. Felix T.

Many test.

EVANS WOOLLEN IS ART GROUP LEADER

Evans Woollen today had been reelected president of the Indianapolts Art Association following a meeting of the board of directors yesterday at the John Herron Art Museum, Other officers also were re-elected. They include: Mrs. Addison OC, Harris and Dr. G, H. A. Clowes, vice president; Mrs. James W. Fesler, secretary, and Oscar P. Welborn, treasurer. The Art Association grew fom 536 to 700 members in 1937, according to the annual report of Wilbur D, Peat, director of the museum,

FALL VICTIM IMPROVES

William S. Crumpton, 47, of 1601 Cottage Ave, was in St. Vincent's

Hospital with a showder injury received yesterday when he fell 35feet from a scaffold at the Lockefield Gardens housing project, Hospital attaches described Mr. Crumpton's condition as “fair.”

MeWhirter, Mrs. P. O. Reilly, Jack Rhoades and the Rev. Jean 8. Milner. ond and third, $5 each. Any Marion County boy or girl between 14 and 23 is eligible to enter the conDeadline is Monday. 129 E. Market St.

Prizes are: first, $15, and sec-

Entries are accepted at

ASKS CO-OPERATION IN FIGHT ON TAXES

Books Flays State for Its 25 Million Surplus.

Co-operation between business

groups against rising taxes had been urged today by William H. Book, Chamber of Commerce executive vice president. In a speech yesterday before the Rotary Club at the Claypool Hotel, he condemned the State Government for piling up a surplus and not reducing property taxes. “No government has the right to raise more taxes than are needed, thus creating a surplus, especially when private business is showing a deficit,” he declared. “The State has piled up a $25,000,000 surplus. That is not right, for to do so is to take out of circulation dollars badly needed by those who pay their own private and business bills.”

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PEANUT LEADS TO BOY'S DEATH

16-Month-0ld Child Dies After Complications Follow Operation.

Funeral arrangements were being completed at Logansport today for 16-mnoths-old Daniel Dodrill, who died at Riley Hospital here follow« ing an operation for removal of a peanut from his throat, He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lavoyda Dodrill, Logansport. The baby swallowed the peanut Monday afternoon, On the advice of Dr. W. W. Holmes he was rushed here by automobile. Although the operation was successful and the child improved, complications later caused death, The father is a WPA worker. Survivors besides the parents are four sisters, Frances, Nina, Cathe erine and Sylvia Belle Dodrill, and three brothers, Frank, Cecil and John Dodrill,

2D TOWN MEETING TO BE HELD ON FEB. 1

“Chords and Discords,” second of the Town Meeting Talk series at George Washington High School, is to be presented at the school on Feb. 1. “Telltale Talkies,” or “What Are the Current Books?” was presented last night by English department members. Miss Elizabeth Martie Smith, department head, reviewed Clarence Day's “Life With Mother”; Frank A. Luzer reviewed “High Heart,” a short story by Ben Ames Williams, and Miss Bess Wright discussed Maxwell Anderson's curs rent plays. Miss Myrtle Johnson discussed Robert Frost's poems.

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