Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 March 1938 — Page 18
TEACHER SUES TO REGAIN JOB:
‘SEEKS $3600
Liora Dollarhide Names “Trustee and Township Under Tenure Act.
"The second local suit charging a township trustee with violation of the Teacher Tenure Act, was on file taday in Superior Court 4. .-It. was filed by Llora Dollarhide, who declared that Charles M. Walker, Warren Township Trustee, had failed and refused to employ her after she had taught in the township schools for seven consecutive 7ears. She asked reinstatement and 600 damages. She declared she gained tenure rights when she signed a contract for the sixth consecutive year. Warren School Township also was named a defendant. John Linder, Marion County attorney, said that, in his opinion, - Miss Dollarhide was not eligible under the tenure act.
First Employed in 1928
Miss Dollarhide said she first entered into contract with Warren Township in the fall of 1928, and that for six consecutive years she was re-employed. She Said she never has given up her right§ or privileges as a permanent teacher, and that nothing has occurred to divest her of those rights. She said she was ready and able to teach during the school years 1935-1936, 1936-1937 and 19371938, and that on Feb. 28, 1938, she _ notified Mr. Walker she was ready and willing to teach. She said he failed to accept her offer.
Suits Follow Court Verdict
She said further no charges ever have been preferred against her, or - any ‘hearing held or finding made against her. On Feb. 19, Miss Phyllis Shepard, a teacher in the Wayne Township schools, filed suit to force Herbert Pa, trustee, to reinstate
- Both suits follow a recent United States Supreme Court decision that under the tenure act township teachers in Indiana cannot be discharged. The U. S. decision was in the case of Dorothy Anderson, a Wabash teacher. Philip Lutz Jr, former Indiana Attorney General, is attorney for both plaintiffs in ‘the local suits.
MURDER TESTIMONY GIVEN ON STRETCHER
VINCENNES, March 1 (U. P.).— Mrs. Edna Taylor, 32-year-old widow of Harry Taylor, today will continue her testimony from a stretcher in front of the jury box in the trial of John N. Bey, charged with the murder of her husband last August. : Mrs. Taylor, suffering from influenza and a collapse since the tragedy, took the stand yesterday and testified how the 72-year-old retired businessman shot and killed her husband in front of their home during an argument over a bushel of tomatoes. Mrs. Taylor related to the jury how Mr. Bey fired from a distance of 10 feet, then advanced to his side as he lay on the ground and fired a second shot.
CHURCHES APPOINT NEW STUDY GROUP
«A study group for the Indiana Council of Churches had been a} pointed today “Dr. C. A. McPheeters, North M. E. Church pastor and president of the Indiana State Pastors’ Conference announced the appointments following a survey committee meeting yesterday. Members of the study group include Eugene C. Foster, Indianapolis; W..S. Barnhart, Indianapolis; H. C. Armstrong, Anderson; R. R. Hirschman, Indianapolis; W. C. Nelsen Indianapolis; - Bishop Gray, Mishel Alvin T. Coate, IndianO. F. Hall, Lafayette; W. | spos: Indianapolis, and Simon. PB. Bennett, Muncie.
PHONE COMPANY © VETERAN RESIGNS
H. E. Reeves, 640 Eastern Ave. hig took his first telephone job at Ft. Dogige, Towa, in 1891, retired today as switchman in the LincolnRiley office of the Indiana Bell Te le‘phone Co. In September, 1900, Mr. Reeves joined the Central Union Telephone = at Terre Haute as a central office repairman, and served for a time in Brazil and Columbus. -- He was transferred to Indianapolis with the Indianapolis Telephone Co. in 1916. When the Indiana Bell
was organized in April, 1920, he be-|
“came a toll wire chief. Since then ‘he has been a toll testman, central office repairman and switchman.
GOSHEN STRIKE ENDS AT RUBBER COMPANY
“The Indiana Labor Division today announced. settlement of the threeoN strike of 550 employees at the Western Rubber Co., Goshen. “The strike was called Friday by the United Rubber Workers’ Union, a C. I. O. affiliate, The’ ‘setlement ~ jncluded union recognition and a 5hourly wage increase, the Diaon announced.
Coeds Invade Engineering Ranks
Intricacies of engineering hold no terror for at least two Purdue University coeds, who are invading man’s last academic stronghold. Miss Phyllis Shake (left), Indianapolis, and Miss Jeanne Chandler, Chicago, are putting their dreams \of a new engine or perhaps a modern skyscraper, down on paper with their slide-rules.
Rotary Club Hears Stories of
Indianapolis Rotarians listened to “ghost” stories today. Dr. Henry -C. McComas, Johns Hopkins University psychology professor, who believes “a seance is more exciting than hunting wild game,” introduced “Ghosts I Have Talked ~ With. ”
He told the club of his search for® the “best medium in the business.” Y ol N e T 0 SPE AK
In Lily Dale, N. Y., he found one Co-operative Hears Talks on
who could make a trumpet float around the room, flick the spectaHybrid Seed Corn and Credit Union.
tors and then speak in a little girl's shrill voice. “Some of the best scientists witnessed the feat and were frankly puzzled,” Dr. McComas said. “We tried every trick we knew to expose him but not until we placed a stethoscope to his throat and showed he was ‘the voice’ were we able to do so.” Dr. McComas is the author of several books and magazine articles.
BOTTS CASE WILL 60 T0 SUPREME GOURT
Judge Overrules Two Damage Claims at Kokomo.
Dr. E. C. Young of the Purdue University Farm Management division is to discuss “The Place of Co-operatives in Our Economic Scheme” before members of the Indiana Farm Bureau Co-operative Association at Hotel: Lincoln tonight. The association is holding its annual meeting today and tomorrow. Four other speakers were to appear .today. Prcf. Keller Beeson of Purdue was to speak on “Hybrid Seed Corn in Indiana.” LeRoy Eppley and Lewis Wehb were to discuss “Credit Union Development.” M. J. Briggs was to talk on “Co-operative Financial Structure.”
NEW FEDERAL WING TO HAVE JAIL CELLS
Steel Walls ‘Being Erected; FBI Will Use One.
KOKOMO, March 1 (U. P.).—Attorneys for Mrs. Louise Botts of Brazil, who served 13 . months in prison for forgeries she did not commit, announced today the would carry to the Indiana Supreme Court their fight to collect $75,000 damages for alleged malicious prosecution. Circuit Judge Joseph Herron yesterday sustained demurrers which in effect overruled damage suits of $50,000 and $25,009 filed by Mrs. Botts and her husband, William, against witnesses who testified for the State at her trial. Judge Herron ruled that the couple would have to allege wit-
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nesses committed perjury or were guilty of collusion. Even then it would be difficult to prove the allegations in view of the circumstances, the ruling pointed out. Mrs. Botts was wrongfully imprisoned upon conviction of the forgery charge in 1934. Later she was pardoned when the forgeries c¢ontinued while she was in prison and authorities obtained a confession from another woman who resembled Mrs. Botts.
| WARNER ROBBED OF $30,000 IN MIAMI
Burglar Carefully Selects Gems of Movie Magnate.
MIAMI BEACH, Fla., March 1 (U. P—Detectives today hunted for an experienced thief who stole jewelry valued at $90,000 from a bed-
room in the ocean-front home of Maj. Albert Warner, motion picture executive. The theft occurred while Maj. Warner and his wife were asleep in a second-floor bedroom, ; The thief took the 13 most valuable pieces of jewelry from a dresser drawer and, ignored three pieces of costume jewelry. He left no fingerprints, police said.
POLICE TAKE BODY OF MAN FROM CANAL
The body of an unidentified man apparently 40 to 50 years old, was pulled from the Canal by police in the 600 block of W. Market St. today.
STOVE BLAST BURNS BOY NEWCASTLE, March 1 (U. P.)— William Henry Smith, 6-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Smith, was in Henry County Hospital today with first-degree burns received when he attempted to build a fire in a stove at his home with kerosene. The stove exploded.
Workmen were placing heavy steel bars on windows and erecting heavy steel walls in two rooms for a new
jail at the Federal Building today. Two cells, one for women and one for men, are being constructed on the second floor opposite the U. S. Marshal's office. Another is being built on the third floor for prisoners in custody of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Court attaches said the second floor cells are to be used for prisoners brought from the county jail to await trial or arraignment. No provisions are being made for overnight stays. However, the new jail will have cots and other conveniences. The contractor for the new wing on the Federal building said the two cells, the largest to be 16 feet square, will cost about $1000.
BIG FOUR ENGINEER QUITS AFTER 44 YEARS
Lon Weaver was resting today. Yesterday he stepped from the cab of his Big Four passenger train at Union Station and ended 44 years of service. For 39 years he has been at the throttle of the engine on the Peoria, Ill, to Indianapolis run. Mr. Weaver lives at 215 N. Pershing St. He and Mrs. Weaver are planning to take “some kind of trips.”
GLENN TO TALK AT ¢Y’
Clarence L. Glenn, National Recreation Association director, is to speak before the Bible Investigation Club at 6 p. m. tomorrow at the Y. M. C. A. on “What Would You Like to Do, and Why?”
Dr. Bruce Kershner of Butler Uni-|
versity is to talk on “The Messiahship of Jesus.”
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$1500 OHIO BEER FEE IS BLOCKED BY COURT ORDER
Levy on Protests of 35 Distributors.
Enforcement of the $1500 annual
issuance of a fem Pleas Court yesterday.
tion was set for next Tuesday. The action was filed by 35 Ohio | distributors. Meanwhile. Hugh A. Barnhart, Indiana Excise Director, reported no further word had been received from Missouri authorities, who last week threatened to follow Michi-
on Indiana beer. The Indiana Brewers Association
the U. 8. Supreme Court, claiming it ‘involves an unconstitutional restraint: of interstate trade. : Officigls in all these states said the Indiana port-of-entry system
of their beer here. Indiana was among 10 states} against which Michigan placed an embargo, but Missouri was not included in the list.- Mr. Barnhart pointed out that Missouri authorities, however, have threatened action against Michigan, claiming discrimination against their products in that state. Following the Michigan action, the Indiana Alcoholic Beverages Commission placed a boycott against all Michigan alcoholic beverages. The bans of both: states are to go into effect March 14.
tional license fee gould be to “dry up” Indiana wholesale outlets in that state, brewers here said.
3 KILLED, 5 HURT INMYSTERY BLAST
$65,000 Fire Follows, Periling Business District.
"BATH, Me., March 1 (U. P).—A mysterious explosion demolishecl a block long garage here today, kiliing three ironworkers and injuring five other persons. Fire followed and raged for three hours. The dead were Henry E. Fuller, 22, Upham, and Arthur J. Ward, 35, Bath, and a man named Fuller. En route to the Bath Iron Works, they were killed instantly as they were walking by the garage, a twostory brick structure in the business district, owned by Chester A. Plant. Patrolman Robert Green, patrolling his beat n2arby, was among the injured. The garage was transformed into blazing ruins but firemen saved wooden dwellings on either side. Thirty new automobiles stored on the second floor of the garage were ruined, increasing total loss to an estimated $65,000. Thousands of windows within a quarter-mile radius were shattered.
PICKS JAIL LOCK WITH BROKEN BULB
SHOALS, March 1 (U. P)— Martin County authorities today sought John Wills, 37, Indianapolis Negro, who picked the lock on his jail cell door with a broken light bulb. and escaped last night. Officers said Wills, held on a charge of robbing a Loogootee clothing store, broke through a plaster wall into a spare bedroom of the Sheriff's residence adjoining the jail, then dropped to the ground from a second-story window.
RIES IS NAMED HEAD OF OLD TIMER CLUB.
George Ries has been elected president of the Old Timers Club, composed of Kroger Grocery Co. employees. A. C. Hasche was named vice president; Walter Strange, secretary, and Ralph Middleton, treasurer. The club has 96 members.
3000 END SILK STRIKE MILWAUKEE, Wis, March 1 (U. P.).—Voting down a proposal to strike in protest against wage reductions, 3000 hosiery workers today
Holeproof plants here.
Order Temporarily Restrains
fee on Ohio distributors handling| Indiana beer today had been blocked, at least for a week, through : order by a Columbus, O., Common ;
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The City Street Department is 45 days behind- schedule in closing the streets because of bad weather conditions, Fred Eisenhut, City Many streets appear like the one
~Street Commissioner, said today. above.
In answer to complaints on dirty streets received by the Works Board and Street Department, Mr. Eisenhut said that “all available men and equipment will be assigned to Cleaning Just as soon as the
weather permits.”
There are 100 men in the street department, 40 assigned to the mile square and 60 to .the outlying districts normal weather conditions: can clean the 1440 miles of -gutters
in the city once each 15 days.
it HOOSIERS INPARTY FOR GUATEMALA TRIP
: Gottschalks and Brennans “In State Officials’ Group.
" Indiana Weitare Director Thur‘man Gottschalk and Budget Di- |} ‘rector ‘Edward P, Brennan are to ; head ‘a party of State officials and |& their wives leaving Saturday for a vacation in Guatemala. Others in the party are Dr. and Mrs. C. L. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie A. Cortner and daughter,
Betty, Mr. ‘and Mrs. John M. Rotz, Mrs. Gottschalk and Mrs. Brennan.
The party is to leave New Orleans,
port State Hospital superintendent, Mr. Cortner, Knightstown ChileM ‘Home superintendent. Mr. ‘Rotz is an Indianapolis engineering company executive. :
LAWYER DUELS WITH CLIENT PARIS, March 1 (U. P.).—Jacques Renouvin, Paris lawyer, was insulted when his client, Rene Houdas, put his case in the hands of’ another
|lawyer. He challenged Houdas to a duel. The duel took place yesterday. Renouvin wounded Houdas
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[.T. U. TO ANNOUNCE VOTE AFTER MARCH 8
Official announcement of the indorsement vote of the International Typographical Union is to be made after the March 8 deadline for returns, Woodruff Randolph, secretarytreausrer, announced today. ; Mr. Randolph said that returns
thus far received indicated that Claude ‘M. Baker, first vice president, is favored for- the presidency over Charles P. Howard, incumbent. Francis Barrett, New York, and John Conley, Ft. Worth, .Tex., are leading the indorsements’ for the vice presidential post, Mr. Randolph said.
WORLD PRAYER DAY WILL BE HELD FRIDAY
Local Churches to Join for|
Services in Circle.
‘World Day of Prayer is to be observed in Indianapolis Friday with a ceremony in Monument Circle and fasting throughout the day. Worshipers of all denominations will gather in the Circle at 10 a. m. for music and prayer. The main address is to be given by Dr. Rollin H. Walker, English Bible professor emeritus at Ohio Wesleyan University. Special services will be held at Union Congregational, Unity M. P. and Riverside M. E. churches. Mrs. J. H. Smiley, Spiritual Life Department chairman of the Indianapolis Council of Federated Church ‘Women, which is sponsoring the local program, announced committees today.
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