Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 May 1938 — Page 24
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Because he designated the week of May 9 to 14 as National Hardware Week in Indiana, Governor Townsend today was presented with two saws
GOVERNOR GIVEN SAWS AND AX . . . . . .
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right) H. C. Atkins, president of the E. C. Atkins Co., H. P. Sheets, National Retail Hardware Association managing director; the Governor, and E.
and a hand ax. At the presentation were (eft to B. Martindale, VanCamp Hardware Co. president.
THREE SEIZED IN $35 ROBBERY
Filling Station Holdup and| Theft of Jewels Worth $575 Reported.
Three suspects, believed to be the holdup men who robbed the owner and four employees of Clarence Koschnick & Co. yesterday, were being held by police today. Two other gunmen who robbed a gaso- |
Charges Filed Against Heads Of Nazi Camp
BAY SHORE, N. Y, May 6 (U. P.) —Six operators of Camp Siegfried, a Nazi playground, were ordered before Justice of the Peace Moses W. Drake today to answer charges of violating the State civil rights statute—a law enacted in 1923 to curb the Ku Klux Klan, It was the first application of the law against the German-American
LEGION DENIES DOG TRACK AID
Greenfield Post Leader to Help Block Track at McCordsville.
GREENFIELD, May 6 (U. P.).— Walter E. Kuhn, commander of the
| Hancock Post 119 of the Greenfield | American Legion today denied that | the post will sponsor the dog race
line station and a thief who escaped | Bund of which the settlement was |track now under construction near
with 8575 worth of jewelry also were | sought. The three men were captured by | police an hour after tha Koschnick holdup and returned to the warehouse at 925 E. Vermont St, where they were said to have been identified partially by Emmet Scanlon of 32 N. Temple St, and Bernard | Naughton of 804 Eastern Ave, | employees. | The men, held on vagrancy | charges under $5000 bond, denied !
said to be an adjunct. The manager of the camp, located at Yaphank, N. Y, swastikabedecked gathering place for 25,000 men, women and children during summer week-ends, was arrested and released on $1000 bond. He is Henry Hauck. He promised to produce the five directors in court today. The camp was operated by the German-American Settlement
League Inc. It bought the 50-acre |
| McCordsville, Mr. Kuhn said the track owners’ { proposal had been under considera- | tion, but he would use “every effort [to block this movement so far as | our post sponsorship is concerned.” The denial came atter Nile Eaton, | past post commander, had released |a statement that the post would | sponsor the greyhound runway and [hed described the grandstand and | course. A protest against the sponsorship
participation in the robbery in |camp site from the Bund last May | of the new dog race track near Mc-
which Mr. Koschnick was robbed of $25 and $Tu was taken from the | cash drawer. Filling Station Robbery Robert Walls, 22, of 435 Madison Ave, attendant in a Shell Oil station at 425 S. Meridian St, told police two gunmen robbed him of $30 last night. { Theft of a diamond engagement | ring valued at $500 and a wedtling ring and guard valued at $77, was reported by Mrs. Louis L. Rapaport, | of 3540 N. Meridian St. She tola police she had washed her rings and wrapped them in tis- | sue, placing them in a drawer of a chest in her bedroom. When she returned after being absent from | the room for several moments, the | rings had been stolen, She said she | suspected a former employee of | having taken them, The frame of an antique settee, | more than 200 years old and valued at $200, was reported lost by Walter J. Bates of 3711 N. Illinois St. He told police he had just had the frame refinished in natural wood.
HAGUE FOLLOWERS PLAN DRASTIC ACTION
Seek to Prevent Speeches,
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By Two Congressmen. Ves
JERSEY CITY, N. J, May 6 (U. | P) —Followers of Mayor Frank | Hague today discussed the “drastic | steps” they plan to take to prevent | two Congressmen from making an anti-Hague speech next Saturday night. The Congressmen are coming here to denounce Mayor Hague as a “dictator,” and to protest the forcible ejection of Norman Thomas, Socialist leader, from the city last Saturday night by policemen An estimated 100 pledged themselves in the armory last night to “support Mayor Hague and other officials in their efforts to prevent “the Reds from invading Jersey | City.” They adopted three resolutions de- | claring in effect that they would “show by their presence next Satur- | day night” that Reps. Jerry O'Con-
14. The complaint against the operators, signed by Roy P. Monahan, Disabled War Veterans state coms mander, said his organization had investigated the camp for six months.
LIFE-TERMER FREED BY GOVERNOR EARLE
HARRISBURG, Pa, May 6 (U. P.) —Mrs. Freda Trost, 54 sentenced to be hanged in 1912 for the arsenic murder of her husband in Philadelphia, was ordered released from Eastern Penitentiary by Governor Earle today. Her original sentence was commuted to life imprisonment by Governor Tener Nov, 19, 1913. Mrs. Trost’'s counsel told the pardon board the jury was influenced by testimony indicating the woman administered arsenic to her first husband also, and that the district attorney failed to disclose an undertaker’'s affidavit that the drug was an ingredient of the embalming fluid used to prepare the first spouse's body for burial.
TRIAL ON LAWRENCE
WILL OPENS TODAY
Presentation of evidence in trial f a suit brought to break the will of Mrs. Adelade Lawrence was to begin in Probate Court this afternoon before Judge Smiley Chambers and a jury of 12 persons and two alternates. Opening statements which were started yesterday afternoon were expected to be completed today. Four hundred witnesses are scheduled to testify during the trial. The suit involves an estate vale ued at approximately $1,000,000. Mrs. Lawrence formerly owned the Claypool Hotel, and relatives are seeking to br»sak the will, alleging
Mrs. Lawrence was of unsound |
mind at the time the will was
{ signed.
OLD-STYLE CURRENCY
Cordsville was sent today to Walter |E. Kuhn, commander of the Green- | field Legion post, by the General
| Ministerial Association of Indian- | apolis.
BIL HART OFFERS JACKIE COOGAN AID
‘Suggests That He Consult New York Judge.
HOLLYWOOD, May 6 (U. P.).— William S. Hart, who rode the movie six-gun trails at the time Jackie Coogan was the “kid” of the screen, offered today to aid young Coogan in his court fight against his mother and stepfather. He suggested that Jackie, who is suing for an accounting of his | screen earnings, might obtain valuable information from Judge Moe | Grossman of New York City. The | judge is the brother of the late Wil- { liam Grossman, who was counsel for Jackie's parents during the days Jackie was a star. The Grossmans also handled Mr. Hart's affairs at that time. “If any trust arrangements were {made by Jackie's father, Judge Grossman ought to know about it,” Mr. Hart said. The retired Western star, now live ing on a ranch near Newhall, Cal, said he was not personally acquainted with Jackie and had never known the Coogans, but “I felt that I should step forward if I had any information that might {help him.” Jackie's lawyer, William Rains, said he had been informed that Judge Grossman had offered to are bitrate Jackie's case. He said the ofier would not be accepted.
‘NLRB FORD ACTION APPROVED BY COURT
COVINGTON, Ky., May 6 (U. P.). —The sixth U. S. Circuit Court of
CANTON, O, May 6 (U. P). — | Appeals today authorized the Na-
Bankers here report there is still a good deal of the large-sized currency in circulation, although it was supposed to have been replaced in 9
nell (D. Mont.) and William T. Ber- | 1928
nard (F.-L. Minn.) shall not speak. | The meeting was called by Col. | Hugh Kelly, head of the New Jersey | Veterans Association and secretary | to. Governor Moore. | The International Labor Defense League has announced that it] would apply in Federal Court at | Newark today for an injunction to restrain any “vigilante” groups from violence Saturday night. |
MARIJUANA PERMIT | REVOKED BY STATE
DELAND, Fla, May 6 (U. P.).—| Protests by parents of school chil- | dren have brought about revocation | of a permit issued for production | here of marijuana. { The permit had been issued by | the state board of health to J. E. Batchelor, who wanted to raise the | marijuana weed to produce canary seed. Marijuana seed frequently is found in bird food. It is said to make canaries sing oftener, louder and more spiritedly,
PUBLIC SALE—The following delinquent Jedges will be sold Monday morning, Ray 9, 1938, at 9 a. m. by Wolf Sussnian, Ine. 239 W., Washington St. Indianapolis, Ind, *644, 5250, “4679, *4T42, +5740. +5279. \ J, *B8096, 546, “8459, *3717. 3. *8182, . 9561, 5279, *9657, , *12500, *9139. *3707
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'tional Labor Relations Board to ( withdraw its enforcement order | against the Ford Motor Co. for al{leged violations of the National | Labor Relations Act.
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MONMOUTH, Ill, May 6 (U, P.. Toward the end of the meeting, —The Corn Belt Liberty League, after the delegates had ratified by sponsoring a ‘revolt” against the acclamation a resolution condemne Government Crop Control Program, | ing crop control, I. N. Willis, Mone organized a unit last night among | mouth Township investigator for farmers of west central Illinois. | the AAA, stood up and began a deFive hundred farmers crowded (fense of the crop program. He sat into the Warren County Courthouse | down when his voice was drowned to hear League President Tilden | by boos and shouts from the audie Burg, Sciota, Ill, protest corn acre- | ence.
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