Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 August 1938 — Page 3
POLICE PROBE 4 HOLDUPS, WATCH FOR HAMILTON
Druggist, Pedestrian and Two Drivers Robbed; Boys Caught Looting Home.
Indianapolis police today watched for Floyd Hamilton and “Huron” Ted Walters, remnants of the Clyde Barrow gang, as they investigated four holdups here.
Information received by State Police indicated the two desperadoes may have participated in the $34,000 payroll robbery at Woodriver, Ill, yesterday.
An armed robber wearing a straw hat and a gauze bandage held up a drug store at 902 N. Illinois St, taking an undetermined amount of money from the cash register, Ralph Parks, 34, of 629 .N, Colorado Ave, reported.
Jack ‘Larson, 21, of 531 E. New |
York St., told police he was walking in the 200 block, W. Ohio St., when a man approached him, pressing a gun against his back, and took his billfold containing $27. A passenger in a taxicab took an undetermined amount of money from Robert Francis, 24, of 1633 Cottage Ave., the driver reported. Edward Rosner, 58, of 2326 E. Raymond St., told police he gave a ride to a passenger who held him up with a revolver, taking $4.25, at Pruitt and Harding Sts. Two boys, one 14 years old, the other 13, were in custody of the Crime Prevention Bureau after they allegedly were! caught ransacking the home of the Rev. Gary I. Cook, 1153 Blaine Ave. West Morris Street Christian .Church pastor.
F.D.R. Fishesin Old Haunts of Pirate Morgan
ABOARD U. S. S. HOUSTON. Old Providence Island, Aug. 6 (U. P.).— (By Naval Radio to the United Press)—President Roosevelt arrived at this 16th Century rendezvous of Sir Harry Morgan, English buccaneer, today after a run from Colon, Canal Zone, and tried his fishing luck for the last time on his vacation trip. Before leaving the Houston for his final day of fishing, Mr. Roosevelt dispatched a message to American’ military, naval and administrative officials of the Canal Zone. It read in part: “I am increasingly impressed with the fine understanding of the vital importance of the Canal and its efficient operation and protection by the various services represented.” In a press conference at Balboa, President Roosevelt cited the need for new roads in the Canal Zone as an added defense measure.
HIS $300 VANISHES. WITH COMPANIONS
FT. WAYNE, Aug. 6 (U. P). — Police today sought two men and a woman who robbed Charles Heidrich of $300 which he had drawn from a bank several minutes before. One of the men, Mr. Heidrich said, approached him as he left the bank. The second came up shortly, entered the conversation and then summoned a “girl friend.” The four went to a restaurant and after his three strange companions left, Mr. Heidrich noticed his money had disappeared.
OAKIE SUED FOR DIVORCE
HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Aug. 6 (U. P.).—Venita Varden Offield Oakie today filed suit for divorce from Jack Oakie, radio andamotion picture comedian. She charged he was quarrelsome, jealous and has a violent temper.
Eddie Johnson, 11; Don Campbell, 10, and Paul Francis Johnson; 8
ASYLUM HINTED FOR PRISONER
Crawfordsville Gunman Is Revealed as Former Insane Patient.
CRAWFORDSVILLE, Aug. 6 (U. P.).—James McKinnis, who police said was thwarted in an attempted holdup of the First National Bank by four small boys, probably will be committed to a State asylum, authorities said today. : The 36-year-old Lafayette resident formerly was an insane patient, they reported. Entering the bank yesterday, Mc-
Kinnis is alleged to have shoved a gun at Cashier Davis Groves. The
counter, however, sounded the burglar alarm and shouted $this is a holdup.” McKinnis fled. As the gunman rounded the corner and headed down an alley, someone on the street shouted to the four boys standing nearby: “Stop that man.”
Boys Throw Rocks
The youngsters went into action, pelting him with rocks and pur-
‘suing him for several blocks until
a patrol wagon overtook them and. captured the man, so we started chasing him,” said 9-year-old Eddie Johnson. “We picked up rocks whi ran,” chimed in Eddie's brother, Paul, 7, “but we weren't close enough at first to use them. At the end of a few blocks, though, he started weakening and we caught up i him. Then we let him have
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The other boys were Don orp bell, 8, and Virgil Kidd, 17.
IN INDIANAPOLIS
Here Is the Traffic Record
County Deaths | Speeding .... 3 (To Date) 1938 ........ 1937 ..
City Deaths (To Date)
Reckless Driving ..
69 1
Running Preferential Streets 0
1937 . Running Red igh
Aug. § Accidents ..
12 Injured ...... 1 Driving .... Dead ........
Arrests ...... 19 Others ...
MEETINGS TODAY Erba lub, uncheon, Hotel Washoptimist Club: luncheon, Hotel Washington, noon Basel e Officers Assaciation, funcheon, ‘ ard of Trade, noo Phi “Delta. Theta. ®juncheon, Canary Cote
tage Deits Tan Deita Columbia Club, noon ,
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MEETINGS TOMORROW
Alliance Francaise. luncheon, Washington noon.
: MARRIAGE LICENSES (These lists are from officia) records in the County Court House. The Times, therefore. is not responsible for errors in aames or 34dzest88.} ’
Hotel
Kay Ramsay, 31, of 1218 Polk St.; Mary Light, 22, of 6565 E. Washin gon n St. ederick Anthony You 35:4 of 1113 ect Easperance h Fansler, 2, of 535 N. Rochester ah Preston Morton, 63, of 626 "Hiawatha St.; Anna Wade, 55. of 626 Hiawatha St.
BIRTHS Boys Charles, Arlene Moores, at Methodist. Glen, Martha Carroll, at Methodist, Glen, Virginia Ryan, at Methodis Darrell, lta Wicker, at Met: Nodist, Almon, Beatrice Coble, at Methodist. Claude, Nelle Realey, at St. Francis. . Ralph, Lillian Summers ‘at 1526 Nelson. Al, LL aboth Bow, "at S. ural, Charle a Onken n, at 318 E 10th. Newton, Myrtle Pullins, at 223 W. 26th. Girls Harry, Elizabeth Sweeney, at St. Francis. Harry. Clertrude Wagner, at St. Francis. Russell, aret Duvall, at St. Francis. PL Jone Johnson, at St.
ss Elsie Schilling, at St. Francis. n, Mary Brady. ity.
leman. ethodist. ethodist. Cable. "at 535 Bell.
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"DEATHS
Ross Alice Miller, 72, at 1544 W. Ver- |]
mont, carcinom: Jett Gibbs. 57 at City, carcinom Charles Prank Brigham, Ti, at 28 W. Baap prosrdite meningitis. '
Emma Beck, 38, at City. meningitis. Maude A. Gr Te 54, at 708 N. King, terebral hemorrhag Olive O. Wilkerson. 56. at 2116 W. Michigan, ve rownia Mary Comads. 63, at St. Vincent's, cerebral Iomorria age. . Jerod W. Pennycuff. 62, at City. myoar Abbie Corkey, 63. at Methodist, coronary thrombos Catherine Shee. Bs a 941 N. Rural, acute dilatation of h James Edward Stroud, ‘13, at City, tuberculous meningitis. nna C. Brandt, 70, at St. Vincent's, arteriosclerosis. ac M. Thomas, 73, at 73¢ N. Grant, ceToneal thrombosis.
OFFICIAL WEATHER
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INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST: Probably local thunder showers tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature.
4:48 | Sunset
TEMPERATURE —Aug. 6, 1987— reas 68 1pm.
BAROMETER ven. 29.96
Precipitation 24 hrs. endin, Total precipitation since Excess since Jan. 1
MIDWEST WEATHER Indiana—Probably local thundershowers tonight and tomorrow; slightly cooler in 0 fd and West-central portions to-
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Lower Michigan—Generally fair in_extreme north portion, probably iocal thundershowers in soutn portion tonight and tomorrow; cooler in west and north portions tonight.
Ohio—Partly cloudy with local showers and thunderstorms tonight and in Soma portion tomorrow; slightly Sooler extreme north portion tomorro Kentucky—Partly cloud
rssedol by local showers in east an: or
north Portions tonight; tomorrow local showers; not much change in temperature.
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These four small boys, the oldest 11, helped thwart an attempted holdup of the First National Bank at Crawfordsville yesterday.
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cashier dropped suddenly behind the] bbe y rocks at the suspect while chasing
* him down an alley aided police in:
“We knew he was a bank rcbber
Boys Aid in Capturing
Left to right, 11; Virgil Kidd, McKinnis, 36
The youngsters, chased the suspected bandit down an alley while throwing rocks at him The suspect, when he was arrested later by police, gave his name as James
Gunman
Indianapolis Times carriers,
James McKinnis, 36, is being held for questioning by Crawfordsville police in connection with the attempted holdup yesterday of the First National Bank, “Feur small boys who threw
capturing the man whom they said attempted to rob the bank.
9 MURDERED NEAR ALDERMAN’S HOME
Hint Chicago Slayings Are Holdup Reprisals.
CHICAGO, Aug. 6 (U. P.).—Two men were shot and killed today by « gunman who stood alongside their automobile in broad daylight, emptied his gun, then fled. The victims were identified by police as Bruno Switaz, 35, and Leo Muszinski, 32. The latter was believed to have been a former State policeman. They had been seated in their automobile, parked at the curb in front of the home of Alderman Joseph Rostenkow, when the killer drove up in another machine. A woman who witnessed the slayings told police the gunman was accompanied by “one or two” other men. She said he stepped out of his car and raked the victims’ automobile with bullets. “They came so fast,” she said, “they sounded like one continuous shot.” The killings followed persistent rumors in underworld circles that gamblers had ordered the “execution” of holdup men who had been raiding horse race “bookies.” One such rumor had said that these “executions” ' accounted for several recent unsolved homocides and that “two more are marked for death.”
BURIED TO HIS NECK 6 DAYS, IS RESCUED
BELLEVILLE, Ontario, Aug. 6 (U. P.) .—Hugh Jones, 44-year-old farmer, today was rescued from a bog
2 in which he had been mired to the
neck for six days. Clinging to a log with one arm, Jones was forced to watch searchers pass within a few feet of him. With only his head visible above the muck and prevented from crying out by the pressure of the mud on his chest, he was unable to attract their attention. The efforts of several men were required to extricate him from the morass. He is suffering from exhaustion and starvation.
FLORIDA FUGITIVE SLAIN IN MICHIGAN
DEARBORN, Mich, Aug. 6 (U. P.) —Police today shot and killed a fugitive from a Florida chain gang who had killed a guard-in escap-
éo .|ing at Floral City, Fla. two weeks
The dead man was Arthur Sherman, 27, of Los Angeles. Bruce Parrish, 22, who escaped from the gang with Sherman, was captured. * Sherman was shot by officers as
NEW TECHNIQUE SHOWN TOU. S.
Streamlined Political Era Is Here as Kentucky Can Testify.
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efficient state machine. This is something new in politics of very recent times.
Major Issue in Offing
It has reached what might be called its perfection in the primar- | S¢ ies this year, notably in Oklahoma and Kentucky. In Oklahoma, Senator Thomas had the support of a Federal machine with WPA and the other adjuncts. He won in a threecornered race, but his closest rival was not the Governor who had a state machine, but an outsider almost, a Congressman in his first term, Because of the energetic manner in which the Senate Committee has delved into the WPA-political tieup on one hand and the tieup between state machines and agencies partially supported by Federal funds on the other in Kentucky and Tennessee, this issue is likely to become a major one before thé next Congress. Previously, charges of politias in relief had been made by Republicans, but now it has become an issue between Democrats because of such revelations. as those in Kentucky and Tennessee. The battle promises
is re-elected, hie must bear the brunt
drawn personally into it. Far-Reaching Repercussions Because of WPA Administrator Hopkins’ intercession in the Iowa Democratic primary, and his general attitude expressed in public state-
ments, the issue goes directly into
| the top ranks of the Administration and becomes a national issue of far more consequence than if the controversy had been confined to fights ' between rival factions in the heat of state contests. As a practical matter, the old po-
new rules will be called for. It is apparent that the Kentucky laboratory will provide the materials for an analysis that may have farreaching repercussions in politics of the future. :
DOCTORS HERE FIGHT T0 SAVE BOY'S FOOT
11-Year-0ld Paper Carrier Injured in Elevator.
Methodist Hospital surgeons this afternoon worked to save the right
broken. today when it was caught in an elevator. They said they would not know
for 48 to 72 hours whether they | will have to amputate. Robert and a friend, James Markey, 11, of 420 E. 33d St., were collecting for an Indianapolis Times route in the Speryment ‘building at 3060 N. Meridian St. They. were on a freight elevator
: when Robert's foot was caught.
He screamed and an attendant in the building came to his aid and called police. Robert was taken to the hospital in an ambulance. Police were told that Robert was teaching - his: companion the paper route preparatory to. leaving for a vacation at Lake Shafer next week.
INGRAM WORKERS NLRB HEARING SET
The National Labor Relations Board today set Aug. 15 for a hear-
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determine employee - repre sentation of 450. workers in the In-|.
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CAST BALLOTS
‘Shakedown’ of U. S. Employees Is Charged by ‘G. 0. P. Chiefs.
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Senate Leader Barkley and Gover-
nor Chandler equally guilty of |
questionable methods. Meanwhile, the-committee awaited a report from six investigators in Tennessee, where Tom Stewart defeated Senator Berry for the Democratie senatorial nomination. preliminary report said the camod oi was shot through with “gutter politics.” Chairman Sheppard indicated he expected to make public a report today on a preliminary investigation in Arkansas, where Representative McClellan, Democratic opponent of Senator Hattie Caraway, complained that Federal officials were working openly for Mrs. Caraway.
‘Shakedown’ Is Charged by
Republican Chiefs WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 (U. P).— The Republican National Committee charged today that the Demo-
| cratic National Headquarters is at-
tempting to “shakedown” Federal employees for campaign contributions. ; “In June,” the statement said, “Oliver A. Quayle Jr., treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, sent out a letter commencing the shakedown of Federal employees for the party’s war chest.” The ‘statement said that apparently the response was not encouraging “because Mr. Quayle now has sent out another letter, marked ‘personal’ and -more firmly calling on Federal workers to come across.” “In.view of Mr. Quayle’s activities the Civil Service Commission should now publicly come to the protection Of Federal workers,” the statement said.
Idaho Voters to Choose
Nominee Tuesday ‘BOISE, Idaho, Aug. 6 (U. P).—
Idaho voters will go to the polls
Tuesday to choose between Senator Pope, described by Postmaster General Farley as a “true friend of the Administration, and Rep. Clark, frequent opponent of New Deal proposals. Mr. Pope, chairman of the Senate Agricultural Committee, ‘is seeking re-election on his record as a New Dealer. Mr. Clark, nephew of Gov-
ernor Clark, campaigned on a plat- | rac
form of being “able to think for myself. ”
New Deal Confusion’ Attacked by G. 0. P.
CHICAGO, Aug. 6 (U. P.).—The Republican Program Committee charged today in a preliminary report that New Deal Administration
had “plunged the nation into uncertainties and confusion which will continue until there is complete as-
surance of balanced representative |
government. The statement summed up findings of an unique “summer school” at which national problems, ranging from labor and agriculture to relief and finance, had been studied by committee members under guidance of experts. The findings will be use¢ in formulating a new statement of G. O. P. policy and principles from which the national committee will draft a Platform for the 1940 ection. The “summer school” recessed last
See ‘Disaster’ in Sight
“The committee has conviction that,” the statement said, “under present trends in legislation and administration, the United States may suffer the two-fold disaster which has overtaken peoples quite as sure of their destiny as we have been—the breakdown of an elaborate economic system and the disintegration of responsible and effective government. “The committee is not trying to draft a program for short range political expediences. Its concern is with a program that will best serve the long-range interests of the people as a whole.” The committee warned that a politically controlled system of government could not put ifs plans into sure effect unless it ultimately controlled the opinion-making forces of press and school, and religious Jorees which deal with the spirit
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Corrigan Spurns Fortunes
And Hunts Steady Flying Job
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Boston Monday. “I was up there in ’32 in a model T Ford,” he said. cori are planned at Milwaukee, San Antonio, Galveston, St. Louis, Los Angeles, Long Beach, San Francisco and the Cleveland air
es. He said he had made no plans for the future, “except to fly.” “That's why I've always been a failure because I've never. made any plans throughout my life,” he said. “Long flights. No, I hayen’t planned any. They’ll probably restrict my gasoline now and it would be too bad to get caught over the ocean out of gas. ”» Commenting on the trip to Boston, Corrigan said he was very happy to go back. He recalled being stopped in Boston. in 1932 because his Virginia license plates were old. “The cop let me go,” Corrigan said. “He ‘was Irish.”
La Guardia Gets Him!
It remained for Mayor La Guardia eventually to trap Corrigan in his “wrong way” alibi. He said that since Corrigan “flew above the clouds” when he crossed the Atlantic Ocean “headed for Los Angeles,” he must have seen the sun and it should have seemed strange
to him that the sun “rose in the |
West.” Corrigan blinked and grinned, and evaded the point. The Mayor, speaking at an Advertising Club luncheon after the parade, hailed Corrigan nevertheless as typifying “the daring, courage and imagination of American youth.” Today Corrigan was recuperating from the effects of the wildest celebration since Col. Lindbergh’ came back from Paris in 1927. He hoped to keep his grinning Irish face as
far removed from crowds as possible until he sets out again Monday for Boston to encounter another riot, Corrigan Day in New York ended with a mass meeting in Yankee Stadium, where 40 speakers spoke in praise of the daring young man and his flying machine. In the course of the speéches, it was recalled that Corrigan’s nine-year-old “crate” had no drift indicator, and hence he probably flew sideways as well as backwards, and the fact that he reached Dublin" hecame more of an amazing feat. It was predominantly a day for the Irish and both the mass meeting and "a symphony concert at Lewisohn Stadium that preceded it used Erin for a theme. The concert orchestra reached its greatest heights in rendering “Killarney,” “Molly Brannigan,” and “Kitty, Me
EX-TEACHER AT MANUAL, DEAD
Mathematics Head 27 Years
Before 1931 Retirement; Services Monday.
Miss E. Kate Wentz, for 27 years head of the Manual High School mathematics department, died at the Methodist Hospital today after an illness of several months. She was 72, Funeral services in charge of the Rev. J. Armbrose Dunkel will be held at 4 p. m. Monday at the Flanner & Buchanan Mortuary. Burial is to be at Crown Hill Miss Wentz, who lived at 1433 N. Pennsylvania St., taught. thou= sands of pupils in her 36 years ab the school. She retired in 1931. After attending high school here for two years, Miss Wentz attended
Lafayette: High School, where she
was graduated two years later. Graduate of Purdue
She was graduated from Purdue in 1887. Three years later she ree ceived bachelor and master of science degrees at Purdue. She was appointed to the mathematics teaching staff at the University. In 1891 she left Purdue to take advance study work in mathematics at Cornell University. In 1894 she received a master of science degree from Cornell, after which she re= turned to Purdue for a year before she joined the mathematics department at Manual when the school opened in 1895. Nine years later she was made head of the department. She taught continuously fiom that time until her resigna« ion. E. H Kemper McComb, Manual principal, said: “Miss Wentz was an outstanding teacher, with unusual ability to inspire boys. Many engineers from Purdue scattered widely
| throughout the country can pay ‘| tribute to her great skill.”
Close Friend of Ade
Miss Wentz was a close friend of George Ade, Hoosier humorist, Roy W. Howard, president of The Indianapolis Times and other famous graduates of Manual. Tribute to Miss Wentz also was paid by Edward A. Gardner, who organized - the Roines Club, alumni organization, at Manual, while a pupil under Miss Wentz. “She was without a doubt one of the most beloved and remarkable teachers in the city,” he said. Daniel T. Weir, assistant supere intendent of Indianapolis Public Schools, said: “Miss Wentz devoted practically
‘her whole life to the teaching of
the youth of Indianapolis. Those who knew her will be sad when they. learn of her going. She was a true teacher, but above all she was a kind soul who endeared herself to all who came under her influence.”
BERGDOLL’S MOTHER SUES TO REGAIN STOCK
MEDIA, Pa., Aug. 6 (U. P.).—Mrs. Emma C.. Bergdoll, mother of Grover * C. -Bergdoll,, World War
draft dodger, today filed suit for the
return of 11,600 shares of stock ale legedly held by her son’s wife, Berta. Papers were served on Bergdoll’s wife for a hearing Sept. 19 as she prepared to return to her husband
in Germany.
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