Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 October 1938 — Page 11

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FOR POLICE QUIZ

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Gambling, Vice Inquiry Also |§

. Demanded by Christian ~ Crusaders.

Copies of a demand by the Chris-

tian Crusaders for an investigation of the Police Department were forwarded today to members of the City Council. .

The demand, presented in the form of a resolution which the group seeks to have adopted at the meeting of City Council Monday night, was delivered yesterday afternoon at the City Clerk’s office in City Hall. In addition to asking investigation of the Police Department, the resolution also demands a probe of gambling, vice and immoral conditions alleged to exist in the city. : The resolution was delivered by a group of six women and three men, led by the Rev. L. N. Trotter,

presiding elder of the Church of the

Brethren. Charges Minors Involved

In a letter addressed to Daniel J. O'Neill Jr, City Clerk, the Rev. Mr. Trotter said:

“It is common knowledge among the citizens of Indianapolis that, for some time past, minors, in open defiance of the law, have been and . are permitted to frequent beer and liquor taverns as entertainers, employees and patrons. “It is also common knowledge that Michael F. Morrissey, as Chief of Police of the City of Indianapolis, refuses to allow his police officers to enter taverns for the purpose of making investigations and arrests unless said police officers «first have specific authority of the Chief of Police. “It is also common knowledge that gambling and other forms of vice operate in the City of Indianapolis, and that many ministers and public spirited citizens have many times requested the authorities of this city as well as the Governor of the State of Indiana to enforce the law, all to no avail.” The group that called at City Hall included Mrs. Beth Fuson, Mrs. Willard G. Gray, Mrs. Charles D. Free, Mrs. Nettie Lewark, Mrs. Harold O’Brien, Mrs. William Bernhardt, F. W. Waldkoetter and Elmer Stoddard. The women said they were members of the W. C. T. U.

CLINICS SET ON LIFE INSURANCE

Certificates to Be Given for Completing Course of Instruction.

A series of life insurance clinics, describegdl as one of the most comprehensive ever conducted by a life underwriters organization, was outlined today at a breakfast meeting of the Indianapolis General Agents and Managers Association in the Columbia Club. Nearly all phases of up-to-date life insurance services will be covered in the clinics, according to Ralph L. Colby, general chairman. A certificate of graduation will be presented to life underwriters completing the 12 clinics, ‘which will begin late this month. Speakers who outlined the various preliminary features were Howard E. Nyhart, executive chairman, and the following committee chairmen: Emmett Smith, arrangements; Joel Traylor, attendance; Jean Black, demonstrations; Harry V. Wade, enrollment, ordinary division: Edwin B. Harris, enrollment, industrial division; Eber M. Spence, faculty, and Lowell L.- Holmes, printing. Carl F. Maetschke, head of the managers association, presided. Hilbert Rust, president of the local Life Underwriters Association, introduced the speakers. Guests of the Managers Association were executives, assistant superintendents and supervisors of local companies and agencies.

TWO ROAD PAVING CONTRACTS ARE LET

Road surfacing contracts totaling $153,058 for projects in Huntington and Warrick Counties were awarded today by the State Highway Commission. John Dehner, Inc., Ft. Wayne, was given a $105,768.27 contract for waterbound macadam surfacing and shoulder widening on six miles of Road 3 from Road 124 to Markle. This project is to be financed with State funds. Gravel surfacing of two and a ’ half miles on a secondary road west of Millersburg will be done by the Pheigo Construction Corp., Evansville, for $47,228.88. Commission members said this was a Federal aid project.

MADISON TO FETE METHODIST UNION

Times Special MADISON, Oct. 15.—Approaching Methodist unification is to be celebrated in this historic town with all three branches participating in the program tomorrow afternoon. Madison is identified with the founding of the church in Indiana. Bishop Edgar Blake of Detroit will represent the Wethodist Episcopal Church; Dr. George D. Prentiss, a presiding elder, the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and the Rev. E. L. Ferris, Elwood, the Methodist Protestant Church, of which he is executive secretary.

DIES IN OUTING TRAGEDY

COLUMBIA, Mo., Oct. 15 (U. P). —MTrs. Mary Lawes, celebrating her 12th wedding anniversary with her

©. husband and a group of friends, on

§ Plenis outing, was killed last night

a fall over a 50-foot cliff. Mrs. Lawes was the wife of Capt. Robert Lawes, University of Miser of three en, =

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Tae aa Ch Cw SATURDAY, OCT. 15, 1938

Truck Driver Killed in

John Crady, 36, was killed yesterday when the dump truck he was driving was struck by a Pennsyl-

vania passenger

bk economic changes,

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train at the Harding St. crossing.

Parts of the truck were carried 500 feet.

Softball Replaces Grid Clash as

Lid Is Clamped on I. U. Law School

sirable consequences of variety in the thoughts and actions of individuals in the second of the Patten lectures at Indiana University

By PAUL BOXELL

Times Bloomington Correspondent BLOOMINGTON, Oct. 15—‘All work and no extracurricular play makes Jack a smart lawyer” is the new maxim of the Indiana University School of Law—or at least, of

the faculty. The intensity of the law faculty’s

campaign to restrict its students from outside exertion was impressed upon the campus today with the announcement that the traditional Law-Medic football game on Homecoming day will be abandoned. Instead, the rivals will attempt to settle their annual feud with a softball game. Last week, students of the rival schools were proceeding with plans for the gridiron tussle on Oct. 22 despite a general Law School ban on all extracurricular activities. A reported meeting of Dean B. D. Myers of the School of Medicine and Dean Bernard C. Gavitt of the Law School ended with student leaders of both schools being called into conference.

Students Post Bulletin On emerging, the students offered this bulletin: : “Be it so proclaimed that the adherents of Hippocrates and Black-

stone ... do hereby mutually agree that the annual gridiron classic between the Laws and Medics will be replaced by a spectacular display on the softball diamond. “Owing to the danger of serious injury to participants in a football game, scholastic reasons and the price of pork being what it is, the respective students bodies do mutually agree to the above.” Earlier this semester, the campus was shaken by the announcement that law students were forbidden to engage in social activities of any sort. This ban included membership in all social, honorary, political and even athletic organizations. Practically all of the nearly 200 men affected had to drop from at least one organization or activity.

Resign as, Officers

Several fraternity house presidents resigned. Three of the most powerful honoraries on the campus —Union ,Board, Blue Key and Sphinx Club—lost their presidents. Theta Alpha Phi found itself without a vice-president, and other organizations had to have special elections to fill vacated offices. Since the ban includes athletics, speculation is high as to what response the law faculty will get from Bo McMillin and other coaches.

Several football luminaries of the past, including Vernon Huffman, Ray Pox and Bruno Vercuski, came from the School of Law. The only present “lawyer”-grid-ster is Robert Louis Stevenson, a varsity guard. An immediate test case was averted when the law faculty granted Stevenson an exemption for the remainder of the football season.

Statement by Faculty

In announcing the .ban, School faculty members said: “Past experience has demonstrat-

ed that a rule of this kind is necessary. This action is expected to raise the level of achievement in the School of Law substantially higher than it has been in the past and is in step with the policy of setting up higher standards and more rigid requirements in the various University schools and colleges.” Before taking action, the faculty reported, a conference was held with the Law Club and the approval of the Club was obtained. Some nonmembers of the club said the approval was “rubber-stamped.” Others were quick to support the action, declaring that it indicated the sentiment of most of the students. In general, law students have reacted calmly, only becoming aroused yesterday when a Daily Student columnist set forth plans for a Law-Medic pink tea pouring contest so convincingly that many campus readers believed such an event actually was on schedule.

Law

Recitals Planned At Historic Sites

A series of five historical site recitals will be given in Indiana next week under auspices of the Indiana Commission for the Northwest Territory, in co-operation with the Indiana University Foundation. Ross F. Lockridge, Indiana historian, will be in charge.

The series is to open Monday at the George Rogers Clark Memorial

at Vincennes; the old Ft. Harrison vy

at Terre Haute will be visited Tuesday, Tippecanoe battleground Wednesday, Mississinewa battleground near Marion Thursday and the site of Wayne's fort at Ft. Wayne Oct. 21.

Conflict of Opinion Held Essential

Dr. Raymond Pearl of Johns Hopkins University emphasized de-

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

yesterday.

Mammal.”

liver is “Man the Animal.” “Unfortunately, a viewpoint

slow results of interbreeding. .

havior as we are in our bodily build

to fuller and richer living.”

Coed City Editor Of DePauw Paper

Times Special GREENCASTLE, Oct. 15 (U. P) —DePauw University’s newspaper

Betty Parker, Hinsdale, Ill,

ent semester.

Sigma Phi, women’s

tar Board,

Association of Women Students

as society editor of The DePauw.

State Deaths

ELKHART—Samuel F. Survivors: Sons, Orville, Irvine, and Edward: daughters, Mrs. Kate and Mrs. Emma Russell. EVANSVILLE—Carl Frederick Boetticher 66. Survivors: Wife; son, Thomas brothers, Oscar and William H. Charles Wyatt, .- Survivors: Mrs. Ida Harvey; brothers, Rollie, Harley

Harrington, 74

ter, Me: A. P. Nendel; sons, Oscar, Harry alter. Albert August Wallert, 70. Survivors Wife; son, William J.; daughters, Frank Runau, Mrs. Louis . Mrs. Richard J. Gerard, Mrs. Goebel. John Reed Masters, 66. Survivors: ters, Mrs. Catherine Jones, Mrs. W.

dolph, Walter J. or ORA-Dlizh P. a ard, 3s i : s, iam an ora; sister, Ella Wilson; brother, Jerry. ot Mrs GOSHEN—Nelson Miller, 54. Survivors Wife, Carrie; parents, Mr. and Mrs.

sons, Wiiilam E. Miller, Ralph Miller. Samuel PF. Herrington, Sister, Mrs. Kate Lyons. Mrs. Theresa Toth, 56. band, Joseph; James, Mrs. Kenney; sons, Frank and Joseph Toth.

Survivor

daughters,- Mrs,

Survivors: Daughters, Mrs. Mrs. E Owens, Mrs. L. A, Wood

man Dix, 63. Survivors: Hush daughter, Mrs. Raymond fushend, Dear KOKOMO-—Mrs. Margaret Thurston, 51 rs Li sons, Carl, Paul, Charles; daughters, Mrs Marie Smith, Mrs. Rita Cardwell, Leota Jessie Thurston. LAFAYETTE—Joseph P. Survivors: Wife; rahier. Beach; sister, Mrs. Mary Bonemen sister, Mrs. Helena Miller; August Buchman.

stepbrother,

Survivors: Daughters, Mrs. Je nd Mrs. H. E. Phelps; nd rother, Rollin Spearow, ” »

an P, son, Fred: half-

LA PORTE—Edward L. Ephlin. ors Sister, Mrs. J. J. Kreidler; brothers, Vio" Jessie Mo Gorton, 11 s. Jessie . Cotton, . _ Survivors: Husband; sister. Mrs. Hen . } Grongingh Donnas YB Jackson; n Ear euby, . Survi : 1 a er Re S. zabe 00 : - ers, Miles and Charles Neuby, prot LEAN umes Casson 83. : ughters, Mrs. Grace Noble . Kinkaid, Miss Nora ins Ms.

Fred Carson.

HORIZONTAL Answer to Previous. Puzzle 18 Half an em. 3 Writer pic- 19 Force. ured here. 2 9 “Huckleberry 2 Mary Twat) -—" is one S of his famous mn books. 23.0f thi 12 Bost deck. 2 a 14 To make a ovin mistake, MARY sidewise. 1 Banner. RAKER] 27 Horse’s home, 16 To strike, 29 Deportmen! 17 Restless. EDDY 31 Sion ts, 20 Fo doze. 22 You and me. 33. To sup. 23 Wigwam, 37 Indian 24 Perches.’ 41 Transposed. VERTICAL mahogany. . 26 Postscript,. 43 He still has a 2 Genus of bees. 38 Throe. 27 Feminine huge —— of 3 To decay. 40 Muscular pronoun, readers. 4 Measure. power. 28 To glide 48 Per. 6 Occident. 42 To counter through water 49 To observe, © Work of skill. sink. 30 Made of 1 > 8 Lily. 44 Secular. oatmeal, 51 Securing. 9 Note in scale. 45 Italian 32 Goodby. 52 Meat. 10 Wayside hotel. money. 34 To erect. 5$3 Branch. 11 Low tide. 46 Palm leaf, 35 Metallic 55 Wrathful. 13 To primp. 47 Mind. element. 56 Old wagon 15 Judicial 48 To moderate, 86 Small island. track. opinion. 50 Sooner than, 38 Piebald pony. 57 His native 16 He ranks 52 Cabin. 39 Card game, land. among the 54 Mister. 40 Without. 58 Knitted coat. best —s, 56 Sun god. i 6 [7 9 [lo ‘ju 15 14 | 16 17 116 19 zl 25 26 0 27 350 |3) Y2 54 Li 56 50 5 I [42 4 47 | 52 26 dn 2

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Wife; daughters, Mrs. Haz and Miss Ruth Madary. i

gan, 89.

PERU—George E. Coutant, 60.

daughter, Mrs. Marjorie Verner.

Miss Evelyn Iliff, Mrs. Irene F' : Charles M Legrence, Austi rela th sons : sisters. Miss Har Riley Tullis. Ries

ROCHESTER—Mrs. Romn 8, Survivors: Husband; an Slrabelh Sambgil other, M SUIRArt: Jist rs. Mrs. Emma Adams

an Moore; brothers, a % Richard Swigart. in

i Sister, Mrs. Lul vors: Sister, Mrs. Lulu Seibern; Ed, Dan, Will and Lon Jeftery, Brothers SHELBY LE—Mrs. Frances A. Hoover,

L. Harding: brothers, Ambrose, W. Harding; sister. Miss Elsie. Harding. SWAYZEE—Mrs. Mary Pence, 93. vivors: Sons, Earl, Bora, Sency Glen: daughter, Mrs. Blanche Sharron. TIPTON—Levi Stafford, 63.

ter. Mrs. Ella Partlow. Oliver P. Campbell. 80. Bertha; son, Hugh: brother. Tipton.

UTICA—Charles Bedford Colvin

ARSAW—Ivan : Wife; chil and Jean; father. A. Merl. Carl and Claude.

Mahone

Survivors: Sons.

Lida Spencer. Mrs. Gail Davis.

EX-CONGRESSMAN DIES

=m (and owner

member of Congress from Virginia of the Alexandrij

\00-OPERATIVE -

Dr. Pearl's lecture was a continuation of the one Tuesday which began a discussion of “The Unique The theme of the five lectures which Dr. Pearl will de-

is abroad in the world today which would reduce variability in man by regulating and regimenting him speedily without waiting for the

“If we were all alike in our be-

this would be a dull world. Boredom E would be inescapable. Differences between individuals stimulate them

The DePauw, today had the first coed city editor in its history. Miss has been appointed to serve as one of the three city editors for the pres-

Miss Parker is president of Theta journalistic honorary, and is a member of Morjunior activities honorary; women’s Sports Association;

and Kappa Alpha Theta, social sorority. Last year, Miss Parker served

James Lyons

Sister, Julius Schuerger, 78. Survivors: Daugh-

Mrs. Summers, Edward Sie Thompson; brothers, Frank, Waring, Ran-

Surviv.-

Daniel Y. Miller; daughters, Mrs. Ralph Stutsman, Mrs. Ted flizsins, Mrs. Pearl Hoke;

Survivors: HusTheresa Helen Stahl, Mrs. Elizabeth GREENSBURG—William H. Weaver, 71. Blaine Havens, . Wood,

JEFFERSONVILLE — Mrs. Lenora CleffMelvin Thurston;

Schneider, 67. Mrs. Ward ; step-

LAGRANGE—Mrs. Ella Roxy Deal, %5. Leib

Surviv-

Mrs. George Weigle, Miss Mary Carson; son,

MARION—Frank Madary, 74. Survivors: Gillenwater

MORRISTOWN—Mrs. Amaret Politt LoSurvivor: Daughter, Mrs. How-

ors: Wife; sons, Vernon aud oe

RENSSELAER—George K, Iliff, y - vivors: Daughters, Miss Lucille itt Nd n, Iliff and Mrs.

Mrs, Mrs.

. Katherine Samuel and

LE—Mrs. Harry Fisher, 59. Sur-

Surand

8 ' Brothers, Robert, Elmer and TL

Survivors: Wife,

vivors: Son, George; brother, Wiis Toi

y, 35. Surdren, Lawrence, Marvin A. Mahoney: brothers.

WOLCOTT — William Voss Spencer, 91. Claude, Verlie, Lioyd and Tabor; daughters, Mrs. Deliah James, Miss Mrs. Effie Strausinger and

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (U. P). —Charles Creighton- Carlin, former

(GROUPS CLOSE

Safety Scheduled for Final Session.

the Claypool Hotel, will close this afternoon with talks on salesmanship and safety. A banquet and floor show was attended last night by more than

800 registered delegates. Earlier, managers and service men of co-operatives selling petroleum products in 10 states heard I. H. ‘|Hull of Indianapolis, organization

t | president, assert that the co-opera-

tives are created to bring about but criticized Government “paternalism” and other “isms.” Hassill E. Schenck, Indiana Farm Bureau, Inc. president, declared that no single group in the cooperative movement is all-impor-tant, but that all co-operative groups must work on a united front. Three farmers, Stanley Hassler of Butler County, Ohio; Frank Beal of Decatur County, Indiana, and Harold Vaughn of Wastenaw County, Michigan, told why they buy from co-operatives.

LOCAL DEATHS

MRS. CHRISTINE A. 1310 W. 31st St. after several months’ illness, will be buried this afternoon in Washington Park Cemetery after services at 2 p. m. at the Wald Funeral Home. She was 64. A native of Toronto, Ontario, Mrs. Hayes had lived in Indianapolis 25 years. She was a member of the Home Presbyterian Church, the Women’s Auxiliary of Saraha Grotto ‘land the North Park Chapter, O.

8. She is survived by two sons, Stanley P. Hayes and Walter E. Hayes, both of Indianapolis; two sisters, Mrs. Harry Farthing of Toronto and Miss Margaret Caddell of Los Angeles, Cal, and three brothers, James Caddell of Portland, Ore, William Caddell of Ilion, N. Y,, _|and Albert Caddell of Columbus, O.

,| JAMES M. ROBINSON, who was a postal employee here for 31 years before retiring in 1920, will be buried at Vandalia, Ill, where he has made his home since retiring, according to word received here. Mr. Robinson who died yesterday, was 83. He is survived by a son, John Robinson of Vandalia.

ALBERT J. BLOOM, telegraph operator for the Big Four Railroad ,| for 25 years, who died yesterday at his home, 1454 Spann Ave., will be buried Monday following funeral services at the home, acocrding to tentative plans announced today by the family. Mr. Bloom was 60. Mr. Bloom, a resident of Indianapolis for 15 years, was a member .lof the Order of Railroad Telegraphers, St. Patrick’s Catholic Church and the Holy Name Society. »| He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Grace Bloom; three sons, Howard and Luther Bloom of Cincinnati, O., and Albert J. Bloom Jr. of Indian'|apolis; a daughter, Mrs. John O'Reilly of Indianapolis, and two stepdaughters, Mrs. R. T. Schmidt and Mrs. Herman Koers, both of Indianapolis.

GEORGE RAYMOND RANDALL, an assistant examiner in the railroad mail service, died yesterday in ‘| his home, 318 N. Drexel Ave., after .|a few hours’ illness. Funeral servjces have not been arranged, He was 42. A postal employee for the past 13 years, Mr. Randall served aboard a hospital ship during the World War and was a member of Post 38, American Legion. He also was a member of Irvington M. E. Church. | He is survived by his wife, Mrs. - | Myrtle Randall; a son, Everett Ran- ‘| dall; a daughter, Miss Phyllis Ran.|dall, all of ndianapolis; three sis- ‘| ters, Mrs. Mary Combs and Mrs. .| Edna Clark, both of Springfield, O., and Mrs. Lula Broshes of West Liberty, O.; two brothers, Robert Randall of Green Camp, O., and Russell Randall of Urbana, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Randall of Urbana.

CHAINS INTERESTED IN CLAYPOOL SALE

Several Expected to Bid for Hotel Stock.

Several chain hotel operating companies today were reported preparing to submit bids for purchase of the controlling stock of the Indiana Hotel Co., operators of the Claypool Hotel. : Sale of the stock, owned by the estate of Mrs. Adelaide Lawrence, former president of the company, was ordered yesterday by Probate Judge Smiley Chambers, in whose court the $900,000 estate has been pending more than a year. The estate’s block of hotel stock has a par value of $292,000, or 59

VIL 46. Survivors Parents, Mr. and Mrs. John |Per cent of all common stock in the Richard

company. The Court ordered that all prospective bidders first must deposit $5000 for the right to inspect the company’s books and $5000 more when their bid is submitted in court Dec. 14, the date set for the sale. Liquidation of the estate is required under terms of the will left by Mrs. Lawrence. Several religious and charitable institutions are beneficiaries under the will. Nearly a score of individuals also were left large sums.

JOKE ON GRASSHOPPERS AUGUSTA, Kas, Oct. 15 (U. P.). —Last spring Frank Tracy anticipated a large crop of apples, but grasshoppers ruined the prospects

PARLEY TODAY,

Talks on Salesmanship and

The two-day convention of United : i | Co-Operatives, Inc, being held in

EAGT

Times-Acme Photo.

Capt. Bruno Mussolini, second son of Premier Mussolini of Italy, is engaged to marry Miss Gina Roberti. Capt. Mussolini, shown with his fiancee, is 21, and has been serving as an airman in the Spanish War. ‘Miss Roberti, 22, is daughter of the head of the Contemporary Art Bureau of the Italian Education Ministry.

CIRCLING

The Broad Ripple Townsend Club will meet at 1 p. m. Monday at the Broad Ripple I. O. O. F. Hall. The Rev. R. M. Dodrill, pastor of the Broadway Baptist Church, will

speak.

H. Nathan Swaim, City Controller, will be the principal speaker at the autumn rally of Sigma Nu Fraternity in the Lantern Room of the Indianapolis Athletic Club, Oct. 29, it was announced here today. Mr. Swaim is a graduate of both DePauw and Chicago Universities, and is an alumnus of Beta Beta chapter of Sigmu Nu Fraternity.

Indianapolis will be host to the 1939 convention of the Central Neuropsychiatric Association, the Indianapolis Convention and Publicity Bureau announced ‘today. This year’s convention was held at Minneapolis. Dr. Larue D. Carter, president of the Indianapolis Neurological Society, and Dr. Rogers Smith were named on the local committee for arrangements.

The Master Mason degree will be conferred on candidates from three states at the Scottish Rite Cathedral Saturday, Oct. 22. Preston Lodge

No. 281 of Louisville, Ky. Casey|

Lodge No. 442 of Casey, Ill, and North Park Lodge 646 of Indianapolis will confer the degrees on candidates from their organizations. The North Park Lodge will be host.

A decrease of $7446 in WPA administrative costs in Indiana during 1939 was predicted today by State WPA Administrator John K. Jennings. The decrease will be brought

THE CITY

about by a savings in office building expenses in the various state districts, Mr. Jennings said. The housing economies are part of a program begun by Mr. Jennings more than a year ago, at which time the State’s 11 district headquarters were consolidated into six.

John L. Goldthwaite, an engineer employed at the Allison Engineering Co., will describe modern trends in aviation engines at the Scientech Club luncheon Monday noon in the Board of Trade Building.

The annual Halloween Party of

Mystic Tie Lodge 398, F. & A. M., will

be held Saturday night, Oct. 29, at the Masonic Temple. A program will be held in the auditorium to be followed by a dance in the ballroom. The Sojourner’s Club of Ft. Benjamin Harrison will be guests of the lodge Monday night, Oct. 24. Following a dinner program, two candidates will be elevated to the Master Mason degree. Monday, Nov. 7, has been set aside as the annual craftsman’s night, with all rituals in charge of members of the craft.

the U. S. Children’s Bureau Advis-

ory Committee on Social Statistics, will speak on “This Business of Relief” at the Rotary Club luncheon Tuesday at the Claypool Hotel. Mr. Clapp is a member of the Indian-

apolis chapter of the American As-

sociation of Social Workers and president of the Indianapolis Social

Workers Club.

ACTION RUSHED

Raymond F, Clapp, chairman of

IN FT, WAYNE SLAYING CASE

Speedy Indictment on First Degree Charge Sought By Prosecutor.

PT. WAYNE, Oct. 15 (U. P.).— Assistant Prosecutor Otto Koenig said today he would ask the County Grand Jury, probably within a week, to indict Adrian Miller, 31-year-old college student, on a charge of firstdegree murder in the slaying of Alice May Girton, 18, business col lege student. Prosecutor C. Byron Hayes said he will cohfer with Circuit Judge Harry H. Hilgemann Monday and set a date for the meeting of the Grand Jury. :

confession last night that he ate tacked and killed the girl by strane gulation in her room early Thursday morning. He had lived in a room across the hall since June, when he began the study of engineering at Indiana Technical Cole le

ge. Last night he led detectives to her room and showed them how he had killed her. He had used a pillow to smother her and then had twisted her silk undergarments around her neck. E He waived preliminary examinaetion yesterday when arraigned before Municipal Judge William H. Schannen and was bound over to the Grand Jury.

GRAND JURY STUDIES

SHIDELER GO. BOOKS

Firm’s Records Are Seized On Special Warrant.

The Marion County Grand Jury today was studying a mass of records that were seized on a special warrant yesterday at the offices of the Shideler & Co., investment firm, at 129 E. Market St. : The jury is tracing all transactions of the company over a period

gation followed the arrest last week of Fred Shideler and his son, Wil liam Shideler, officers of the come pany, on charges of false pretense. They have been held in jail in default of $10,000 bond each, pending a preliminary hearing in Municipal Court next week. Several witnesses testified in Circuit Court Tuesday at a receivership hearing on the affairs of the company that they failed to receive stock or cash in return for investments. They testified they invested a total of about $22,000 in the com=pany and that officials had refused payment of the money. At the hearing Circuit Court Judge Earl R. Cox criticised the lack of proper enforcement of the State Securities Law.Following this the Indiana Securities Commission announced it may propose some changes in the law at the next Legislature to provide better protection for investors.

OHIO OFFIGER SHOT, HOOSIER SUSPEGTED

Toledo Gunman Believed to Be Bandit Wanted Here.

TOLEDO, Oct. 15 (U. P). == Motorcycle Patrolman Fred Disel was wounded late yesterday in a pistol duel with an unidentified man driving an automobile bearing an Indiana license. Officer Disel was shot when he

Stepmother Weeps and Denies She Starved Child to Death

LINCOLN, Neb., Oct. 15 (U. P.).— Mrs. Charles Van Sickles, 52-year-old stepmother, wept in her jail cell today and said a District Court jury had erred in finding her guilty of having starved her 6-year-old stepdaughter to death.

She said she will ask for a new trial and, if it is denied, will appeal to a higher court. The jury, after less than four hours deliberation, agreed late yesterday that she had been guilty of manslaughter in the death of Norma Jean Sickles, her husband's daughter by a previous marriage. Judge E. B. Chappel deferred sentence for three days to allow time for her attorney to petition for a retrial. She faces a possible term of from one to 10 years in prison. Her husband, Charles, 30, is in jail, awaiting trial on the same charge. He is her fourth husband. He married her the day he proposed—in 1936, only a few weeks after she had gone to work for him as housekeeper.

Norma Jean died in a tourist camp southeast of Lincoln Aug. 4. Witnesses testified that she and her sister, Alma Lee, 4, had appeared underfed when they arrived at the camp. The surviving child is being treated in a hospital for malnutrition. County Attorney Max Towle, who prosecuted the case, charged that Norma Jean’s death resulted solely from her stepmother’s “criminal negligence.” He said Mrs. Van Sickles had had money and a plentiful supply of groceries but had failed to feed the child properly and had refused her a mother’s care and protection. : Mr. Towle said the Van Sickles had left Farmington, Mo., after selling mortgaged property and came directly to Lincoln, arriving Aug. 3. “They rented the most expensive of two large cabins at the tourist camp,” he said. “The child died the next evening and a post-mortem showed she had had no food or water for 36 hours.” Mr. and Mrs, Kenneth Kerst who operate a grocery in connection with the camp testified that Mrs. Van

said she visited the camp the night of Aug. 4 after the child had died. “Her body was completely emaciated, the size of a 2 or 3-year-old,” she said. “Her arms and legs looked like toothpicks.”

Mrs. Van Sickles, testifying in her own defense, denied she had neglected the children. She blamed Norma Jean’s death on a hypodermic injection administered by a physician who visited the child a few hours before she died.

GIRL SLAIN ON WAY HOME FROM DANCE

Escort Tells of Roadside Death, Names Suspect.

RAUBSVILLE, Pa. Oct. 15 (U. P.)—Amos Hart, 22, was sought today for questioning in the shotgun slaying shortly after midnight of Hazel Cronce. Both are from Frenchtown, N. J, Russell Charles, who escorted the 22-year-old girl to a dance last night, told investigators that Hart shot the girl. He said they were returning from the dance and Hart forced them from the road with his automobile. Hart went to Mr. Charles’ car and asked Miss Cronce to get out, Mr. Charles said. She did so, but refused to accompany Hart when he asked her to ride home with him. Mr. Charles said Hart went to his car, took out the shotgun and fired a shot through the girl’s neck. She was taken” to Easton Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Hart was said to have fled in his car after the shooting. Three other persons in Mr. Charles’ car corroborated his story.

BUSINESS EDUCATION

Strong Accounting, Bookkeeping, Stenographic and Secretarial rss:

and evening sessions. Lin Pred W. Case, cipal. -

approached the man on the suggestion of a pedestrian who said the man was acting in a suspicious manner. Mr. Disel was wounded in the leg and cheek. As he collapsed, he fired four shots at the gunman, who fled in a gray sedan bearing Indiana license plates 48544. i Walter Kean, living in the neighe borhood, rushed from his home and fired five shots at the gunman at the same time. Police believed the man was wounded. Physicians at Mercy Hospital, where Mr. Disel was taken, said he would recover.

Toledo Gunman Believed Bandit Wanted Here

Local police said today they bee lieve the man sought in Toledo is a bandit wanted here for the holdup of the Guarantee Tire and Rubber Co. branch at 5606 E. Washington St. on Aug. 22. The bandit, who obtained $150 in the holdup, abducted Alvin QG. Swank, 4915 E. Michigan St, a motorist, forcing him out of his car after a wild ride over roads outside the City. The bandit fled in the automobile.

48544 never have been issued.

SHIPPING HEAD’S WIFE DIES NEW YORK, Oct. 15 (U. P.).— Mrs. Dora Merryman Franklin, wife of Philip A. S. Franklin, chairman of the board of the United States Lines and of the International Marine Co., died today after a brief illness. She was 55.

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FAIRBANKS

Jewelry & Losn Co. 213 E. WASH. ST.

Opposite Court House

AUTO AND DIAMOND

LOANS

20 Months to Pay

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Authorities claim Miller signed a .

of more than a year. The investi- -

State police said the license plates