Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 April 1939 — Page 6

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ar 6 WAYS DEBATED | T0 END THEFTS OF WPA CHECKS

Officials May Pay Workers At Projects Instead Of Using Mails.

Means are being sought by Government officials to end stealing and forging of WPA checks, a charge to which 26 persons pleaded guilty in the recent arraignments in Federal] Court here, it was reported today. | Among the possibilities being discussed are distribution of checks to WPA workers while they are work-! ing on the projects instead of mail- | ing them as is now done, it was learned. Another plan would be the! supplying of WPA workers with spe- | cial identification cards which! would be required whenever a WPA check is cashed at a bank. | According to John K. Jennings, State WPA administrator, the checks are distributed through the mail by the U. S. Subtreasury office here after the payroll has been approved by the WPA office. George B. Loy, Indiana agent in charge of Secret Service, said 47 persons have been arrested for WPA check forgeries in Indiana since July 1, 1938. The majority of them were young persons, he said. Jurisdiction of the Secret Service arises from the forging of a Government check. U. S. Postoffice inspectors also co-operate in cases where a letter is stolen from a mail box. Two meetings have been held in

deputy City Cierk, examines the { “Town” Council for 1839.

City Controller James E. Deery

Washington by the group discussing out a few things City officials have been wondering about for many

Signed Confession, Police Say: Others Implicated, Officials Hint. ELIZABETHTOWN, Ill, April 4]

(U. P.) —Police said today that Ira! Scott, 30. a farmhand, had confessed

since I wired the thing.” police quot-| ed Scott as saying. “I'm glad to get

He had been attempting to obtain a| divorce. His wife had filed a crossbill to his suit. She charged desertion and adultery and accused Miss! McDowell of disrupting her marriage.

CROWS LOSE LIVES IN CONSERVATION DRIVE

State conservation clubs turned | in a total of 23,390 crows’ feet during! March, Virgil M. Simmons, State] Conservation Department head, announced today. The clubs are competing in the annual crow contest in which five cash awards are offered by the State department. The Eaton Conservation Club took first honors in the March division of the competition while Freelandville Club ran second.

been held in New York, Philadel-| Co-operating officials attending rep- | Excavating in the basement at | City listing records of the City Council— FARMHAND HELD rust red on pages yellowed with {the century. the proceedings redone with a minimum of words. They passed ordinances providing meat in any other way . .. than by cil.” 1836. when Council ordered all ed a bomb which killed Earl Austin, [tending four feet from a building code, which previously had existed three sticks of dynamite beneath the [gt ing of March 20 as Mr. Austin was| a year. Thus—"It is ordered that the [front of Governor Ray's row of safekeeping. Threats of townspeo- [said well, and if net, said committee State's Attornev Clarence E. Sow-! There is no record that the well gging up the death trap. the names of the others implicated. Police warned motorists today not Mr. Austin’s widow, Alice, 38, from | plessings® for automobile license Simmons, 30, a former miner, areijmposter, with no right to use the ROUTS after the Bumbing. 50 cents on a front license tag, 25 er Scott's confession had implicated In the investigation because the vic- eT icy which named his wife as bene- 1 Cc Administrator for Hardin County.| E stration UREKA DIRECT FROM

phia and Chicago, it was learned. | ing temporary loans in anticipation resented such Federal departments) partment of Justice, WPA, Treasury | Hell, Mr. Deery unearthed Was Tepuites [ot proceedings of 1839. {veal that when the City Fathers IN BOMB DEATH How History Was Made Then that butchers “who may hold a stall weighing scales, with weights to be One of the earliest zoning ordiresidents on Washington St. to re44, and mutilated a girl companion | within 20 days.” Officers said he signed a formal|,g 5 series of scattered resolutions, floorboard of Mr. Austin’s truck. ond Brave Men on Council driving to work. The charge crit-|2 fourth of a cent on real and perT Feel Better Now’ Council apparently feared no committee on weils be directed to He was charged with murder and [buildings on Washington St. prople were reported to have prompted shall cause such well to he filled ard said Scott was to have received | Was filled up. He declined to reveal the motive,| LICENSE PLATES “BLESSED” He indicate inat more arrests to take seriously an unidentified whom he had been estranged, and plates in front of St. Procop's held on charges of murder in the church's name. Officers said the Federal Officials Interested cents on a rear. them. tim carried $10,000 war risk insur50 CENTS ficiary. HOOVER MODERNIZED CHICAGO

the possible plans and others have|years. an “the Common Council of the Town as the Postoffice Department, De-| Department and the Secret Service, | What probably are the oldest exWritten in ink that has turned {met a century ago, they got things | They also made history in 1839. lin the market places shall not sell approved by a committee of Counnances on record was passed June that he and two accomplices plant- |move “porches, sheds and signs” extwo weeks ago. Council also revised the municipal statement last night that he wired aq fixed the ruts in “Meredian” charge exploded early on the morn- { The City Fathers passed a tax of jcally injured Lacene McDowell, 24. [sonal property and a dog tax of $1 “I feel better now than any day man, in high or low places. have a pump placed in the well in removed to an unidentified place for {vided Ray relinquishes all claim to the removal. ap. $50 for rigging } other details of the confession, or CLEVELAND, April 4 (U. P).— POH sone, man they said had been selling his frequent companion, Theodere | church. They said the man was an slaying. They were arrested fOr man had offered to sell blessings for Mr. Soward declined to say whethFederal authorities were interested 3) A 1 G | 1! S ance and a $3000 life insurance polMr. Austin was National Youth | Bd d de AND CLEANERS FACTORY

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ARCHEOLOGIST SHOT

JERUSALEM, April 4 (U. P).— J. H. Qliffe, director of the Rockefeller archeological museum, was shot and severely wounded early today while locking the garage at his | residence near Herod's gate. British | authorities imposed a curfew on the | - area and all Arab traffic was sus- | BO - 370 \v pended.

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100-Year Backward Glance

Rolling back a century of the City’s history, Bertha A. Meyers,

The records were discovered in a heap of trash in the City Hall basement by James E. Deery, City Controller.

1 839 Council Demanded Pump in Governor's Well

He found. for instance, that the City's financial policy of mak-

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ENDS WITH SLAYING

CHICAGO, April 4 (U. P).—Earl Mankins, 38, Chicago, and Earl Alvitz, 40, Spooner, Wis, struck up a conversation while they waited for trains in Chicago's union station and their discussion resolved itself into a fist fight. Station policeman William J. O'Brien tried to stop the fight. The officer used his billy club

until he lost it in the melee. Alvitz grabbed the club and started beating the officer. O'Brien drew his gun and backed away. Alvitz followed despite the pnoliceman’s warnings, then O'Brien shot the advancing man. Alvitz died on the way to a hospital.

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ELKHART FIRM LOSES IN FIGHT ON GROSS TAX

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Friends Seek Pardon of Fugitive Who Has Gone Straight.

ORRISTOWN, Pa. April 4 (U. P.).~Friends of Robert Dreher, 40-year-old Schuylkill County truck driver, today continued their efforts to get him pardoned rather than have him returned to Texas to serve out a 17-year robbery term. Because he has led an “exem= plary” life since he returned to his home 17 years ago, the friends asked Governor Arthur H. James to refuse to sign extradition papers. The Governor said he was “sympathetic” to the pleas. - “I've gone straight for 17 years, have married and have a fam-

Corporation Charter Fees Separate Matter, State High Court Rules.

The Indiana Supreme Court today had ruled that Indiana firms cannot escape gross income tax payment on the ground that they are operating under a special reorganization charter. The ruling was handed down in the case of the Monteith Bros Co. of Elkhart which sought to enjoin the State from collecting gross inwaxes. The company contended that a gross income levy is an ‘‘excise or privilege” tax and that in paying the tax along with corporation] ily,” Dreher said, “and I think I charter fees it would be paying| deserve a break.” double taxes. F ru The Supreme Court opinion stated “the contenticn tha a gross REHER was arrested here a month ago for driving an

income levy is an excise or privilege tax is not questioned. overweight coal truck. He was “If the tax were an excise levy| fingerprinted and it was discovered he was the same man who

for the privilege of operating a corporation then there would be broke out of a prison at Hunts ville, Tex.

some merit te the company’s con= tention. But the payment of taxes Dreher said he was one of a group who broke out of the

is no part of the transaction involving the granting of a charprison. When the guards started firing at them, Dreher said he

ter. Under the Constitution a corporation, in common with other jumped into a nearby river and floated tq safety.

citizens, is liable for payment of all legal taxes.”

The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the Elkhart Circuit Court, which denied the company’s petition to enjoin the State from collecting taxes.

BEGIN DIVISION OF $5,000,000 ESTATE

LOS ANGELES, April 4 (U. P) — Judge Robert Scott today began the complicated ‘task of dividing the estate of the late Michael Francis O'Dea, who died intestate. Fiftyone asserted cousins are seeking a share in the $5.000.000 estate. Mr. O'Dea’s fabulous fortune grew out of one Los Angeles lot he owned vears ago. Discovery of oil made him wealthy. He was 90 and alone when he died a year ago.

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WILSON REQUESTS CHANGE OF JUDGE

A motion requesting a change of judge for the trial of Sam Wilson,

charged with the holdup-slaying of a West Side filling station attendant, was on file in Criminal Court today. He was scheduled to be tried before Criminal Court Judge Dewey E. Myers. The motion asks the court clerk to certify the request to the clerk of the Supreme Court who, under the law, is compelled to submit names of three judges from which parties in the action will select one to try the case. Wilson is charged with murder in perpetration of a robbery in connection with the slaying of Edward Maze in November, 1937.

INSANITY IS DEFENSE

OKLAHOMA CITY, April 4 (U. P.) .—A plea of not guilty by reason of insanity at the time of the crime was entered today for Roger W. Cunningham, confessed slayer of his wife. Cunningham, 33, confessed that he strangled his wife, Eudora, then concealed her body in a sewer

FATHER SCHAUB, 63, DIES AT RUSHVILLE

RUSHVILLE, April 4 (U. P). — Funeral services were being completed today for the Rev. Fr. Francis Schaub, 63, pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic Church here for 20 years, who died yesterday of a heart

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